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Hyekyung HAM is a South Korean-based video artist. As an act to give fictional reality in stories, her work weaves image and voice with sense of place to make the audience recall certain memories or imagine the next scenes in their respective minds. Her work is a minimalistic form of depicting the reality and a slice of personal thought made from a pile of what she is either aware or unaware of. In her works, she portrays scenes capturing a situation she can see herself in by translating them to text. Instead of ‘what happens next,’ Ham speaks of what happens to the characters’ inner minds going through the situation. Protagonists in her videos, roaming around and feeling solitude and insecurity, face our own lives and worlds as an unaffiliated being.
Education
2006 Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Paris-Cergy, Cergy-Pontoise, FR (Student Exchange Program)
2005 Time Based Art Baccalaureate program in Kaywon School of Art and Design, Gyeonggi, KR
2004 B.F.A. in Time Art, Kaywon School of Art and Design, Gyeonggi, KR
Solo
Exhibitions
2021 PAUSE, REWIND, PLAY, Gyeongnam Art Museum Projection Room, Changwon, KR
2021 The STREAM Screening Day 2021 #28 Hyekyung Ham, Sinchon Theater, Seoul, KR
2020 A Small Island I Call Peace, Eum-Space Nam June Paik Art Center, Gyeonggi, KR
2020 Media Art Project 2020 II Hyekyung HAM, Korean Cultural Center in Hong Kong, CN
2019 The Edge of Mystery, Gallery LUX , Seoul, KR
2018 Pillow Talking, Donuimun Creative Village, Seoul, KR
2017 Voice Off, WEEKEND, Seoul, KR
2015 My Thoughts About You, SPACE_BA 421, Seoul, KR
Group
Exhibitions
2022 Jaipur Art Summit 2022, Galav Auditorium, Gwalior, India
2022 The Poetic Collection, Seoul Museum of Art Seosomun Main Branch, Seoul, KR
2021 SAPY COLLECTION, Seoul Artists' Platform_New&Young, Seoul, KR
2020 Unphotographical Moment, SeMA Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
2018 EVE, Samyuk Building, Seoul, KR
2017 Endless Night, Dacheongho Art Museum, Cheongju, KR
2017 Floating Life, Gallery LUX, Seoul, KR
2016 Things Left Unsaid, Hanmi Gallery-Seoul, Seoul, KR
2016 Under My Skin, HITE Collection, Seoul, KR
2015 A Man from afar, Bügeleisen, POOL, Hamburg, DE
2015 Real DMZ Project 2015, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, KR
2014 Please Respond Artist in Seoul, Space O’NewWall, Seoul, KR
2011 Up in the Air: From Yeoido to Incheon, Ilmin Museum Of Art, Seoul, KR
2009 VIDEO:VIDEO&0, Arko Art Center, Seoul, KR
2007 Yeol, Insa Art Space, Seoul, KR
2006 Plurisensoriel 4, Le Centre Culturel de Flaine, Grenoble, FR
2005 No possible feeble men under gallant general, Rainbow Gallery, Seoul, KR
2004 AIAS 2004, AKI Art Academy of Art and Design, Enschede, NL
2004 Face to Face, France Culture Center, Seoul, KR
2004 Young Video Show Show Show, SSamzie Space, Seoul, KR
2003 Crystal of Time, Duckwon Gallery, Seoul, KR
Group Film/Video Screenings
2022 Facing the Movement: Crossing/Invading/Stopping, Arko Art Center, Seoul, KR
2021 47th Seoul Independent Film Festival New-Shorts Competition, CGV Apgujeong, Seoul, KR
2020 Alternative Video Art Screening: Exploration of substance, iGong, Seoul, KR
2020 Where is the slightest difference between us evaporated off?, Asian Artist Moving Image Platform, Online Screening Program, Seoul, KR
2020 Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival 20th Anniversary Special Program, wavve, Online, KR
2019 11th DMZ International Documentary Film Festival Short Competition, Megabox-Baekseok Gyeonggi, KR
2018 Exhibition of Exhibition of Exhibition, Cecil Theater, Seoul, KR
2016 Screening Project #5 Extended Locution, OpenBox, Seoul, KR
2009 Everyday life within Insa Art Space, Arko Art Center, Seoul, KR
2009 ZAIM FESTA, ZAIM ANNEX, MIACA Screening, Yokohama, JP
2007 Videonale 11 – IASmedia, Kunstmuseum Bonne, Bonne, DE
2007 IASmedia screening 2007, Seoul Art Cinema, Seoul, KR
2007 Video in Seoul 2007, Mirospace, Seoul, KR
2003 3rd Indie Video Festival, Ilju Art House, Seoul, KR
2003 Bangkok Film Festival, Bangkok, TH
2023 Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, KR
2012 Nomadic Residency-Iran, Teheran, IR
Nominations & Awards
2021 Granted with Online New-Media Content Production Support by Korean Film Council, Seoul, KR
2021 Granted with Research Fund by Seoul Foundation for Art and Culture, Seoul, KR
2020 Selected for Random Access Project by Nam June Paik Art Center, Gyeonggi, KR
2020 Selected as an Outstanding Artist for Pre-representation by Korea Arts Management Service, Seoul, KR
2019 Selected as an Artist for Pre-representation by Korea Arts Management Service, Seoul, KR
2019 Granted with Art Exhibition Fund by Seoul Foundation for Art and Culture, Seoul, KR
2018 Granted with First-time Art Production Support by Seoul Foundation for Art and Culture, Seoul, KR
2004 Awarded with grand prize by Association of Independent Art and Design Schools (AIAS), Enschede, NL
□ E-mail: hyekyungham@gmail.com
Hyekyung HAM is a South Korean-based video artist. As an act to give fictional reality in stories, her work weaves image and voice with sense of place to make the audience recall certain memories or imagine the next scenes in their respective minds. Her work is a minimalistic form of depicting the reality and a slice of personal thought made from a pile of what she is either aware or unaware of. In her works, she portrays scenes capturing a situation she can see herself in by translating them to text. Instead of ‘what happens next,’ Ham speaks of what happens to the characters’ inner minds going through the situation. Protagonists in her videos, roaming around and feeling solitude and insecurity, face our own lives and worlds as an unaffiliated being.
A
Small Island I Call Peace, Single Channel Video, Sound,
Color, 13:29, 2020
(commissioned
by Nam June Paik Art Center)
Everyone Is a Mystery, Single Channel Video, Sound, Color, 18:09, 2019
No Fun Running Away with No Bee, Single Channel Video, Sound, Color, 12:32, 2018
Relentless Companion, Single Channel Video, Sound, Color, 12:31, 2018
My First Love, Single Channel Video, Sound, Color, 11:30, 2017
Morning Has Broken, Single Channel Video, Sound, B/W, 10:00, 2016
Lucky Man, Single Channel Video, Sound, Color, 16:00, 2015
A Man From Afar, Single Channel Video, Sound, Color, 08:41, 2015
Mystery Man, Single Channel Video, Sound, Color, 07:30, 2013
2006 Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Paris-Cergy, Cergy-Pontoise, FR (Student Exchange Program)
2005 Time Based Art Baccalaureate program in Kaywon School of Art and Design, Gyeonggi, KR
2004 B.F.A. in Time Art, Kaywon School of Art and Design, Gyeonggi, KR
2021 PAUSE, REWIND, PLAY, Gyeongnam Art Museum Projection Room, Changwon, KR
2021 The STREAM Screening Day 2021 #28 Hyekyung Ham, Sinchon Theater, Seoul, KR
2020 A Small Island I Call Peace, Eum-Space Nam June Paik Art Center, Gyeonggi, KR
2020 Media Art Project 2020 II Hyekyung HAM, Korean Cultural Center in Hong Kong, CN
2019 The Edge of Mystery, Gallery LUX , Seoul, KR
2018 Pillow Talking, Donuimun Creative Village, Seoul, KR
2017 Voice Off, WEEKEND, Seoul, KR
2015 My Thoughts About You, SPACE_BA 421, Seoul, KR
2022 Jaipur Art Summit 2022, Galav Auditorium, Gwalior, India
2022 The Poetic Collection, Seoul Museum of Art Seosomun Main Branch, Seoul, KR
2021 SAPY COLLECTION, Seoul Artists' Platform_New&Young, Seoul, KR
2020 Unphotographical Moment, SeMA Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
2018 EVE, Samyuk Building, Seoul, KR
2017 Endless Night, Dacheongho Art Museum, Cheongju, KR
2017 Floating Life, Gallery LUX, Seoul, KR
2016 Things Left Unsaid, Hanmi Gallery-Seoul, Seoul, KR
2016 Under My Skin, HITE Collection, Seoul, KR
2015 A Man from afar, Bügeleisen, POOL, Hamburg, DE
2015 Real DMZ Project 2015, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, KR
2014 Please Respond Artist in Seoul, Space O’NewWall, Seoul, KR
2011 Up in the Air: From Yeoido to Incheon, Ilmin Museum Of Art, Seoul, KR
2009 VIDEO:VIDEO&0, Arko Art Center, Seoul, KR
2007 Yeol, Insa Art Space, Seoul, KR
2006 Plurisensoriel 4, Le Centre Culturel de Flaine, Grenoble, FR
2005 No possible feeble men under gallant general, Rainbow Gallery, Seoul, KR
2004 AIAS 2004, AKI Art Academy of Art and Design, Enschede, NL
2004 Face to Face, France Culture Center, Seoul, KR
2004 Young Video Show Show Show, SSamzie Space, Seoul, KR
2003 Crystal of Time, Duckwon Gallery, Seoul, KR
2022 Facing the Movement: Crossing/Invading/Stopping, Arko Art Center, Seoul, KR
2021 47th Seoul Independent Film Festival New-Shorts Competition, CGV Apgujeong, Seoul, KR
2020 Alternative Video Art Screening: Exploration of substance, iGong, Seoul, KR
2020 Where is the slightest difference between us evaporated off?, Asian Artist Moving Image Platform, Online Screening Program, Seoul, KR
2020 Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival 20th Anniversary Special Program, wavve, Online, KR
2019 11th DMZ International Documentary Film Festival Short Competition, Megabox-Baekseok Gyeonggi, KR
2018 Exhibition of Exhibition of Exhibition, Cecil Theater, Seoul, KR
2016 Screening Project #5 Extended Locution, OpenBox, Seoul, KR
2009 Everyday life within Insa Art Space, Arko Art Center, Seoul, KR
2009 ZAIM FESTA, ZAIM ANNEX, MIACA Screening, Yokohama, JP
2007 Videonale 11 – IASmedia, Kunstmuseum Bonne, Bonne, DE
2007 IASmedia screening 2007, Seoul Art Cinema, Seoul, KR
2007 Video in Seoul 2007, Mirospace, Seoul, KR
2003 3rd Indie Video Festival, Ilju Art House, Seoul, KR
2003 Bangkok Film Festival, Bangkok, TH
2023 Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, KR
2012 Nomadic Residency-Iran, Teheran, IR
2021 Granted with Online New-Media Content Production Support by Korean Film Council, Seoul, KR
2021 Granted with Research Fund by Seoul Foundation for Art and Culture, Seoul, KR
2020 Selected for Random Access Project by Nam June Paik Art Center, Gyeonggi, KR
2020 Selected as an Outstanding Artist for Pre-representation by Korea Arts Management Service, Seoul, KR
2019 Selected as an Artist for Pre-representation by Korea Arts Management Service, Seoul, KR
2019 Granted with Art Exhibition Fund by Seoul Foundation for Art and Culture, Seoul, KR
2018 Granted with First-time Art Production Support by Seoul Foundation for Art and Culture, Seoul, KR
2004 Awarded with grand prize by Association of Independent Art and Design Schools (AIAS), Enschede, NL
Collections
Public Collection of Art Bank National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Arts Council Korea Archive, Seoul, KR
Public collection of Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Seoul Artists' Platform_New&Young, Seoul, KR
Gallery LUX , Seoul, KR
Public Collection of Art Bank National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Arts Council Korea Archive, Seoul, KR
Public collection of Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Seoul Artists' Platform_New&Young, Seoul, KR
Gallery LUX , Seoul, KR
