Born in 1965
Lives and works in Seoul
Education
1988
BFA College of Fine Art, Seoul National University, Seoul
1995
MFA Program in Photography, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010
"Radiance," PKM Gallery | Bartleby Bickle & Meursault, Seoul
"Brinkmanship," REDCAT, Los Angeles (with Sean Snyder)*
2008
"Sindoan," Atelier Hermès, Seoul
"A Mountain," Gallery Soso, Paju, Korea
2005
"Flying," Ssamzie Art Space, Seoul
2003
"Koreans Who Went to Germany," Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
2002
"Sets," Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
"Sets," rraum02, Frankfurt
1997
"Black Box: Memory of the Cold War Images," Kumho Museum, Seoul
*asterisk denotes two-person show
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
61st Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin
"Korean Rhapsody: A Montage of History and Memory," LEEUM Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
The 3rd Anyang Public Art Project [APAP2010], Anyang, Korea
"Discoveries," ShContemporary 10, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai
"Trust," Media City Seoul 2010, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
"Linguistic Morphology: Art in Context," The Association of East Asian Art and Culture, The Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul
"Random Access," Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, Korea
"Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Vision 2010," Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
"Oh! Masterpieces: 2009 New Acquisitions Collections," Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
2009
"Unconquered: Critical Visions from South Korea," Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City
"Made in Korea: Leisure, a disguised labor?" Kaufhaus Sinn & Leffers, Hanover
7th Festival Signes de Nuit, Paris
2009
Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul (EXIS), Seoul Art Cinema and Indie Space, Seoul
"Void of Memory," Platform Seoul, Seoul
"Shared. Divided. United," Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin
"New Political Art in Korea Since The 1990s: Bad Boys Here and Now," Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
"Another Masterpiece: 2008 New Acquisitions," Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
2008
Shoot Me Film Festival, The Hague, Netherlands
"Jeonhyanggi: Kim Soo Young 40th Anniversary Retrospective," Alternative Space Pool, Seoul
IAS Media Screening, Insa Art Space of Arts Council Korea, Seoul
6th Festival Signes de Nuit, Paris
"Still Present Pasts," Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
2007
"Seoul: Räume, Menschen," Institute fur Auslandsbezienhungen, Stuttgart and Berlin
"Fast Break," PKM Gallery Beijing, Beijing
"Activating Korea: Tides of Collective Action," Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, International Competition, Oberhausen, Germany
"JNP Production," Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo
2006
"Move on Asia," Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul; travelled to Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo; Arario Beijing, Beijing; Remo, Osaka; Shanghai Doulun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
"A Tale of Two Cities: Busan-Seoul / Seoul-Busan," 5th Busan Biennale, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
"Fever Variations," The 6th Gwangju Biennale 2006, Gwangju, Korea
Daegu Photo Biennale, EXCO, Daegu, Korea
"Pyongyang Report: Architecture, Design & People in North Korea," Book House, Paju, Korea
2005
"Seoul: Until Now!," Charlottenborg Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen
"Critical Society," Badischer Kunstverein. Karlsruhe, Germany
"Parallel Life," Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt
"Incongruent: Contemporary Art from South Korea," Richard F. Brush Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
"DMZ_2005: Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea," Paju, Korea
2004
"Unplugged Theater," Gallery Bhak, Seoul
Hermès Korea Missulsang, Artsonje Center, Seoul
"Four Years 2000–2004," Insa Art Space of Arts Council Korea, Seoul
2003
"Facing Korea: Demirrorized Zone," de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam
"Borderline," Kunstverein Schorndorf, Schorndorf, Germany
"Para>Sites," Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
2002
"P_a_u_s_e: Project 3 - Stay of Execution," The 4th Gwangju Biennale 2002, Gwangju, Korea
"Parallel World," K & S Gallery, Berlin
"Korean Air France," La Vitrine and Glassbox, Paris
2001
"Sunshine: Three Perspectives on North and South Korea," Insa Art Space of Arts Council Korea, Seoul
2000
"between 0 and 1," media_city seoul 2000, Seoul Museum of Art and 13 subway stations, Seoul
"Pyongyang, The Subject of Seoul," Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
1999
"The Photograph Looks at Us," Seoul Photo Exhibition 1999, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
1998
"Seoul and Media: Food, Clothing, Shelter," Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
"Alienation and Assimilation," Museum of Contemporary, Chicago
"Gwangju, Finding Way from the Mirror," Songwon Gallery, Gwangju, Korea
1996
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Yamagata, Japan
"Politics and Art," Boda Gallery, Seoul
16th Symposium on Photography: Allan’s Fish Story, Photography Between Discourse and Document, Gratz, Austria
1995
"Vision of Koreans," San Francisco Cinema Tech, San Francisco
Fellowship, Awards & Residencies
2011
Berlin Film Festival, Berlin
2010
Arts Council Korea, Seoul
2007
Tokyo Wonder Site Residency Program, Tokyo
2005
Arts Council Korea, Seoul
2004
Hermès Korea Missulsang, Seoul
2002
Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
Arts Council Korea, Seoul
2001
Arts Council Korea, Seoul
Collections
Artsonje Center, Seoul
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes, France
Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea