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CHOI Xooang

CHOI Xooang was born in Seoul, 1975. He received his Bachelor's degree and Master's degree in the Department of Sculpture at Seoul National University. He has been creating works that unfold the various phenomena that occur within the relationship between individuals and society through realistic human figures. CHOI's work was praised as "having the power to make the viewer look back on the world and the situation they live in, as they are in awe" by Ki Hye-hyung (curator at National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art). Since his first solo exhibition at Space cell (Seoul) in 2004, he has been holding numerous shows at Musee d'Ansembourg (Liege, Belgium), Doosan Gallery New York (New York), Bongsan Cultural Center (Daegu, Korea), etc. He also participated in group exhibitions at Seoul Museum of Art (Seoul), Seoul Olympic Museum of Art (Seoul), 10th Gwangju Biennale (Gwangju, Korea), Vestfossen Kunstrabolratorium (Vestfossen, Norway), etc. He was selected as the 'Artist of Tomorrow 2010' (Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul), and received the Kimsechoong Young Sculpture Award (KimSechoong Museum, Seoul) in 2014. His works are part of numerous public collections, including National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Gwacheon, Korea), Seoul Museum of Art (Seoul), Sungkok Art Museum (Seoul), Maison Particulière Art Center (Brussels), etc. 

 

Biography

1975 Born in Seoul 

2002 BFA, Department of Sculpture, Seoul National University, Seoul
2005 MFA, Department of Sculpture, Seoul National University, Seoul
Lives in Sungnam and works in Anyang, Korea

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions 

2021 Unfold, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul
2019 Unbodied Objects, Bongsan Cultural Center, Daegu, Korea
2017 Unbodied Objects, Doosan Gallery New York, New York
2016 Eolgul, Galerie Gradiva, Paris
2014 Objects, Space CAN Beijing, Beijing
The Blind for the Blind, Galerie Albert Benamou, Paris
The Blind for the Blind, Musee d'Ansembourg, Liege, Belgium
2013 Fake Plastic Trees, Space CAN & Old House, Seoul
Condition for Ordinary, Art Seasons, Singapore
2011 Artists of Tomorrow 2010, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul
2010 Islets of Aspergers, Doosan Gallery, Seoul
Islets of Aspergers, Galerie Albert Benamou, Paris
2009 The Human Emotion Unveiled, Galerie Albert Benamou, Paris
The Pruritus, Dukwon Gallery, Seoul
2007 The Vegetative State, Gallery LM, Seoul
2004 Phototaxis_Mania, Space cell, Seoul

Awards
2021 Grant from Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul
2014 Kimsechoong Young Sculpture Award, KimSechoong Museum, Seoul
2009 Selected, Artists of Tomorrow 2010, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul
2008 Grant from Seoul Foundation for Art and Cultuer, Seoul 
2007 Grant from Seoul Foundation for Art and Cultuer, Seoul

Residencies
2017    Doosan Residency New York, New York
2014    Space Can_Project Space Beijing, Beijing

Public Collections
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
Art Bank, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon
Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul
Maison Particulière Art center, Brussels
Can Foundation, Seoul
Space K, Seoul

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021 Art(ificial) Garden, The Border Between Us, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art 
Cheongju, Cheongju, Korea
The Third Print: The New Combination, Tri-bowl, Incheon, Korea; Myeongju Art Garden, Gangneung, 
Korea
2020 The Third Print in Yeosu: Finding hidden print, Gallery Nomad, Yeosu, Korea
2019 The Senses; Breathe between Excess and Deficiency, Total Museum, Seoul 
Tentatives de Bonheur, Maif social club, Paris, France
The Phase of Korean Contemporary Sculpture, Seosomun Shrine History Museum, Seoul 
The Body Aesthetics Represented in Sculpture, Moran Museum of Art, Namyangju, Korea
2018 Shining Moment, Clayarch Gimehae Museum, Gimhae, Korea 
Olympic Sculpture Project -Post 88, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul 
A Day For Counting Stars: The Story of You & Me, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art 
Cheongju, Cheongju, Korea
Yeosu International Art Festival: Now Here Once Again, Yeosu Expo, Yeosu, Korea
Cracked, P|Art Ibiza Gallery, Ibiza, Spain
The Third Print: Homo Archivist, The Artist’s Intervention, Dohing Art, Seoul
2017 The Logic of Sensation, Gallery Simon, Seoul
2016 A Better Tomorrow, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul
3rd Changwon Sculpture Biennale, We Create Things, Things Create Us, Changwon City Masan 
Moonshin Art Museum, Changwon, Korea
Extansion.kr, Volga-Vyatka region branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow
Please Return to Busan Port, Vestfossen Kunstrabolratorium, Vestfossen, Norway 
Extension.kr, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
The Dream of Flying, Brandts Museum, Odense, Denmark 
2015 HEY! Modern Art & Pop Culture Part III, Musée de la Halle St Pierre, Paris
Obedience, Jewish Museum Berlin, Berlin
Body, Handok Museum of Medicine and Pharmacy, Eumseong, Korea
Illusion and Fantasy, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul 
2014 Symbol, Spirit, Culture, Edwin's Gallery, Zakarta
10th Gwangju Biennale: Burning Down the House, Biennale Hall, Gwangju, Korea
Material Magic, Ilwoo Space, Seoul
Scenes VS Scenes, Seoul Museum of Art (Buk-Seoul), Seoul
2013 Tele-Be, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul
Show must go on, Praxis Space, Singapore
Who is Alice?-Venice Biennale Collateral Event, Spazio Lightbox, Venice, Italy
Human, for a While, Culture Factory Osan, Osan, Korea
Slow Art 2013, Gallery Moa, Paju, Korea
HEY! Modern Art & Pop Culture Part II, Musée de la Halle St Pierre, Paris
2012 Dream Walking in the Magical Reality, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Thoughts on Body, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul
House of The Nobleman Project - 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy', Neo Bankside, London
Playground, Arko Art Center, Seoul
Portrait of the Times, Space CAN, Beijing; Space CAN-Seoul
2011 Zeitgeist, Interalia Art Company, Seoul
Feminite 0.1, Maison Particulière Arts Center, Brussels
Fiction & Nonfiction, Interalia Art Company, Seoul
2010 Korea Tomorrow, Seoul Trade Exhibition & Convention, Seoul 
Blindness, Boan1942, Seoul 
Here And There_The World in Motion 2010, Art Gallery of Luxun Academy of Fine Art, ShenYang, China
2009 Daegu Textile Art Documenta: Fabric Arche, Deagu Arts Center, Deagu, Korea 
Beginning of New Era, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
City_net Asia 2009, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2nd Flow of Korean Contemporary Art: Hyper Realism, Gimhae Arts and Sports Center Yunseul art 
gallery, Gimhea, Korea
Between The Borders, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
Artist Gallery 2 Portraits, Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul 
2008 Sculpture Spoken Here, Dukwon gallery, Seoul
Korean Young Artists 3: Sculptures & Objects- Solitary Meditation, Doosan Gallery Seoul, Seoul
The Battle of Taste, Gallery SangSangmadang, Seoul
From Korea -First Step-, Art Seasons Gallery, Beijing; Art Seasons Gallery, Singapore
2007 BBULJIT, Alternative Space Choong Jung Gak, Seoul
Critical Mass, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul
Vanitas, Espace Sol, Seoul
2006 Media Scene in Seoul_Merz’s Room, Seoul Museum of Art (Nam-Seoul), Seoul 
Lilliput in me, Mushroom Arts, New York
The Power of Imagination, Korea University Museum, Seoul
One's, craft_house, Seoul 
2005 Speaking of Young Artists, Suggestion Of Critics, Project Space Zip, Seoul 
City_net Asia 2005, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
Nano in young artist, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul; Gallery Ssamji, Seoul
Destructive Characters - The Declaration of Six Artists & One Intruder, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul
Artworks
The Hand

2021

Oil, polyurethane paint, epoxy resin, poly urethane resin, PVC, stainless steel, brass pipe, walnut, wax

53(h) x 80 x 22 cm ©Photo by: Oyeol Kwon, Osurc Gwon

Sculptors

2021

Oil, acrylic, polyurethane paint, epoxy resin, poly urethane resin, PVC, stainless steel, steel, plywood

Dimensions variable ©Photo by: Oyeol Kwon, Osurc Gwon

Fragments 12

2021

Watercolor on Arches paper

38 x 55.5 cm ©Photo by: Oyeol Kwon, Osurc Gwon

Fragments 11

2021

Watercolor on Arches paper

38 x 55.5 cm ©Photo by: Oyeol Kwon, Osurc Gwon

Fragments 10

2021

Watercolor on Arches paper

38 x 55.5 cm ©Photo by: Oyeol Kwon, Osurc Gwon

Fragments 9

2021

Watercolor on Arches paper

38 x 55.5 cm ©Photo by: Oyeol Kwon, Osurc Gwon

Fragments 8

2021

Watercolor on Arches paper

38 x 55.5 cm ©Photo by: Oyeol Kwon, Osurc Gwon

Fragments 7

2021

Watercolor on Arches paper

38 x 55.5 cm ©Photo by: Oyeol Kwon, Osurc Gwon

Fragments 6

2021

Watercolor on Arches paper

38 x 55.5 cm ©Oyeol Kwon, Osurc Gwon

Fragments 5

2021

Watercolor on Arches paper

38 x 55.5 cm ©Photo by: Oyeol Kwon, Osurc Gwon

Fragments 4

2021

Watercolor on Arches paper

38 x 55.5 cm ©Photo by: Oyeol Kwon, Osurc Gwon

Fragments 3

2021

Watercolor on Arches paper

38 x 55.5 cm ©Photo by: Oyeol Kwon, Osurc Gwon

Fragments 2

2021

Watercolor on Arches paper

38 x 55.5 cm ©Photo by: Oyeol Kwon, Osurc Gwon

Fragments 1

2021

Watercolor on Arches paper

38 x 55.5 cm ©Photo by: Oyeol Kwon, Osurc Gwon

Unfolded 4-6R

2021

Oil on oiled paper, wax

38 x 52 cm ©Photo by: Oyeol Kwon, Osurc Gwon

Unfolded 4-5R

2021

Oil on oiled paper, wax

38 x 52 cm ©Photo by: Oyeol Kwon, Osurc Gwon

Unfolded 4-4R

2021

Oil on oiled paper, wax

38 x 52 cm ©Photo by: Oyeol Kwon, Osurc Gwon

Unfolded 4-3R

2021

Oil on oiled paper, wax

38 x 52 cm ©Photo by: Oyeol Kwon, Osurc Gwon

Unfolded 4-2R

2021

Oil on oiled paper, wax

38 x 52 cm ©Photo by: Oyeol Kwon, Osurc Gwon

Unfolded 4-1R

2021

Oil on oiled paper, wax

38 x 52 cm ©Photo by: Oyeol Kwon, Osurc Gwon

Unfolded 1W

2021

Oil on oiled paper, stainless steel, non-reflecting glass

79(h) x 59 x 15 cm ©Photo by: Oyeol Kwon, Osurc Gwon

Unfolded 3W

2021

Oil on oiled paper, stainless steel, non-reflecting glass

55.5(h) x 41 x 15 cm ©Photo by: Oyeol Kwon, Osurc Gwon

Unfolded 2W

2021

Oil on oiled paper, stainless steel, non-reflecting glass

79(h) x 59 x 15 cm ©Photo by: Oyeol Kwon, Osurc Gwon

Unfolded 13G

2021

Oil on oiled paper, stainless steel, non-reflecting glass

115(h) x 88 x 30 cm ©Photo by: Oyeol Kwon, Osurc Gwon

Unfolded 12G

2021

Oil on oiled paper, stainless steel, non-reflecting glass

115(h) x 88 x 30 cm ©Photo by: Oyeol Kwon, Osurc Gwon

Unfolded 11G

2021

Oil on oiled paper, stainless steel, non-reflecting glass

115(h) x 88 x 30 cm ©Photo by: Oyeol Kwon, Osurc Gwon

Unfolded 10G

2021

Oil on oiled paper, stainless steel, non-reflecting glass

115(h) x 88 x 30 cm ©Photo by: Oyeol Kwon, Osurc Gwon

Unfolded 9G

2021

Oil on oiled paper, stainless steel, non-reflecting glass

115(h) x 88 x 30 cm ©Photo by: Oyeol Kwon, Osurc Gwon

Unfolded 8G

2021

Oil on oiled paper, stainless steel, non-reflecting glass

115(h) x 88 x 30 cm ©Photo by: Oyeol Kwon, Osurc Gwon

Unfolded 1G

2020

Oil on oiled paper, wax, stainless steel, non-reflecting glass

109(h) x 88 x 30 cm ©Photo by: Oyeol Kwon, Osurc Gwon

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