Biography
Yeondoo Jung
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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
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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
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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
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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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2025
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
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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
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