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 Study Scholarship for Artists, German Academic Exchange Service

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

2026 Atelier Myeongnyun-dong, CAN Foundation, Seoul

2025 International Summer Studio and Artist Residency Grant, Aschersleben, Germany

SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS

2026 After the Atlas, with Kurt Gebauer, Karpuchina Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

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, Slovakia

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, Germany

2021 The Moon Palace, Zoya Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia (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, Austria

2007 Between the Bars – JAY & JINA, Alternative Space LOOP–PlatformL, Seoul

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & ART FAIRS

2026 Frieze Seoul, presented by ThisWeekendRoom, Seoul

Ostranenie, ThisWeekendRoom, Seoul

ACCESS IS OFF THE BEATEN TRACK, HAB Museum, Budapest, Hungary

2025 Like a Poem She Never Wrote, CHOI&CHOI Gallery, Cologne, Germany

Nature Is Imagination Itself, Vila Háj, Czech Republic

You & Me, Galerie FWR | FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph, Berlin

2024 Budapest Contemporary, curated by Márton Nemes, Budapest, Hungary

Pixel Ground, Koo House Museum, Seoul

Mixtape 2024, Galerie FWR | FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph, Berlin

2023 West Bund Art & Design 2023, ThisWeekendRoom × Kiche, Shanghai, China

...and Quietly the Night Arrives, Zoya Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia

About Water & Plants, Troy House, London, UK

FEMME F(R)ICTION, presented by C1760, Academy Mansion, New York, USA

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, Germany

2012 EB Dietzsch Kunstpreis für Malerei, Geraer Bank, Gera, Germany

2011 Mehr als nur ein Schuss, Beck & Eggeling Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany

2007 007 Icon-nection, AMORE Gallery, Seoul

2005 Sewha Gyunmunrok: Reinterpreting Heritage – 16 Contemporary Visions, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul

PUBLICATIONS & PRESS

2026 Cover, Public Art Magazine, April Issue, South Korea

2025 Interview and contribution, 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, 2025 PARKSEOBO Foundation, Seoul, South Korea

2021 Zoya Museum, Slovakia