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K-Artists
Carefully curates and introduces three representative artists from the Korean contemporary art scene each week since the 2000s.

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3 K-Artists This Week

Artist_K-Artist Artist Uri Han: On the Disappearing Things and Its Temporality
2025.09.29
Artist_K-Artist Artist Jinseung Jang: On Data, Humanity, and Structures of Perception 2025.09.29
Artist_K-Artist Artist Song Min Jung: Tracing Movement Between Virtual and Real to Reflect on the Present 2025.09.29

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Artist_K-Artist Artist Kwak Intan: Sculpture as a Playful Space for Countless Imaginations
2025.09.01
Artist_K-Artist Artist Isaac Moon: Exploring the Relationships Between Contemporary Visuality, Objects, and Humans
2025.09.01
Artist_K-Artist Artist Jayoung Hong: On the Pleasure of Seeing
2025.09.01
Artist_K-Artist Artist Sora Park: Critical Imagination of a Future Accelerated by Technological Advancement
2025.08.25
Artist_K-Artist Artist Jamyoung Koo: Translating Virtual Structures into Material Form
2025.08.25
Artist_K-Artist Artist Sunghyeop Seo: A ‘Topological’ Art That Disrupts the Hierarchy of Reality
2025.08.25
Artist_K-Artist Artist Dew Kim: The Art of Subversion at the Intersection of the Sacred and the Profane
2025.08.18
Artist_K-Artist Artist Nayoung Kang: Capturing Physical and Emotional Tension Within Relationships of Care
2025.08.18
Artist_K-Artist Yagwang: On Porous Space-Time Where Diverse Identities Intersect
2025.08.18

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New Artists

Articles Artist Chang Kon Lim's Moving and Transforming Paintings: Imagining the Sensory Realities Inside the Body Chang Kon Lim (b. 1994) begins his work with an imaginative exploration of the invisible interior of the human body. While our bodies are tangible and intrinsically connected to the self, their inner world remains an unknowable realm—almost like a foreign land.
2025.07.14
Exhibitions “Nude, Flesh, and Love” on View Through October 25, 2025, at Jason Haam Jason Haam presents 《Nude, Flesh, and Love》, a group exhibition on view through October 25, at its newly expanded venue.
2025.09.09
Exhibitions “Young Korean Artists 2025: Here and Now” on View Through October 12, 2025, at MMCA Gwacheon
2025.04.29
Articles [Critique] Even If Obsessed with Display and Following – On the Art of Sungsil Ryu
2024.10.01
Articles Artist Gijeong Goo: Exploring the Human-Machine-Nature Relationship Between Reality and Virtuality
2025.05.19
Articles [Critique] “Why My Sculpture Is Pictorial”
2022.03.04

Emerging Artists

Articles Artist Mire Lee’s Living Machine Sculptures: From Sensation to Emotion Mire Lee (b.1988) creates sculptures using industrial and mechanical materials such as cement, resin, steel, scaffolding, motors, and pumps. Her works foreground materiality, texture, and mechanical movement.
2025.05.01
Exhibitions 《Glow Breath Warmth》, 2020.12.28 – 2021.02.10, WESS Keem Jiyoung’s solo exhibition, 《Glow Breath Warmth》, will be held at WESS from December 28 to February 10.
2020.12.26
Articles [Critique] Hejum Bä: The Pictorial Situation of Emerging Forms
2021.03.23
Exhibitions 《Two, Lying Down, Exposed Roots》 2024.05.10 – 2024.07.21 Johyun Gallery (Haeundae)
2024.05.09
Articles Artist Eunsae Lee’s Paintings: Everyday Moments That Disrupt the Rigid and Fixed
2025.02.25
Articles Artist Heemin Chung Explores the Perception of Reality in the Digital Age
2025.02.25

Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Review] Stories Expanding into Life, Relationships, and Society… Captured Through the Language of Metaphor [Park Miran’s Whispering Paintings]– Woosung Lee Solo Exhibition “Come Sit with me” (Hakgojae Gallery) The word "youth," which evokes images of bright, glowing days, seemed to suit him particularly well. His paintings speak clearly in a voice that is both serious and somehow pure. Some faces in his works seem to cry out, questioning why their words fail to reach you.
2023.08.26
Articles [Review] The Dance of the Drifting Ones – Chu Mirim’s Solo Exhibition 《Satellites》
2020
Articles Artist Hyangro Yoon’s “Pseudo Painting”: The Possibilities of Abstract Painting through Contemporary Imaging Technologies
2025.06.30
Articles [Essay] The Planarity Journey in Artist Lim Sunhee’s Colorful Paintings 2022.09.12

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Imjingawa》, 2017.12.07 – 2018.01.28, Audio Visual Pavilion (Seoul) Hwayeon Nam's solo exhibition 《Imjingawa》 is held at Audiovisual Pavilion from December 7, 2017, to January 28, 2018.
2017.12.05
Articles [Essay] A Familiar Yet Strange Scene Unfolds in Kim Taedong's Photographs
2022.07.25
Articles [Critique] Fingertips Unmasking a Thousand Faces – Ham Jin’s Solo Exhibition 《Mom》
2022.09.23
Articles [Critique] A Gaze into Korean society: Kelvin Kyungkun Park's Art World 2017
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Pre-Established Artists

Articles Artist Seulgi Lee Mediates Diverse Traditions, Lives, and Art Through Anthropological Perspective Seulgi Lee (b. 1972) has expressed her interest in objects, language, and nature closely connected to human life through her own distinctive visual language.
2024.12.03
Articles Artist Young In Hong Explores and Practices the Concept of Equality Through Art Young In Hong (b. 1972), through her diverse artistic practices, has consistently explored the theme of "equality," working to flexibly dismantle various hierarchical structures in reality.
2024.12.03
Articles [Critique] Korea’s Promising 30s–40s Artists ⑤: Installation Artist Yoon Young Park
2009.03.05
Exhibitions 《Song for Nobody》, 2012.03.01 – 2012.05.20, PLATEAU, Samsung Museum of Art
2012.03.01
Exhibitions Lee Donggi's Solo Exhibition "Dongi Lee : Pentagon" on View Through, July 17, 2021 at PIBI Gallery
2021.05.27
Activities [Project] GWON Osang: New Structure of Sculpture - A Trip to Another Joyful Place
2020.12.04

Established Artists

Articles Artist Chung Hyun Finds Sculptural Possibilities in Discarded Objects Chung Hyun (b. 1956) has established a unique art world in the history of contemporary Korean sculpture by sculpting anti-figurative, existential human figures or fragmenting materials that are not commonly used in the category of sculpture to reveal their materiality.
2024.08.20
Activities Lee Bul Selected as the 2019 Ho-Am Prize Laureate in the Arts Lee Bul has been selected as the 2019 Ho-Am Prize laureate in the arts. Recognized for her critical engagement with society, historical awareness, and humanistic exploration of utopia, she has established herself as a leading figure in contemporary Korean art.
2019.04.04
Exhibitions 《To Breathe – Constellation》, 2024.03.13 – 2024.09.23, Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection
2024.03.10
Exhibitions 《With no Head nor Tail》, 2024.03.21 – 2024.04.20, Tina Kim Gallery
2024.03.20
Articles Artist Kang Hong-Goo Documents the Hidden Aspects of Reality Through the Camera
2024.08.27
Articles Artist Kimsooja Expresses the Lives with Bottari Cloth
2024.07.02