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Suki Seokyeong Kang

Korean, 1977

Biography

Suki Seokyeong Kang

  • Born in 1977, Seoul, Korea
    Lives and works in Seoul, Korea

    Currently a professor of Korean painting at Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea

Education

  • 2012     M.A. in Painting, Royal College of Art, London, UK
    2002     M.F.A. in Oriental Painting, Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, Korea
    2000     B.F.A. in Oriental Painting, Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, Korea

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • 2024
    MARCH, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea

    2023
    Suki Seokyeong Kang: Willow Drum Oriole, Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
    Suki Seokyeong Kang, Massimo de Carlo, Paris, France

    2021
    Rove and Round, Winsing Art Place, Taipei, Taiwan

    2020
    face, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, US

    2019     
    Suki Seokyeong Kang, MUDAM, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
    Square See Triangle, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art (SEMA), Seoul, Korea

    2018     
    Black Mat Oriole, ICA Philadelphia, Philadelphia, US

    2015
    Foot and Moon, Audio visual pavilion, Seoul, Korea

    2013
    Polite Owl in the Valley , Gallery Factory, Seoul, Korea
    GRANDMOTHER TOWER, Old house, Space Can, Seoul, Korea

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2024
    The Shape of Time: Korean Art After 1989, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, US

    2023
    The Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US
    Landscape of Life: How Are You Today?, Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan, Korea
    Step X Step, space*c, Seoul, Korea

    2022
    Whose Story Is This, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan, Korea
    grandmothers, Post Territory Ujeongguk, Seoul, Korea
    the Scoring Words, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
    Commonwealth and Council, Petzel Gallery, New York, US
    Spinning East Asia Series II: A Net (Dis)entangled, Centre for Heritage Arts & Textile, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong
    The Brilliant Days, Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan, Korea

    2021
    Hiding in Plain Sight, Pace Gallery, New York, US
    Compatibility begins, Samgaksan Geumam Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
    Dependent Objects, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago, Chicago, US
    Piercer, SeMA Storage, Seoul, Korea

    2020
    25 years of the Mudam Collection, MUDAM, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
    Interlaced, OCI Museum, Seoul, Korea
    Art Plant Asia 2020: Hare Way Object, Deoksugung Palace, Seoul, Korea
    Dancing Queen, Arario Gallery, Cheonan, Korea
    Collecting for All, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

    2019
    May You Live in Interesting Times, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
    Sites of the Future, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
    Homo Faber: Craft in Contemporary Sculpture, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea

    2018
    Proregress, Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
    OTHER WALKS, OTHER LINES, San José Museum of Art, San José, US
    Personality, Woran Foundation, Seoul, Korea
    Unclosed Bricks, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea
    King Sejong and Music HWANGJONG, Presidential Archives, Sejong, Korea
    Imagined Borders, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
    Beautiful world, where are you?, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
    Demolition WoManhood, Skibum MacArthur, Los Angeles, US
    Soon enough: Art in Action, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
    Conscientious Objector, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, US

    2017
    The 5th Amado Annualnalle, Amado Art Space, Seoul, Korea
    Score: Music for everyone, Daegu art museum, Daegu, Korea
    As the Moon Waxes and Wanes, MMCA, Gwacheon, Korea

    2016
    The 8th climate, Gwangju biennale, Gwangju, Korea
    As the Moon waxes and wanes, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
    Groupe Mobile, Villa Vassilieff, Paris, France

    2015
    Crossing Plane – Unit,Layer,Nostalgia, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
    Sphères 8, Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, France
    Creative and empathist, Arario Museum topdong bike-shop, Jeju, Korea 
    Klingsor’s Last Summer, Hite Collection, Seoul, Korea
    Eye zone, Art and Science Museum, Singapore
    Looking Out / Looking In, Art Stage Singapore Special Exhibition, Singapore

    2014
    Multi-Painting, OCI Museum, Seoul, Korea
    Band of Feeling, Naji Gallery, Nanji Artist Studio, Seoul, Korea
    Today’s Salon, Common Center, Seoul, Korea

    2013
    Songeun Art Award, Songeun Art Space, Seoul, Korea
    New scene #2, Buk Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
    Noumenon, LIG Art Space, Seoul, Korea
    Show on progress, Amado Art Space, Seoul, Korea
    Bloomberg New Contemporaries, ICA, London, UK

Selected Awards

  • 2018
    The Baloise Art Prize, Basel, Switzerland

    2016
    Geumcheon Art Factory 8th, Seoul Cultural Foundation, Seoul, Korea

    2014
    Nanji Artist Residency 8th, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

    2013
    13th Songeun Art Award, Korea

    2012
    Bloomberg New Contemporaries, UK

    2011
    Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

    2005
    Changdong Artist Studio Residency Program, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

Selected Public and Private Collections

  • Arario Museum, Seoul, Korea
    Booth Collection-University of Chicago, Chicago, US
    Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
    Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, US
    MMCA (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art), Seoul, Korea
    MUDAM Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
    National Art Bank, Korea
    Princeton Museum, Princeton, US
    Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
    Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US