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New Artists

Articles Artist Jiwon Choi Depicts a World Between Life and Death Jiwon Choi (b.1996) is an emerging artist gaining recognition for her paintings that capture contemporary emotions through the imagery of antique porcelain dolls.
2025.04.08
Exhibitions 《Flame in a Small Room》, 2020.06.25 - 2020.07.13, Gallery ANOV Indifferent, as though something has been set alight in place of the burdens that have settled upon the mind—residues that are not even warm. From that moment of such harmless release.
2020.06.17

Emerging Artists

Articles Artist Kim Eunseol: Delving into Listening, Emotion, and Memory Kim Eunseol (b. 1988) explores the sense of “listening,” along with emotion and memory, through her work. Although she uses hearing aids, she communicates more through visual and other sensory perceptions than through hearing itself.
2026.04.20
Articles Artist Park Noh-wan’s Stained Paintings: On Things That Are Neither This Nor That Park Noh-wan (b. 1987) focuses on subjects that are neither particularly beautiful nor harmonious in form—things that are often overlooked or deemed unimportant, such as outdated advertisements or discarded objects crumpled on the roadside. The artist translates these strangely captivating scenes onto canvas, not by merely depicting their forms, but by capturing the unique atmosphere and emotions they evoke.
2025.04.01

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Young Korean Artists 2021》, 2021.05.28 – 2021.09.22, MMCA, Gwacheon 《Young Korean Artists 2021》 is the 20th exhibition of the MMCA's 《Young Korean Artists program》, which first began in 1981and now, as it celebrates its 40th anniversary, has become Korea's most time-honored and authoritative program dedicated to discovering young and emerging artists.
2021.05.26

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 60th Venice Biennale, 《Stranieri Ovunque – Foreginers Everywhere》, 2024.04.20 – 2024.11.24 Kang Seung Lee (b.1978) participates in the 60th International Art Exhibition organized by La Biennale di Venezia. Titled 《Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere》, the 60th iteration of the Biennale will
2024.04.20
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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Urban Gray》, 2023.04.28 – 2023.06.02, The SoSo A long history of a city, the social meanings it has created, and the different images it has generated create an aura. True, the identity of an object with an aura is not easily distinguishable. It is something
2023.04.26
Exhibitions 《Artists in Their Times: Korean Modern and Contempory Art》, 2020.07.21 – 2022.09.18, MMCA Gwacheon The exhibition 《Artists in Their Times: Korean Modern and Contemporary Art》 is a large-scale permanent collection exhibition that traces the key developments of modern and contemporary Korean art through the holdings of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA).
2020.07.20

Established Artists

Activities A Former Rice Mill Bearing the Pain of Exploitation Reimagined as a Space of Reflection Connecting Past and Present: Artist Cho Duck Hyun’s Old Mill Chunpo Project Entangled vines grow thickly along exposed wooden beams, and sunlight filters through gaps in the broken corrugated metal roof of the 110-year-old Chunpo rice-milling factory. Located in Iksan, Jeollabuk-do, the site now displays a large black-and-white photograph of a young woman wearing hanbok.
2024.05.18
Articles [Essay] Korean Feminist Artists: Confront and Deconstruct - Nomadism The topic of Chapter 8 is 'nomadism', and the artists under consideration this time are Kim Sooja (b. 1957) and Kyungah Ham (b. 1966).
2024