Gimhongsok

• Born in 1964, Seoul, Korea
  Lives and works in Seoul, Korea
  
  Currently a professor of Stage Art in Sangmyung University, Cheonan, Korea

Education

• 1996     Kunst Akademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  1987     Seoul National University, Department of Visual Arts, Seoul, Korea

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2024
  Normal order aimed at failure, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2023
  A suit with underwear inside out and a dress with a skirt as a hat, Space ISU, Seoul, Korea 
  Lots of People, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
  
  2020    
  Gimhongsok, Kukje Gallery, Busan, Korea
  
  2018    
  EVERY, DAY, ACTS, LIKE, LIFE, Perrotin Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
  Dwarf, Dust, Doubt, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, US
  
  2017    
  Subsidiary Construction, Perrotin Gallery HK, Hong Kong
  
  2016    
  Xijing is Not Xijing, Therefore Xijing is Xijing, 21^st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
  
  2015    
  World of Xijing, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2014    
  Blue Hours, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2013    
  Good Labor Bad Art, PLATEAU Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  I love Xijing-Xijing School, H&R Block Artspace at Kansas City Art Institute and Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, US
  
  2011   
  Ordinary Strangers, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea
  Xijing, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy
  
  2010   
  Antithesis of Boundaries, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, US
  
  2008   
  In through the outdoor, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2005   
  Neighbor's wife, CAIS gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2004   
  Cosmo Vitale, REDCAT Gallery, Los Angeles, US
  Antarctica, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea
  
  2001   
  Retro Bistro, Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea
  
  2000   
  Heromaniac, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2024
  Every Island is a Mountain, Palazzo Malta, Venice, Italy
  
  2023
  The Part In The Story Where Our Accumulating Dust Becomes A Mountain, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  DMZ Exhibition: Checkpoint, Dora Observatory, Camp Greaves, Pyeonghwa Nuri, Paju, Korea 
  Step on the Ground, Songhyeon green plaza, Seoul, Korea 
  
  2022
  Hangang, 280, Yeouidong-ro, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, Korea
  My Sleep, Culture Station Seoul 284, Korea
  After Graybox: From Collecting to Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Korea
  The Brilliant Days, Daewangam Park, Ulsan, Korea
  
  2021
  The Chronicle of Lost Time, Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea 
  
  2020
  Artists in Their Times: Korean Modern and Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  
  2019    
  2019 Title Match: Gimhongsok vs. SEO Hyun-Suk—Incomplete Ruins, SeMA, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Animal Revolution: The Bremen Town Musicians in Art, Kitsch, and Society, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
  Drawing-Korean Modern and Contemporary Drawings, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2018    
  The Street, Where the World is Made, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
  Xijing Men, Theater of the World, SFMoMA, San Francisco, US
  Xijing Men, Theater of the World, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
  Harbour Arts Sculpture Park, Hong Kong Arts Centre (HKAC), Central and Western District Promenade & Wan Chai, Hong Kong
  Altering Home, 21^st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
  Xijing Men, Dismantling the Scaffold, Tak Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong
  Irony & Idealism, Kunsthalle Münster, Münster, Germany
  
  2017    
  Xijing Men, Culture City of East Asia 2017 Kyoto: Contemporary Art Exhibition, Nijo Castle (Nijojo), Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan
  The 1st Oku-Noto Triennale, Suzu City, Japan
  Xijing Men, Theater of the World, Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
  Irony & Idealism, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
  Imaginative Geography: Intersecting Contemporary Art of Asia and Everyday Traditions of Europe and the Mediterranean, Space 4, ACC Creation, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
  
  2016    
  Alice in Crisis, DIO HORIA Contemporary Art Platform, Mykonos, Greece
  The 3rd Nanjing International Arts Festival "HISTORICODE: Scarcity and Supply", Nanjing Bai Jia Lake Art Museum, Nanjing, China
  As the Moon Waxes and Wanes, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  
  2015    
  Space life, Ilmin Museum, Seoul, Korea
  
  2014    
  Zeitgeist Korea, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea Ebisu International Festival Art and Alternative Visions 2014: True Colors, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
  Utopian days x Freedom, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  K-P.O.P., Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei(MOCATP), Taipei, Taiwan
  The 5th Yokohama Triennale 2014, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
  Koganecho Bazaar 2014: Fictive Communities Asia, Koganecho Bazaar, Yokohama, Japan
  Future Fictions, Z33 Kunstencentrum (Art Museum Z33), Hasselt, Belgium
  
  2013   
  Better Than Universe, Daegu Art Factory, Daegu, Korea
  All You Need is LOVE, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
  Festival Bo:m 2013, Arthouse MOMO, Seoul, Korea
  New START 2013, Museum of Art Seoul National University MoA, Seoul, Korea
  Korean Art: Era of Grand Navigation, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
  ZIZHIQU-Autonomous Regions, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
  SITE: Places of Memories, Spaces with Potential, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
  
  2012    
  APT7 – The 7^th Asia Pacific Triennale of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia
  Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
  Roundtable, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
  Artist of the Year 2012, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  Lady Dior As Seen By, Wako Namiki Building in Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
  International Expo, Wumin Art Center, Cheong-ju, Korea
  Oriental Metaphor – The 6^th Move on Asia, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, Korea
  
  2011    
  Abstract it!, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Deoksugung, Seoul, Korea
  The Global Contemporary Art Worlds After 1989, ZKM, Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
  COUNTDOWN, Former Seoul Station Art Complex Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
  LOL: A Decade of Antic Art, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, US
  
  2010    
  Tricksters Tricked, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
  Trust: Media City Seoul 2010, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Memories of the Future, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Oblique Strategies, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Aichi Triennale 2010: Arts and Cities, Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya, Japan
  Asian Arts Collection, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto CAMK, Kumamoto, Japan
  Media Art from NMCA Collection , National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Linguistic Morphology: Art in Context, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Day of Confidence, Alternative Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
  
  2009    
  The 10th Lyon Biennale: The spectacle of the Everyday, The Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
  The 4^th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale: Live and Let Live-Creators of Tomorrow, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
  Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea, MFAH(Museum of Fine Arts, Houston), Houston, US
  
  2008    
  Laughing in a Foreign Language, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
  Too Early For Vacation, The Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
  Brave New Worlds, Fundacion/Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
  Peppermint Candy, Museo Nacional De Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  The 3^rd Guangzhou Triennial: Farewell to Post-Colonialism, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
  The 3^rd Nanjing Triennial: Reflective Asia, RCM The Museum of Modern Art, Nanjing, China
  Fiction and Non Fiction, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Platform 2008: I have nothing to say and I am saying it, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  The Fifth Floor, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
  
  2007    
  VIDEO in SEOUL, MIROSPACE, Seoul, Korea
  Elastic Taboos, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Italy
  All about Laughter : Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
  Somewhere in Time, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea
  ART 38 Basel / Art Film, Stadtkino Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  Charge Your Imagination, Gyunggido Museum of Art, Ansan, Korea
  Soft Power, Hoam Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  The 10^th International Istanbul Biennial-Not Only Possible, But Also Necessary, Istanbul, Turkey
  Peppermint Candy, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chille
  Beautiful New World: Contemporary Culture from Japan, Long March Space, Beijing, China
  Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
  Tomorrow, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea
  Activating Korea: Tides of Collective Action, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
  The 2^nd APAP: Anyang Public Art Project 2007, Anyang, Korea
  Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture of Japan, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
  
  2006    
  The 6^th Seoul New Media Festival, Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea
  Alllook same: ArtChinaKoreaJapannext, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
  The 6^th Gwangju Biennale: Fever Variations-Remapping Global Cities, Gwangju, Korea
  Symptoms of Adolescence, Rodin Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Move on Asia 2006, Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea
  
  2005    
  Tirana Biennale: Sweet Taboos, National Gallery of Art, Tirana, Albania
  The 3^rd Valencia Biennale: Thoughts of a fish in deep sea, Convento di Carmen, Valencia, Spain
  The 51^st Venice Biennale, The Korean Pavilion, Venice, Italy
  Seoul: Until Now!, Charlottenborg Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark
  
  2004   
  Contemporary Senses-Zone of Urgency, Villa Zerbi, Reggio Calabria, Italy
  
  2003   
  The 50th Venice Biennale-Dreams and Conflicts, Arsenal, Venice, Italy
  Everyday-Contemporary Art from Asia, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Echigo Tsumari Triennale, Niigata, Japan
  5: Art Sonje Collection Show, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
  
  2002    
  Under Construction, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  Listening to New Voices, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, US
  The 4th Gwangju Biennale: Pause, Gwangju, Korea
  Fantasia-Under Construction, East Art Center, Beijing, China
  ASIANVIBE, Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castello, Castello, Spain
  
  2001  
  Fantasia, Space imA, Seoul, Korea
  My home is yours / Your home is mine, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  
  2000    
  Double Space, Young-Un Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwangju, Korea
  My home is yours / Your home is mine, Rodin Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  New Ventures: Towards a New Millennium, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Taipei Biennial The Sky Is the Limit, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

Selected Awards

• 2003   
  Cite International des Arts, Paris, France
  
  2001   
  P.S.1 International Studio Program, New York, US
  
  1999   
  Mattress Factory Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, US
  
  1999   
  Art/Omi Artists Residency Program, New York, US
  
  1998   
  Ssamzie Studio Program, Seoul, Korea

Selected Public and Private Collections

• Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea
  Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
  Posco Museum, Pohang, Korea
  Le Consortium, Dijon, France
  Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), US
  National Museum of Contemporary Art (MMCA), Korea
  National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
  Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
  Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), Seoul, Korea
  Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
  Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, US
  21^st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
  ArtNow International, San Francisco, US
  Kadist Foundation, San Francisco, US & Paris, France