Born in 1974, Daechon, Korea
Lives and works in Seoul, Korea
Education
2007 M.F.A. in Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London, UK
2002 M.A. in Environmental Sculpture, Kyungwon University, Seongnam, Korea
2000 B.F.A., Kyungwon University, Seongnam, Korea
Solo Exhibitions
2013 Artist Lunchbox, Seoul museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2012 2 Doors, Kira KIM & Hakchul SHIN, Gallery 157, Seoul, Korea
2010 Common Good_Climb Every Mountain!, DOOSAN art centre, Seoul, Korea
Great Deed Great Death, BOONTHESHOP, Seoul, Korea
2009 WOW This wonderful world, BOONTHESHOP, Seoul, Korea
Super Mega Factory, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2008 The Republic of Propaganda, alternative space Loop, Seoul, Korea
Gold Crystal, Changdong Art Studio of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2007 A Palace of Mirages, King's Lynn Arts Centre, Norfolk, UK
2006 Gagami V – Je t'aime, Moi non plus, Paris Cite 8, Paris, France
2003 Window Exhibition, Gallery FACTORY, Seoul, Korea,
Minority or Cosmopolitan, + Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
2002 0.000km, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea
Standard, gallery boda contemporary, Seoul, Korea
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013 TRANSFER KOREA-NRW 2011/12/13 Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, OSTHAUS museum Hagen. Germany
Crystallize – New Media Art Lab UK & Korea, Old Billingsgate, London, UK.
#1_SCENES VS SCENES, Seoul museum of Art Bukseoul, Seoul, Korea
The 3th IPAP Interview with Beangnyeong Island 525,600 time, Inchon Art platform, Inchon, Korea
The 3th IPAP Interview with Beangnyeong Island 525,600 time, Bunker # 7 NLL Beangnyeong Island, Korea
TRANSFORM Exhibition Bangkok Art and Culture Centre& Korean Cultural Center, Bangkok, Tiland
PLAY, Seoul Art centre, Seoul, Korea
Corea Campanella in Venice 2013- what if _in venice, HOTEL Amadeus and Hotel Principe. Venice, Italy
Archive, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Historical Parade ; Images from elsewhere, Art Lab AIch Nagoya, Japan
Move on Asia, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
New & Now_2012 New Collections, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2012 Dream Walking in the Magical Reality, Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Kwachon, Korea
TOTAL SUPPORT 2012, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Move on Asia, CASA ASIA, LABORAL Art cnetre, Spain
Historical Parade ; Images from elsewhere, CASO SPACE GALLERY, Osaka, Japan
Cynical resistance, Canvas International gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Cynical resistance, Nieuw Dakota project gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Historical Parade ; Images from elsewhere, Nam Seoul annex of the Seoul Museumof Art, Seoul, Korea
SHOW MUST GO ON _ presentation in Chelsea college, London, UK
Thoughts on Body, Soma Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Move on Asia, Seogyo art center, Seoul, Korea.
12Rooms _ 12 Events, Seoul Museum of Art, Korea
IN THE LOOP, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea
2011 The spectrum of Korean art, Kaohsiung museum of fine arts, Taiwan
TOTAL SUPPORT 2011, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Two gardens, Nanji studio gallery, Seoul, Korea
5th Open studio_ Nanji Studio, Seoul, Korea
Root of Imagination, gallery absinthe, Seoul, Korea
Fashion into Art, Samsung Museum PLATEAU, Seoul, Korea
Korean Rhapsody - Crossing the history, Samsung Leeum Museum, Seoul,Korea
Moving Fast - Inspirational Pan-Asian Artists Screening, Loop gallery, Seoul, Korea
2010 Enormous eyes, The Guild Mumbai, Mumbai, India
City States – Media Landscape, Zone East, Liverpool Biennial 2010, Contemporary Urban Centre, Liverpool, UK; The Korean Cultural Centre UK, London, UK
Korean Contemporary Art, PLASTIC GARDEN, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
‘A' Documenta, King's Lynn Art Centre, Norfolk, UK
A Different Similarity – Aktuelle Kunst aus Korea, Kunstverein Bochum, Bochum, Germany
2009 Variety, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Beginning of New Era, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Peppermint Candy: Contemporary Art from Korea, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
A Different Similarity: Towards the Sea, SantralIstanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Trans-Dimensional Interesting Dynamics in New Korean Painting, Prague Biennale, Karlin Hall, Prague, Czech Republic
After Gogo: New Era of Korean Art 2009, The Bienniel of Graphic Arts, Cankarjevdom Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
The Meaning of Meals – Eight Stories, Goyang Aram Nuri Aram Art Gallery, Goyang, Korea
Doors Open – Don’t Panic, Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery, New York, USA
Doors Open – Open Doors, Gallery Korea of the Korean Culture Service NY, New York, USA
Saving by Design Plus+, Korea Design Foundation, Seoul, Korea
2008 Modest Monuments: Contemporary Art from Korea, King's Lynn Art Centre, Norfolk, UK
Correspondence, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea
Expenditure, Busan Biennale 2008, Busan Yachting Range, Busan, Korea
The 3rd Nanjing Triennial 2008, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China
Design Made 2008-Saving by Design, Hangaram Design Museum, Seoul, Korea
2008 Catlin Art Prize, LSO Space, London, UK
Technique of Deviation, Interalia Art Company, Seoul, Korea
Good Morning, Mr. Nam June PAIK, Korean Cultural Centre UK, London, UK
Is the World Flat?, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2007 hey jude, Gallery Royal, Seoul, Korea
The art of consumption, White Cross Gallery, London, UK
Black Powder + White Party, Kyung Hee University Museum of Arts, Seoul, Korea
Jungle Juice, Gallery em, Seoul, Korea
Encounter with Contemporary Asian Art, Pocheon Asia Biennale 2007, Pocheon Banweol Art Hall, Pocheon, Korea
Contemporary Korean Art – Wonderland, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Multiple Intimacy, Osman Hamdi Exhibition Space, Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul, Turkey
Contemporary Art from Korea – Peppermint Candy, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile
Postgraduate Visual Arts Degree Show 2007, Goldsmiths College, London, UK
Pilot :3 – Live Archive for Artists & Curators, Monastery of St. Damien and St. Cosimo, La Giudecca, Venice, Italy
Free Particles: New Generation of Korean Artists in Europe, CitéInternationale des Arts, Paris, France
The Drawing Show, Gallery Factory, Seoul, Korea
A Matter of Urbanity, Among Other Things (Cuestiones, entre otras, de urbanidad), Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, Spain
2006 Still Dynamics: The Korean Contemporary Art Show, The Jerwood Space, London, UK
Alllooksame? / Tutttuguale? – Art from China, Japan and Korea, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Torino, Italy
Circuit Diagram London: An exchange of curatorial ideas from Britain, Japan & Korea, Cell Project Space, London, UK
Art in Life – Living Furniture, Busan Biennale 2006, Haeundae Beach, Busan, Korea
EXPOSED: black box & crystal ball, Harrods Department Store, London, UK; London County Hall, London, UK
On Difference #2, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
2005 ATTITUDE: video/ short & experimental film/ photography festival, Cultural Center Magaza, Bitola, Macedonia
Pocheon Asia Biennale 2005, Pocheon Banweol Art Hall, Pocheon, Korea
OK. Video SUB/VERSION, Jakarta Video Festival, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
Banana Surfer, Ieum Gallery, Beijing, China
Post IMF, Art Ark Gallery, Shanghai, China
2004 Digital Homo Ludens (Game and Play), Media City Seoul – International Biennale of Media Art, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
JACK!, Contemporary Art and Spirits, Osaka, Japan
Il gioco dell’assurdo – il corpo ludico (The Game of the Absurd – The Body Play), Video. IT 2004 – Il Gioco del Corpo, ESPACE, Torino, Italy
The Hall – The Cutting Edge East Asia, Tsinghua University Museum of Art, Beijing, China
SeNef (Seoul Net Festival), Hollywood Cinema, Seoul, Korea
Digispace 2004, Gallery THE SPACE, Seoul, Korea
Move on Asia: Animation & Single Channel Video Art Festival, SBS Broadcasting Center Mokdong, Seoul, Korea; Remo, Osaka, Japan; + Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
MAC (Media, Art, Culture) 2004: Crash and Flow, Sinchon Art Festival, Seodaemun Prison History Hall, Seoul, Korea
Unusual Combination, + Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
SEFORMA (Seoul Forum for Media Art), Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea
Out the Window: Spaces of Distraction, Japan Foundation Asia Center, Tokyo, Japan; Project Space Zip, Seoul, Korea; DDM Warehouse, Shanghai, China
Thai Film Festival, Bangkok, Thailand
M Gallery, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea
AVICON (Asia Videoart Conference), VIDEOART CENTER Tokyo, Japan; Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung, Indonesia
2003 Books in Resemblance of Persons, Persons in Resemblance of Books, Kumho Museum, Seoul, Korea
Jiff MIND (Jeonju International Film Festival – Mobile INteractive Digital), [plug.in], Basel, Switzerland
Where is my friend's home?, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden
Dumbo Art Festival, New York, NY, USA
Video on Demand, Galerie PICI, Seoul, Korea
Digital Salon, Art Space Hue(休), Seoul, Korea
Wedding, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Circle for Circle, Gallery FISH, Seoul, Korea
S.O.S.: Junge Kunst aus Korea (Young Artists from Korea), Galerie Weisser Elefant, Berlin, Germany
CITY ZOOM 2003, International Film & Art Festival, Bremen, Germany
Mobile INteractive Digital, Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF), Jeonju, Korea
Charity, Ssamzie Space, Seoul, Korea
International +System, Video Festival 2002-2003, BizArt Center, Shanghai, China
A Name Card, alternative space Loop, Seoul, Korea
2002 Variables in the Visual Experiment, The 2nd Indie Video Festival, i-Gong Alternative Visual Culture Factory, Seoul, Korea
Crash,, The 28th Seoul Independent Film Festival (SIFF 2002), Seoul Art Cinema, Seoul, Korea; Miro Space, Seoul, Korea
Lucky Seoul, the Alternative Space Network Exhibition – City and Visual Images “My Own Private Seoul”, gallery boda contemporary, Seoul, Korea
Coming to Our House, Darling Art Foundation, Seoul, Korea
The Color of Korea, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea; Iwate Prefectural Museum of Art, Iwate, Japan; Osaka Museum of Modern Art, Osaka, Japan; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Jepan
Living Furniture, supplement space Stone & Water, Anyang, Korea
Real_interface : swimming across your eyes, Space imA, Seoul, Korea
Interproject – Symbiosis, Incheon Culture & Arts Center, Incheon, Korea
Paradise Among Us, Korea Culture Art Foundation (KCAF) Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Awards and Residencies
2013 Inchon Art Platform Residency, Inchon, Korea
2012 Transfer Korea-Germany NRW 2013 artist, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf Germany
2010-11 Doosan Residency Artist, New York, US
2009 Today's Young Artist Prize, Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Seoul, Korea
2008 Nominated the Rolex Mentor and ProtégéArts Initiative, Geneva, Switzerland
Nominated 2008 Catlin Art Prize, London, UK
The National Art Studio – Changdong, Seoul, Korea
2007 Solo exhibition, A Palace of Mirages, at King's Lynn Arts Centre supported by British Council, UK
The National Art Studio – Changdong, Seoul, Korea
Collections
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Gyeonggi Museum of Art, Ansan, Korea
Mongin Art Center, Seoul, Korea
King's Lynn Art Centre, Norfolk, UK
Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
SAMUSO: space for contemporary art, Seoul, Korea
Ssamzie Space, Seoul, Korea
alternative space Loop, Seoul, Korea
Kaywon High School of Arts, Seongnam, Korea
+ Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
F2 Gallery, Beijing, China
Tate Members Collection, UK