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New Artists

Exhibitions 《Super-fine 가벼운 사진술》, 2021.10.01 – 2021.10.24, Ilmin Museum of Art The expression “super-fine” has two definitions: that something is refined, superior, and of exceptional quality; and that something is extremely or unusually thin and light.
2021.09.20
Articles Artist Chanmin Jeong: On ‘Movements’ Omitted and Marginalized in Accelerated Society Chanmin Jeong (b. 1991) visualizes "actions" that have been marginalized or omitted by efficiency-driven technological advancement and the logic of capitalism through a wide range of media, including video, photography, sculpture, and installation.
2025.08.04

Emerging Artists

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
Exhibitions 《COMBO》, 2021.09.15 – 2021.10.30, Whistle The cards began to shuffle. It gently exposes the face above the hand as it inserts itself among the other cards. Finally, the softly curved card falls below the thumb, randomly tangles up, then fans out neatly
2021.09.13

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Tit for Tat》, 2020.03.05 – 2020.04.11, DOOSAN Gallery New York DOOSAN Gallery New York is pleased to present Jeongsu Woo’s solo exhibition, 《Tit for Tat》, from March 5 to April 11, 2020. Woo, who participated in 《Doosan Art LAB 2017》, was selected for our Spring 2020 DOOSAN Residency New York. During
2020..03.04

Late Mid-Career Artists

Articles Art as “Care” by Kang Seung Lee: Rewriting the History of Queer Communities Kang Seung Lee (b. 1978), a multidisciplinary artist, challenges the mainstream history predominantly centered on the First World, white, male, and heterosexual narratives, while unveiling the stories of marginalized minorities excluded from this history.
2025.01.14
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Pre-Established Artists

Articles [Critique] Assembling Fragments of Space-Time to Find a Cure In 'dynamic' Korea, everything changes so rapidly that nothing can be properly perceived and remembered before it is gone already. This perhaps explains why the images in Won Seoungwon's 《1978, My Age of Seven》 (2010) and her other works evoke such great feelings of nostalgia.
2012.04
Articles Artist Chung Heeseung Captures the Gap Between the Object and Image Chung Heeseung (b. 1974) has consistently explored the relationship between the essence of a object and its image through the medium of photography, focusing on the gap that emerges between the two.
2024.11.26

Established Artists

Articles Artist Kim Beom’s Artworks Oscillating Between Humor and Cynicism Kim Beom (b. 1963) humorously transforms the artist’s imagination from small everyday events into real objects. His work ranges from object works that transform everyday objects into new objects, to drawings and video works that realize the artist’s imagination, to publications in the form of monographs.
2024.07.16
Exhibitions 《With no Head nor Tail》, 2024.03.21 – 2024.04.20, Tina Kim Gallery Tina Kim Gallery is pleased to announce Chung Seoyoung (b. Seoul, 1964)’s 《With no Head nor Tail》, from March 21 to April 20, 2024. This marks the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery since 2017.
2024.03.20