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New Artists

Articles The Hybrid World of Artist TZUSOO: Where Cyber Ecology Meets Reality TZUSOO (b. 1992), a digital native, has been developing a unique artistic language rooted in new identities formed at the intersection of the cyber ecology and the real world. Her work evolves across various media, including video, installation, sculpture, and painting.
2025.06.09
Articles [Critique] Gijeong Goo’s Rendering ≥ World =%세GyeSe계세계Saegye Working as an independent curator, she creates diverse exhibition programs and writes about art. Additionally, she assists with public institutional agendas through corporate and institutional consulting, outsourced research, and project planning.
2025.02

Emerging Artists

Articles Artist Jaeseok Lee's Surreal Paintings: Exploring the Relationship Between Body and Object Jaeseok Lee (b. 1989) began his work by realistically depicting autobiographical experiences and has continued to explore the similarities between the components of the human body and objects for years. The
2025.03.04
Exhibitions 《Missing Mass》, 2021.07.14 – 2021.08.14, UARTSPACE UARTSPACE is pleased to announce Leekyung Kang’s solo exhibition 《Missing Mass》 from July 14 to August 14, 2021.
2021.07.12

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 [Essay] Artist Son Donghyun, From Traditional Portraits of Contemporary Figures to Studying Korean Paper in the Spirit of Traditional Korean Landscape Painters Son Donghyun is a contemporary South Korean artist who defies the conventions of traditional Korean paintings, such as figure paintings, Munjado (pictorial ideographs), Sipjangsaengdo (ten longevity symbols painting), and other Minhwa (Korean folk art).
2022.04.04
Activities [Project] Aproject X Kim Heejo 2021.08.23
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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Life of Always a Mirror》, 2014.08.30 – 2014.11.30, Art Sonje Center Art Sonje Center presents Sung Hwan Kim’s solo exhibition from August 30th to November 30th. This exhibition introduces Kim’s art as a systematic integration of video, drawing, installation, architecture, and performance into a single exhibition space.
2014.08.30
Exhibitions 《Black Gold in Switzerland》, 2006.03.10 – 2006.03.31, Art Space Pool Art Space Pool has invited artist Rho Jae Oon for the first exhibition to be held at its new location in Gugi-dong.
2006.03.09

Established Artists

Exhibitions 《MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2019: Park Chan-kyong – Gathering》, 2019.10.26 – 2020.02.23, MMCA, Seoul Park Chan-kyong is born in Seoul (1965) and has lived in the city. He had majored in Painting at the College of Fine Arts but after graduation, he has mainly written about art and curated exhibitions. His first solo exhibition in 1997
2019.10.25
Articles [Critique] Type Called ‘Middlemen’: Obscure Anxiety and Minute Rupture When Walter Benjamin announced a new experience in visual perception to be brought by the eye of a camera with high expectation in the early 20th century, photography had already been enthusiastically capturing everything in existence for many years. While many focused on the
2012