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Doyeon Gwon studied literature in college and then majored in photography in graduate school. His photography is concerned with exploring the relationship between knowledge and memory, the visual image, and language. His solo exhibitions include Bukhansan (Gallery Nook, Seoul, 2019), Flashbulb Memories (Gallery Lux, Seoul, 2018), The Art of Shovel (KT&G Sangsangmadang, Seoul, 2015), and Traveller Novice (Gallery Ryugaheon, Seoul, 2011). He has also participated in many group exhibitions, including FotoFest Biennial (US), PHoto ESPAÑA Biennial (Spain), Daegu Photo Biennale (South Korea), and shows at the GoEun Museum of Photography, Busan, and Seoul Museum of Art. He received the Sajin Bipyong (Photography Criticism) Award (2011), has been selected as a finalist for the 7th KT&G Sangsangmadang SKOPF (2015), was included in the British Journal of Photography’s “Ones to Watch” (2016), and received the 10th Ilwoo Photography Award.
Education
2016 MFA, Photography, Graduate School of Sangmyung Univ. Seoul, Korea
2007 BFA, Literature, Hanyang Univ. Seoul, Korea
Solo Exhibition
2020 <SF>, Gallery SOSO, Paju, Korea
2020 <Flashbulb Memory 2>, Gallery 021, Daegu, Korea
2020 <Siot>, Ilwoo Space, Seoul, Korea
2019 <Bukhansan>, Gallery Nook, Seoul, Korea
2018 <Flashbulb Memory>, Gallery LUX, Seoul, Korea
2015 <The Art of the Shovel>, KT&G Sangsangmadang, Seoul, Korea
Selected Group Exhibition
2020 <Open the Memory>, Gallery 021, Daegu, Korea
2020 <The Museum for all, The Museum for Dogs>, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
2020 <Madeleine>, Galerie DohyangLee, Paris, France
2019 <Platform Artist>, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, Korea
2019 <Still Lives: Photo Brussels Festival>, Korean Cultural Center, Brussels, Belgium
2019 <The Art of Possible>, Goyang Aram Mesuem, Goyang, Korea
2019 <Plastic Love>, KT&G Sangsangmadang, Seoul, Korea
2019 <Traveling to the End>, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art residency, ChangDong, Korea
2019 <Underground Observatory: Here’s the Aleph>, Space22 Ikson, Seoul, Korea
2019 <Unfamiliar Scene>, Gallery Seoi, Seoul, Korea
2019 <291Report>, 291 photographs, Seoul, Korea
2019 <Static Sense>, Sikmulgwan PH, Korea
2019 <representing>, Art space J, Sungnam, Korea.
2018 <Write an Art, Draw a Book>, Kyungpook National University Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
2018 <DAL&1>, DAL, Seoul, Korea
2018 <Salon de Nook>, Gallery Nook, Seoul, Korea 2017
2017 <291 Report>, Space 291, Seoul, Korea
2017 <Studio 13>, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art residency, Goyang, Korea
2017 <From Flatness>, 021 Gallery, Daegu, Korea
2017 <Intro>, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art residency, Goyang, Korea
2016 <Melancholy of Books>, Kyobo Art Space, Seoul, Korea 2016
2016 <The emancipated memories>, Good Morning House, Suwon, Korea
2016 <Encounter IV : Daegu Photo Biennale>, Daegu, Korea
2016 <Twofold Dialogue>, Nook Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2016 <Ones To Watch: Photo Espana>, Madrid, Spain
2016 <Kairos Photography>, KT&G Sangsangmadang, ChunCheon, Korea
2016 <Dimension>, Gallery Shinsegea, Seoul, Korea 2015
2015 <New Force of Photography>, GoEun Museum of Photography, Busan, Korea
2016 <Mapping Territories: FotoFest in 2015>, NRG Center ,Houston, USA
2016 <Outside Timeline>, Nowhere, Seoul, Korea
2016 <International Discoveries V : Fotofest Biennale>, Houston, USA 2014
2014 <Seoul Luna PhotoFest>, Boan1942, Seoul, Korea
2014 <Sajin Bipyong>, Space 22, Seoul, Korea 2013
2014 <Succeeding>, Gallery Ilum, Seoul, Korea 2012
2012 <Here and Now>, Gallery Grimson, Seoul, Korea 2011
2011 <Seoul Photo Festival 2011>, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2011 <Dongbangyogoi>, MBC Gallery M, Daegu, Korea
2011 <13nd Sajin Bipyong Awards>, Gallery ilum, Seoul, Korea 2010
2010 <Morden art draws attention from major mediaforms>, Seoul Art Space Festival, Seoul, Korea
2009 <A soft gap of time>, Gallery LUX, Seoul, Korea
Awards
2019 10th ILWOO Photography Award, HanJin Group, Seoul, Korea
2014 7th Korean Photographer's Fellowship- Final Artist of the year, KT&G Sangsangmadang, Korea
2011 12nd Sajin Bipyong Awards, Photospace, Seoul, Korea
Selection | Grant
2020 Selected as a Artist for funds to Support the Solo Exhibition, Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, Korea
2019 Selected as a Artist for funds to Support the Solo Exhibition, The Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Korea
2019 Selected as a Artist for funds to Support the Project, Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, Korea
2018 Scholarship Program for Meeting Place, Fotofest Biennale, USA
2016 Ones To Watch, British Journal of Photography, UK
2015 “Encounter”, Winner of portfolio review, Daegu Photo Biennale, Korea
Residencies
2021 Seoul Art Space Geumcheon
2019 Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, Korea
2018 DAL, Seoul, Korea
2017 National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art residency, Goyang, Korea
Collection
Seoul Museum of Art
Art Bank, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
GoEun Museum of Photography, Korea
Shinsegea, Korea
KT&G, Korea
Bukhansan_Black Mouth
2019, Pigment print
Bukhansan
2019, Pigment print
SF_George Cayley
2020, Pigment print, 150x150cm
SF_ Percy Sinclair Pilcher
2020, Pigment print, 105x135cm
