Biography
Yeondoo Jung
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Born in 1969, Jinju, Korea
Lives and works in Seoul, Korea
Currently an associate professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, School of Art, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea
Education
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1997 MFA, Goldsmiths College, University of London, London, UK
1995 Diploma in Sculpture, Central Saint Martin College of Art, London, UK
1994 BFA, Seoul National University, College of Fine Arts, Seoul, Korea
Selected Solo Exhibitions
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2025
Digital Art Showcase & Conference : The Inevitable, Inacceptable, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Jung Yeondoo: Building Dreams, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, US
The Inevitable, Inacceptable, Kukje Gallery, Busan, Korea
2023
MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2023: Yeondoo Jung - One Hundred Years of Travels, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
2022
Crow's Eye View(烏瞰圖), Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan, Korea
2021
Focus on #2 Yeondoo Jung, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2020
Here and Elsewhere, Space Willing N Dealing, Seoul, Korea
#24 Screening Day Yeondoo Jung, Sinchon Theater, Seoul, Korea
2019
Here and Now, Perigee Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2018
Evening shower - Between Day & Night, Komagome SOKO, Tokyo, Japan
2017
Yeondoo Jung: Behind the Scenes, Norton Museum of Art, Florida, USA
Marathon Screening & Talk: Yeondoo Jung, Art Sonje Center Theater, Seoul, Korea
Dream Café, Art Sonje Center Theater, Seoul, Korea
2016
Here and Elsewhere, Art Platform, Incheon, Korea
Hors la foule, La Maison Salvan, Labège, France
2015
d'Ici et d'Ailleurs, MAC/VAL musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Yeondoo Jung: B-Camera, Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden
2014
Just Like the Road across the Earth, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan
Asian Contemporary Photography JUNG Yeondoo, Daegu Museum of Art, Daegu, Korea
Spectacle in Perspective, Plateau, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2013
Wonderland, K11 Art Space, Wuhan, China
Wonderland, K11 Art Space, Shanghai, China
Yeondoo Jung, MAAP Space, Brisbane, Australia
2012
Inside Out, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, USA
2011
The Mechanics of Invention, SCAD Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2010
An Ordinary Paradise, Espacio Third Hermes, Singapore
Cinemagician, Gebr. Lehmann Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
Innerscape, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
2009
Cinemagician, International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama 2009/CREAM, Bank Art, Yokohama, Japan
Cinemagician, PERFORMA09 BIENNIAL, Asia Society, New York, USA
Handmade Memories, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, USA
2008
For Your Loneliness, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden/Berlin, Germany
Handmade Memories, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2007
Locations, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, USA
I Will Remember You, ACA Gallery, Atlanta, USA
I Will Remember You, Red Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, USA
Memories of You - Artist of the Year 2007, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Wonderland, Galeria Espacio Minimo, Madrid, Spain
2006
Are You Lonesome Tonight?, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2005
Wonderland, Tina Kim Fine Art, New York, USA
2004
Beat It, Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2003
Bewitched, Gallery Loop, Seoul, Korea
2002
Tokyo Brand City, Koyanagi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Chinese Lucky Estate, 1A Space, Hong Kong, China
2001
Borame Dance Hall, Gallery Loop, Seoul, Korea
Selected Group Exhibitions
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2026
Art between Korea and Japan since 1945, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
2025
Let Things Go: Relations of Relations, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
2025 BusanMoCA Cinemedia: After Cinema, Busan Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan
Porous City ̶ Where the Wind Comes From, Coex /THILA Ground, Seoul, Korea
Washingtonia, Gallery Remicon and SEETANGRAUM, Jeju, Korea
10th Daegu Photo Biennale: The Pulse of Life, Daegu Arts Center, Daegu, Korea
Pha-jiu: Your Sea, My Land, Matsu Biennial, Matsu Islands, Taiwan
B-Class Jokes, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Wanju, Korea
Our Enchanting Paradise, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
MMCA Collection: Korean Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Seeing With Ten Fingers, Busan Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan, Korea
The Solidarity of Light and Breath, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea
Gangneung International Art Festival 2025: Esiza, Osiza, Okcheon-dong Warehouse, Gangneung, Korea
2024
Railway, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
WELCOME BACK: 60 PERSPECTIVES, Gallery of the French Institute, Photo Phnom Penh Festival, Cambodia
News Jeju, Jeju Art Festival, Jeju, Korea
侍天與民, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
DMZ OPEN EXHIBITION: PASSAGE, Paju, Korea
Soulfood&Black Cocktail, YIAF 2024. Yeosu, Korea
Ecological Art from the Below: Gangwon, Learning from the Ant Tunnels, The 2024 Gangwon Triennale, PyeongChang, Korea
Decoding Korea, Grand Palais Immersif, Paris, France
The cloud spotter's guide, Oil Tank Culture, Seoul, Korea
Different and beautiful, Hello Muesum, Seoul, Korea
Every Island is a Mountain: 30th Anniversary of Korean Pavilion, Ordine di Malta, Venice, Italy
Virtuality of Time, Space55, Seoul, Korea
MMCA Photographs Collection: What's the Time in Your World?, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
FOREVERISM: ENDLESS HORIZONS, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
PERHAPS SUNNY DAYS, PODO Museum, Jeju, Korea
CHAT 5th Anniversary – Factory of Tomorrow, MILL6 CHAT, Hong Kong
The Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis,USA
The Selected Series of XR Lab: XR Lab REVIEW, Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan, Korea
2023
The Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989, The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA), Philadelphia, USA
Publicness of the Art Center 2023 Playing Locality, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan
Telling a Story with You: Once Upon a Time in the Future, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Still-Life Still-City, Sehwa Museum, Seoul, Korea
2022
Digital Story: We Need Narratives, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Cheongju, Korea
Emotional Asia: Miyatsu Daisuke Collection x Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuokai, Japan
Art and Industry, Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan, Korea
Arte Contemporaneo Coreano: Cruzar el Pacifico, Festival Internacional Cervantino, Guanajuato, Mexico
DMZ Art Project: Peaceful Coexistence Zone, Imjingak and Pyeonghwa Nuri Area, Paju, Korea
Arte Contemporaneo Coreano: Cruzar el Pacifico, Korean Cultural Center, Mexico City, Mexico
Yet, With Love, PODO Museum, Jeju, Korea
Sealed Scenery, Sanjicheon Gallery, Jeju, Korea
Human, 7 Question, Jeonnam Museum of Art, Gwangyang, Korea
Hwaum Project Op. 212 Documentary Nostalgia, Ulsan Art Museum, Korea
2021
Ten to the n, Total Museum, Seoul, Korea
Perigee Winter Show 2021, Perigee gallery, Seoul, Korea
Actually, the dead are not dead, Total Museum, Seoul, Korea
SBS Prism Tower Art Collection, SBS Prism Tower, Seoul, Korea
Round-Round-Round : GEUMCHEON-GU, Geumcheon Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul, Korea
Human - 7 Questions, Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Super-fine, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
DMZ Theater, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
Boundless: Stories of Asian Art, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
Border Crossings-North and South Korean Art from the Sigg Collection, Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Bern, Switzerland
LETTER, Novalisstraße 7, Berlin, Germany
HYUNDAI MOTORSTUDIO, Goyang/Busan, Korea
Double Echoing/ The Pavilion Project, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
Hwaum Project: Documentary Nostalgia, Seoul Art Center IBK Chamber Hall, Seoul, Korea
Loss, Everything that happened to me, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
2020
Dream Believer, VR Exhibition, Seoul, Korea
Sejong Hyundai Motor Gallery, Sejong Center, Seoul, Korea
True Fictions, Fondazione Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Kumho Museum of Art Collection, Kumho Museum, Seoul, Korea
Artists in Their Times : Korean Modern and Contemporary Art, MMCA, Gwacheon, Korea
As after sunset fadeth in the west, Wooran Foundation ArtScape 1, Seoul, Korea
Museum for All, Museum for Dogs, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
Somewhere, over the rainbow, Kyobo Art Space, Seoul, Korea
2019
EAPAP 2019 : The Island Song, Jeju, Korea
Compulsion to Repeat, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
TIME CUBISM, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
Show Me Your Selfie, DISKURS Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Korea-Japan Interchange Exhibition 50/50, Multiplex Art Salon, Seoul, Korea
City Flip-Flop, C-LAB (Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab), Taipei, Taiwan
Civilization: The Way We Live Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Show Me Your Selfie, Aram art Museum, Goyang, Korea
Wanderers: A Video Chronology, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
Dear Cinema : Difference and Repetition, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
Controlled Perspectives, Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Pleased to meet you. New Acquisitions in recent years, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT), Tokyo, Japan
DMZ, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
Unfolding: Fabric of Our Life, Centre for Heritage, Arts & Textile (CHAT), Hong Kong
Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2018
A day for counting stars: The story of you & me, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Chungju, Chungju, Korea
Media YouTopia: Paradise in your heart, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
MOT Satellite 2018 - To become a narrative, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Civilization: The Way We Live Now, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Objectif Video Nice, OVNi Festival, Nice, France
Persona grata, MAC/VAL, Paris, France
Now Here Once Again, 2018 Yeosu International Art Festival, Yeosu, Korea
Art in Motion. 100 Masterpieces with and through Media. An Operative Canon, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
The Mysterious Landscape of Steel - Documenting a Tremendous Moment, POSCO Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
EMAP: Ewha Media Art Presentation, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
Desire and Vicarious Satisfaction, Space CAN, Seoul, Korea
(In)tangible Reminiscence, The Annex, Hong Kong
Highlight. K-ART, Culture·ICT Pavillion, Pyeongchang, Korea
2018 Real DMZ Project, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK
2017
Blind Date, Space Willing N Dealing, Seoul, Korea
Postmodern Real, Museum of Art Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
The portrait of youth, National Museum of Korean Contemporary History, Seoul, Korea
Seoullo Media Canvas, Malli-dong square, Seoul, Korea
Jeju Biennale 2017: Tourism, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea
Deoksugung Outdoor Project :Light · Sound · Landscape, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Deoksugung, Seoul, Korea
Seoul Art Station, Sinseol-dong Station, Seoul, Korea
Video Portrait, Total Museum, Seoul, Korea
Bon Appetite Korean Media Art, Jin Juu Restaurant, Hong Kong
Samramansang: from KIM Whanki to YANG Fudong, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Homecoming Exhibition of the Korean Pavilion in Seoul: The Far Game: Constraints Sparking Creativity, ARKO Art Center, Seoul, Korea
L'art de la Joie - manif d'art, The Quebec city biennale, Quebec, Canada
2016
Blind Date, Space Willing N Dealing, Seoul, Korea
Objectif Vidéo Nice, OVNi Festival, Nice, France
Historicode - Scarcity and Supply, 3rd Nanjing International Art Festival, Nanjing, China
Home Cinema, OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China
KT Mashup Giga Festival, SJ.Kunsthalle, Seoul, Korea
As the Moon Waxes and Wanes 30 Years 1986-2016, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
The FAR (Floor Area Ratio) Game: Constraints Sparking Creativity, Korean Pavilion, 15th International Architecture Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Save Our Souls - Art For A Time Of Urgencies - EMAP -, Ewha Media Art Presentation, Seoul, Korea
Public to Private: Photography in Korean art Since 1989, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Home Cinema, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
Brilliant Memories, SEMA Buk Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, KR/ Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
2015
Blind Date, Space Willing N Dealing, Seoul, Korea
Paradox of Place: Korean Contemporary Art, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
Embeddedness: Artist Films and Videos from Korea 1960s to Now, Tate Modern, London, UK
Seoul Vite, Vite!, Renaissance, Lille 3000 TriPostal, Lille, France
A Lie of a Lie on Photography, Total Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Home Cinema, Exit Festival, MAC Creteil, France
Home Cinema, Festival Via, Maubeuge, France
MA:T Korean Culture Beyond the Recipe, KF Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2014
ASUNTOS DOMÉSTICOS, Visiona - Photography Festival, Huesca, Spain
The Young and The Restless, Common center, Seoul, Korea
King Sejong the Great Opens the Age of Hangeul Culture, Hangeul Museum, Seoul, Korea
Voyage to Biennale, Busan cultural center, Busan, Korea
The 14th Seoul international New Media Festival, Media Theater iGong, Seoul, Korea
Find ASIA and myself, Yokohama Creative city center, Yokohama, Japan
K P.O.P – Process, Otherness, Play, Museum of contemporary art of Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
Land-Sea-Sky: revisiting spatiality in video, Lee Hwaik Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Land-Sea-Sky: revisiting spatiality in video, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shanghai, China
Toward the Modernity: Images of Self & Other in East Asian Art Competition, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
2013
Rust & Moss, Galerie GAIA, Seoul, Korea
SeMA Collection: Good Morning Stranger, Yongsan Art Hall, Seoul, Korea
Transfer Korea–NRW, ARKO Art Center/Alternative Space Loop/National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Transfer Korea–NRW, Kunsthaller Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
Happy Birthday, Galerie Perrotin/ 25 ans, Tripostal, Lille, France
Transfer Korea–NRW, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Better Than Universe, Daegu Art Factory, Daegu, Korea
The 13th Seoul International New Media Festival, Seoul Art Cinema, Seoul, Korea
Clues of Asia–Asian Contemporary Art from Long Collection, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
art: Gwangju: 13, Kimdaejung Convention Center Hall, Gwangju, Korea
Video Art in Asia 2002 to 2012, ZKM, Karlsruher, Germany
Artist File 2013, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Turquoise Heid, Travelling Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Spaces for Drawing, Hite Collection, Seoul, Korea
Mise-en-Scene, Leeum Museum, Seoul, Korea
Exit Festival 2013, Paris, France
GOLD DNA: Jung Yeondoo & Nikki Lee, Ilju & Seonhwa Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Dream Society, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
The Shadows of the Future, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
Korean Art: An Era of Grand Navigation, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
Who is Alice?, Spazio Lightbox, Venice, Italy
IntoAsia: TBA Festival, Queens Museum of Art, New York, United States
Real DMZ Project: Borderline, DMZ Peace & Cultural Hall, Cheorwon, Korea
The Vertical Village, Hamburg Museum, Hamburg, Germany
Korean Art from the Museum Collection: Grand Narrative Part ll, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
2012
Dislocation, Daegue Art Museum, Daegue, Korea
Osan photo Festival 2012, Osan, Korea
Korean Contemporary Art – Landscape of Time, SeongNam Art Center, SeongNam, Korea
Media City Seoul 2012: Spell on you, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Twilight Seoul 2012 – Yeondoo Jung & Luka Feisen, Koeln, Germany
City Within the City, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
2012 Korean Contemporary Art in China: ReBooting, Yan Huang Art Museum, Beijing, China
Root of imagination, Gallery Absinthe, Seoul, Korea
Art Show Busan 2012, Bexco, Busan, Korea
IOC Olympic Media Art Collection, Spencer House, London, UK
Galaxy Note Creation, Nemo Gallery, Blue Square, Seoul, Korea
Irrepressible Seoul: Contemporary Korean Video Art, Hackney Picture house, London, UK
In the Loop, Sponsorship Exhibition, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea
KIAF 2012, COEX, Seoul, Korea
The Vertical Village, Total Museum, Seoul, Korea
Here are people, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
Oh My Complex: On Unease at Beholding the City, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany
In search of Shaman, Kookmin University Museum, Seoul, Korea
An Orchestrated Vision, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, USA
Nostalgia-East Asia Contemporary Art Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Market Art Fair, Charlotte Lund Gallery, Art Academy Building, Stockholm, Sweden
How Physical, Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Tokyo, Japan
Keeping it Real, Colorado University Art Museum, Boulder, USA
2011
The Spectrum of Contemporary Korean Art, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
City Within The City, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
Nature, Life, Human, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
Countdown, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
Photo Penhon Penh Festival, Royal University of Phnom Penh, Penhon Penh, Cambodia
TV Commune, NJP Art Center, Yongin, Korea
Nostalgia-East Asia Contemporary Art Exhibition, Korea Foundation Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Korean Rhapsody, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
KAAP 2011, Fort Ruigenhoek, Utrecht, The Netherlands
N38 Snow South, Galerie Charlotte Lund / Upsala Museum, Stockholem, Sweden
Prix Pictet, Galerie Thaddeaus Ropac / Passage de Retz, Paris, France
Interview & Artists as an Interview, ARKO Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2010
More of an activity: the artist as choreographer, Hiroshima Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Gyeonggi MoMA 2009 New Acquisitions Collections: Oh! Masterpieces, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, USA
New Organ, Space C, Seoul, Korea
Moving Perspectives, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery / Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA
Printemps Parfume, Bains Numeriques, Centre des Arts, Enghien-les-Bains, France
KAAP 2010, Stitching Storm, Utrecht, The Netherlands
A different similarity, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany
Rehearsal, Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
Plastic Garden, Shanghai Minseng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2009
Encounter: Dublin, Lisbon, Hong Kong and Seoul, Korea Foundation Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea
The Grand Illusion, The Culture Gallery in National Concert Hall, Taiwan
Sixty Years of Modern Photo in Korea: 1948-2008, Kyoungnam Museum of Art, Kyoungnam, Korea
Artists of the Future, Roh gallery, Seoul, Korea
Try to Make a Simple Gesture, No Matter How Small!, Trafo Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Nature and Artifice, The RISD Museum, Providence, USA
Magic Moment: Korean Express, Hannover Messe, Hannover, Germany
Trans-Dimensional, Prague Biennale, Prague, Czech Republic
Magnetic Power, Space C, Seoul, Korea
Different Similarity, Santral Istanbul Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Logic of Sensibility, Interalia, Seoul, Korea
Meet Photograph Art in Insadong, Kim Young Seob Photo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Double Fantasy, Marugame Genichiro Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame, Japan
Jung Yeondoo/An Jungju, Koyanagi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Shooting Image, Photo Korea 2009, Coex Mall, Seoul, Korea
The Magic of Photography, Hanmi Museum of Photography, Seoul, Korea
Incheon International Digital Art Festival, Digital Art Festival Exhibition Hall, Incheon, Korea
Platform in Kimusa. Platform Seoul 2009, Kimusa, Seoul, Korea
Fresh View-Cross section of Contemporary Art, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Gyeongnam, Korea
Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Peppermint Candy, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Extra/Ordinary:Video Art from Asia, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA
Emporium - a new common sense of space, Museo Della scienza a techologia Leonardo Da vinci, Milano, Italy
Truly Truthful, Art Asia Miami, Miami Beach, USA
2008
Then & Now: Memories of the Future, Daegu Photo Biennale 2008, Daegu EXCO, Daegu, Korea
Photo on Photograph, Kumho Museum, Seoul, Korea
I Have a Dream, Kuandu Biennale, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
Modest Monuments, King's Lynn Arts Centre, King's Lynn, Norfolk, UK
Contemporary Kaleidescope: Art in Korea Today, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
Fantasy Studio, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
Turn and Widen-light, Communication and Time, Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Border of Vitality, Han Ji Yun contemporary space, Beijing, China
To Have or To Be, Farmleigh Gallery, Farmleigh, Ireland
Sixty Years of Modern Photo in Korea: 1948-2008, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Korean Art Today: The World of Expression, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
Daily Life in Korea, The Queen's Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2007
One Fine Day, Rodin Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Shared Boundaries, Gallery EM, Seoul, Korea
Peppermint Candy: Contemporary Korean Art, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago, Chile
Charge Your Imagination, Gyeonggido Museum of Art, Ansan, Korea
Giants in Illusion, Sejong Main Hall of Museum of Fine Art, Seoul, Korea
TRANS(IENT) CITY, Luxemburg 2007, Luxemburg and Greater Region
Elastic Taboos, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Thermocline of Art-New Asian Waves, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Wonderland, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Solid Scene, Art Bit Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Collector's Choice: Collection 2, Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
New Nature, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Projection Project, Budapest Episode, Mucsarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
2006
Through the Looking Glass, Asian Art House, London, UK
Circuit Diagram, Cell Project Space, London, UK
Camera Work, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
The Projection Project, MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Daegu Photo Biennale 2006: Arts in Photography, Photography in Arts, Daegu, Korea
Explorafoto 06: Mascarada/ Masquerade, Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
Dirty Yoga, Taipei Biennial, Taipei, Taiwan
de kleine biennale 2006, Stichting Storm, Utrecht, The Netherlands
A New City, ARCO Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2005
Project Stand By 000, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
4 From Korea, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Secret Beyond the Door, Korean Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
First Peak, Entenhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
Seoul Until Now, Charlottenborg Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
Fast Forwards: photographic message from Korea, Fotograpie Forum International, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Korea under Erasure, Galerie Porticus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Mapping on the Root, K-Art Space, Seoul, Korea
Banana Surfer, IEUM Gallery, Beijing, China
Manufactured Self, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA
2004
Hermes Korea Missulsang, ArtSonje Center, Seoul, Korea
Liverpool Biennial, Blue Coat Art Centre, Liverpool, UK
Re;Source, Art in General, New York, USA
Stranger than Paradise, Total Museum, Seoul, Korea
Document... A Map of Photographic Archives, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Absent Voices, Korea Gallery, New York, USA
Wall Works, Cais Gallery, Seoul, Korea
The Ten Commandments, Deutsche Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
The realing 15 years, Savina Museum, Seoul, Korea
2003
Poetic Justice, Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey
Everyday-Contemporary Art from Japan, China, Korea, Thailand, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen
The Wedding, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Circle for circle, Gallery Fish, Seoul, Korea
Photo Report from Seoul, Guardian Garden Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Delicious Museum, Gana Art Center, Seoul
5-Art Collection, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
Wanakio Project, Noren Market Place, Okinawa, Japan
Facing Korea; Demirrorizedzone, De Appel Center for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2002
Under construction: New Dimension of Asian Art, Japan Foundation/Opera City Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Orient Extreme, le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France
City Scape, Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea
Pause, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
Imagined Workshop, Fukuoka Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Ssamzie Open Studio, Ssamzie Art Space, Seoul, Korea
Living Like a Lover with a Radar Phone, Project, Dublin, Ireland
Fantasia, East Modern Art Center, Beijing, China
Urban Paradise, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Living Like a Lover with a Radar Phone, Project Space 4, Dublin, Ireland
2001
Invisible Touch, ArtSonje Center, Seoul, Korea
Tirana Bienniale, National Gallery of Tirana, Tirana, Albania
Detached House, Ambassador's Residence at the British Embassy, Seoul, Korea
Mass-life, Space Big Art, Yokohama, Japan
Ssamzie Site-Specific: Crossing Parallels Between Korean and American Artists, Ssamzie Art Space, Seoul, Korea/ Lance Fung Gallery, New York, USA
American Artists, Ssamzie Art Space, Seoul, Korea/Lance Fung Gallery, New York, United States
The Lunchtime of the Necktie Force, Posco Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
2000
Wow Project, Seoul City Subway 7th Line Train, Seoul, Korea
din / DIN, Art Project Space 4X4, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1999
Mixer & Juicer, The Korean Culture & Art Foundation Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Elvis Gungjungbanjum, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Radio Asia, Galangga Club, London, UK
1998
Bonsai 2: The Cosmopolitan, Hotel-Kunstraum, Zurich, Switzerland
Gracelands Palace, Ein Harrod Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Sensation from Goldsmiths, Yokohama Portside Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
Where I am, Galeria Municipal da Mitra, Lisbon, Portugal
1997
Gracelands palace, Galerie Fruchtig, Frankfurt, Germany
2nd GCC International Show, la Grande Arche, Paris, France
HongkongZ, Fringe Club, Hong Kong
Korean Young Artist in London, Sackville Gallery, London, UK
Selected Awards
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2025
Ha In-Doo Art Award, ART CHOSUN, Seoul, Korea
2022
Art Lab, Sanyang, Jeju, Korea
2017
MILL6 Artist Residency, Hong Kong
2016
Manif D’art Artist Residency, Quebec, Canada
2015
MAC/VAL (Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne) Artist Residency, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
2013
Mito Art Center Residency, Mito, Japan
2012
Transfer-Korea NRW, The 9th International Art and Artists Exchange Program
2008
Today’s Young Artist Award, Korean Ministry of Culture, Seoul, Korea
2007
Artist of the Year, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2006
International Studio and Curatorial Program Artist Residency, New York, USA
2004
Villa Arson Artist Residency, Nice, France
2003
Art Omi Artist Residency, New York, USA
2002
2nd Shanghai Biennale Asia Europe Culture Foundation Awards, Shanghai, China
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum Artist Residency, Fukuoka, Japan
1A Space Artist Residency, Hong Kong
2001
Ssamzie Art Space Artist Residency, Seoul, Korea
Selected Public and Private Collections
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Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan
The Calder Foundation, New York, USA
ESSL Museum, Vienna, Austria
The Estee Lauder Companies, New York, USA
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio de Modena, Modena, Italy
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Gyeonggido Museum of Art, Ansan, Korea
Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon, Korea
Joddes Collection, Pharmascience, Montreal, Canada
JGS Foundation, New York, USA
Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
MAC VAL, Paris, France
Maeil Dairies, Seoul, Korea
MILL6 Foundation, Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile, Hong Kong
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, USA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Gwacheon, Korea
The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul, Korea
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA
New Line Cinema, New York, USA
The RISD Museum, Providence, USA
The Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah,USA
Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan, Korea
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, USA
Heyri SSamzie Art Collection, Paju, Korea
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, USA
Podo Museum, Jeju, Korea
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