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New Artists

Articles Artist Yiji Jeong: Painting as an Affection for Intimate Presences Yiji Jeong (b. 1994) captures private and intimate emotions toward those around her, along with a sense of romantic atmosphere and lingering moods, through painting. Her works reflect not only scenes and objects she has directly observed but also thoughts and stories about the people close to her. Rather than placing emphasis on the subjects themselves, her paintings focus on moments of connection and impressions formed within the relationships between herself and those subjects.
2025.07.07
Articles Unmake Lab: Exploring the Relationships Between Technology, Nature, and Society Through Technological Appropriation Unmake Lab, a collective formed in 2016 by Binna Choi and Sooyon Song, appropriates machine perception to explore ways in which humans, nature, and society can engage with one another through computational means. Their practice particularly focuses on intersecting elements of artificial intelligence—such as datasets, computer vision, and generative neural networks—with the history of developmentalism in Asia, thereby revealing the social, spatial, and ecological conditions of the present.
2025.06.16
Articles [Critique] Image as Structure
2023.06.19

Emerging Artists

Exhibitions 《Seoulites》, 2021.07.16 – 2021.09.09, Museumhead Love is a confrontation of two parties, who stand facing one another. They meet, experience an overflowing of emotion, and, in some cases, end up going their separate ways—all while facing one another.
2021.07.16
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

Mid-Career Artists

Activities DOOSAN Yonkang Foundation Presents the '5th DOOSAN Yonkang Arts Award' The three artist finalists selected for the 5th DOOSAN Artist Award are Jungju An (b. 1979), Yunsung Lee(b. 1985), and Dongju Kang (b. 1988). Each of these artists has a different trajectory, and their artworks reflect distinctly different characteristics.
2014.10.17

Late Mid-Career Artists

Articles Media Artist Ayoung Kim: Multidimensional Narratives of Beings Deviating from History, Era, and Geopolitics Ayoung Kim (b. 1979) has presented works in video, installation, and performance, reconstructing historical facts and contemporary issues such as Korea's modern and contemporary history, geopolitics, emigration, and transnational movement into multilayered narratives through meticulous research.
2024.12.31
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Pre-Established Artists

Articles Artist MeeNa Park Explores the Production, Distribution, Consumption Methods, and Environment of Colors/Images MeeNa Park (b. 1973) has persistently explored the production, distribution, and consumption methods and environments related to color and form, which are fundamental elements of painting.
2024.11.19
Exhibitions 《Five Acts》, 2024.02.03 – 2024.05.05, Spike Island 《Five Acts》 is a new commission and solo exhibition by artist and Spike Island studio holder Young In Hong. The exhibition brings together tapestry, sculpture, video and performance to explore the bond between humans and animals through movement, sound and other non-linguistic forms of expression.
2024.02.03

Established Artists

Articles [Critique] Ghosts, Objects, Sculpture: The Sculptural Moment of Chung Seoyoung¹ Chung Seoyoung has always introduced herself as a sculptor, but the language required to read her sculptures is far from those prescribed to modernist works of art. It is the language of “objects,” above all else. Pedestals have been removed.
2023
Exhibitions 《ON NATURE》, 2022.05.19 – 2022.09.07, Moran Museum of Art To commemorate its reopening, Moran Museum of Art presents 《ON NATURE》, a solo exhibition by Atta Kim, as its first exhibition of the year. Presenting Atta Kim’s artistic world at Moran Museum of Art is significant in many respects. Above all, the museum’s natural, cultural, and artistic environment appears to embody a sculptural space that resonates deeply with 《ON NATURE》.
2022.05.19