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New Artists

Articles Artist Moka Lee Paints the Invisible Sides of Today's Youth Moka Lee (b.1996) paints portraits of today's youth, capturing both their brilliance and instability. Blurring the boundaries between portraiture, still life, and landscape painting, Lee’s work embraces the underlying anxieties of youth hidden beneath the vibrant images displayed on social media.
2025.04.08
Articles [Critique] Rays of a Nocturne This exhibition is about “darkness.” 《Oh, Night and I’ll Come to You》—the title itself makes that clear. The sentence is a promise made to someone. It calls out to the one who is in the dark, extending a hand to someone
2025

Emerging Artists

Articles [Critique] Art in Practice after Sewol Ferry Disaster “It will be cloudy across the country with rains in many places in the southern regions.”Those were the words formed by the immaculate cut–up strips of metal foil neatly arranged on the window. Then the sky gradually grew darker, and it really began to rain. As the raindrops began to glide down the glass window against the sullen scenery outside, the overlapping sentence took on an uncanny meaning. I found myself reading the same sentence over and over again.
2020
Articles Artist Heemin Chung Explores the Perception of Reality in the Digital Age Heemin Chung (b. 1987) has explored how technology shapes our perception and influences art in an era where much of daily life has shifted online.
2025.02.25

Mid-Career Artists

Activities MMCA's Renewed Korea Artist Prize Announced Four Finalists for 2023 The Korea Artist Prize, which has returned with a new system, has named Byungjun Kwon, Gala Porras-Kim, Kang Seung Lee, and Sojung Jun as the finalists for this year.
2023.04.24

Late Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Critique] And When You Look, There Were Stars Every Place He’d Been “When I showed you my work before, yousaid you wanted to write something. I know the schedule’s a bit tight, but Iwanted to talk to you about it.”
2019.11.19
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Pre-Established Artists

Articles Artist Rho Jae Oon’s World as a Cinematic Device: Reflections on Reality Through Images in the Digital Age Pioneering Korean web art artist, Rho Jae Oon (b. 1971) reflects on the conditions of image production and reception shaped by changes in the digital media environment, where films are replicated and distributed at high speeds through the internet.
2024.11.05
Exhibitions 《Your Mind is Now an Ocean》, 2024.07.31 – 2024.08.30, Pilar Corrias, London Pilar Corrias is pleased to present a group exhibition of works by Koo Jeong A, Ragna Bley, Keren Cytter, Sophie von Hellermann, Manuel Mathieu, Mary Ramsden, Rachel Rose, and Julião Sarmento.
2024.07.30

Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Learning Machine》, 2013.06.27. - 2013.10.16, Nam June Paik Art Center 《The Learning Machine》 exhibition which was inspired by the educational implications of ‘art as experience’ created by Fluxus artists in the 1960s is intended to show ‘art’ as a field of teaching and learning. These artists experimented in a new relationship between ‘an artist creating experiences’
2013.06.25
Articles [Critique] Digital Landscapes by a Second-Rate Artist "I wanted to make fake photographs that are extremely meaningless because I was really irritated by words and theories surrounding art. I wished my photographs to be meaningless, empty, and completely nonsensical."
2002