STATEMENT
BIOGRAPHY
BFA in Sculpture, College of Fine Arts, Chung-Ang University, Seoul (1997)
MFA in Sculpture, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Chung-Ang University, Seoul (2002)
2025 Unnamed: Below (無名-下), ARTSPACE 3, Seoul
2024 Lumière (智智), THE PAGE Gallery, Seoul
2023 Contain & Stay (含·處), THE PAGE Gallery, Seoul
2022 Unnamed: Position of the Spirit (無名-精神의 位置), ARTSPACE 3, Seoul
2020 Unnamed (無名), ARTSPACE 3, Seoul
2018 Unnamed (無名), ARTSPACE 3, Seoul
2018 Subtle Words, Profound Meaning (微言大意) – Two-person show with Lee Kun-Yong, THE PAGE Gallery, Seoul
2017 Two Sides of Landscape, with Lim Dong-Seung, nook Gallery, Seoul
2016 The Depth of Surface – Artist of the Year, Kim Chong Yung Museum, Seoul
2016 Plant-Perceptual Thought, Artbn, Seoul
2014 Plant-Perceptual Thought, Gallery 3, Seoul
2013 TOPOPHILIA: The Poetics of Space – with Baek Soon-Sil, Baek Soon-Sil Museum, Heyri, Gyeonggi
2011 Plant-Perceptual Thought, ISF, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
2010 The Depth of Surface, Hyundai 16th Street Gallery, Seoul
2009 Plant-Perceptual Thought: Perception·Silence·Life·Light, Kim Chong Yung Museum, Seoul
2008 Jeomsoo’s Photo Studio, Alternative Space Noon, Suwon
2004 Cell in Temperature, SPACE CELLC, Seoul
2001 Temperature, Gallery Boda, Seoul
2025 Day and Night at the Park, SOMA Museum of Art, Seoul
2024 Thoughts on Thickness (Theme Artist), Rossana Oriandi, Milan, Italy
2023 Contemporary Furniture Show, ARTSPACE 3, Seoul
2021 The Sound of Blue Glass Beads, Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul
2019 Yeosu International Art Festival – More Less Much More, Jeonnam
2019 Home, Jang Ucchin Museum of Art, Gyeonggi
2018 Traces of Time in Wood, 63 Building Art Museum, Seoul
2017 Encountering Trees, Blum & Poe Museum, Heyri, Gyeonggi
2016 New Drawing Exhibition, Jang Ucchin Museum of Art, Gyeonggi
2016 Arrangement and Disorder, Artspace H, Seoul
2015 The Boundaries and Expansion of Korean Painting, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul
2014 Daegu Contemporary Art Festival, Daegu
2014 Metal Work–Today, Kim Chong Yung Museum, Seoul
2014 Modernity Revisited: Modern Technologies at Work, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul
2013 Encounter (遭遇), Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju
2011 Strange Times, Familiar Spaces, Interalia, Seoul
2010 Special Edition, Hyundai 16th Street Gallery, Seoul
2010 The Power of Gyeonggi-do, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Gyeonggi
2009 Travel, Life, Art, Alternative Space Noon, Suwon
2016 Artist of the Year, Kim Chong Yung Museum
2009 Public Art Project, DMC Symbolic Art Commission, Seoul
2008–2009 Residency, Jangheung Sculpture Atelier (1st Cohort)
2003 Sung-Eun Cultural Foundation Grant (Solo Exhibition)
1998 Grand Prize (3-Persons), Youth Art Festival
1997 New Frontier Award (Grand Prize)
Yeoju City: Sculpture (3.5m)
Jang Ucchin Museum of Art: Exterior Installations (6m human figure, 3.5m)
Pohang Cultural Foundation: From the Plants (4m)
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) Art Bank
Sangam DMC: Millennium Eye – collaborative public artwork (Height: 24m, Width: 30m, with 2 other artists)
Namyangju History Museum: Exhibition space design and installation
2013 Switzerland, Italy, China, Japan
2009 Nepal
2008 China, Central Asia, Turkey
2007 Europe, Mongolia, Russia (Trans-Siberian Railway), North & West Africa
2006 East & North Africa
2005 South & North Africa
1998 China overland (China–Pakistan–Thailand)