Park Chan-kyong

• Born in 1965, Seoul, Korea
  Lives and works in Seoul, Korea

Education

• 1996     MFA in Photography, California Institute of the Arts, US
  1988     BFA in Painting, Seoul National University, Korea

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2026
  Zen Master Eyeball, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2023
  Park Chan-kyong: Gathering, Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, D.C., US
  
  2019
  MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2019: Park Chan-kyong – Gathering, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2018
  Citizen's Forest, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, US
  PARKing CHANce, Centro Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires, Argentina (with Park Chan-wook)*
  PARKing CHANce 2010-2018, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea (with Park Chan-wook)*
  
  2017
  安寧 Farewell, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2016
  Park Chan-kyong, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, US
  
  2015
  Pa-Gyong: Last Sutra Recitation, Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts), London, UK
  
  2012
  K.W. Complex, Atelier Hermès, Seoul, Korea (with Natacha Nisic)*
  
  2010
  Radiance, PKM Gallery | Bartleby Bickle & Meursault, Seoul, Korea
  Brinkmanship, REDCAT, Los Angeles, US (with Sean Snyder)*
  
  2008
  A Mountain, Gallery Soso, Paju, Korea
  Sindoan, Atelier Hermès, Seoul, Korea
  
  2005
  Flying, Ssamzie Art Space, Seoul, Korea
  
  2003
  Koreans Who Went to Germany, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
  
  2002
  Sets, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
  Sets, rraum02, Frankfurt, Germany
  
  1997
  Black Box: Memory of the Cold War Images, Kumho Museum, Seoul, Korea
  
  *Asterisk denotes two-person exhibitions
  
   

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2026
  The 16th Gwangju Biennale: You Must Change Your Life, Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall, Gwangju, Korea
  Perhaps, All of Us, Korean Cultural Center Washington, D.C., US
  COSMO, ASIA, PEOPLE: Reinventing People in a Planetary Age, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
  K-NOW! Korean Video Art Today, MASI Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland
  
  2025
  Rose Rabbit Salt: Living Rituals, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
  The 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale: Séance: Technology of the Spirit, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  MMCA Collection: Korean Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2024
  Collection Variable, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  The Shape of Time: Korean Art After 1989, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, US
  Sacred Threads, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
  
  2023
  Art Macao: Macao International Art Biennale 2023, The Statistics of Fortune, Macao Museum of Art, Macao
  The Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US
  Watch and Chill 3.0: Streaming Suspense, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2022
  Checkpoint. Border Views from Korea, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
  Off the Page, Daejeon Creative Center, Daejeon, Korea
  
  2021
  Margins of Error, Nirox Sculpture Park, Krugersdorp, South Africa
  
  2020
  We Never Sleep, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  Negotiating Borders, Fondation FIMINCO, Paris, France
  Yokohama Triennale 2020: Afterglow, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
  The 60th Anniversary Exhibition of 3.15 Movement: Rewriting the poetry, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon, Korea
  
  2019
  2019 Asian Art Biennial, The Strangers from Beyond the Mountain and the Sea, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
  Aichi Triennale 2019, Taming Y/Our Passion, Aichi Arts Center/Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
  2019 Pool Rising, Art Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
  
  2018
  23rd Busan International Film Festival, Busan, Korea
  Rituals of Signs and Metamorphoses “仪礼·兆与易”, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China
  Kuandu Biennale 2018: Seven Questions for Asia, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
  Making Time, Galleria Poggiali, Florence, Italy
  DMZ PEACE PROJECT, Camp Greaves, Paju, Korea
  Paradoxa, Art from Middle Korea, Casa Cavazzini, Udine, Italy
  在集结 Assembling, K11 Shenyang, Shenyang, China
  Collection Highlights: Synchronic Moments, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  体 Modern Images of the Body from East Asia, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, US
  Mise-en-Scène: A History of Images, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2017
  Ghosts and Spectres – Shadows of History, NTU CCA Singapore, Singapore
  Performing History, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  Highlight: Cartier Collection, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  2 or 3 Tigers, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
  
  2016
  The 5th Anyang Public Art Project, APAP 5, Anyang Art Center, Anyang, Korea
  Taipei Biennial 2016, Gestures and Archives of the Present, Genealogies of the Future, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
  Art in Society - Land of Happiness, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  The Time is Out of Joint, Asia Culture Center – Theater, Gwangju, Korea
  As the Moon Waxes and Wanes, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  
  2015
  The 70th Anniversary of Liberation Day NK PROJECT, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  The Young and The Restless, Common Center, Seoul, Korea
  
  2013
  Homeworks 6, Artheum, Beirut, Lebanon
  The Shadows of the Future: 7 Video Artists from Korea, National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest, Romania
  ANIMISM, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  SeMA Collection #2_NEW SCENES, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Real DMZ Project 2013, From the North, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
  
  2012
  Cosmic Laughter, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal, Germany
  Korean Film Festival D.C. 2012, Freer | Sackler, Smithsonian’s Museums of Asian Art, Washington, D.C., US
  Project Daejeon 2012, Energy, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
  Crossroads + Asian Gothic, Festival Bom, Seoul, Korea
  
  2011
  Countdown, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
  steirischer herbst ’11, Second Worlds: Real and Unreal Parallel Systems, Graz, Austria
  Image Clash: Contemporary Korean Video Art, CU Art Museum, Boulder, US
  Tell Me Tell Me: Australian and Korean Contemporary Art 1976–2011, National Art School Gallery, Sydney, Australia; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  Korean Rhapsody - Crossing the History, Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Happy Window, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea
  
  2010
  Platform Seoul 2010, Projected Image, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
  The Flower on the Snow, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
  The 3rd Anyang Public Art Project, APAP 2010, Anyang, Korea
  Media City Seoul 2010, Trust, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Linguistic Morphology: Art in Context, The Association of East Asian Art and Culture, The Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Random Access, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, Korea
  Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2010, Searching Songs, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
  Oh! Masterpieces: 2009 New Acquisitions Collections, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
  Him of Kyeonggi-do, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
  
  2009
  Unconquered: Critical Visions from South Korea, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
  Made in Korea: Leisure, a disguised labor?, Kaufhaus Sinn & Leffers, Hanover, Germany
  7th Festival Signes de Nuit, Paris, France
  Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul (EXIS), Seoul Art Cinema and Indie Space, Seoul, Korea
  Platform Seoul 2009, Platform in Kimusa, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
  Shared. Divided. United, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin, Germany
  New Political Art in Korea Since The 1990s: Bad Boys Here and Now, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
  Another Masterpiece: 2008 New Acquisitions, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
  
  2008
  New Acquisitions Exhibition, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
  Shoot Me Film Festival, The Hague, The Netherlands
  Jeonhyanggi: Kim Soo Young 40th Anniversary Retrospective, Alternative Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
  IAS Media Screening 2008, Insa Art Space of Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea
  6th Festival Signes de Nuit, Paris, France
  
  2007
  Seoul: Räume, Menschen, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), Stuttgart and Berlin, Germany
  Fast Break, PKM Gallery Beijing, Beijing, China
  Activating Korea: Tides of Collective Action, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
  International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, International Competition, Oberhausen, Germany
  JNP Production, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
  Still Present Pasts, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2006
  Move on Asia 2006: Clash and Network, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea; traveled to Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan; Arario Beijing, Beijing, China; Remo, Osaka, Japan; Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
  The 5th Busan Biennale, A Tale of Two Cities: Busan–Seoul / Seoul–Busan, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
  The 6th Gwangju Biennale, Fever Variations, Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall, Gwangju, Korea
  Daegu Photo Biennale, EXCO, Daegu, Korea
  Pyongyang Report: Architecture, Design & People in North Korea, Book House, Paju, Korea
  
  2005
  Seoul: Until Now!, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Critical Society, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
  Parallel Life, Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  Incongruent: Contemporary Art from South Korea, Richard F. Brush Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, US
  DMZ_2005: Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea, Paju, Korea
  
  2004
  Hermès Korea Missulsang, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
  Unplugged Theater, Gallery Bhak, Seoul, Korea
  Four Years 2000–2004, Insa Art Space of Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea
  
  2003
  Facing Korea: Demirrorized Zone, de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Borderline, Kunstverein Schorndorf, Schorndorf, Germany
  Para〉Sites, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
  
  2002
  The 4th Gwangju Biennale, P_A_U_S_E, Project 3: Stay of Execution, Gwangju, Korea
  Parallel World, K&S Gallery, Berlin, Germany
  Korean Air France, La Vitrine/Glassbox, Paris, France
  
  2001
  Sunshine: Three Perspectives on North and South Korea, Insa Art Space of Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea
  
  2000
  media_city seoul 2000, city: between 0 and 1, Seoul Museum of Art and 13 subway stations, Seoul, Korea
  Pyongyang, The Subject of Seoul, Seoul Museum of Art/Gallery Gwanghwamun, Seoul, Korea
  
  1999
  Seoul Photo Exhibition 1999. The Photograph Looks at Us, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  1998
  Seoul in Media: Food, Clothing, Shelter, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Alienation and Assimilation, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, US
  Gwangju, Finding Way from the Mirror, Songwon Gallery, Gwangju, Korea
  
  1996
  16th Symposium on Photography, Allan Sekula: Fish Story, Photography Between Discourse and Document, Graz, Austria
  Politics and Art, Boda Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1995
  Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 1995, New Asian Currents, Yamagata, Japan
  CalArts Graduate Show, Museum of Contemporary Art/Temporary Contemporary, Los Angeles, US
  
  1994
  Korean Visions: The New Cinema, San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, US
   

Selected Awards

• 2014
  Fasken Martineau Best Feature Film or Video Award, 18th Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
  New Vision Award, 2nd Muju Film Festival, Muju, Korea
  
  2012
  Intelligence Award, 7th A-Awards, Seoul, Korea
  
  2011
  Best Motion Picture (Noves Visions), 44th Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival, Sitges, Spain
  Silver Prize (Film Craft), Spikes Asia Advertising Festival, Singapore
  Golden Bear for Best Short Film, 61st Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
  Grand Prize for a Korean Feature Film, 12th Jeonju International Film Festival, Jeonju, Korea
  
  2010
  Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea
  
  2007
  Tokyo Wonder Site Residency Program, Tokyo, Japan
  
  2005
  Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea
  
  2004
  Hermès Korea Missulsang, Seoul, Korea
  
  2002
  Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship, Stuttgart, Germany
  
  2001
  Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea

Selected Public and Private Collections

• National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
  Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
  Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
  Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
  Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan, Korea
  Maeil Dairies, Korea
  Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, US
  Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
  KADIST, Paris, France
  Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, US
  Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France
  Musée d’arts de Nantes, Nantes, France
  Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
  M+, Hong Kong