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New Artists

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
Articles Artist Sojin Kwak: On the Sensory Dimensions Beneath Visible Phenomena and Technology Sojin Kwak (b. 1993) has continued to capture scenes of relationships formed through the mutual influence between the photographer’s body, the camera as a device, the subject, and the place. Through video, performance, sculpture, and installation, she addresses the diverse interactions latent beneath visible phenomena and technology, along with the resulting tensions and signs of change.
2025.10.27

Emerging Artists

Articles Artist Woojung Hoh: Exploring the Visual Reverberation and Potential of Minimal Pictorial Units Woojung Hoh (b. 1987) represents his own pure abstraction by consistently exploring infinite possibilities and moderate variations found in the most fundamental combination of lines and faces. He collects images of various objects that emerge with interest in events and thoughts in modern society and expresses the meaning and the hidden side of them in the form of paintings.
2026.06.15
Exhibitions 《Cold Rub》, 2023.02.03 – 2023.03.11, PHD Group (Hong Kong) Eunsae Lee's solo exhibition 《Cold Rub》 will be held at PHD Group in Hong Kong from February 3 to March 11, 2023. In her decade-long exploration of painting, Eunsae Lee has engaged with figures and objects to mine relationships between gaze, desire, and consumption.
2023.02.01

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions “The Flâneur of Errors” on View Through March 29, 2026, at Seoul National University Museum of Art The Seoul National University Museum of Art is hosting the curated exhibition 《The Flâneur of Errors》 through March 29.
2026.02.10

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions [Review] Artist Heejo Kim's Schematic Medium as Meta-Conceptualism This exhibition marks Heejo Kim’s second solo show in Korea since his 2020 exhibition at UART SPACE, featuring recent works based on...
2024.09.05
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Pre-Established Artists

Articles [Critique] Assembling Fragments of Space-Time to Find a Cure In 'dynamic' Korea, everything changes so rapidly that nothing can be properly perceived and remembered before it is gone already. This perhaps explains why the images in Won Seoungwon's 《1978, My Age of Seven》 (2010) and her other works evoke such great feelings of nostalgia.
2012.04
Activities Eunsung Kim, Sangdon Kim, Jieun Kim, and Jia Jang Receive the Doosan Yonkang Art Award The Doosan Yonkang Foundation held the 3rd Doosan Yonkang Art Award ceremony on the 5th at the Doosan Art Center in Jongno 5-ga, Seoul. Established in 2010 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Doosan Group’s founding chairman Park Doo-byung, the award is presented annually to outstanding young artists under the age of 40 working in the performing arts and visual arts.
2012.10.06

Established Artists

Articles [Critique] ‘In Class’ or A Journey Toward a ‘Way of Seeing’〈On Choi Gene Uk〉 There are many paintings by Choi Gene Uk titled ‘In Class.’ These works were made during the period from after 1984—when he returned from roughly three years in the United States—up to 1990,
1992
Exhibitions 《Purity》, 2023.11.02 - 2023.12.16, Taguchi Fine Art Monochrome painting, which became active from 1970's, called "Dansaekhwa", forms the mainstream and is regarded as an important tendency in contemporary art in Korea.
2023.10.31