Park Chan-kyong

• Born in 1965, Seoul, Korea
  Lives and works in Seoul, Korea

Education

• 1995     MFA in Photography, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, US
  1988     BFA in Painting, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2023
  Park Chan-kyong: Gathering, Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, Washington DC, US
  
  2019
  MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2019: Park Chan-kyong – Gathering, MMCA Seoul, Seoul, Korea
  
  2018    
  Citizen’s Forest, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, US
  PARKing CHANce, CCK, Centro Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires, Argentina (with Park Chan-wook)*
  PARKing CHANce 2010-2018, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea (with Park Chan-wook)*
  
  2017    
  安寧 Farewell, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2016  
  Park Chan-kyong, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, US
  
  2015    
  Pa-Gyong: Last Sutra Recitation, Iniva, London, UK
  
  2012    
  Natacha Nisic & Park Chan-Kyong, Atelier Hermès, Seoul, Korea
  
  2010    
  Radiance, PKM Gallery | Bartleby Bickle & Meursault, Seoul, Korea
  Brinkmanship, REDCAT, Los Angeles, US (with Sean Snyder)*
  
  2008    
  Sindoan, Atelier Hermès, Seoul, Korea
  A Mountain, Gallery Soso, Paju, Korea
  
  2005    
  Flying, Ssamzie Art Space, Seoul, Korea
  
  2003    
  Koreans Who Went to Germany, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
  
  2002    
  Sets, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
  Sets, rraum02, Frankfurt, Germany
  
  1997    
  Black Box: Memory of the Cold War Images, Kumho Museum, Seoul, Korea
   
  *asterisk denotes two-person show

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2022
  Checkpoint. Border Views from Korea, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
  Off the Page, Daejeon Art Center, Korea
  
  2021 
  Margins of Error, Nirox Sculpture Park, Krugersdorp, South Africa
  
  2020
  We Never Sleep, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  Negotiating Borders, Fondation FIMINCO, Paris, France
  Yokohama Triennale 2020 Afterglow, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
  The 60^th Anniversary Exhibition of 3.15 Movement: Rewriting the poetry, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon, Korea
  
  2019    
  2019 Asian Art Biennial: The Strangers from beyond the Mountain and the Sea, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
  Aichi Triennale 2019: Taming Y/Our Passion, Aichi Arts Center/Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan 
  2019 Pool Rising, Art Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
  
  2018    
  24th Busan International Film Festival, Busan, Korea
  Rituals of Signs and Metamorphoses “仪礼·兆与易”, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China
  The German Library Pyongyang (Project by Sara Sejin Chang), Kuandu Biennial, Taipei, Taiwan
  Making Time, Galleria Poggiali, Florence, Italy
  DMZ PEACE PROJECT, Camp Greaves, Paju, Korea
  Paradoxa, Art from Middle Korea, Casa Cavazzini, Udine, Italy
  在集结 Assembling, K11 Shenyang, Shenyang, China
  Collection Highlights: Synchronic Moments, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  体 Modern Images of the Body from East Asia, Smith College Museum of Art, Massachusetts, US
  Mise-en-Scène: A History of Images, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2017   
  Ghosts and Spectres – Shadows of History, NTU CCA Singapore, Singapore
  Performing History, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  Citizen’s Forest, Art Basel Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland
  Highlight: Cartier Collection, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  2 or 3 Tigers, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
  
  2016   
  Anyang Public Art Project 5, Anyang Art Center, Anyang, Korea
  The 10^th Taipei Biennale, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan 
  Art in Society - Land of Happiness, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  The Time is Out of Joint, Asia Culture Center – Theater, Gwangju, Korea
  As the Moon Waxes and Wanes, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  
  2015    
  The 70^th Anniversary of Liberation Day NK PROJECT, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  The Young and The Restless, Common Center, Seoul, Korea
  
  2013    
  ANIMISM, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Buk-Seoul Museum of Art Inaugural Exhibition Part Ⅱ from SeMA Collection #2_NEW SCENES, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Real DMZ Project: From the North, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea
  
  2012    
  Korean Film Festival DC 2012, Freer l Sackler, The Smithsonian’s Museums of Asian Art, Washington DC, US
  Crossroads + Asian Gothic, Festival Bom, Seoul, Korea
  
  2011    
  Countdown, Culture Station Seoul 284 (former Seoul Station), Seoul, Korea
  Second Worlds, Steirischer Herbst Festival 2011, Austria
  Image Clash: Contemporary Korean Video Art, CU Art Museum, Colorado, US
  Tell me Tell me: Australian and Korean Contemporary Art 1976-2011, National Art School Gallery, Sydney; National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Seoul, Korea
  Korean Rhapsody - Crossing the History, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Happy Window, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea
  
  2010    
  Projected Image, Platform 2010, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea
  The Flower on the Snow, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
  The 3rd Anyang Public Art Project [APAP2010], Anyang, Korea
  Discoveries, ShContemporary 10, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China
  Trust, Media City Seoul 2010, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Linguistic Morphology: Art in Context, The Association of East Asian Art and Culture, The Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Random Access, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, Korea
  Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Vision 2010, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
  Oh! Masterpieces: 2009 New Acquisitions Collections, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
  Him of Kyeonggi-do, 2010 Kyeonggi Art Project, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
  
  2009    
  Unconquered: Critical Visions from South Korea, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
  Made in Korea: Leisure, a disguised labor?, Kaufhaus Sinn & Leffers, Hanover, Germany
  7th Festival Signes de Nuit, Paris, France
  Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul (EXIS), Seoul Art Cinema and Indie Space, Seoul, Korea
  Void of Memory, Platform Seoul, Seoul, Korea
  Shared. Divided. United, Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin, Germany
  New Political Art in Korea Since The 1990s: Bad Boys Here and Now, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
  Another Masterpiece: 2008 New Acquisitions, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
  
  2008    
  Shoot Me Film Festival, The Hague, The Netherlands
  Jeonhyanggi: Kim Soo Young 40th Anniversary Retrospective, Alternative Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
  IAS Media Screening, Insa Art Space of Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea
  6th Festival Signes de Nuit, Paris, France
  Still Present Pasts, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2007    
  Seoul: Räume, Menschen, Institute fur Auslandsbezienhungen, Stuttgart and Berlin, Germany
  Fast Break, PKM Gallery Beijing, Beijing, China
  Activating Korea: Tides of Collective Action, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
  International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, International Competition, Oberhausen, Germany
  JNP Production, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
  
  2006    
  Move on Asia, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea; travelled to Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan; Arario Beijing, Beijing, China; Remo, Osaka, Japan; Shanghai Doulun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
  A Tale of Two Cities: Busan-Seoul / Seoul-Busan, 5th Busan Biennale, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
  Fever Variations, The 6th Gwangju Biennale 2006, Gwangju, Korea
  Daegu Photo Biennale, EXCO, Daegu, Korea
  Pyongyang Report: Architecture, Design & People in North Korea, Book House, Paju, Korea
  
  2005    
  Seoul: Until Now!, Charlottenborg Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Critical Society, Badischer Kunstverein. Karlsruhe, Germany
  Parallel Life, Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  Incongruent: Contemporary Art from South Korea, Richard F. Brush Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, US
  DMZ_2005: Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea, Paju, Korea
  
  2004    
  Unplugged Theater, Gallery Bhak, Seoul, Korea
  Hermès Korea Missulsang, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea
  Four Years 2000–2004, Insa Art Space of Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea
  
  2003    
  Facing Korea: Demirrorized Zone, de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Borderline, Kunstverein Schorndorf, Schorndorf, Germany
  Para>Sites, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
  
  2002    
  P_a_u_s_e: Project 3 - Stay of Execution, The 4th Gwangju Biennale 2002, Gwangju, Korea
  Parallel World, K & S Gallery, Berlin, Germany
  Korean Air France, La Vitrine and Glassbox, Paris, France
  
  2001    
  Sunshine: Three Perspectives on North and South Korea, Insa Art Space of Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea
  
  2000    
  Between 0 and 1, media_city seoul 2000, Seoul Museum of Art and 13 subway stations, Seoul, Korea
  Pyongyang, The Subject of Seoul, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  1999    
  The Photograph Looks at Us, Seoul Photo Exhibition 1999, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  1998    
  Seoul and Media: Food, Clothing, Shelter, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Alienation and Assimilation, Museum of Contemporary, Chicago, US
  Gwangju, Finding Way from the Mirror, Songwon Gallery, Gwangju, Korea
  
  1996    
  Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Yamagata, Japan
  Politics and Art, Boda Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  16th Symposium on Photography: Allan’s Fish Story, Photography Between Discourse and Document, Gratz, Austria
  
  1995    
  Vision of Koreans, San Francisco Cinema Tech, San Francisco, US

Selected Awards

• 2014    
  Fasken Martineau Best Feature Film or Video Award for Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
  New Vision Award for Muju Film Festival, Muju, Korea
  
  2012    
  Intelligence award for 7th A-Awards, Seoul, Korea
  Best Motion Picture (NOVES VISIONS) for 44th Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival, Sitges, Catalonia, Spain
  
  2011  
  Silver prize (Film Craft) for Spikes Asia Advertising Festival, Singapore
  Golden Bear for the Best Short Film, 61st Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
  Grand Prize for a Korean Feature Film, 12st Jeonju International Film Festival, Jeonju, Korea
  
  2010    
  Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea
  
  2007    
  Tokyo Wonder Site Residency Program, Tokyo, Japan
  
  2005    
  Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea
  
  2004    
  Hermès Korea Missulsang, Seoul, Korea
  
  2002    
  Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
  
  2001    
  Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea

Selected Public and Private Collections

• Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
  Daejeon Museum of Art, Korea
  Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
  Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France
  Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
  Kadist, Paris, France & San Francisco, US
  Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  LACMA, Los Angeles, US
  Maeil Dairies, Korea
  Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes, France
  M+, Hong Kong
  National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
  Ulsan Art Museum, Korea
  Seoul Museum of Art, Korea
  Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, US
  Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US