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New Artists

Exhibitions 《Cold Flame》, 2020.05.22 – 2020.06.13, ThisWeekendRoom At our first encounter in a studio, Jiwon Choi, the artist told me that How to paint and what to paint has always been at the heart of her work.
2020.05.20
Articles Artist SANGHEE: Co-Created Sensibilities Through Interactive Art SANGHEE (b. 1995) has explored the concrete sensations of temporality—marked by generations or eras—and the collective narratives entangled with those sensations through interactive media activated by viewer participation. Employing VR, performance, real-time simulation, and photographic media, SANGHEE’s works engage audiences as players, prompting them to embody the given game-like rules and thereby transforming the exhibition space into a shared allegory of reality.
2025.10.20

Emerging Artists

Exhibitions “The 23rd SONGEUN Art Award Exhibition” on view through February 24, 2024, at SONGEUN The SONGEUN Art Award Exhibition is a showcase of the latest works by leading emerging artists in contemporary Korean art in one place. This exhibition features the diversity of contemporary Korean art through the paintings, sculptures, installations, videos, and sound works of 20 young artists born between 1979 and 1990.
2023.12.13
Articles [Review] We are drawn to what is repulsive Adrift deep beneath the sea, a life form seems to have appeared, swimming desperately upward in the hope of finding air above the surface.
2023.07

Mid-Career Artists

Articles Artist Jamyoung Koo: Translating Virtual Structures into Material Form Jamyoung Koo (b. 1986) has been exploring how rapidly evolving technological (software) experiences influence the creation of visual art. He investigates the structures and forms of invisible virtual systems that operate and sustain the physical structures of the real world, focusing on translating them into the realm of sculpture.
2025.08.25

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Frieze Film Seoul 2023》, 2023.08.22 – 2023.09.09, Insa Art Space Under the title ‘It was the way of walking through narrative’, Frieze Film 2023 approaches narrative in film and video as a methodology of excavation.
2023.08.22
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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions “Korea Artist Prize 2023” on View Through March 31, 2024, at MMCA Seoul The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul will host the Korea Artist Prize 2023 from October 20, 2023 to March 31, 2024.
2023.10.25
Articles Artist Lee Yongbaek Navigates Various Media to Explore Socio-Cultural Issues and the Human Psyche Lee Yongbaek (b. 1966) has established his own framework by visualizing stories about human existence and inner life, along with political and cultural issues unique to Korea, through media art, sculpture, installation, photography, and painting.
2024.09.10

Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Ability vs. Invisibility》, 2017.03.02 – 2017.04.15, Tina Kim Gallery Tina Kim Gallery is delighted to present 《Ability vs. Invisibility》, the first solo exhibition in the United States by South Korean artist Chung Seoyoung. Following her first group show in New York, Two Hours (2016)—also presented by Tina Kim Gallery—Chung will present a range of works from 2007 to the present in the upcoming exhibition, on view from March 2 to April 15, 2017.
2017.03.02
Articles Kim Tschoon-su’s Blue Paintings: A Journey into the Nature of Painting Kim Tschoon-su (b. 1957), a leading figure in the ‘Post-Dansaekhwa’ group and the artist of ‘Ultra Marine’, has attracted attention for his unique finger painting technique, in which he wears thin gloves instead of brushes, and uses paint on his palms and fingers to ‘touch’ the canvas to build up thin layers of color.
2024.07.30