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Articles Artist Eugene Jung’s Post-Apocalyptic Landscapes Reflecting Reality Eugene Jung (b.1995) creates post-apocalyptic environments through sculpture and installation that respond to contemporary catastrophes. The desolate landscapes crafted by the artist are at times infused with a cartoon-like worldview.
2025.05.01
Articles [Critique] Even If Obsessed with Display and Following – On the Art of Sungsil Ryu BJ Cherry Jang, through her solo broadcasts, claims that she has received a "first-class citizenship." Even while North Korea launches a nuclear missile, she reproaches those who ignored her previous warnings, asserting that her prophecy was dismissed.
2024.10.01

Emerging Artists

Articles Artist Eunsae Lee’s Paintings: Everyday Moments That Disrupt the Rigid and Fixed Eunsae Lee (b. 1987) captures moments of unstable change encountered through the internet, media, and everyday life. She expresses subtle undercurrents flowing through ordinary scenes in her paintings or collects various frustrations from daily life along with the rebellious imaginations they provoke, recording them as images.
2025.02.25
Articles [Critique] The Moving Surface, the Details of Thought Hejum Bä’s paintings, as paintings that make us reconsider painting itself, induce hesitation—and validate that hesitation.
2017.10.03

Mid-Career Artists

Articles Artist Kwak Intan: Sculpture as a Playful Space for Countless Imaginations Kwak Intan (b. 1986) reconstructs remnants of the past to document and express them as sculptures in the present. Drawing inspiration from the paintings and sculptures of great masters in art history, he transforms lingering afterimages from his mind into entirely new sculptural creations of his own.
2025.09.01

Late Mid-Career Artists

Activities Ayoung Kim: IFFR 2023, transmediale 2023, and Sharjah Biennial 15 Ayoung Kim’s Delivery Dancer’s Sphere takes part in the 52nd IFFR Rotterdam International Film Festival (January 25 – February 5, 2023, Rotterdam, Netherlands), one of the top ten film festivals in the world, as part of the Ammodo Tiger Short Competition. The Ammodo Tiger Short Competition that Ayoung Kim participates in is a competition of experimental short films between one and 63 minutes long, representing the intersection between film and Contemporary Art. 24 works in total by international artists including Ayoung Kim have been chosen for the world premiere.
2023.01.27
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Pre-Established Artists

Articles Artist Kyungah Ham Reveals the Hidden Side of Reality by Following Invisible Footsteps Kyungah Ham (b. 1966) is an artist who persistently delves into the gaps of contradictions and absurdities, challenging the rules and taboos of hidden systems behind reality. She has addressed these invisible social structures and phenomena through various mediums, including painting, installation, video, performance, and embroidery.
2024.09.10
Exhibitions Hong Kyoungtack's Solo Exhibition "Full of Love" on View Through April 29, 2012 at DOOSAN Gallery, Seoul DOOSAN Gallery is pleased to announce Full of Love, a solo exhibition by Kyoung Tack Hong, whose powerfully colorful paintings capture daily objects like pens, pencils and books that fill the entire surface of the canvas.
2012.04.05

Established Artists

Articles Artist Suh Yongsun Paints Existential Questions of Human with Bold Colors Artist Suh Yongsun (b. 1951) deals with a wide range of subjects, including portraits, landscapes, history, war, and mythology, but he is particularly known for his series depicting human figures in the city and his historicization series that visualize events in history.
2024.08.13
Exhibitions 《Sora Kim Solo Exhibition》, 2010.10.02 – 2010.12.05, Atelier Hermès Since the mid-1990s, Sora Kim has been actively developing her artistic practice, gaining attention on the international contemporary art scene through her participation in the Venice Biennale, Gwangju Biennale, Yokohama Triennale, as well as solo exhibitions at Seoul’s Art Sonje Center and L.A.'s REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater).
2010.10.01