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Yeondoo Jung

Biography

Yeondoo Jung

  • Born in 1969, Jinju, Korea
    Lives and works in Seoul, Korea

    Currently an associate professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, School of Art, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea

Education

  • 1997       Master’s Degree in Fine Arts, Goldsmiths College, University of London, London, United Kingdom
    1995       Diploma in Sculpture, Central Saint Martin College of Art, London Institute, London, United Kingdom
    1994       Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts - Sculpture, College of Fine Arts, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • 2026       
    Aluminum Cucumbers: Jung Yeondoo, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon, Korea

    2025       
    The Inevitable, Inacceptable, Kukje Gallery, Hanok, Seoul, Korea
    Jung Yeondoo: Building Dreams, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, USA
    The Inevitable, Inacceptable, Kukje Gallery, Busan, Korea

    2023     
    MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2023: Jung Yeondoo – One Hundred Years of Travels, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

    2022      
    Crow’s Eye View(烏瞰圖), Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan, Korea

    2021      
    Focus on #2 Yeondoo Jung, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

    2020      
    #24 Screening Day Yeondoo Jung, Sinchon Theater, Seoul, Korea
    Here and Elsewhere, Space Willing N Dealing, Seoul, Korea

    2019      
    Here and Now, Perigee Gallery, Seoul, Korea

    2018      
    Evening shower - Between Day & Night, Komagome SOKO, Tokyo, Japan

    2017      
    Yeondoo Jung: Behind the Scenes, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, United States
    Marathon Screening & Talk: Yeondoo Jung, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
    Dream Cafe, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea

    2016      
    Hors la foule, La Maison Salvan, Labege, France
    Here and Elsewhere, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, Korea

    2015      
    d’Ici et d’Ailleurs, MAC/VAL, Paris, France
    Yeondoo Jung: B Camera, Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden

    2014      
    Just Like the Road Across the Earth, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan
    Asian Contemporary Photography JUNG Yeondoo, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
    Spectacle in Perspective, Plateau Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

    2013      
    Wonderland, K11 Art space, Wuhan, China
    Wonderland, K11 Art space, Shanghai, China
    Yeondoo Jung, MAAP Space, Brisbane, Australia

    2012      
    Inside Out, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, United States

    2011      
    The Mechanics of Invention, SCAD Gallery, Hong Kong

    2010      
    Innerscape, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
    Cinemagician, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Berlin, Germany
    An Ordinary Paradise, Espacio Third Hermes, Singapore\

    2009      
    Handmade Memories, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, United States
    Cinemagician, International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama 2009/CREAM, Bank ART, Yokohama, Japan
    Cinemagician, PERFORMA 09 BIENNIAL, Asia Society, New York, United States

    2008      
    Handmade Memories, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
    For Your Loneliness, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden/Berlin, Germany

    2007      
    Locations, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, NY, United States
    Memories of You - Artist of the Year 2007, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
    I Will Remember You, ACA Gallery, Atlanta, United States
    I Will Remember You, Red Gallery, SCAD, Savannah, United States
    Wonderland, Galeria Espacio Minimo, Madrid, Spain

    2006      
    Are You Lonesome Tonight?, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea

    2005      
    Wonderland, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, United States

    2004      
    Beat It, Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea

    2003      
    Bewitched, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea

    2002      
    Chinese Lucky Estate, 1A Space, Hong Kong
    Tokyo Brand City, Koyanagi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

    2001      
    Boramae Dance Hall, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2026       
    MINDBOOM 2026: Magical Thinking, SCAA, Beijing, China
    Perhaps, All of Us, Korean Cultural Centre Canada, Ottawa, Canada
    Perhaps, All of Us, Korean Cultural Center, Washington, D.C., USA
    Watching Together at the Boundary, Bangkok Kunsthalle, Bangkok, Thailand
    Road movie: Art between Korea and Japan since 1945, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
    2026 Hwaum Project: Visible Sound, Audible Pictures, FUTURA SEOUL, Seoul, Korea
    Futures of the Images – Narrating Memories, Beyond Re-coloration, Jinju National Museum, Jinju, Korea
    Obscured Portraits: Seen and Unseen, National Center of Photography and Images, Taipei, Taiwan
    Familia: Family and Family Album, Gyeonggi Center for Photography, Suwon, Korea

    2025     
    Let Things Go: Relations of Relations, 4th Unfold X Convergence Arts Festival 2025, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
    2025 BusanMoCA Cinemedia: After Cinema, Busan Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan, Korea
    Porous City ̶ Where the Wind Comes From, Coex /THILA Ground, Seoul, Korea
    Washingtonia, Gallery Remicon, Jeju, Korea
    The Pulse of Life, Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu Art Center, Daegu, Korea
    B-Class Jokes, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Wanju, Korea
    Seeing with 10 Fingers, Busan Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan, Korea
    Our Enchanting Paradise, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
    MMCA Collection: Korean Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
    The Solidarity of Light and Breath, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea
    Esiza, Osiza, Gangneung International Art Festival 2025(GIAF25), Gangneung, Korea

    2024     
    Railway, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
    WELCOME BACK: 60 PERSPECTIVES, Gallery of the French Institute, Photo Phnom Penh Festival, Cambodia
    News Jeju, Jeju Art Festival, Jeju, Korea
    侍天與民, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
    DMZ OPEN EXHIBITION: PASSAGE, Paju, Korea
    Soulfood&Black Cocktail, YIAF 2024. Yeosu, Korea
    Ecological Art from the Below: Gangwon, Learning from the Ant Tunnels, The 2024 Gangwon Triennale, PyeongChang, Korea
    Decoding Korea, Grand Palais Immersif, Paris, France
    The cloud spotter’s guide, Oil Tank Culture, Seoul, Korea
    Different and beautiful, Hello Museum, Seoul, Korea   
    Every Island is a Mountain: 30th Anniversary of Korean Pavilion, Ordine di Malta, Venice, Italy
    Virtuality of Time, Space55, Seoul, Korea
    MMCA Photographs Collection: What's the Time in Your World?, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
    FOREVERISM: ENDLESS HORIZONS, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
    PERHAPS SUNNY DAYS, PODO Museum, Jeju, Korea
    CHAT 5th Anniversary – Factory of Tomorrow, MILL6 CHAT, Hong Kong
    The Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, United States
    The Selected Series of XR Lab: XR Lab REVIEW, Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan, Korea

    2023     
    The Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989, The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA), Philadelphia, United States
    Publicness of the Art Center 2023 - Playing Locality, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan
    Telling a Story with You: Once Upon a Time in the Future, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
    Still-Life Still-City, Sehwa Museum, Seoul, Korea

    2022     
    EMOTIONAL ASIA: Miyatsu Daisuke Collection x Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
    Art and Industry, Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan, Korea
    Arte Contemporaneo Coreano: Cruzar el Pacifico, Festival Internacional Cervantino, Guanajuato, Mexico
    DMZ Art Project: Peaceful Coexistence Zone, Imjingak and Pyeonghwa Nuri Area, Paju, Korea
    Arte Contemporaneo Coreano: Cruzar el Pacifico, Korean Cultural Center, Mexico City, Mexico
    Yet, With Love, PODO Museum, Jeju, Korea
    Sealed Scenery, Sanjicheon Gallery, Jeju, Korea
    Human, 7 questions, Jeonnam Museum of Art, Gwangyang, Korea
    Hwaum Project Op. 212 Documentary Nostalgia, Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan, Korea

    2021      
    Ten to Tenth, Total Museum, Seoul, Korea
    Perigee Winter Show 2021, Perigee Gallery, Seoul, Korea
    Actually, the dead are not dead, Total Museum, Seoul, Korea
    SBS Prism Tower Art Collection, SBS Prism Tower, Seoul, Korea
    Round-Round-Round: GEUMCHEON-GU, Geumcheon Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul, Korea
    Human, 7 questions, Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
    Super-fine, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
    DMZ Theater, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
    Boundless: Stories of Asian Art, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, United States
    Border Crossings-North and South Korean Art from the Sigg Collection, Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Bern, Switzerland
     LETTER, Novalisstraße 7, Berlin, Germany
     HYUNDAI MOTORSTUDIO, Goyang/Busan, Korea
    Double Echoing/The Pavilion Project, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea

    2021      
    Hwaum Project: Documentary Nostalgia, Seoul Art Center IBK Chamber Hall, Seoul, Korea
    Loss, Everything that happened to me, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea

    2020      
    Dream Believer, VR Exhibition, Seoul, Korea
    Sejong Hyundai Motor Gallery, Sejong Center, Seoul, Korea
    True Fictions, Fondazione Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia, Italy
    Kumho Museum of Art Collection, Kumho Museum, Seoul, Korea
    Artists in Their Times: Korean Modern and Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
    As after sunset fadeth in the west, Wooran Foundation ArtScape 1, Seoul, Korea
    Museum for All, Museum for Dogs, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
    Somewhere, over the rainbow, Kyobo Art Space, Seoul, Korea

    2019      
    EAPAP 2019: The Island Song, Jeju 4·3 Peace Memorial Hall, Jeju, Korea
    Compulsion to Repeat, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
    TIME CUBISM, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
    Show Me Your Selfie, DISKURS, Berlin, Germany
    Korea-Japan Interchange Exhibition 50/50, Multiplex Art Salon, Seoul, Korea
    City Flip-Flop, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab(C-LAB), Taipei, Taiwan
    Show Me Your Selfie, Aram art Museum, Goyang, Korea
    Wanderers: A Video Chronology, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
    Dear Cinema: Difference and Repetition, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
    Pleased to meet you. New Acquisitions in recent years, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
    DMZ, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
    Unfolding: Fabric of Our Life, MILL6 CHAT, Hong Kong
    Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

    2018     
    A day for counting stars: The story of you & me, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art,Chungju, Korea
    Media YouTopia: Paradise in your heart, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
    MOT Satellite 2018: To become a narrative, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
    Civilization: The Way We Live Now, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
    Objectif Video Nice, OVNi Festival, Nice, France
    Persona grata, MAC/VAL, Paris, France
    Now Here Once Again, 2018 Yeosu International Art Festival, Yeosu, Korea
    Art in Motion. 100 Masterpieces with and through Media. An Operative
    Canon, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
    The Mysterious Landscape of Steel - Documenting a Tremendous
    Moment, POSCO Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
    EMAP: Ewha Media Art Presentation, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
    Desire and Vicarious Satisfaction, Space CAN, Seoul, Korea
    (In)tangible Reminiscence, The Annex, Hong Kong
    Highlight. K-ART, Culture·ICT Pavillion, Pyeongchang, Korea

    2018      
    Real DMZ Project,
    New Art Exchange, Nottingham, United Kingdom

    2017      
    Blind Date, Space Willing N Dealing, Seoul, Korea
    Postmodern Real, Museum of Art Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
    The portrait of youth, National Museum of Korean Contemporary History, Seoul, Korea
    Seoullo Media Canvas, Malli-dong square, Seoul, Korea
    KIAF 2017 Art Seoul - Ineffable Things, COEX, Seoul, Korea
    Art in the Bar, CoBo Social, Hong Kong
    Jeju Biennale 2017: Tourism, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea
    Deoksugung Outdoor Project: Light · Sound · Landscape, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Deoksugung, Seoul, Korea

    2017      
    Seoul Art Station
    , Sinseol-dong Station, Seoul, Korea
     Video Portrait, Total Museum, Seoul, Korea
    Bon Appetite Korean Media Art, Jin Juu Restaurant, Hong Kong
    Samramansang: from KIM Whanki to YANG Fudong, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
    Homecoming Exhibition of the Korean Pavilion in Seoul: The Far
    Game: Constraints Sparking Creativity, ARKO Art Center, Seoul, Korea
    L’art de la Joie - manif d’art, The Quebec city biennal, Quebec, Canada

    2016      
    Blind Date, Space Willing N Dealing, Seoul, Korea
    Objectif Video Nice, OVNi Festival, Nice, France
    Historicode - Scarcity and Supply, 3rd Nanjing International Art Festival, Nanjing, China
    Home Cinema, OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China
    KT Mashup Giga Festival, SJ.Kunsthalle, Seoul, Korea
    As the Moon Waxes and Wanes 30 Years 1986-2016, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
    The FAR (Floor Area Ratio) Game: Constraints Sparking Creativity, Korean Pavilion, 15th International Architecture Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
    Ewha Media Art Presentation: Save Our Souls, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
    Public to Private: Photography in Korean art Since 1989, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
    Home Cinema, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
    Brilliant Memories, SEMA Buk Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea/Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea

    2015      
    Blind Date, Space Willing N Dealing, Seoul, Korea
    Paradox of Place, Korean Contemporary Art, Seattle Art Museum, United States
    Embeddedness: artist's moving image from Korea: 1967 to Now, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
    Seoul, vite vite!, Renaissance, Lille 3000 Tri-Postal, Lille, France
    The Future is Now, Friche Belle de Mai, Paris, France
    A Lie of a Lie on Photography, Total Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
    Home Cinema, Exit Festival, MAC Creteil, France
    Home Cinema, Festival Via, Maubeuge, France
    MA:T Korean Culture Beyond the Recipe, KF Gallery, Seoul, Korea

    2014     
    ASUNTOS DOMESTICOS, Visiona/Huesca - Photography Festival, Sala de Exposiciones - Provincial Council of Huesca, Huesca, Spain
    The Young and The Restless, Common Center, Seoul, Korea
    King Sejong the Great Opens the Age of Hangeul Culture, Hangeul Museum, Seoul, Korea
    Voyage to Biennale, Busan Cultural Center, Busan, Korea
    The 14th Seoul international New Media Festival, Media Theater iGong, Seoul, Korea
    Find ASIA and Myself, Yokohama Creative City Center, Yokohama, Japan
    Korean Contemporary Art K-P.O.P.–Process, Otherness, Play, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
    Land-Sea-Sky: Revisiting Spatiality in Video, Lee Hwaik Gallery, Seoul, Korea
    Land-Sea-Sky: Revisiting Spatiality in Video, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shanghai, China
    Toward the Modernity: Images of Self & Other in East Asian Art Competition, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

    2013      
    Rust & Moss, Galerie GAIA, Seoul, Korea
    SeMA Collection: Good Morning Stranger, Yongsan Art Hall, Seoul, Korea
    Transfer Korea–NRW, ARKO Art Center/Alternative Space Loop/National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
    Transfer Korea–NRW, Kunsthaller Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
    Happy Birthday, Galerie Perrotin/ 25 ans, Tripostal, Lille, France
    Transfer Korea–NRW, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
    Better Than Universe, Daegu Art Factory, Daegu, Korea
    The 13th Seoul International New Media Festival, Seoul Art Cinema, Seoul, Korea
    Clues of Asia–Asian Contemporary Art from Long Collection, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
    art: Gwangju: 13, Kimdaejung Convention Center Hall, Gwangju, Korea
    Video Art in Asia 2002 to 2012, ZKM, Karlsruher, Germany
    Artist File 2013, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
    Turquoise Heid, Travelling Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
    Spaces for Drawing, Hite Collection, Seoul, Korea
    Mise-en-Scene, Leeum Museum, Seoul, Korea
    Exit Festival 2013, Paris, France
    GOLD DNA: Jung & Nikki Lee, Ilju & Seonhwa Gallery, Seoul, Korea
    Dream Society, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
    The Shadows of the Future, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
    Korean Art: An Era of Grand Navigation, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
    Who is Alice?, Spazio Lightbox, Venice, Italy
    IntoAsia: TBA Festival, Queens Museum of Art, New York, United States
    Real DMZ Project: Borderline, DMZ Peace & Cultural Hall, Cheorwon, Korea
    The Vertical Village, Hamburg Museum, Hamburg, Germany
    Korean Art from the Museum Collection: Grand Narrative Part ll, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

    2012      
    Dislocation, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
    Osan photo Festival 2012, Osan, Korea
    Korean Contemporary Art–Landscape of Time, Seongnam Art Center, Seongnam, Korea
    Media City Seoul 2012: Spell on you, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
    Twilight Seoul 2012–Yeondoo Jung & Luka Feisen, Honigbrot Galeriehaus, Cologne, Germany
    City Within the City, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
    Korean Contemporary Art in China: ReBooting, Yan Huang Art Museum, Beijing, China
    Root of Imagination, Gallery Absinthe, Seoul, Korea
    Art Show Busan 2012, Bexco, Busan, Korea
    IOC Olympic Media Art Collection, Spencer House, London, United Kingdom
    Galaxy Note Creation, Nemo Gallery, Blue Square, Seoul, Korea
    Irrepressible Seoul: Contemporary Korean Video Art, Hackney Picture house, London, United Kingdom
    In the Loop: Sponsorship Exhibition, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea
    KIAF 2012, COEX, Seoul, Korea
    The Vertical Village, Total Museum, Seoul, Korea
    Here are people, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
    Oh My Complex: On Unease at Beholding the City, Wurttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany
    In search of Shaman, Kookmin University Museum, Seoul, Korea
    An Orchestrated Vision, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, United States
    Nostalgia-East Asia Contemporary Art Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China
    Market Art Fair - Charlotte Lund Gallery, Art Academy Building, Stockholm, Sweden
    How Physical - Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
    Keeping it Real, Colorado University Art Museum, Boulder, United States

    2011      
    The Spectrum of Contemporary Korean Art, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
    City Within The City, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
    Nature, Life, Human, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
    Countdown, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
    The 4th Photo Phnom Penh Festival, Royal University of Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
    Tv Commune, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, Korea
    Nostalgia-East Asia Contemporary Art Exhibition, Korea Foundation Gallery, Seoul, Korea
    Korean Rhapsody, Leeum Museum, Seoul, Korea
    KAAP 2011, Fort Ruigenhoek, Utrecht, Netherlands
    N38 Snow South, Gallery Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden/Uppsala Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
    Prix Pictet, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France/Passage de Retz, Paris, France
    Interview & Artists as an Interview, ARKO Art Center, Seoul, Korea

    2010      
    More of an activity: the artist as choreographer, Hiroshima Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan
    Gyeonggi MoMA 2009 New Acquisitions Collections: Oh! Masterpices, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
    Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, United States
    New Organ, Space C, Seoul, Korea
    Moving Perspectives, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington DC/Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, United States
    Printemps Parfume, Bains Numeriques, Centre des Arts, Enghienles-Bains, France
    KAAP 2010, Stichting Storm, Utrecht, Netherlands
    A different similarity, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany
    Shanghai Biennale: Rehearsal, Shanghai, China
    Plastic Garden, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China

    2009      
    Encounter: Dublin, Lisbon, Hong Kong and Seoul, Korea Foundation Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea
    The Grand Illusion, The Culture Gallery in National Concert Hall, Taipei, Taiwan
    Sixty Years of Modern Photo in Korea: 1948-2008, Gyeongnam Museum of Art, Changwon, Korea
    Artists of the Future, Roh Gallery, Seoul, Korea
    Try to Make a Simple Gesture, No Matter How Small!, Trafo Galeria, Budapest, Hungary
    Nature and Artifice, The RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island, United States
    Magic Moment: Korean Express, Hannover Messe, Hannover, Germany
    Trans-Dimensional, Prague Biennale, Prague, Czech Republic
    Magnetic Power, Space C, Seoul, Korea
    Different Similarity, Santral Istanbul Museum, Istanbul, Turkiye
    Logic of Sensibility, Interalia, Seoul, Korea
    Meet Photograph Art in Insadong, Kim Young Seob Photo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
    Double Fantasy, Marugame Genichiro Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame, Japan
    Jung Yeondoo/An Jungju, Koyanagi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
    Photo Korea 2009: Shooting Image, Coex Mall, Seoul, Korea
    The Magic of Photography, Hanmi Museum of Photography, Seoul, Korea
     Incheon International Digital Art Festival, Digital Art Festival Exhibition Hall, Incheon, Korea
    Platform in Kimusa - Platform Seoul 2009, Kimusa, Seoul, Korea
    Fresh View - Cross section of Contemporary Art, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Gyeongnam, Korea
    Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, United States
    Peppermint Candy, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
    Extra/Ordinary: Video Art from Asia, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, United States
    Emporium - A New Common Sense of Space, Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo Da Vinci, Milano, Italy
    The 2nd Art Asia Miami: Truly Truthful, Soho Studio, Miami, United States

    2008      
    Then & Now: Memories of the Future, Daegu Photo Biennale 2008, Daegu EXCO, Daegu, Korea
    Photo on Photograph, Kumho Museum, Seoul, Korea
    The 1st Kuandu Biennale: I Have a Dream, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
    Contemporary Kaleidoscope: Art in Korea Today, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
    Liverpool Biennial: Fantasy Studio, Liverpool, United Kingdom
    Seoul International Media Art Biennale: Turn and Widen-light, Communication and Time, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
    Border of Vitality, Hanjiyun Contemporary Space, Beijing, China
    To Have or To Be, Farmleigh Gallery, Farmleigh, Ireland
    Sixty Years of Modern Photo in Korea: 1948-2008, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
    Korean Art Today: The World of Expression, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
    Modest Monuments, King's Lynn Arts Centre, King's Lynn, Norfolk, United Kingdom
    Daily Life in Korea, The Queen’s Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand

    2007      
    One Fine Day, Rodin Gallery, Seoul, Korea
    Shared Boundaries, Gallery EM, Seoul, Korea
    Peppermint Candy: Contemporary Korean Art, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago, Chile
    Charge Your Imagination, Gyeonggido Museum of Art, Ansan, Korea
    Giants in Illusion, Sejong Main Hall of Museum of Fine Art, Seoul, Korea
    TurkiyeANS(IrelandNT) CItalyY, Luxemburg 2007, Luxemburg and Greater Region, Luxembourg
    Elastic Taboos, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
    Thermocline of Art-New Asian Waves, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
    Wonderland, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
    Solid Scene, Art Bit Gallery, Seoul, Korea
    Collector’s Choice: Collection 2, Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
    New Nature, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
    Projection Project, Budapest Episode, Mucsarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary

    2006      
    Through the Looking Glass, Asia Art House, London, United Kingdom
    Circuit Diagram, Cell Project Space, London, United Kingdom
    Camera Work, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
    The Projection Project, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
    Daegu Photo Biennale 2006: Arts in Photography, Photography in Arts, Daegu Photo Biennale 2006, Daegu, Korea
    Explorafoto 06: Mascarada/Masquerade, Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
    The 5th Taipei Biennial: Dirty Yoga, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
    De kleine biennale 2006: Stichting Storm, Utrecht, Netherlands A New City, ARKO Art Center, Seoul, Korea

    2005      
    Fast Forwards: Photographic Message from Korea, Fotografie Forum International, Frankfurt, Germany
    4 From Korea, Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany
    Project Stand By 000, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
    Secret Beyond the Door, Korean Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
    Seoul Until Now, Charlottenborg Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Banana Surfer, IrelandUM Gallery, Beijing, China
    Manufactured Self, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, United States
    First Peak, Entenhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
    Korea under Erasure, Galerie Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    Mapping on the Root, K-Art Space, Seoul, Korea
    videoDictionary, Impakt Festival, Casco Gallery, Utrecht, Netherlands

    2004      
    Hermes Korea Missulsang, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
    Liverpool Biennial, Blue Coat Art Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom
    Re;Source, Art in General, New York, United States
    Stranger than Paradise, Total Museum, Seoul, Korea
    Document... A Map of Photographic Archives, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
    Absent Voices, Korea Gallery, New York, United States
    Wall Works, Cais Gallery, Seoul, Korea
    The Ten Commandments, Deutsche Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
    The realing 15 years, Savina Museum, Seoul, Korea

    2003      
    The 8th Istanbul Biennial: Poetic Justice, Antrepo No. 4, Istanbul, Turkiye
    Everyday-Contemporary Art from Japan, China, Korea, Thailand, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark
    The Wedding, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
    Circle for circle, Gallery Fish, Seoul, Korea
    Photo Report from Seoul, Guardian Garden Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
    Delicious Museum, Gana Art Center, Seoul
    5-Art Collection, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
    Wanakio Project, Noren Market Place, Okinawa, Japan
    Facing Korea: Demirrorizedzone, De Appel Center for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    2002      
    Under Construction: New Dimension of Asian Art, Japan Foundation/Opera City Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
    The 4th Shanghai Biennale: Urban Creation, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
    Orient Extreme, le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France
    The 1st Busan Biennale: Culture Meets Culture, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, Korea
    The 4th Gwangju Biennale: P_A_U_S_E, Gwangju Biennale Exhibiton Hall, Gwangju, Korea
    Fukuoka Triennale: Imagined Workshop, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
    Ssamzie Open Studio, Ssamzie Art Space, Seoul, Korea
    Fantasia, East Modern Art Center, Beijing, China
    Urban Paradise, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
    Living Like a Lover with a Radar Phone, Project Space 4, Dublin, Ireland

    2001      
    Invisible Touch, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
    Tirana Biennale, National Gallery of Tirana, Tirana, Albania
    Detached House, Ambassador’s Residence at the British Embassy, Seoul, Korea
    Mass-life, Space Big Art, Yokohama, Japan
    Ssamzie Site-Specific: Crossing Parallels Between Korean and
    American Artists, Ssamzie Art Space, Seoul, Korea/Lance Fung Gallery, New York, United States
    The Lunchtime of the Necktie Force, Posco Art Museum, Seoul, Korea

    2000      
    Wow Project, Seoul City Subway 7th Line Train, Seoul, Korea
    din / DIN, Art Project Space 4X4, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    1999     
    Mixer & Juicer, Flow: New Tendencies in Korean Art, ARKO Art Center(formerly The Korean Culture & Art Foundation), Seoul, Korea
    Gracelands Palace, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
    Radio Asia, Galangga Club, London, United Kingdom

    1998      
    Bonsai 2: The Cosmopolitan, Hotel-Kunstraum, Zurich, Switzerland
    Gracelands Palace, Ein Harod Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
    Sensation from Goldsmiths, Yokohama Portside Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
    Where I am, Galeria Municipal da Mitra, Lisbon, Portugal

    1997      
    Gracelands Palace, Galerie Fruchtig, Frankfurt, Germany
    2nd GCC International Show, la Grande Arche, Paris, France
    HongkongZ, Fringe Club, Hong Kong
    Korean Young Artist in London, Sackville Gallery, London, United Kingdom
     

Selected Awards

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    Hain-Du Art Award, ART CHOSUN, Seoul, Korea

    2022      
    Art Lab. Sanyang, Jeju, Korea

    2017      
    MILL6 Artist Residency, Hong Kong

    2016      
    Manif D’art Artist Residency, Quebec, Canada

    2015      
    MAC/VAL Residency, Vitry-sur-Seine, France

    2013      
    Mito Art Center Residency, Mito, Japan

    2012      
    Transfer-Korea NRW, The 9th International Art and Artists Program, Dusseldorf, Germany

    2008      
    Today’s Young Artist Award, Korean Ministry of Culture, Seoul, Korea

    2007      
    Artist of the Year, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

    2006      
    International Studio and Curatorial Program Artist Residency, New York, United States

    2004      
    Villa Arson Artist Residency, Nice, France

    2003      
    Art Omi Artist Residency, New York, United States

    2002      
    The 2nd Shanghai Biennale Asia Europe Culture Foundation Awards, China
    Fukuoka Asian Art Museum Artist Residency, Fukuoka, Japan
    1A Space Artist Residency, Hong Kong

    2001      
    Ssamzie Art Space Artist Residency, Seoul, Korea

Selected Public and Private Collections

  • Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
    Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan
    The Calder Foundation, New York, USA
    ESSL Museum, Vienna, Austria
    The Estee Lauder Companies, New York, USA
    Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio de Modena, Modena, Italy
    Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
    Gyeonggido Museum of Art, Ansan, Korea
    Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon, Korea
    Joddes Collection, Pharmascience, Montreal, Canada
    JGS Foundation, New York, USA
    Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
    Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
    MAC VAL, Paris, France
    Maeil Dairies, Seoul, Korea
    MILL6 Foundation, Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile, Hong Kong
    Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, USA
    Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
    The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
    The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Gwacheon, Korea
    The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul, Korea
    The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA
    New Line Cinema, New York, USA
    The RISD Museum, Providence, USA
    The Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah,USA
    Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan, Korea
    Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
    Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
    Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, USA
    Heyri SSamzie Art Collection, Paju, Korea
    St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, USA
    Podo Museum, Jeju, Korea

Works

Publications

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Selected Press

2026-09-00 Marie Claire Korea
2025-07-00 Harper's BAZAAR Korea
2025-07-00 AVENUEL
2018-01-00 BAZAAR
2017-10-18 Bloomberg
2017-09-00 ArtAsiaPacific
2016-10-00 BAZAAR ART
2016-01-00 Art in Culture
2015-10-28 Korea Joongang Daily
2015-09-00 조선일보 Style
2015-04-22 서울신문
2015-01-00 월간미술
2014-12-00 Art In Culture
2014-12-00 allure
2014-11-00 HEREN
2014-11-00 MAPS
2014-11-00 HEREN Art
2014-06-00 Sotheby's Chinese Contemporary Art News
2014-05-00 F.OUND
2014-04-00 HEREN
2014-04-00 Art In Culture
2014-03-17 서울경제
2014-03-13 코리아중앙데일리
2014-03-12 코리아헤럴드
2014-03-11 경향신문
2014-03-00 Noblesse
2014-03-00 W Korea
2014-03-00 월간미술
2014-03-00 HEREN
2014-03-00 Magazine ART
2014-03-00 AVENUEL
2014-02-26 코리아타임즈
2014-01-06 코리아타임즈
2014-01-00 Art In Culture
2013-10-00 BlouinARTINFOCOM
2013-09-00 미술시대
삶들의 접점   pdf Marie Claire Korea
마술적 사이에서   pdf Harper's BAZAAR Korea
정연두의 하모니   pdf AVENUEL
블루스 음악과 바실러스균··· 다름과 닮음 '느슨한 합주'   pdf 부산일보
Blues and makgeolli: Yeondoo Jung brews art from melancholy, fermentation   pdf The Korea Times
“제 작품은 이해 안 되는 것에 대해 이해해 가는 방식”   pdf 대구신문
아주 특별한 DMZ… 안쓰럽지만 빛나는   pdf 서울신문
[박진희의 사진으로 보는 문화] 전시? 공연?...정연두·수르야 'DMZ 극장'   pdf 뉴시스
Why is there a red light flashing from a window in Hyson Green?   pdf Nottingham Post
INTO THE GARDEN   pdf BAZAAR
Yeondoo Jung on 'Brilliant Ideas'   pdf Bloomberg
다니엘 스티그만 만그라네, 요르단 울프슨, 정연두, 폴 매카시   pdf Public Art
INTERVIEW WITH YEONDOO JUNG   pdf ArtAsiaPacific
NEW Reality   pdf BAZAAR ART
제15회 베니스비엔날레 건축전 한국관 전시 <용적률 게임 : 창의성을 촉발하는 제약> 개막   pdf 美術世界
[프랑스 내 한국의 전시] 여기 그리고 거기   pdf 월간미술
영화가 미술에 접근하거나 혹은 그 반대가 되거나   pdf 월간미술
큐레이터의 이상한 친구들   pdf Neighbor
용적률 게임: 창의성을 촉발하는 제약   pdf Dodooba
THE FAR (FLOOR AREA RATIO) GAME: CONSTRAINTS SPARKING CREATIVITY   pdf Dodooba
정연두 Yeondoo Jung / b.1969   pdf Art in Culture
남서울예술인마을에 있는 예술가들에게 작업실이란?   pdf 서울아트가이드
정연두, 프랑스 MAC/VAL에서 개인전 <D’ici et d’ailleurs>개최   pdf 사진예술
The Paradox of Place: Contemporary Korean Art   pdf ArtReview Asia
French events highlight Korean art   pdf Korea Joongang Daily
유럽 문화의 수도 릴, 가을의 도시   pdf artnow
대중문화는 왜 미술관으로 갔을까   pdf 조선일보 Style
Seoul eye: say cheese? Evergreen Tower by Jung Yeon-doo   pdf Time Out
금천예술공장, 11일부터 '6기 입주예술가 오픈 스튜디오'   pdf 아주경제
작가들의 작업현장 궁금하세요?…금천예술공장, 6기 입주작가 오픈스튜디오 전격 공개   pdf 글로벌이코노믹
60 Korean Artists In the World's Biennales] Jung Yeondoo   pdf Public Art
사진 거짓을 찍다   pdf 서울신문
꿈을 이루어주는 비현실적 사진 정연두   pdf IMPRESSION of 36c
HOT ART SPACE   pdf 월간미술
사진이라는 '무대'   pdf Art In Culture
11/8-2015/2/1 水戶美術館新媒體藝術家鄭然斗大規模個展 (미토미술관에서 미디어아티스트 정연두의 대규모 개인전 개최)   pdf CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ART NEWS
현실도 꿈도 넘어서 (아시아 현대사진:왕칭송. 정연두)   pdf MUINE
해외에서 더 빛났다   pdf allure
두 연출가의 만남   pdf HEREN
아카이브 열병이라는 전염병   pdf PUBLIC ART
Jung Yeon Doo   pdf MAPS
HUMAN DOCUMENT JEONG YEONDOO   pdf HEREN Art
Yeondoo Jung   pdf Sotheby's Chinese Contemporary Art News
Spotlight   pdf F.OUND
무거워도, 가벼워도 정연두는 옳다   pdf Noblesse
너와 나, 우리의 삶을 향한 로열티, 정연두   pdf BAZAAR ART
정연두의 인간극장   pdf HEREN
천국과 지옥 사이   pdf Art In Culture
"잃어버린 꿈 이뤄 드려요"   pdf 서울경제
3D 렌즈로 보는 로댕 조각 속 인간 군상들   pdf S Magazine
'Spectacle' presents art in an inconvenient way   pdf 코리아중앙데일리
Older male K-pop fans inspire artist   pdf 코리아헤럴드
가상과 실재, 경계를 오가다   pdf 경향신문
3D로 만나는 '지옥의 문' 그 처절함...   pdf 국민일보
3D로 태어난 21세기 ‘지옥의 문’   pdf 헤럴드경제
정연두전   pdf Noblesse
JUNG YEON DOO   pdf W Korea
정연두   pdf 월간미술
Art works around Seoul_플라토미술관   pdf Bar&Dining
정연두, 제대로 보기   pdf HEREN
하늘땅바다   pdf Magazine ART
연두의 염두   pdf AVENUEL
Bukchon meets video art   pdf 코리아타임즈
Pushing the envelope   pdf 코리아타임즈
연출된 장면들   pdf Art In Culture
트란스페어 한국-엔에르베 2011-2013   pdf article
Macical Realist   pdf BlouinARTINFOCOM
아트페어와 아트마켓 갤러리스트가 말한다   pdf Art In Culture
리얼 디지엠 프로젝트 2013전   pdf 미술시대