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New Artists

Articles [Critique] Rays of a Nocturne This exhibition is about “darkness.” 《Oh, Night and I’ll Come to You》—the title itself makes that clear. The sentence is a promise made to someone. It calls out to the one who is in the dark, extending a hand to someone
2025
Exhibitions 《Burrowing at the Bottom of a Rainbow》, 2021.07.23 – 2021.10 Atelier Hermès presents 《Burrowing at the Bottom of a Rainbow》, a solo exhibition by emerging sculptor Hyun Nahm (b. 1990), on view from July 23 to October 3, 2021.
2021.07.20

Emerging Artists

Articles Artist JOO SLA: On Sensations Arising in Moments of Dimensional Shift JOO SLA (b. 1988) has long been interested in subcultural forms such as comics and animation, as well as in fictional world-building grounded in aspects of reality. Working across diverse media—including animation, 3D sculpture, and two-dimensional works—she explores points where boundaries between the virtual and the real, the material and the immaterial, become entangled and collide, through processes of dimensional transition, fragmentation, and recomposition.
2026.04.27
Articles Artist Jaeseok Lee's Surreal Paintings: Exploring the Relationship Between Body and Object Jaeseok Lee (b. 1989) began his work by realistically depicting autobiographical experiences and has continued to explore the similarities between the components of the human body and objects for years. The
2025.03.04
Articles [Critique] Mire Lee: Carriers
2020.07.23

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Motel Tour》, 2007.08.31 - 2007.09.13, Space Vava If the twentieth century was the age of mechanical reproduction, today can be described as the age of digital reproduction. Mechanical reproduction produces thousands of identical copies at the same time, operating through ceaseless repetition.
2007.08.29

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Kang Seung Lee: The Heart of A Hand》, 2024.03.25 – 2024.07.22, Vincent Price Art Museum Kang Seung Lee's solo exhibition 《Kang Seung Lee: The Heart of A Hand》 will be on view at the Vincent Price Art Museum from March 25 to July 22.
2024.03.23
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Pre-Established Artists

Articles Artist Sung Hwan Kim Reimagines the Present and History Through Visual Storytelling Sung Hwan Kim (b. 1975), who works between New York and Amsterdam, has showcased a diverse range of works, incorporating various media such as film, video, drawing, music, architecture, and literature into installations, performances, radio dramas, and books.
2024.10.15
Activities Yeondoo Jung Named Recipient of the 4th Ha In-Doo Art Award… “Originality That Extends from Individual Narratives to Grand Narratives” Yeondoo Jung (56) has been selected as the recipient of the 4th Ha In-Doo Art Award. Working across a wide range of media—including video, photography, sculpture, and performance—he has presented his works at major institutions around the world. Traversing heterogeneous subjects
2025.05.28

Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Lee Gapchul: Another Landscape 1979-2000》, 2025.12.12 – 2025.12.31, The Reference For more than forty years, Lee Gapchul has documented landscapes permeated with the Korean land, its people, and the unconscious of the era. His photographs go beyond simple representation or the recording of events; they capture the deepest strata of Korean sensibility and collective memory, forming a crucial terrain in the history of Korean photography.
2025.12.10
Articles [Review] Suh Yongsun’s Drawing of the City: Between Utopianism and Its Reality Not long ago, Korean Colored Painting—The World of Court Painting and Minhwa, a comprehensive study of Korean folk painting, was published after more than ten years of planning.
2015