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New Artists

Activities Seol Yujin and eobchae Selected as Winners of the 12th Doosan Yonkang Art Award The 12th Doosan Yonkang Art Award honored playwright and director Seol Yujin (Performing Arts category) and the artist group Eobchae (Visual Arts category).
2021.10.18
Exhibitions 《Lunar Burn: Echo upon Echoes》, 2025.10.10 – 2025.10.30, Caption Seoul Daseul Song’s solo exhibition 《Lunar Burn 月光-火傷(畫像)》 begins at the boundary where order and rupture meet, in the moment when moonlight and shadow intersect. The moon is both a mirror reflecting the sun’s light and a surface that bears scars and fissures.
2025.10.10

Emerging Artists

Articles [Review] Young-jun Tak – Atelier Hermès solo exhibition Young-jun Tak’s first solo show in his native Seoul, “Love Your Clean Feet on Thursday,” was a study in duality. Two single-channel videos projected on perpendicular walls framed the gallery of Atelier Hermès, punctuated by two adjacent sculptural works that both opened and closed the show.
2024
Articles [Critique] Motions for the Language of Touch I hesitated for quite a long time before writing about Sujin Moon’s solo exhibition. I was enraptured by the delicate installation and the placement of sculptures and objects that follow a path of emotion at the exhibition space, but I am still hesitant writing about it.
2022

Mid-Career Artists

Activities “Future Present: Contemporary Korean Art,” the First English-language Anthology Focusing on Contemporary Korean Artists from the Millennial Generation, Has Been Published Skira editore and SONGEUN announced the publication of Future Present: Contemporary Korean Art by Andy St. Louis, a survey of Korean artists from the Millennial Generation.
2024.06.10

Late Mid-Career Artists

Activities Hwang Sunmi, Choi Bum, Wang Giseok, and Others Receive Presidential Commendation at the Korean Culture and Arts Awards Children’s author Hwang Sunmi, design critic Choi Bum, Wang Giseok—director of the Jeongeupsa Traditional Music Ensemble—along with the International Cultural Exchange Association for the Disabled and the
2017.11.20
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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Father's Day》, 2009.10.06 – 2009.10.25, Gallery Hyundai In October, Gallery Hyundai Gangnam (Director: Hyungtae Doh) presents a new body of work by Jaeho Jung, an artist who has gained attention for his series depicting old and aging apartment buildings.
2009.10.05
Exhibitions 《Don’t Look Back in Anger》, 2013.09.25 - 2013.10.31, Songwon Art Center Lee Donggi’s solo exhibition will be held at Songwon Art Center from September 25 to October 31, 2013. This exhibition is part of a sponsored program by Faber-Castell Korea, grounded in the company’s philosophy of engaging with genuine art beyond the development, production,
2013.09.23

Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Documentary Style》, 2014.12.09 – 2015.02.25, GoEun Museum of Photography The large-scale exhibition 《Documentary Style》 (December 9, 2014 – February 25, 2015), presented at the GoEun Museum of Photography and the GoEun Contemporary Photography Museum, examines Korean documentary photography from a specific perspective: style, or form.
2014.12.08
Articles Artist Heinkuhn Oh Documents a Portrait of Anxiety Inherent in Korean Society Heinkuhn Oh (b. 1963) began his career in 1989 as a documentary photographer, capturing social landscapes on the streets. Since then, he has focused on portraiture, depicting specific types of individuals within Korean society.
2024.09.24