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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
Articles Artist Jooyoung Oh: Exploring the Limits and Possibilities of Contemporary Science and Technology through Interactive Media Jooyoung Oh (b. 1991) is an artist and researcher who explores the limits and alternative possibilities of contemporary science and technology through interactive media, including games and artificial cognitive models. With the perspective of a scholar, she investigates human visual perception and conducts simulations using artificial cognitive models. At the same time, as an artist, she continually questions the boundaries and limitations inherent in scientific and technological systems.
2025.06.16

Emerging Artists

Articles Artist Sun Woo’s Convergence of Digital and Painting: A Contemporary Reflection on the Mutable Body Sun Woo (b. 1994) creates works by combining digital tools with traditional painting techniques. She collects countless images floating in the digital world, transforms them in her own unique way, and translates them into paintings.
2025.03.18
Exhibitions 《Tumbleweeds》, 2023.02.07 – 2023.03.04, Art Space BOAN 2 Art Space Boan 2 is hosting Hannah Woo’s solo exhibition, 《Tumbleweeds》, through March 4.
2023.02.05

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Quizás, Quizás, Quizás》, 2017.08.28 – 2017.09.24, Amado Art Space In 《Quizás, Quizás, Quizás》, the artist has created a series of drawings based on their personal experiences accumulated over time.
2017.08.26

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《qbit to adam I, adam》, 2021.02.14 – 2021.04.16, Kang Contemporary, (Berlin) Chan Sook Choi's works are based on her artistic research – research on the movements of people and things, research on what people leave behind and what memory conveys.
2021.02.10
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Pre-Established Artists

Articles [Critique] Voice of the “MTV Generation”: Early Video Work of Sejin Kim From the late 1990s to the early 2000s, Korean video art underwent a significant transformation, as artists abandoned the video sculpture of previous generations and began experimenting with the inherent aesthetics and technical characteristics
2019.04.08
Activities Announcement of the Winners of the 2013 Korea Public Design Awards The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (Minister Yoo Jinryong, hereafter MCST) has announced the winners of the Grand Prize of the “2013 Korea Public Design Awards.” In the Best Practices category, the “Jeongseon Samtan Art Mine Public Design Regional Regeneration Project” was selected, while in the Design Idea category, the “Easy-to-put” automatic foldable shelf for public restrooms received the top honor.
2013.09.17

Established Artists

Exhibitions “Architecture, Space Time Scenarios” on View Through July 7, 2024, at SeMA Seosomun Main Branch The Seoul Museum of Art presents “Space Time Scenarios” from April 4 to July 7 at its Seosomun Main Branch.
2024.04.02
Activities MMCA Artist of the Year… Inhwan Oh’s ‘On My Way to Blind Spots’ The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) has selected artist Inhwan Oh (50) as the winner of the “Artist of the Year 2015.” Oh received the award for his project Finding Blind Spots, which expands the notion of blind spots from their spatial meaning into social and cultural contexts.
2015.10.06