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New Artists

Articles [Critique] Deep Gaze and Impressionism: The Cycle Between Pre-production and Post-production (Eunhee Lee, 《Mechanics of Stress》(DOOSAN Gallery Seoul, 2023)) At one time, Impressionist painters captured outdoor landscapes on canvas. The surface, reflecting the painter’s sensations shaped by weather and sunlight, came to hold flickering impressions and momentary time. Such sensations—liable to disappear at any moment—are also evident in Claude Monet’s ‘Cathedral’ series.
2024
Articles Artist Suhwa Kim: Exploring the Corporeality That Arises Between the Body and the Technological Medium Suwha Kim (b. 1990) has developed performance-based works that reflect on the body within social and cultural contexts, focusing on the events and bodily sensations that arise at the intersection of the body and media. Her practice draws attention to the gaps created by human perception—which evolves far more slowly than rapidly advancing media technologies.
2025.12.22

Emerging Artists

Articles Artist Boma Pak: Expressing Marginalized Beings Through Diverse Media and Identities Boma Pak (b. 1988) creates space for ephemeral substances—like light and air—and for beings considered “feminine” or peripheral, by working through a variety of media including drawing, objects, spontaneous actions, and scent, as well as multiple layers of identity.
2025.08.11
Activities Kim Heecheon Awarded the 20th Hermès Foundation Missulsang Kim Heecheon has been awarded the 20th Hermes Foundation Art Prize. Established in 2000, the Hermes Foundation Art Prize has been discovering and supporting some of the most talented and prominent contemporary Korean artists, including Do Ho Suh, Gimhongsok, and Lim Minouk.
2023.03.04

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《BORDERLESS》, 2023.10.25 – 2024.01.28, ANANTI CULTURE CLUB, Busan The project 《BORDERLESS》 begins from an architectural perspective and explores and reconstructs the three themes of furniture, art, and exhibition in a multilayered way.
2023.10.23

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Sarubia Studio Project 3 - Dajeong Jeong × Ham Jin》, 2023.10.25 – 2023.11.12, Project Space Sarubia (PS Sarubia) Project Space Sarubia's newly introduced "Studio Project 3" is a biennial program aimed at enhancing the practical aspects of art and fostering intergenerational artistic communication by curating the works and exhibitions of emerging artists who have moved beyond
2023.10.22
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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions 《We must run WWW》, 2022.12.16 – 2023.02.05, Daejeon Museum of Art In 2022, the Daejeon Museum of Art explored the overarching theme of the “city,” revisiting both the tangible and intangible values that shape urban life. Within cities that have grown and evolved under the banner of a “better future,” hope and despair, virtue and vice, wealth and poverty coexist—revealing that the challenges facing humanity persist under different names.
2022.12.15
Exhibitions 《The Yeoseong Gukgeuk Project: Hijack the Gender!》, 2023.09.05 – 2023.10.28, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery (Montreal, Canada) For jung’s first solo exhibition in North America, 《The Yeoseong Gukgeuk Project: Hijack the Gender!》, the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery presents her 15 years of research, dedicated to the Yeoseong Gukgeuk Project (2008 – ongoing).
2023.09.01

Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Gimhongsok: Good Labor Bad Art》, 2013.03.07 - 2013.05.26, Plateau Samsung Museum of Art, PLATEAU presents, as its first exhibition of 2013, Gimhongsok’s solo exhibition 《Good Labor Bad Art》.
2013.03.05
Exhibitions 《With no Head nor Tail》, 2024.03.21 – 2024.04.20, Tina Kim Gallery Tina Kim Gallery is pleased to announce Chung Seoyoung (b. Seoul, 1964)’s 《With no Head nor Tail》, from March 21 to April 20, 2024. This marks the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery since 2017.
2024.03.20
Activities Choi Gene Uk - Spin-off Project
2024.03.12