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New Artists

Articles Artist Miryu Yoon Captures the Abstract Sensibility of Fleeting Moments Through Painting Miryu Yoon (b.1991) begins her work by drawing from the emotions and sensations she experiences while observing and encountering ordinary subjects.
2025.04.08
Articles Artist Jinseung Jang: On Data, Humanity, and Structures of Perception Jinseung Jang (b. 1991) explores the relationship between technology and humanity and the structures of social perception, unfolding narratives that cut across past, present, and future societies through a variety of media. In particular, his practice is concerned with the biases and discrimination inherent in human existence, as well as the potential for mutual understanding that can overcome them.
2025.09.29

Emerging Artists

Activities “Future Present: Contemporary Korean Art,” the First English-language Anthology Focusing on Contemporary Korean Artists from the Millennial Generation, Has Been Published Skira editore and SONGEUN announced the publication of Future Present: Contemporary Korean Art by Andy St. Louis, a survey of Korean artists from the Millennial Generation.
2024.06.10
Exhibitions 《ARTSPECTRUM 2022》, 2022.03.02 - 2022.07.03, Leeum Museum of Art 《ARTSPECTRUM》 was launched in 2001 at Hoam Gallery as a biannual survey exhibition of young and emerging South Korean artists. Since 2006, it has been held at the Leeum Museum of Art,
2022.02.28

Mid-Career Artists

Activities Chanel and Frieze Announce the Third Season of the 'Now & Next' Video Series, Spotlighting Renowned and Emerging Korean Artists Chanel and Frieze present the third season of the Now & Next video series, an initiative that brings together distinguished established artists and rising talents in Korea. Sponsored by Chanel and produced by Frieze, this series serves as a platform to showcase intergenerational artistic dialogue, highlighting contemporary Korean art’s dynamic landscape.
2024.08.08

Late Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Critique] Fingertips Unmasking a Thousand Faces – Ham Jin’s Solo Exhibition 《Mom》 Ham Jin’s early work was a satirical portrayal of our reality with subminiature figures arranged with real things. Afterwards, Ham showcased his own distinctive modeling idioms through a connection of black monochrome abstract images.
2022.09.23
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Pre-Established Artists

Activities [2019 Venice Biennale] Tilted Scenes – What Do You See? On the 7th (local time), the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA), announced the opening of the Korean art pop-up exhibition “Tilted Scenes – What Do You See?” at the Venice Meeting Point, Navy Officers’ Club, Arsenale, Venice.
2019.05.09
Articles [Review] Exhibition of Nominees for the 2011 Hermès Foundation Art Award: The Editing Techniques of “Juxtaposition, Time, and Life” From the mountain scenery filled with hikers to the hardware store owner performing with a saw, the screen unfolds through a non-narrative flow of juxtaposed images. A mirror is placed within the frame, and through it a landscape emerges. The gaze is predetermined, yet the image appears in the form of an unforeseen emergence. In other words, there exists
2011.08.10

Established Artists

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
Exhibitions 《#265 Okha-ri》, 2002.02.06. - 2002.03.03, Project Space SARUBIA The address ‘265 Okha-ri’, Goheung-gun, Jeollanam-do belongs to a house owned by the head family where Eull Kim was born and raised. Focusing on the idea of ‘where I am from and who I am’, Kim draws the history of his family to discover the truth behind ‘blood’.
2002.02.04
Articles [Review] Empty Morph
2021