Jae-Eun Choi

• Born in 1953, Seoul, Korea
  Lives in Kyoto

Education

• 1984-87    Studied Ikebana and Fashion Design
                  Assistant to Hiroshi Teshigahara
  1980         Sogetsu School, Tokyo, Japan

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2025
  Jae-Eun Choi: Nature Rules, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2024
  Horizon of the Unanswered, Misa Shin Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  
  2023
  La Vita Nuova, Ginza Maison Hermès Le Forum, Tokyo, Japan
  
  2022
  The Oldest Story of Today..., Misa Shin Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  
  2019       
  The Nature Rules: Dreaming of Earth Project, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
  
  2017       
  Paper Poem, Misa Shin Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  
  2014       
  The House that Continuously Circulates, National Gallery Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
  
  2012      
   -verse, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2010      
  Jae-Eun Choi – Forests of Aśoka, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
  
  2007      
  Lucy and Her Time, Rodin Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1993      
  Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1991      
  Galeria Milano, Milano, Italy
  Gallery Ueda SC, Tokyo, Japan
  Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan
  
  1990       
  Kyong-Dong Presbyterian Church, Seoul, Korea
  Duson Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  1989       
  Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan
  
  1988     
  Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, Japan
  
  1987       
  Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, Japan
  
  1985      
  The Sogetsu Plaza, Tokyo, Japan
  
  1984       
  The Sogetsu Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2024
  Connecting Bodies: Asian Women Artists, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  2024 Bulgari Serpenti Infinite Tale, Serpenti Factory, Beijing, China
  
  2023
  In Its Own Shadow, Arter, Istanbul, Turkey
  BULGARI SERPENTI 75 YEARS OF INFINITE TALES, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2022
  My Sleep, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
  
  2021
  2021 DMZ Art & Peace Platform, UniMARU, Jejin Station, Paju, South Korea
  
  2020
  Drawings, Misa Shin Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  
  2019
  on sculpture - between line and figure, Misa Shin Gallery, Tokyo, Japan      
  DMZ, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
  
  2018       
  Jae-eun Choi, Shingo Francis, Iba Yasuko, Ikezoe Akira, Maeda Saki, Misa Shin Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  
  2016       
  Public to Private: Photography in Korean Art since 1989, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  The 15th Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy
  
  2015        
  Probebühne (Experimental Stage) 7, Humboldt Lab Dahlem, Berlin, Germany
  
  2014       
  Real DMZ project 2014, The border area near the DMZ, Gangwon-do, Korea
  
  2013        
  The Unanswered question. Iskele2, Tanas and n.b.k, Berlin, Germany
  
  2012     
  The 7th Seoul International Media Art Biennale (Mediacity Seoul 2012), Seoul Museum of Art & DMC Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2008        
  Platform Seoul 2008: I have nothing to say and I am saying it, Seoul Station Old Building, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
  International Triennale of Contemporary Art (ITCA) 2008, National Gallery Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
  
  2002        
  The New Way of Tea, Japan Society, New York, US
  
  1999       
  The New Wind of Asia, The Sogetsu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
  The 3rd Asia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane, Australia
  
  1995
  The 46th Venice Biennale ’95, Japan Pavilion, Venice, Italy
  The 6th Europa Ostasein Triennial, Stuttgart, Germany
  
  1993        
  Grand Tea Ceremony in Paris, UNESCO, Paris, France
  
  1992        
  Arte Sella, Borgo Valsugana, Italy
  
  1991       
  Opening exhibition, Security Pacific Gallery, Seattle, US
  The 21st São Paulo Biennale, São Paulo, Brazil
  The 2nd Setoda Biennale, Setoda, Japan
  
  1988       
  East Meets West, Los Angeles Art Fair ’88, Los Angeles, US
  
  1987        
  To the Depth, Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan

Selected Projects

• 2015 - present
  Korean Peninsula DMZ ‘Dreaming of Earth’ Project
  
  1996-8
  Seong-Chol priest's tomb project, Haeinsa, Hapcheon, Korea
  
  1992-3
  The Daejon International Expo ‘Recycle Art Pavilion’, Daejon, Korea
  
  1997
  Saitama Shintoshin, Saitama, Japan
  
  1996
  Seaside Momochi Center Stage Aero Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan
  
  1994
  Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
  
  1991
  Nagoya castle ruins, Saga, Japan
  
  1988
  Past-Future, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  
  1986 - present
  World Underground Project (Korea, Japan, US, France, Italy, Germany, Kenya)

Filmography

• 2000     
  On the way, docudrama, 70min

Screenings (Film Festivals)

• 2001
  The 2nd Jeonju International Film Festival 'Asian Indie-Cine Forum,' Jeonju, Korea
  The 54th Locarno International Film Festival 'Filmmakers of the Present,' Locarno, Switzerland
  The 25th Montreal World Film Festival 'Cinema of Tomorrow: New Trends,' Montreal, Canada
  The 14th Tokyo International Women's Film Festival, Tokyo, Japan
  The 21st Hawaii International Film Festival, Honolulu, US

Selected Public and Private Collections

• Art Sonje Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
  Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Museum SAN, Wonju, Korea
  National Gallery Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
  National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Nina Ricci Foundation, Paris, France
  Rahmi M. Koc Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
  Sogetsu Art Center, Tokyo, Japan