Artist CV

BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1980, Seoul, South Korea
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

EDUCATION
1998 Sunhwa Arts High School, Seoul
2003 B.F.A. in Oriental Painting, Graduate School of Education, Korea University, Seoul
2008–2012 Diploma, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, Germany
      Studied under Prof. Neo Rauch and Prof. Heribert C. Ottersbach

SCHOLARSHIPS
2008–2010 DAAD Scholarship (German Academic Exchange Service)

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2025 International Summer Studio and Artist Residency Grant, Aschersleben, Germany

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Paradise Lost: Works from the PARKSEOBO Foundation Collection, PARKSEOBO Foundation, Seoul
2024 Fragmented Eden, Galerie FWR | FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph, Berlin
   The House of Wonder, Steinhauser Gallery, Bratislava
2023 The Moon Rising in the East, Thisweekendroom, Seoul
2022 The Moon Palace_digital version, Mium Project Space, Seoul
   Voyage into the Sun, Lætitia Gorsy Gallery She BAM!, Leipzig
2021 The Moon Palace, Zoya Gallery, Bratislava (organized by Prime Cut Contemporary Culture)
2020 Guardians of Cabinets, Asia Contemporary Art Platform NON Berlin, Berlin
2018 Collector’s Room, UNC Gallery, Seoul
2014 Enigmatic Strangers, UBIK Space, Vienna
2007 Between the Bars – ‘JAY & JINA’, Alternativ Space LOOP-PlatformL, Seoul

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Nature is Imagination Itself, Vila Háj, Czech Republic
   You & Me, Galerie FWR | FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph, Berlin
2024 Budapest Contemporary, curated by Marton Nemes, Budapest, Hungary
   Pixel Ground, Koo House Museum, Seoul
   Mixtape 2024, Galerie FWR | FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph, Berlin
2023 West Bund Art & Design 2023, Thisweekendroom × Kiche, Shanghai
   ...and quietly the night arrives, Zoya Museum, Bratislava
   About Water & Plants, Troy House, London
   FEMME F(R)ICTION, presented by C1760, Academy Mansion, New York
   Art Busan, presented by Thisweekendroom, Busan
2022 Über Wasser und Pflanzen, Kunsthalle Rostock, Germany
   Art Busan (solo), presented by Mium Project Space, Busan
   Becoming: Third Wave Berlin Art, McLaughlin Gallery, Berlin
2021 Piercing the Divide: Artifacts and New Stories, Virtual Viewing Room on Artsy, Honey Pump, New York
   Goodbye, Sarotti, Soft Power, Berlin
   tHP: Beacon, presented by The Honey Pump, Satellite Art Club, New York
2019 Union Artfair, S Factory, Seoul
   Art Central Hong Kong, presented by UNC Gallery, Central Harbourfront, Hong Kong
2018 Union Artfair – Let’s Make Together, S Factory, Seoul
2017 From Time to Time, Art von Frei, Berlin
2016 Liaison, Uferhallen, Berlin
   Caught Being Good, Art von Frei, Berlin
   Union Artfair, Blue Square – Nemo Gallery, Seoul
2015 (in) Between, PLATEAU at Greenhouse Berlin
   Journey from Ordinary to Extraordinary, Travel Overland, Berlin
2014 Move On, Lee Gallery, Berlin
   NordArt 2014, Kunstwerk Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf
2012 EB Dietzsch Kunstpreis für Malerei, Geraer Bank, Gera
2011 Mehr als nur ein Schuss, Beck & Eggeling Gallery, Düsseldorf
2007 007 Icon-nection, AMORE Gallery, Seoul
2005 Sewha Gyunmunrok: Reinterpreting Heritage – 16 Contemporary Visions, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul

PUBLICATION

2025  Interview/contribution in “Face: the Berlin Art Scene”, Dale Grant, Kerber Verlag, Germany

          “Public Art New Hero”, Public Art Magazine, May Issue, South Korea

2023 Cover and feature article, Monthly Art Magazine, August Issue, South Korea

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
2024 PARKSEOBO Foundation, Seoul
2021 Zoya Museum, Slovakia