Education

2010
M.F.A., Fine Arts, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul, KR

2008
B.F.A., Fine Arts, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul, KR

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023
Copper and Hand, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, KR

2021
Cracker, Cadalogs, Seoul, KR

2019
Nevermore, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, KR

2018
Windswept, DOOSAN Gallery New York, New York, US.

2017
Crack, DOOSAN Gallery, Seoul, KR

2016
A Bit More Darker Forest, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, KR

2015
Darkest Wind, Bonfire and Drum Sound, Shinhan Gallery, Seoul, KR

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022
Jeju Biennale : Flowing Moon, Embracing Land, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, KR
Skins, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, KR
Unboxing Project: Today, New Spring Project, Seoul, KR
Support Sarubia, Project Space Sarubia, Seoul, KR

2021
Songeun Art Award, Songeun, Seoul, KR
Vibrating Forest, Another Shadow, Pageroom8, Seoul, KR
Jeonnam International SUMUK Biennale: Splendor of Monochrome – A New Start for Vivid
Monochrome, Biennale Exhibition Hall 3: Yudal Elementary School (Former Simsang School), Mokpo, KR
Binge-watching; 14284", Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, KR
Though We Dance, Cosmo40, Incheon, KR
Don’t Say a Word, Artspace Hue, Paju, KR
Here, I Live, Seongbuk Young Art Space, Seoul, KR
38˚C, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, KR

2020
Art Plant Asia 2020: Hare Way Object, Deoksugung, Seoul, KR
Changwon Sculpture Biennale Special Exhibition 2: Then There Were Two, Seongsan Art Hall, Changwon, KR
Leaning Drawings, Nook Gallery, Seoul, KR
Dear O, Gallery Ooojh, Seoul, KR
No Space, Just a Place: Eterotopia, Daelim Museum, Seoul, KR

2019
Kahn Parade 2019, Post Territory Ujeongguk, Seoul, KR
The Best World Possible, Platform-L Contemporary Art Center, Seoul, KR
Gothenburg Book Fair – 67 Nights, Swedish Exhibition & Congress Center, Gothenburg, CH
Preview, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, KR
Kumho Young Artist: The 69 Times of Sunrise, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
DMZ, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, KR
Image, Silhouette and Motion, Gyeonggi Museum of Mordern Art, Ansan, KR
The Time of Painting: Selected Artists of Chong Kun Dang Art Awards, Sejong Center, Seoul, KR
Various, Ilwoo space, Seoul, KR

2018
La Foret du Nord, galerie RX, Paris, FR
5th Chong Kun Dang Art Award, Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul, KR

2017
Gwangju media art festival Human X Machine System, Bitgoeul Artspace, Gwangju, KR
B-Cut Drawing, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, KR

2016
WOODCUTTING, Dimensionvariable, Seoul, KR
Unswallowable, DOOSAN Art Center DOOSAN Gallery, Seoul, KR

2015
Face, Portrait, a Sculptured Group, Maison d’Ungno Lee, Hongseong, KR
DigiFun Art: Urban Scape, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
Walking Inner-Scape, Art Apace O, Seoul, KR
Paintings-All the s to the World, Blume Museum of Contemporary Art, Paju, KR
The Universe is Largely Empty, Vanziha, Seoul, KR

2014
Walker of Night, NowHERE, Seoul, KR
Walking, Discovery of Rhythm, AK Gallery, Suwon, KR
Today’s Salon, COMMON CENTER, Seoul, KR
Arko Archive Project 1: New Archive Materials, Arko Art Center Archive, Seoul, KR

2013
Final Report by 2013 Resident Artists of Incheon Art Platform, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, KR
Mind Cloud, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, KR
Off and Free Film Festival(OAF in Focus), Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
Platform Access, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, KR

2012
International Expo 2012, Wumin Art Center, Cheongju, KR
Occupation, Cheongju Art Studio, Cheongju, KR

Residencies

2018
DOOSAN Residency New York, New York, US

2017
SeMA NANJI RESIDENCY, Seoul, KR

2015
Seoul Art Space Geumcheon the 7th Resident Artist, Seoul, KR

2014
Seoul art space-Geumcheon the 6th Resident Artist, Seoul, KR
Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Art Support Program, Seoul, KR

2013
Incheon Art Platform the 4th Resident Artist, Incheon, KR

2012
Cheongju Creative Art Studio, Cheongju, KR

Awards

2016
The 7th DOOSAN Yonkang Arts Awards Visual Art, DOOSAN Yonkang Foundation, Seoul, KR
The 5th Chong Kun Dang Supremacy of Art, Chong Kun Dang, Seoul, KR

Public Collections

Government Art Bank, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, KR
Art Bank, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, KR
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, KR

Jury's Statement

DOOSAN Yonkang Arts Awards has established itself as a competitive sponsor of the next generation of artists and their creative leaps.  The award system focuses on the art practices and annual exhibitions of artists in their thirties who have active careers in both Korea and abroad, and strives to explore innovative and experimental approaches in discovering up-and-coming artists. In keeping up with such commitments, the jury of the 2016 DOOSAN Yonkang Arts Awards Fine Arts Category (Sungwon Kim, Geun-jun Lim, Seonryeong Cho) went through a thorough and in-depth discussion and has selected Heecheon Kim(1989), Gwangsoo Park(1984) and Hoin Lee(1980) as the finalists of the 7th DOOSAN Yonkang Arts Awards this year out of the 9 candidates. There were difficulties in selecting the finalists due to the high level of competency and expectations for the 9 artists recommended by the jury. At last, the jury chose the three artists based on their potential for growth, current art practice, and capability to construct a concrete body of oeuvre.

The penetrative video trilogy presented by Heecheon Kim, only in his late 20s, in the last year successfully won over the jury despite his short exhibition experience compared to other candidates. Drawing analogy between life in his generation to segmented life like an mp3 file, Kim says that when he wants to escape from such life, he backs up the real world in the screen in order to disappear. An Architecture-major, Kim proposes a 'parallel reality' by constructing the life of Seoulites, including himself, backed up in the screen, and by building up another city for them.

Known for black marker drawings and animation, the unique traits of Gwangsoo Park(1984)'s work lies in the "originality of expression and the diversity of its variations". Making animations, murals and objects based on drawing, Park is praised for constructing a "style emancipated from rules, which is not constricted to geometric frames worn out from excessive consumption, and also free from particular trends or tendencies".

Having emerged in the art world in spotlight in 2006, Hoin Lee's solo exhibition at Cake Gallery in 2015 was raved for "promising certain changes, and well calculated brushstrokes of matte paint layers which invite the anticipations of a new world." Also, Lee's exhibition at Art Spectrum in 2016 won praises for "successfully portraying constructive artifacts in a convincing matter, despite the fact that - given the characteristics of his work which thinly piles up layers of dry and matte paint - it's very difficult to portray something beyond the human figure and natural landscape."
The jury of DOOSAN Yonkang Arts Awards sends applause to the recent remarkable activities and accomplishments of Heecheon Kim, Gwangsoo Park and Hoin Lee, and looks forward to even bigger growth and leaps.

Jury   Sungwon Kim, Geun-jun Lim, Seonryeong Cho