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Nationality: South Korea
Born 1979 in Korea
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Education
PhD, Sculpture, Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea
MFA, Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, UK
MFA, Sculpture, Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea
BFA, Sculpture, Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea
Awards & Residencies
2014 Artist-in-Residence, Goyang Art Studio (10th Programme), MMCA
2009 Selected Artist, NArT Young Artist Support Programme, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
2008–09 Artist-in-Residence, SeMA Nanji Residency (3rd Programme), Seoul Museum of Art
2008 Selected Artist, Emerging Artist Debut Programme, Arts Council Korea
2007 POSCO Steel Art Award, POSCO TJ Park Foundation
Exhibitions
Solo2024 Records of Boundaries — YZHQ
2023 The Web of Time — Art Space Hohwa
2023 Sensing Light, Experiencing Structure — Artcode Gallery
2022 FOCUS — Galerie LeRoyer, Canada
2022 Ambiguous Wall — Gallery Hidden Space; Choi Jung Ah Gallery
2021 Wall of Imagination — Print Bakery, The Hyundai Seoul
2020 Ambiguous Wall – Eidos — Gana Gallery Hannam
2019 Ambiguous Wall — Print Bakery Samcheong
2017 Ambiguous Wall — Choi Jung Ah Gallery; 63 Sky Art Museum
2016 The Paradox of Space — Gallery Bundo, Daegu
2015 Ambiguous Wall – The Marriage of In and Out — Gallery Huue, Singapore
2014 BYUNGJOO KIM — Coohaus Art, New York, USA
2014 Familiar Scene — PYO Gallery South
2013 From the Spot — TV12 Gallery
2012 Twofold Line — Salon de H
2010 Enumerated Void — Noam Gallery
2009 Ambiguous Wall — Kunstraum Gallery
Group & Art Fairs
2026 Invisible Structure: About Lines and Planes — Gallery Seorin Space
2026 Material / Immaterial — Gimpo International Sculpture Park Art Hall
2026 Galleries Art Fair — Gallery Joeun; BAMA Busan International Art Fair — Gallery Seorin Space
2025 A Sunlit Stream of Life — Seoul Museum of Art / Yangcheon Cultural Center
2025 Steel Scape — Gallery IAM
2024 TEXTURES — Galerie LeRoyer, Canada
2024 See Through — Lina Gallery, Busan
2022 ART MIAMI — Miami, USA
2021 ART MIAMI — Miami, USA
2021 Colourful Power — Cheongju Museum of Art
2021 Perspectives on Contemporary Art — Yangpyeong Art Museum
2019 ART Central — Hong Kong
2019 Seoul Sansu Art Wall Project — Seoul City Hall
2018 Art Busan — Busan, South Korea
2017 LA Art Show — Los Angeles Convention Center, USA
2017 Anti-Art Museum Show — K Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
2016 Contemporary Art at Deoksugung Palace — Deoksugung Palace, Seoul
2015 Touching Moments in Macau Through Artists’ Perspectives — Insa Art Center
2014 Art Miami CONTEXT — Miami, USA
2014 Affordable Art Fair — Singapore
2014 SOLIPSISMOS — ETHRA Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
2014 WOW Art Show — Crossing 360 Gallery, New York, USA
2014 100 Young Artists — SZ Art Center, Beijing, China
2014 20th Contemporary Art Japan & Korea — Kubota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2014 INTRO — National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
2014 Young Revolution — Ion Art Gallery, Singapore
2013 The Sounds of Korea — Embassy of the Republic of Korea, Beijing, China
2013 Near and Dear Objects — Art On, Singapore
2013 KIAF Korea International Art Fair — COEX, Seoul
2013 Korean Art Show — Houston, USA
2013 Variations on Canon — Coohaus Art, New York, USA
2013 Affordable Art Fair — Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, USA
2012 Parentheses: Records of Space — Hongik Museum of Contemporary Art
2011 Multiple Sensations — Savina Museum of Contemporary Art
2010 Meditation on Technology: The Alchemy of Iron — Pohang Museum of Steel Art
2009 KOREA TOMORROW — SETEC, Seoul
Selected public & institutional collections
Incheon International Airport, Terminal 2 | Iksan National Museum
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Art Bank
Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) | Pohang Museum of Steel Art
Yeongdeungpo Market Station, Seoul Subway Line 5
Imperial Palace Hotel | Federation of Korean Industries
Lotte Hotel | Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK)
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My artistic practice explores the role of the grid in forming architectural and semi-architectural structures, and the ambiguity of boundaries that emerges from them. Through this exploration, I investigate shifts in how space is perceived and understood, as well as the process of embedding temporality within the three-dimensional qualities of empty space.
The Ambiguous Wall relief series compresses three-dimensional structures into a two-dimensional visual experience, creating a new dimension of space. These structures possess width and height, yet lack a corresponding sense of volume. As spaces overlap and intersect, new spatial relationships emerge. The grid, in which the distinction between inside and outside becomes blurred, simultaneously separates and connects interior and exterior spaces. In this way, the grid both establishes and dissolves boundaries.
Unlike my earlier relief works, whose forms could be immediately perceived against their rectangular backgrounds, the Ambiguous Wall – Symmetry series is enlarged in scale and installed directly onto the exhibition walls. To fully comprehend the work's form, viewers must adjust their physical distance from it.
As viewers move, the grid is continuously reconfigured through their shifting perspectives. Time and memory permeate these changing spatial relationships, evoking traces of the past and their reconstruction in the present. This process invites viewers to reflect upon their individual identities and memories. Through the architectural qualities of the grid, each passing moment becomes embedded in an ambiguous space that continually transforms in relation to the void.
The empty spaces generated by the grid, the temporality embedded within these negative spaces, and the overlapping layers of time that unfold through the act of viewing all converge into moments of apparent stillness. These moments become sites of unfolding meaning and expressions of continuity, where multiple layers of experience endure beyond the fleeting present.
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