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New Artists

Articles [Critique] Sorcerer/Hunter/Stroller, Miryu Yoon During her time in graduate school, Miryu Yoon developed an interest in subcultures such as biker gangs and pseudo-religions. According to the artist, there was a phase when she delved into what she refers to as “dark paintings.”
2023
Articles Yezoi Hwang: Viewing Society Through Personal Emotion, Relationships, and the Body Yezoi Hwang (b. 1993) works across various formats, including photography, essays, and interviews, collecting personal narratives. Passing through individual emotions, relationships, and the body, her practice invites us to re-sense and reinterpret the society we encounter.
2026.02.09

Emerging Artists

Articles [Column] The Place of Beautiful and Sparkling Objects Hannah Woo has consistently created installation works that construct narrative spaces using fabric as the primary material. These include landscapes populated by clusters of rods of various shapes, as in 《SWINGING》 (Wangsan-ro 9-gil 24, 2018);
2020.10.09
Articles Artist Keem Jiyoung: Exploring the Relationship Between Individuals and Absurd Social Structure Keem Jiyoung (b. 1987) pays attention to the structural problems behind seemingly accidental disasters, and the relationships between individuals and society that protrude therefrom.
2025.03.25

Mid-Career Artists

Activities Sung Ki-woong, Minae Kim, Kim Young-na, and Cha Jae-min Receive the Doosan Yonkang Arts Award The Doosan Group’s Yonkang Foundation held the 4th Doosan Yonkang Arts Award ceremony on the 4th at Doosan Art Center in Yeonji-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, with Chairman Park Yong-hyun in attendance.
2013.10.05

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Korea Artist Prize 2017》, 2017.09.13 – 2018.02.18, MMCA, Seoul The Korea Artist Prize is the most prestigious award for recognized Korean artists. It is organized by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) and the SBS Foundation, and it reached its 6th edition in 2017.
2017.09.01
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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions "Scoring the Words" on View Through November 20, 2022, at Seoul Museum of Art, Seosomun Main Branch At the Seoul Museum of Art’s Seosomun Main Building, the group exhibition “Scoring the Words“ will be held from September 1 to November 20, 2022. The exhibition will be part of the museum’s exhibition series, which began in 2014, engaging with non-Western regions. This year, the series will focus on Asia.
2022.09.19
Exhibitions 《Voyage of the Black Bird》, 2011.07.14 – 2011.08.13, DOOSAN Gallery New York DOOSAN Gallery New York is pleased to announce 《Voyage of the Black Bird》, an exhibition by Korean artist Yoon Young Park. Park is renowned for her distinctive interdisciplinary language using various media such as drawings, poems, sound, video and installation. Her works elaborate and appropriate seemingly unrelated fragments of episodes, music, novels, and objects she encounters.
2011.07.13

Established Artists

Articles [Critique] Dramatically Emotional Sculpture for the Valuable Essence of Non-subjects Incheon locals can frequently spot giant containers or trucks loaded with industrial materials while driving or taking a walk since Incheon is a trade port with an airport and railroads. When a truck passes,
2019
Exhibitions 《Signs of Bugahyeon-dong》, 2022.10.14. - 2022.11.10, Hapjungjigu The network of connections that once seemed capable of extending endlessly in every direction has been helplessly ‘locked down.’ As parts of the vast structures surrounding us became paralyzed, humanity retreated into individual spaces, taking refuge in the unit
2020.05.06