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New Artists

Articles Artist Sora Park: Critical Imagination of a Future Accelerated by Technological Advancement Sora Park (b. 1992) works with a focus on social issues that emerge within contemporary digital media environments such as social media spaces and the metaverse. In particular, she pays attention to phenomena intensified and exposed by the advancement of science and technology, imagining possible situations, characters, and products that could arise in a future where today’s problems have further deepened. She visualizes these ideas through a variety of mediums, including sculpture, video, and installation.
2025.08.25
Exhibitions “UNNATURAL SELECTION: I, NOT I” on View Through March 28, 2026, at WWNN WWNN presents the exhibition 《UNNATURAL SELECTION: I, NOT I》 on view through March 28. This exhibition is part of a traveling exhibition project organized by WWNN, following its presentation at CON_ in Tokyo last year and now continuing at WWNN in Seoul.
2026.03.17

Emerging Artists

Activities Grim Park, Nohwan Park, and Donghoon Rhee Named Finalists of the ‘2025 Kiaf HIGHLIGHTS’ Following its successful conclusion, Kiaf SEOUL announced the three final winners of the ‘2025 Kiaf HIGHLIGHTS’: Grim Park (THEO), Nohwan Park (Space Willing N Dealing), and Donghoon Rhee (Gallery SP).
2025.09.16
Exhibitions 《As Usual》, 2020.07.14 – 2020.08.15, Gallery 2 A painting essentially develops from an image but incorporates more than the initial image. The fluid, primordial state of the image in the mind's eye must manifest into the reality of the outside world.
2020.07.12

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Too Early After All》, 2021.09.04 – 2021.09.30, Perrotin Paris For her first solo exhibition at Perrotin Paris, and in France, GaHee Park explores the magical potentials within reality and interpersonal relationships, subverting contemporary conservatism and societal fright.
2021.09.01

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《island》, 2010.05.12 - 2010.06.11, Project Space SARUBIA Donghyun Son’s exhibition reflects the city of New York, considered as the center of the world. New York, especially Manhattan Island is often described as an object of desire but at the same time, it is put under all kinds of disasters
2010.05.10
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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions 《she-》, 2013.04.05 - 2013.04.26, Artspace Hue The words congregate like a thick cloud and drop off like heavy rain, wetting the dry ground. It is probably not a dry ground, but parched images. Something of Apollinaire's spirit is reminded. But this does not talk of the fact of being
2013.04.03
Articles [Critique] Other Side of Reality/Reality of Other Side Kyungah Ham perpetually seeks to delineate the hidden aspects of society that influence the lives of individuals. Although many contemporary artists actively criticize systematic and institutional power, Kyungah Ham stands out because of her audacious spirit and relentless actions. For example, after becoming somewhat
2016.08.01

Established Artists

Activities Lee Bul Selected as the 2019 Ho-Am Prize Laureate in the Arts Lee Bul has been selected as the 2019 Ho-Am Prize laureate in the arts. Recognized for her critical engagement with society, historical awareness, and humanistic exploration of utopia, she has established herself as a leading figure in contemporary Korean art.
2019.04.04
Articles [Critique] A Religious Chronology at the Foot of Mount Gyeryong: Park Chan-kyong’s Exhibition – 《Sindoan》 (June 21–August 17, 2008, Atelier Hermès) Park Chan-kyong’s exhibition, composed of a 45-minute video as the centerpiece, along with still photographs, architectural models, and a reconstruction of archival materials that serve as explanatory supplements to the figures and locations appearing in the video, is a genealogical inquiry into Mount Gyeryong and the region of Sindoan located within it—places that one day delivered a shock to the artist himself
2008