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As I have majored both in literature and visual art, my work unfolded on the intersection of a double interest. One is a research on the literary text as a visual subject and the other is about a question on how to read the historical and cultural images as contemporary narratives and how to respond to them. My central concern has always been the “accumulation” rather than a brief moment in time. For example, when I became interested in a ball-point pen, my perspective passed through the material aspect of the pen and went on to permeate into the layers of “chatters” that revolve around the pen. This is an attempt to delve into the objects and phenomena at a slower pace as well as my will to examine, uncover anew, and rigorously restructure the language and images of our time. Thus, it is important for me to draw in language into visual arts in an active manner. The basic methodology consists of bringing together literary imagination from the narratives and a collection of visual images selected among the modern and contemporary history as well as popular culture, and reflectively restructuring the aspects of the world. I believe this means to be a way of “artistic reading” and have continued on my work in various forms of publication, video, photography, and installation with a variety of text.
Education
2017 Korea National University of Arts, Visual Art (MFA)
2010 Korea National University of Arts, Visual Art (BFA)
2005 Yonsei University, French Literature & German Literature (BA)
Solo Exhibition
2019 Captive Stones, SeMA Storage, Seoul
2012 Six Fingers, KT&G Sangsangmadang Gallery, Seoul
Selected Group Exhibition
2019 Spectres in the Library (SeMA Storage, Seoul)
2019 Modern Rose (Nam-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul)
2019 Slanted Breath (Post Territory Ujeongguk, Seoul)
2019 The Bone of the Wind (Udo Art Center, Jeju)
2018 Flaneur Archive 01 (Gallery18th, Jeju)
2018 Scenes of Fugitivity (Space OOOJH, Seoul)
2018 The Narrative of the Island and Wind | Art space Iaa, Jeju)
2018 Exhibition of Exhibition of Exhibition (Cecil Theater, Seoul)
2017 12th Busan International Video Art Festival: October, The People walking in darkness (Art space Heem, Busan)
2017 8 Works, Collections of the Artists (Audio Visual Pavilion, Seoul)
2017 Family Report (Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan)
2016 Private, but Public Square (Wumin Art Center, Cheongju)
2016 The Art of Not Landing (Cake Gallery, Seoul)
2014 The Young and The Restless (Common Center, Seoul)
2013 Learning-Machine (NJP Art Center, Yongin)
2013 a House yet unknown (Art Space Pool, Seoul)
2013 No Mercy, No Fear (Gallery White Block, Paju)
2012-2013 Translated into Mother Tongue (Doosan Art Space, Seoul & New York)
2011 Uncountable Collection (KT&G Sangsangmadang Gallery, Seoul)
2011 The Eye of a Needle (Space99, Seoul)
2011 EMAP : The Techne-space (Ewha Womens University, Seoul)
2010 Milk& Honey (K-arts Gallery, Seoul)
2010 Linguistic Morphology : Art in Context (Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul)
2010 God Save the the Mona lisa (Plant Gallery, Seoul)
Projects
2018 Flaneur Archive
2017/2019 The Scrap
2013 Mediacity Seoul 2014 Pre-Biennale : Postcard Project
2011 HIT and RUN
2009 Web-zine Camping
Publication
2020 May the Cats be with You
2019 Captive Stones
2014 Meta-Universe
2012 Six Fingers
2012 The Anthology
2011 a Wall
2010 Monami 153 Chronicles
Residencies
2021 Seoul Art Space Geumcheon (Seoul)
2020 SeMA Nanji Residency (Seoul)
2019 Udo Art Center (Jeju)
2018 Art Space Iaa (Jeju)
2017 Proyecto Ace Pirar (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
2010 Studio 683 (Seoul)
Collection
2020 Seoul Museum of Art
2019 Museum of Contemporary Art Pusan
Selection
2020 20th Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival Audience Jury Award (Korea)
2019 SeMA Emerging Artist (Seoul Museum of Art, Korea)
2018 Art-Reach Research Project (Jeju Foundation for Art & Culture)
2013 Creative Talent Selection (Korea Creative Content Agency, Korea)
2012 Art support program (Seoul Foundation of Arts and Culture, Korea)
2012 Art proposal selection (KT&G Sangsangmadang, Korea)
Blue Land
2019, Single channel video, FHD, 17' 40"
Captive Stones
2019, book, 136p, 130x190mm
2019, collected stamps, pigment print, collage, 245X345mm, 700x345mm
