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New Artists

Exhibitions 《Amateur》, 2025.03.05 – 2025.03.29, Nook Gallery The exhibition series 《Teacher and Student》 began in 2017 with its first edition, 《Painting and Painting》, and has continued for nine iterations up to 2025. Initiated by artist Kim Ji-won, the series became Nook Gallery’s annual opening exhibition, marking the start of each year. It began with the hope of offering young artists taking their first steps into society a small gateway to opportunity, and over the years, it has become a platform introducing many emerging artists who work with sincerity and passion.
2025.03.03
Activities ARKO Art Center Launches ‘2025 ARKO DAY’ Amid Busy September Art Fair Season The Arts Council Korea (ARKO, Chairperson Byoung-gug Choung) and the ARKO Art Center will hold the public program “2025 ARKO DAY” from August 26 to September 7 at the ARKO Art Center and ARKO Arts Theater, introducing young artists and curators.
2025.08.26

Emerging Artists

Exhibitions "Myths of Our Times," by Heemin Chung, Sun Woo, and Zadie Xa, on View Through February 25, 2023, at Thaddaeus Ropac Seoul It has been a year and a half since Thaddaeus Ropac, an Austria-based global mega-gallery with branches in London, Paris, and Salzburg, opened its first Asia outpost in Hannam-dong in October 2021.
2023.01.16
Activities Hyeree Ro: lunares 《lunares》is a project that emerged from an unexpected death I faced in the summer of 2022. Since the beginning of my artistic practice, I have been working with performances that explore the relationship between object, body, and words.
2023.12.11

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Paint hoe繪, Paint huà畫》, 2023.04.05 – 2023.04.30, Gallery Chosun The title of the exhibition, 《Paint hoe繪, Paint huà畫》 implies Choe Sooryeon’s method of painting. Her oil paintings portray traditional and classical images of Northeast Asia, reimagined in a modern context; tracing classic ghost stories, oriental painting books, and prophets.
2023.04.03

Late Mid-Career Artists

Activities Artist Ji Yongho's Mutating Artworks at Bentley and Golfzon ZOIMARU Artist Ji Yongho (b. 1978) is widely known for his Mutant series made of waste tires. The artist creates unique sculptural works by combining the images of two or more animals or images from human culture.
2022.08.29
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Pre-Established Artists

Articles [Critique] Dream of the Extended Automata: Choe U-Ram's Mechanical Life Forms Consequently, each part contains in itself springs whose forces are proportioned to its needs. Let us consider the details of these springs of the human machine. Their actions cause all natural, automatic, vital, and animal movements. Does the body not leap back mechanically in terror
2013
Exhibitions 《Uncertain Threshold》, 2023.11.22 – 2023.12.22, Space CAN & Old House In 《Uncertain Threshold》, the CAN Foundation begins an inquiry into human essence grounded in the alienation and anxiety felt at the intersection of art and technology. In traditional arts such as painting and sculpture, media were passive materials handled and altered by humans. Today, however, the technologies
2023.11.20

Established Artists

Activities Nominees Selected for the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art’s Korea Artist Prize Four teams have been selected as nominees for 《Korea Artist Prize 2012》, organized by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea. The nominees are Gimhongsok (48), Moon Kyungwon (43) and Jeon Joonho (43), Yee Sookyung (49), and Lim Minouk (44).
2012.04.09
Exhibitions 《SeMA New Acquisitions: Sky, Earth, People》, 2018.04.17 – 2018.05.20, Seoul Museum of Art, Seosomun Main Branch The Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) presents the exhibition 《2017 SeMA New Acquisitions: Sky, Earth, People》, introducing works acquired in the previous year to the public and establishing a foundation for art historical research as well as for reading the flow of contemporary art.
2018.04.17