Kyungah Ham

• Born in 1966, Seoul, Korea
  Lives and works in Seoul, Korea

Education

• 1995     MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, US
  1992     MFA Candidate, Pratt Institute, New York, US
  1989     BFA, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2019    
  Abstract, Poetry Weapon / Soccer Paintings by soccer ball bouncing over Crocodile River, Carlier Gebauer, Madrid, Spain
  
  2018    
  Ham Kyungah, Pace Gallery, Hong Kong, China
  
  2017    
  Kyungah Ham, Carlier Gebauer Gallery, Berlin, Germany
  
  2015    
  Phantom Footsteps, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2009    
  Desire and Anesthesia, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
  
  2008    
  Such Game, SSamzie Space, Seoul, Korea
  
  1999    
  Room with a View, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, Korea
  Paused-little Paused Room, Container Gallery of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2023
  Ordinary People, Splendid History, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon, Korea
  The Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US
  Negotiating Borders, The Korean Cultural Center Canada, Ottawa, Canada
  DMZ Exhibition: Checkpoint, Dora Observatory, Camp Greaves, Imjingak Peace Nuri, Paju, Korea; Yonkang Gallery, Gyeongwonseon Art Museum, Yeoncheon, Korea
  BULGARI SERPENTI 75 YEARS OF INFINITE TALES, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2022
  Hallyu! The Korean Wave, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
  Art Delivery, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Cheongju, Korea
  Patterning. Pop and Politics in Contemporary Textile Art, Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Ravensburg, Germany
  Checkpoint. Border Views from Korea, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
  The Brilliant Days, Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan, Korea
  Omniverse, Museum San, Wonju, Korea
  
  2021
  Margins of Error, Nirox Sculpture Park, Krugersdorp, South Africa
  Active Threads, KAI 10 | ARTHENA FOUNDATION, Düsseldorf, Germany
  Border Crossings - North and South Korean Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland 
  
  2020    
  Examination of a case, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany 
  Ståhl Collection, Norrköping, Sweden
  We Do Not Dream Alone – Asia Society Triennial, Asia Society Museum, New York, US
  Negotiating Borders, Centre Culturel Coréen/ Fondation FIMINCO, Paris, France
  Basel By Berlin, Carlier Gebauer Gallery, Berlin, Germany
  Collecting for All, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Unconstrained Textiles: Stitching Methods, Crossing Ideas, Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile (CHAT), Hong Kong, China
  
  2019   
  Korean Video Art from 1970s to 1990s: Time Image Apparatus, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  The Square: Art and Society in Korea 1900-2019, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  The Real DMZ Project: Negotiating Borders, Korean Cultural Centre UK, London, UK
  DMZ, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
  52 ARTISTS 52 ACTIONS, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
  
  2018    
  Edge of the Wonderland, Thailand Biennale, Krabi, Thailand
  Paradoxa, Art from Middle Korea, Casa Cavazzini, Udine, Italy
  Mobile Worlds, MKG Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany
  52 Artists 52 Actions, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
  The Real DMZ, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK
  
  2017    
  Culture City of East Asia 2017 Kyoto: Asia Corridor Contemporary Art Exhibition, Kyoto Art Center & Nijo Castle, Kyoto, Japan
  The Timeshare Project: Kunsthal Aarhus 100 Years, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
  Rediscovery of Colors, Museum SAN, Wonju, Korea
  Material Connections, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York, US
  
  2016   
  Korea Artist Prize 2016, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea  
  Gestures and Archives of the Present, Genealogies of the Future, the 10^th Taipei Biennale, Taipei, Taiwan
  Suzhou Documents, Suzhou Art Museum and Suzhou Industrial Park, Jiangsu, China
  Encounters, Hong Kong Art Basel, Hong Kong
  As the Moon Waxes and Wanes, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea  
  Art in Society - Land of Happiness, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2015    
  Asia Time, the 1st Asian Biennale and the 5th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
  Séoul vite, vite!, Lille 3000, Lille, France
  East Asia Feminism: FANTasia, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  The sounds of Things: Materiality in Contemporary Korean Art Since the 1970s, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Uploarious, Heated, Inundated, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Everyone's Table, Pohang Museum of Art, Pohang, Korea
  
  2014    
  King Sejong the Great Opens the Age of Hangeul Culture, National Hangeul Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Beyond and Between, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2013
  Transfer Korea-NRW, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf & Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  Opening Collection Exhibition, Buk Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  2013 Peace Art Project, Baengnyeong-do, Korea
  
  2012    
  Garden of Learning, Busan Biennial 2012, Busan, Korea
  The Unseen, the 4^th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
  The Unexpected Guest, the 7^th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
  Video Screening in conjunction with Scramble for the Past, SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey
  Art Project 2012: Communion in conjunction with Nuclear Security Summit Seoul 2012, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
  Artist on the Road, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
  Move on Asia, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, Korea
  In the Loop, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, Korea
  Aesthetics of Table Setting, Ewha Womans University Museum, Seoul, Korea
  
  2011    
  Asia Pacific Breweries Signature Art Prize Finalist Exhibition, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
  Open House, the 3^rd Singapore Biennial, Singapore
  The 7^th Tournai International Triennial, Tournai, Belgium
  Move on Asia, Casa Asia, Barcelona, Spain
  
  2010    
  Hyper Real, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
  Tourist's Dream (Video Screening), Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA), London, UK
  The Multicultural in Our Time, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France; Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
  
  2009    
  The 6^th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
  Prague Biennale 4, Prague, Czech Republic
  Made in Korea: Leisure, a Disguised Labor?, Kaufhaus Sinn Leffers, Hanover, Germany
  Bad Boys, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
  Another Masterpieces, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea    
  
  2008    
  Correspondence, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
  Fiction and Non Fiction, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  New Acquisitions: Collection Reconstructed, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
  Melbourne Art Fair 2008 Project Rooms, Melbourne, Australia
  B-Side, do ART Seoul, Seoul, Korea
  
  2007    
  Zain-Marie’s Story, Space C Koreana Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Speak Unspeakable: Artist International Forum, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, Korea
  Story Factory, Packed-Unpacked Series, SSamzie Art Warehouse, Paju, Korea
  Naked Life, Taipei MOCA, Taipei, Taiwan
  Move on Asia, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo, Japan; Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, Korea
  
  2006    
  Fever Variations, the 6th Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju, Korea
  Pictures Become Postage, Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS), Seoul, Korea
  EMAP, Nam June Paik and Video Artists, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
  Project 001, Yeonheedong195, Seoul, Korea
  
  2005    
  Enclosed: International Media Screening Show, British Museum, London, UK
  Seoul: Until Now!, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark
  DMZ_2005, Paju, Korea
  
  2004    
  Absent Voice, Korean Cultural Center, New York, US
  Report from Uncanny City, AIT Residency Open Studio, Tokyo, Japan
  Daily Life of Artists, +Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
  Packed/Unpacked, the 1st SSamzie Collection Exhibition, SSamzie Art Warehouse, Paju, Korea
  
  2003    
  Cross2003: Korea/Hawaii, University of Hawaii Gallery, Hawaii, US
  Hui No'eau, Visual Arts Center, Maui, Hawaii, US
  Text & Subtext, Artspace, Sidney, Australia; Stenersen Museet, Oslo, Norway; Tasiatiska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Taipei MOCA, Taipei, Taiwan; Xray Art Center, Beijing China; Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore (2000-2003)
  Image of Asia, Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Discovery of New Perspective of Seoul Lives, SSamzie space, Seoul, Korea
  
  2002    
  Money and Value – The Last Taboo, Swiss National Expo’02, Artplage Biel, Pavillion der Schweizerishen National bank, Switzerland
  Pause, the 4th Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju, Korea
  Au Quartier Coreen, Le lieu Unique, Nantes, France
  Korean Air France, Glassbox, Paris, France  
  Project Romance Day/Public Event, Maronie Park, Seoul, Korea
  Coming to Our House, Space Zip, Seoul, Korea
  
  2001    
  Mega-Wave, the 1^st Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan
  Escape, the 1st Tirana Biennale, Tirana, Albania
  Suit Case Studies, 1A Space, Hong Kong
  Photography & Contemporary Art, Seoul Auction House, Seoul, Korea
  Emerging Art Biennial, Daegu Culture and Arts Center, Daegu, Korea
  Organized Relay Relay: Mail Art Drawing Exhibition, Insa Art Space, Seoul, Korea
  
  2000    
  Transmission, SSamzie Space, Seoul, Korea
  Room to Go, SSamzie Space, Seoul, Korea

Selected Awards

• 2013    
  Transfer Korea-NRW Residency, Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany
  
  2011    
  Asia Pacific Breweries Signature Art Prize Finalist, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
  
  2008    
  Rockefeller Bellagio Creative Arts Fellowship, New York, US
  MMCA Residency Changdong, Seoul, Korea
  Gyeonggi Creation Center Pilot Program, Gyeonggi, Korea
  
  2007    
  The Korean Culture & Arts Foundation Fellowship, Seoul, Korea
  
  2004    
  Couvent des Recollets grant by Ministry of French Foreign Affairs and City of Paris, Paris, France
  Art Initiative Tokyo Residency, Tokyo, Japan
  Ilmin Museum Fellowship, Seoul, Korea
  
  2003    
  Freemann Foundation Fellowship Residency, University of Hawaii, Hawaii, US
  
  2001-02          
  The Korean Culture & Arts Foundation Fellowship, Seoul, Korea
  
  2001
  Ilju Art House Fellowship, Seoul, Korea
  
  2000
  SSamzie Space, Seoul Korea

Selected Public and Private Collections

• Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
  Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
  Kim Sun Jung Collection, Seoul, Korea
  Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Maeil Dairies, Korea
  National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Art Bank, Seoul, Korea
  SSamzie Collection, Seoul, Korea
  Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Ståhl Collection, Norrköping, Sweden
  UBS Collection
  Uli Sigg Collection, Switzerland
  Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK