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New Artists

Articles Artist Kai Oh’s Mutable Images: On Hidden Vitalities in Urban Spaces Currently based in New York, Kai Oh (b. 1992) has been consistently experimenting with expanding the boundaries of photography. Her work primarily involves discovering traces of often-overlooked beings that exist beneath the surface of urban spaces. She captures these traces through her camera lens and reconstructs them into imagined scenes through post-production.
2025.05.19
Articles Artist Haneyl Choi: Exploring the Intersections of Queer Bodies, Emotions, and Social Structures Through Sculpture Haneyl Choi (b. 1991) uses and mixes the two axes of sculpture and queerness in form and content depending on the circumstances. Exploring the intersections of body, emotion, and social structures, Choi’s practice centers on queer identity and human experience.
2026.01.05

Emerging Artists

Articles Artist Heemin Chung Explores the Perception of Reality in the Digital Age Heemin Chung (b. 1987) has explored how technology shapes our perception and influences art in an era where much of daily life has shifted online.
2025.02.25
Articles Artist Chansong Kim: Capturing the Fleeting Moment When Boundaries Collapse Chansong Kim (b. 1988) focuses on fleeting moments when the solidity of existence blurs and becomes fluid. In particular, she has long contemplated the “body,” paying close attention to instances when her once-familiar body suddenly feels unfamiliar and is perceived as a material presence.
2026.03.09

Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Critique] The Ten Thousand Things: on the Practice of Gala Porras-Kim Heaven and Earth interact perfectly, and the ten thousand things communicate without obstacle. Those above and those below interact perfectly, and their will becomes one.
2023.10.20

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Somewhere Underneath》, 2014.12.04 – 2014.01.31, HADA Contemporary (London) HADA Contemparary presents the first UK solo exhibition by Ham Jin (b.1978). He has been best known for his dark and whimsical sculptures, which often incorporated banal objects transforming them into subjects of his wild creativity. This exhibition will bring all new works by the artist that clearly denotes his progression into abstraction that embody the boundless fragile unconsciousness and its beyond.
2014.12.01
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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions “Forms of the Shadow”, the First Large-scale Exhibition of Korean Contemporary Art in Vienna, Is Held “Forms of the Shadow”, curated by Sunjung Kim, the Artistic Director of the Art Sonje Center, is on view at the Vienna Secession and the Korean Cultural Centre Austria from September 20 to November 17.
2024.10.01
Articles [Critique] Good Sleep, Bad Sleep, and Bizaare Sleep The dramatic rescue of 33 miners trapped 700 meters underground for 69 days; I watched the scene live on the internet in Amherst, a small town in Eastern U.S.
2012

Established Artists

Activities [Art News Brief] Arsenale Exhibition at the Venice Biennale Experimental Korean artists will present their works for the first time at the Arsenale exhibition of the Venice Biennale, the international art exhibition held biennially in Venice, Italy.
2003.06.03
Articles [Critique] The Length of Light, the Duration of Color Kim Taek Sang’s artistic journey began with an encounter at Yellowstone National Park in the United States.
2018