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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 Sungsil Ryu: Satirizing Reality through Black Comedy and Fictional Characters

2025.05.26

Artist_K-Artist eobchae: Critical Imaginations of the Accelerated Techno-Environment in the Post-Internet Era 2025.05.26

Artist_K-Artist Artist Kim Heecheon: On Existence and Life Mediated by Digital Data 2025.05.26

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Artist_K-Artist Artist Seeun Kim Translated the Visual Dynamism of Space into Paintings

2025.04.01 N

Artist_K-Artist Artist Park Noh-wan’s Stained Paintings: On Things That Are Neither This Nor That

2025.04.01 N

Artist_K-Artist Artist Hwang Wonhae’s Abstract Paintings: Reconstructing the Multilayered and Fluid Architectural Landscapes of the City

2025.04.01 N

Artist_K-Artist Artist Keem Jiyoung: Exploring the Relationship Between Individuals and Absurd Social Structure

2025.03.25 N

Artist_K-Artist Abstract Paintings of Hejum Bä Reviving Primitive Perception

2025.03.25 N

Artist_K-Artist Artist Sikyung Sung's Abstract Paintings: Exploring a Visual Language Through the Traces of Spontaneous Brushstrokes

2025.03.25 N

Artist_K-Artist Artist Leekyung Kang Visualizes the Invisible Structures of Today’s Society

2025.03.18 N

Artist_K-Artist Artist Jihyoung Han's Optimistic Dystopia: New Ways of Survival Through Destruction

2025.03.18 N

Artist_K-Artist Artist Sun Woo’s Convergence of Digital and Painting: A Contemporary Reflection on the Mutable Body

2025.03.18 N

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Emerging Artists

Exhibitions 《Dig Around in Empty Pocket》, 2022.10.06 – 2022.11.10, Gallery KICHE Gallery Kiche hosts Artist Park Noh Wan’s third solo exhibition, 《Dig Around in Empty Pocket》.

2022.10.06

Exhibitions 《With Night’s Nape Between Our Jaws》, 2024.08.29 – 2024.10.12, P21 P21 will present Keem Jiyoung's solo exhibition ‘With Night’s Nape Between Our Jaw’ from August 29 to October 12.

2024.08.27

Activities “Future Present: Contemporary Korean Art,” the First English-language Anthology Focusing on Contemporary Korean Artists from the Millennial Generation, Has Been Published

2024.06.10

Exhibitions "Myths of Our Times," by Heemin Chung, Sun Woo, and Zadie Xa, on View Through February 25, 2023, at Thaddaeus Ropac Seoul

2023.01.16

Articles Artist Leekyung Kang Visualizes the Invisible Structures of Today’s Society

2025.03.18

Articles Artist Jihyoung Han's Optimistic Dystopia: New Ways of Survival Through Destruction

2025.03.18

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Then, Fly Away》, 2019.11.07 – 2019.12.19, DOOSAN Gallery (New York, USA) DOOSAN Gallery New York presents Hayoun Kwon’s solo exhibition, 《Then, Fly Away》, from November 7th to December 19th. Kwon, who is the 2017 recipient of the 8th DOOSAN Artist Award, lives and works between France and South Korea.

2019.11.06

Exhibitions 《Glorious Magnificent》, 2014.07.10, Mana Contemporary Chicago

2014.07.09

Articles Artist Ahnnlee Lee’s Paintings: ‘Gestures’ Formed in Relationship with Natural Objects

2025.03.11

Activities Fellows of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program in 2023-Jiyoung Yoon, Visual Arts Department 2022.11.11

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Established Artists

Articles Artist Park Chan-kyong Confronts the Present Through the Past Park Chan-kyong (b. 1965), a media artist, filmmaker, and writer, has explored themes such as the Cold War, division, tradition, and religion, examining Korean society’s reckless pursuit of Western-style modernization and economic growth.

2024.09.24

Exhibitions 《One: Do Ho Suh》, 2018.10.10 – 2019.05.05, Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY) At a time of mass global migration, the loss of leaving one's native country and searching for a permanent home have become universal issues. 《One: Do Ho Suh》 features a single, large-scale work by Korean-born artist Do Ho Suh, whose work engages with migration and cultural displacement.

2018.10.01