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Korea Now
Emerging Korean Art
Welcome to the first exhibition in Israel of emerging Korean Art. It will take a much more
elaborate undertaking to curate an exhibition that fairly presents the numerous trends,
styles, directions and developments that prevail in South Korean contemporary art today.
This exhibition offers a tiny taste of that bubbling, exciting scene. The artists selected
for this exhibition range from those who have recently graduated colleges to wellestablished artists whose works are collected by museum and are known outside their country.
Although we were unable to focus in depth on any of the unique aspects of Korean art today,
we did bring some examples to make a point. I would like to point out one. An intriguing, yet
common phenomenon one notices almost immediately upon delving into Korean contemporary
art is the unique approach to material many artists take. It is not merely the professional
use they make of the materials they use for their artworks; it is more the stubborn struggle
in materials “not-suited” for their work, which they choose to undertake.
An example for that struggle may be seen in Yun Wee dong’s figures, meticulously painted in
watercolors. The choice of watercolors for the hyperrealist painting of a human figure seems
like a wrong choice. But one look at the execution of the finished work, at the final result of
the many layers of that translucent paint that turn into a life-like skin and hair tells a
different story. It emphasizes that the choice was not erroneous, but that it serve something
that lies beyond the painted paper. In Yun’s case, it reflects the artist’s inner need to
battle a story of personal hardship out.
Lee Yun chang’s little black sculptural works reflect another angle in that struggle. For two
years the artist researched, tried and failed until he succeeded to cast his sculptures from
ordinary shoe paste. He had overcome the natural tendencies of the material, which shrinks
up to 30% when drying, distorts, cracks and is sensitive to heat. He found a way to control it.
The fascinating fact about this journey into the material that the artist has chosen to take,
is that he had no reason to do so other than a personal decision to overcome the limits of a
given material.
Lee Jae hyu’s Sisyphean process of nailing hundreds and thousands of stainless steel nails
into wood, bending them and then charring the wood and polishing the nails is another
example of the less than obvious position the material takes in the Korean artistic
expression. So is Oh Jeong il’s one-hair brush oil hair paintings that expose yet another
meditative process involving an extreme treatment of artistic material.
Greeting from the
Korean Ambassador
Welcome to ‘Korea Now’ Exhibition 2008!
This year marks the 46th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations
between the Republic of Korea and the State of Israel. Despite the geographical distance
that separates them, the two countries have nurtured sound and robust ties in various
fields. The time has come to consolidate these strong ties by enhancing further mutual
exchanges and understanding between Korean and Israeli people.
Throughout its long history, Korea has created its own unique culture, quite distinct
from those of its two neighbors, China and Japan. From ancient times, Koreans have been
art loving people. It is no coincidence that modern Korean films, dramas, music and
works of art have recently attracted phenomenal popularity in many parts of the world
creating the “Hallyu,” which means the Korean Wave.
It is true that Korean culture has been insufficiently exposed to the Israeli public,
depriving the Israelis of the opportunities to have a better understanding of Korea and
the Korean people. The Korean Embassy hopes that this exhibition will offer Israelis
the opportunity to see, feel, and taste the images of the unique Korean culture, both
traditional and modern.
This exhibition is held thanks to ArtLink and its continuous search after young and
promising artists. We are very grateful to ArtLink for their great contribution to
exposing and presenting Korean art to the Israeli public.
I sincerely hope all of you will enjoy the true taste of Korean life and culture through
‘Korea Now’ exhibition and other forthcoming cultural events.
Young-Sam, MA
Ambassador
One should not mistake to approach contemporary Korean art from a point of view that places
the craftsmanship of creating artistic objects as the highest achievement of an artist.
Harnessing the material is means to an end found often in contemporary Korean art. It serves
to create flawless images and objects, but it also touches a very deep cultural and spiritual
need to produce objects of integrity; objects in which true struggle is embedded – art of
blood, sweat and tears.
I wish to thank His Excellency The Ambassador of the Republic of Korea for supporting this
exhibition. I extend warm thanks to our sponsors; Sotheby’s Israel, Korean Air and Enigma by
Gianni Bulgari for helping us make this exhibition happen.
I hope that this exhibition will open taste buds in Israel and will be the first of many that
may provide a window into a far, rich and fascinating culture and its art. Enjoy the show.
Tal Danai
Founder & President
Korea Now Exhibition
This exhibition features works by 21 emerging Korean artists. Although all of the
participants in this exhibition fall under the category of emerging artists, some are
recent college graduates while others have a history of solo exhibitions and presence
in museum collections.
Despite this fact and the fact that no specific theme was defined for the exhibition,
there is a common denominator to the selected artworks. While each artist deals with a
personal world of content through his own use of material, the group as a whole proposes
a unique voice that distinguishes it from its international peers and contributes in
making it one of the most fascinating groups in today’s contemporary art world.
Two main features best characterize the artworks in this exhibition; the extraordinary
treatment of material that sometimes becomes the purpose and carries the meaning of
the whole artwork, and a combination of Korean culture and values with Western ideas
and influences that forms a unique, captivating world of content.
In the following essay, I will briefly discuss the main elements of each of the
participating artist’s works and try to demonstrate how the characteristics mentioned
above are conveyed through their works.
The artist who opens the catalog, Yun Chang Lee, is one of the youngest artists in the
exhibition. Although still an M.F.A student, Lee works, and excels, in a wide range of
materials and subject matters. He creates oil on canvas hyper-realistic paintings of
his family, scratches his fingernails on acrylic paint to create dark and mysterious
abstract paintings and makes small sculptures from shoe polish, a technique that to the
best of my knowledge has never been used before.
The sculptor Jae Heung You uses only one short sentence to describe the idea behind his
captivating sculpture - “Daily”: “Mocking human beings’ instinct and habitude through
animals’ daily life”. You utilizes the characteristics of the stone and bronze to create
a narrative that strongly conveys his message.
Sung Suk Jang is the youngest artist in the exhibition, she is 24 years old, and has just
completed her B.F.A studies this year. Despite her young age and lack of experience Jang’s
work carries a unique combination of a fresh contemporary look with traditional Korean
elements that result in hypnotizing paintings. The artist herself speaks of contradictory
elements in her works, a girl that is neither a child nor an adult, a very expressive yet
blurry gaze, a character who is strong and weak at the same time. Two distant poles echo in
the mix of Korean cultural elements with contemporary western influences.
Duality is a main element in the works of Song Cho. Cho documents her journeys around
the world using a unique language she developed herself. Her paintings portray
personal experiences, which took place in a specific place and time. She combines two
different techniques, drawing of monochromatic lines and color field painting. In this
technique Cho tries to convey the coexistence of reality and imagination.
Kyung Hee Jung uses a repeating subject in her artworks, the dragonfly. The dragonfly’s
wings appear in different contexts in Jung’s works and are sometimes linked to other
animals (like the fish in the work “What is This?”), used in close-ups to create abstract
works (“Slow Dreaming”) or used to create imaginary narratives, like the child’s
feet stepping on huge dragonfly wings in “Fly the Memory”. In all of Jung’s works an
unfamiliar experience is created through the use of familiar objects. In Jung’s studio
hangs a photograph of a small child leaning on the sand, examining the wings of a
dragonfly. The photo is of the artist as a little girl. Knowing this, the dragonfly in
Jung’s paintings can be associated with memories of the past and their link to the
present. Jung paints her works on traditional Korean paper, yet another link to the
past. It seems that her paintings deal with the past and memories both in the use of
material and in content.
Seong Mo Park uses everyday objects and familiar icons and transforms them into the
unique sculptural language he created. Park wraps the “objects” (which are not the
objects themselves but resin casts he produces) in aluminum wires and challenges us
to ask questions regarding the meaning of the real thing. The title of one of Kyung
Hee Jung’s works “What is This?” can easily be applied to any of his sculptures.
In his wrapping technique, Park doesn’t differentiate between people and objects,
big or small, alive or still. Classic western cultural icons like “Venus from Milo”
and “The Thinker” by Rodin are treated the same way as Buddha figures, musical
instruments and furniture.
Sung Myung Chun is another sculptor who creates a whole world through his art.
Black and white somber figures are the inhabitants of this world. Each sculpture
tells a story loaded with symbolic meanings. Chun depicts a figure that seems at
first like a small child, but her hair is too long to belong to a little girl. In
oriental culture, the shape of long hair has a symbolic meaning of continuity.
The hair in this scene keeps growing, until it is finally obsessed by itself
restraining the figure to one spot. Chun raises questions about life, death and
morals through a complex symbolic language.
Another artist dealing with the theme of hair is the painter Jeong Il Oh. For
years, Oh paints nothing but human hair. Oh sees all people through their hair.
Once again, a symbolic look at the world executed through amazing pain-staking,
meditative technique.
So Hyun Park’s world consists of the desire to achieve symmetry. Park talks about
people’s pursuit of symmetry and perfection. Despite the “perfect” look of her
paintings, Park explains that the process of translating the image into a painting
breaks the complete symmetry. Even though the main form seems symmetrical, it is
actually not. Through a tremendous effort to achieve the symmetry in her paintings,
which eventually fails, Park discusses the desires, failures and helplessness of
mankind’s chase for perfection.
Jin Sun Kim’s drawings portray typical Korean landscapes. Similar to the famous Claude
Monet, he returns to the same location and depicts it again and again, in different
seasons and different times of the day. Unlike Monet, Kim uses the simplest means,
pencil, paper and touches of acrylic paint to create his moving works.
A similar subject matter can be found in the works of Hee Jin Jang, but Jang’s unique
use of material and technique creates a totally different result. She produces modeled
canvases by applying layers of tape on the canvas in certain intervals and painting the
base surface repeatedly 20 times with gesso. This process creates the valleys on her
canvas that is now ready for her to paint her imagery on. The physical work is a very
important aspect in Jang’s art. The final result changes its appearance based on the
light conditions and the proximity of the viewer to the work. This is another example of
an intentional link to Monet and the Impressionists.
The traces on the canvas are an important element in the work of another painter,
Myung Su Ham. The tactile brushstrokes, which are such an obvious component in his
paintings, have become the subject of his paintings. Ham creates a world where there
is no significance to the object depicted, the importance is in the painting process
itself. Similar to the sculptures of Seung Mo Park, all subjects depicted, whether it’s
a book, a butterfly, a candle or a single brush stroke, are treated in the same way. Ham’s
paintings treat the existence of forms and brushstrokes as inseparable.
The exhibition provides a rare chance to view both the recent and current style of Jeong
Im Yi’s paintings. “I Wish” from 2001 is one of Yi’s older works. The two other paintings
demonstrate her current style. Though at first glance there is no apparent connection
between the two styles, dark hyperrealist depictions of still life versus bright, and
seemingly, almost empty canvases, the two styles actually have a lot in common. All of
Yi’s paintings deal with memories and deliver a message that is beyond the specific object
that is depicted on the canvas. The still life paintings, though painted in a phenomenal
hyperrealist technique are not a depiction of a realistic scene but a gaze to the artist’s
soul and inner world. In her current style Yi depicts, again in hyperrealist technique, the
traces and marks left on walls. Tracing the geographies on a neglected wall, Yi records the
small histories of passing time. The images on the wall are valuable not in themselves
but rather as signs of other things. In all her paintings, Yi arouses interest in objects
that are usually neglected and through them as she herself states, invites the viewer on a
regressive journey beyond the mundane through the coalescence of space and time.
Kang Won Lee presents contemporary and personal ideas in a traditional Korean
technique – ink painting. Lee utilizes this traditional technique in order to intensify
the content of her works. Her paintings deal with passing moments, with things that are
present and disappearing at the same time. The transparency and softness of the ink
serve Lee’s content world in the best possible way.
Another artist using traditional Korean materials in her works is Yun Hea Jung. Jung
paints with oriental watercolor on oriental traditional paper. With the traditional
technique and occasional traditional landscapes and symbols she creates an allegorical
world. The drawers and their various contents in her paintings symbolize her belief in
the importance of harmony between the individual and society.
Physical work is one of the important aspects in Jae Hyo Lee’s works. In his wood and
nail works shown in the exhibition, each nail is manually bent on the wood prior to
a burning process which ultimately create these unique artworks. All the hard labor
involved in his art may at first seem as if Lee is confronting nature, but actually this
process emphasizes the vivid texture of the objects he works with. For him, nature is
not a source of confrontation but a cherished source and a cause for his art. Lee uses
the simplest and least radiant materials and turns them into poetry.
At first sight, the paintings of Wee Dong Yun may seem worlds apart from Jae Hyo Lee’s
sculptures, but in fact, the two artists share similar ideas. Yun uses watercolor in
order to portray hyperrealist images of young women. The fact that these works are
created by watercolor is hard to believe. Yun struggles with the material and turns
it into something that is opposite to its nature, he overcomes the transparency of the
watercolors. In his works, like many other works in the exhibition, the physical process
involved in creating the artworks is inseparably linked to their content. The girls
portrayed in Yun’s paintings are his sisters. He paints them in difficult emotional
moments and what he states as a time of hardship for his family. The physical effort
in the painting process mirrors the model’s and the painter’s inner worlds and perhaps
even constitutes a therapeutic process.
Almost all of Hyeon Kyung Kim’s paintings are self-portraits. Kim uses her own image to
describe her inner world and to criticize the conservative social ideas of the Korean
culture. In the painting “Trauma Series #1”, Kim depicts herself as Judith in Gustav
Kilmt’s famous “Judith and Head of Holofernes” from the 19th century. She uses an iconic
western painting in order to express feelings of guilt and confusion and at the same
time rebelliousness and criticism.
Young Kyu Song’s paintings are very personal, despite the fact that he himself is never
depicted in them. In a series of artworks titled “Confessions” he paints his friends.
Song calls the works confessions but actually hides himself from the confrontation
that an act of confession requires. He understands that identity is created and defined
by others and that is why he is never physically present in his works. The dark and
somber works reveal only the heads, hands and feet of his elusive denizens that seem to
simultaneously merge in and out of the background, much like human puppets.
Ji Hyung Jeong’s bright paintings seem at first sight to be very different from Song’s
dark world. Jeong paints flowers and interiors in a color palete dominated by whites
with red touches. The paintings are seemingly decorative and aesthetic but a closer
look reveals much more complex ideas. The softness of “Flower of the Desert” is
violated by it’s sharp red corners. The flower seems wounded and bleeding or dangerous
and capable of injuring. The flower also provokes sexual associations similar to
Georgia Okefe’s flower paintings from early 20th century.
Sum Mu is the only North Korean painter is the exhibition. Mu is a North Korean refugee
who has been living in South korea for the past few years. Though his paintings seem at
first like cute depictions of children (one of the common styles in the contemporary art
world) it doesn’t take a thorough second look to recognize the harsh political crtiticm
in them. “Nothing to be Envious in the World” looks like a communist propaganda poster,
with its bright red background. The dark shadow behind the girl makes the honesty of
her smiling face very doubtful. In “A Duty for Loyalty”, another small girl is cleaning
the portraits of the North Korean leaders. A second look at the painting reveals the
unstable pile of chairs she is standing on, an inidcation to the danger she is in.
Most of the 21 artists participating in “Korea Now” exhibition have a body of work
mature enough to support a solo exhibition I hope that the gathering of this group of
artists succeeds in providing a glimpse into the unique world of each artist while
drawing a picture that conveys the uniqueness of Korean emerging artists.
Maya Anner
Curator
Yun Chang Lee
Escape • 2008
Oil on canvas • 53x45 cm
Blood Relationship • 2007 • Oil on canvas
16 parts • 24x17 cm each • 84x68 cm overall
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Yun Chang Lee
Jae Heung You
Work 5 • 2008
Acrylic on canvas • 53x72 cm
Daily • 2007
Stone and Bronze • 30x120x40 cm
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Sung Suk Jang
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A Child of Fortune • 2008
A Child of Fortune • 2008
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Song Cho
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Top: Visual Center London I • 2007
Acrylic and paint marker on canvas • 65x80 cm
Top: Visual Center Versailles • 2006
Bottom: Visual Center London II • 2007
Bottom: Visual Center St. Michel • 2007
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Kyung Hee Jung
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Slow Dreaming • 2005 • Oil, charcoal, pencil,
Korean paper on canvas • 5 parts • 20x20 cm each
What is This? • 2004 • Oil, charcoal, pencil,
Korean paper on canvas • 27x46 cm
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Kyung Hee Jung
Seung Mo Park
Fly the Memory • 2005 • Oil, charcoal, pencil,
Korean paper on canvas • 80x130 cm
Venus • 2004 • Resin cast
& aluminum wires • 140x40x38 cm
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Seung Mo Park
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Saxophone • 2005 • Resin cast
and aluminum wires • 83x40x15 cm
Buddha • 2008 • Resin cast
and aluminum wires • 58x44x40 cm
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Sung Myung Chun
So Hyun Park
Submerged • 2008
Fiberglass and acrylic • 56x45x46.5 cm
Symmetry • 2007
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So Hyun Park
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Symmetry • 2007 • Oil on canvas
Diptych • 30x95 cm each
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Jin Sun Kim
Top: Drawing Forest • 2008
Acrylic and pencil on paper • 9.5x30 cm
Center: Drawing Forest • 2008
Acrylic and pencil on paper • 11x29 cm
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Bottom: Drawing Forest • 2008
Drawing Forest • 2008
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Sun Mu
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We are the Children from Happiness
2007 • Oil on canvas • 91x116 cm
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A Duty for Loyalty • 2007
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Sun Mu
Myung Su Ham
Nothing to be Envious in the World
Butterfly • 2000
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Myung Su Ham
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The People • 2001• Oil on canvas
8 parts • 26x18 cm each • 52x72 cm overall
Scape Series • 2006
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Myung Su Ham
Jeong Im Yi
Candle • 2003-2006
I Wish • 2001
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Jeong Im Yi
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Top: Bay E at Hunter’s Point Studio
Kang Won Lee
Bottom: Jeremy • 2007
Untitled 4 • 2008
Ink on paper • 80x114 cm
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Kang Won Lee
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Untitled 1 • 2007
Untitled 3 • 2007
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Hee Jin Jang
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A Space • 2008 • Gouache and gel on modeled canvas
4 parts • 45x45 cm each •w 90x90 cm overall
A Space • 2008 • Gouache and gel
on modeled canvas • 30x120 cm
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Jae Hyo Lee
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0121-1110=108073 • 2008
Stainless nail and wood • 35x46x36 cm
0121-1110=106101 • 2007 • Stainless
bolt nail and wood • 215x45x45 cm
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Jae Hyo Lee
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Top: 0121-1110=108026 • 2008
Stainless nail and wood • 40x40x8 cm
Wee Dong Yun
Bottom: 0121-1110=1080622 • 2008
Stainless bolt, nail and wood • 65x40x7 cm
Contrast 11 • 2008
Watercolor on paper • 116x90 cm
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Wee Dong Yun
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Contrast 5 • 2008
Contrast 4 • 2008
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Hyeon Kyung Kim
Top: Isolation Series #2 • 2007
Oil on canvas • 45.5x33.2 cm
Trauma Series #1 • 2005
Bottom: Isolation Series#1 • 2007
Oil on canvas • 27.2x45.5 cm
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Jeong Il Oh
Top: A Bird • 2004
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Bottom: Dream • 2001
Braid • 2005
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Hea Yun Jung
Top: One Hope • 2008 • Oriental watercolor
on traditional handmade oriental paper • 61x73 cm
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Bottom: Seeing and Hiding • 2008 • Oriental watercolor
on traditional handmade oriental paper • 61x73 cm
Park • 2007 • Oriental watercolor on
traditional handmade oriental paper • 66x130 cm
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Young Kyu Song
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Wing • 2005
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Confessions • 2001
Acrylic on panel • 180x70 cm
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Artist Biographies
(alphabetical order)
Song Cho, b. 1959
Song Cho earned her BA in Design from
Changwon College , Seoul. Cho held solo
exhibitions at the Noam Gallery in Seoul in 2007 and at the World Trade Center in
Beijing, China in 2005. She participated in numerous group exhibitions worldwide
among them the Intersection-Korean
Modern art Multiple Exhibition in
Beijing, China, AQUA-C in Seoul, South
Korea, and CPS 32 Gallery in New York,
USA. She is the recipient of the Grand Art
Exhibition of Korea award in 2006 and the
winner of the Danwon Art Contest in 2006.
Sung Myung Chun, b. 1970
Sung Myung Chun received his B.F.A and
M.F.A from Suwon University in South Korea.
Chun’s 6th solo exhibition “Swallowing
the Shadow” was recently held at SUN
Contemporary Gallery in Seoul. Chun
participated in ARCO 2007, Art Rotterdam
2007, Busan Biennale 2006 and Gwangju
Biennale 2000 as well as in various group
exhibitions worldwide. He is the recipient
of the Kim Sae Jung Young Sculptor
prize. Chun’s works can be found in the
collections of Musée d´art contemporain de
Montréal, Canada and Gyeonggido Museum of
Art, Ansan, South Korea.
Ji Hyun Jeong
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Flower of the Desert • 2008
Acrylic and oil on canvas • 97x110 cm
Myung Su Ham, b. 1966
Myung Su Ham earned his BFA from
the painting department of Mokwon
University, Daejeon and an MFA in Fine Art
Education from Dongkuk University. Ham
held numerous solo exhibitions in Seoul
among them at Gallery Skape in 2008, Sang
Gallery in 2004, Keumsan Gallery in 2001
and at the Icon Gallery in 1998. He was
recently a part of the 2008 BIAF (Busan
International Art Fair), and has exhibited
in many group exhibitons in Seoul
and abroad, among them exhibitions at
Hongcheon Culture Center, Seoul, Hyundae
Gallery, Daejeon, DongA Gallery, Seoul,
Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon and INSA
Art Center, Seoul.
Hee Jin Jang, b. 1977
Hee Jin Jang earned her B.F.A and M.F.A
from the painting department at Chung-ang
University, Seoul. Since 2002, Jang held
numerous solo exhibitions in different
galleries in Seoul, among them at Doll
Gallery, SEO Gallery, Yemac Gallery,
Kwan-hoon Gallery and UM Gallery as
well as participated in solo exhibitions
in Korea, Canada and the United States.
Jang’s works can be found in the public
collections of the National Museum of
Contemporary Art, Seoul, The German
Embassy, Seoul and the Korean Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and Trade among others.
Sung Suk Jang, b. 1984
Sung Suk Jang has recently (2008) earned
her B.F.A in Painting from the College of
Fine Arts at Sungshin Women’s University,
Seoul. Korea Now is Jang’s first exhibition
following her studies.
Ji Hyun Jeong, b. 1975
Ji Hyun Jeong earned her PhD in Fine Art
Philosophy from the Hong-ik University
in Seoul in 2008, where she also earned
her B.F.A and M.F.A from the Painting
Department. Jeong held solo exhibitions
at Zhu Qizhan Art Museum in Shanghai,
and at Sun Contemporary and Do Art
Galleries is Seoul. She participated in
group exhibitions in Seoul and in various
cities around the world including Tokyo,
Prague, Beijing, Stockholm and New York.
She has one numerous awards, among them
Selected Artist 2007 Joongang Fine Arts
Prize, Songeun Grand Art Exhibition
in 2004 and Na Haesuck Woman Grand
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Art Exhibition in 2002. In addition to
exhibiting extensively, Jeong serves as
a lecturer at the Painting Department in
Hong-ik University and at the Industrial
Design Department at Bucheon University.
Hea Yun Jung, b. 1972
Hai Yun Jung earned her B.F.A in Oriental
Painting from Seoul National University
in 2008. She recently (2008) held her first
solo exhibition at New Days Gallery in
London, UK. Jung has participated in
numerous group exhibitions in South Korea
among them at the Total Museum, GS Tower
Galleryand , and In-Sa Art Center in Seoul
and the Dan-Wom Museum of Arts at An-San.
She was also a part of the Dakar Biennale
in Senegal and has recently returned
from OMI 2008 International Artists’
Residency in New York, USA. Jung has won
several awards among them the In-Cheon
Cultural and Arts Promotion Fund in 2008,
Selected the Final artists Chelsea 2007
a competition which was followed by an
exhibition at gallery PS35, New York. And
the Best Award at Dabwon Arts Competition,
Ansan, South Korea.
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Kyung Hee Jung, b. 1974
Kyung Hee Jung earned her B.F.A and
M.F.A from the Painting Department at
Hong- Ik University. She has had three
solo exhibitions to date, among them,
“Beyond the Memories” at the Touch Art
Gallery, Heyri in 2007. Jung has also has
participated in numerous group exhibitions
among them exhibitions at the Duolun
Museum, Shanghai and Whang Sung Museum,
Beiijing, China. Hong- Ik Contemporary
Museum, Yoo Kyung Gallery, Gana Arts
Center, Noam Gallery, Seoul Metropolitan
Museum of Art, Hana Gallery and Art Museum
Seuol Arts Center in Seoul, South Korea.
She has won several awards, among them
first prize at the 6th Danwon Arts Grand
Exhibition in 2004 and the Ministry of
Culture and Tourism Secretary Prize at the
24th Grand Art Exhibition of Korea.
Jin Sun Kim, b. 1969
Jin Sun Kim earned his M.F.A (2000) and
B.F.A (1995) from the Painting Department
at the Hong-Ik University, Seoul. Kim has
held four solo exhibitions in Seoul, at
the SongEun Gallery, ChoHung Gallery,
DukWon Gallery and at the Hong-Ik
University Modern Art Museum. He is the
recipient of the Grand Art Exhibition of
Korea Prize and the Grand Art Exhibition
of Dong-A bronze medal at the University
Art Festival.
Hyeon Kyung Kim, b. 1983
Hyeon Kyung Kim earned her M.F.A and B.F.A
from the Painting Department at the HongIk University, Seoul. Kim has participated
in various group exhibitions in Seoul,
at the INSA Art Center, AKA Gallery and
the Contemporary Gallery at Honk Ik
University. She has also participated in
two group exhibitions in China, at Toran
Gallery, Shanghai and at The Museum of the
Imperial City, Beiijing.
Yun Chang Lee, b. 1978
Yun Chang Lee studied Economics at
Jung Ang University, Seoul, before his
decision to study painting at the Hong-Ik
University, Seoul, where he received his
B.F.A and where he is currently studying
for his M.F.A degree in painting. Lee has
participated in several group shows in
Seoul including “Fusion of Sense” at
Art Center MANO, 2003 and “GPS-whoops”
at Contemporary Art Gallery, HongIk University, 2007. In addition to his
studies and exhibitions, Lee also works as
a free-lance furniture designer.
Kang Won Lee, b. 1985
Kang Won Lee earned her B.F.A in Oriental
Painting in 2007 from the College of Fine
Arts, Seoul national University. Since
her graduation, she participated in the
group exhibition “Cho Cho” at the Dukwon
Gallery, Seoul.
Jae Hyo Lee, b. 1965
Jae Hyo Lee earned a B.F.A in Plastic
Arts from Hong-Ik University, Seoul, in
1992. Lee exhibited over a dozen solo
exhibitions, among them at Gallery
City, Busan, Reeves Contemporary, New
York, Gallery Keumsan, Tokyo, Gallery
Artside, Beijing Gallery Keumsan-Heyri,
Paju, Gallery Artside, Seoul, Vermont
Studio Center, Vermont, Ilmin Museum of
Art, Seoul and The Museum of Seoul Arts
Center, Seoul. Lee is the recipient of
the 2005 Prize of Excellence of Hyogo
International Competition of Painting,
the 2002 Sculpture in Woodland Award,
the 2000 Kim Sae-Jung Young Artist
Prize and the 1998 Grand Prize Winner
of Osaka Triennial among other awards.
Lee’s works can be found in numerous
public collections worldwide, among
them the Cornell University Herbert F.
Johnson Museum, the National Museum
of Contemporary Art, Seoul, the Busan
Municipal Museum of Art, and the Osaka
Contemporary Art Center of Japan.
Sun Mu, b. 1972
Sun Mu is currently studying for his M.F.A
in painting at the Fine Art Department at
Hong-Ik University, Seoul. He recently
held his first solo exhibition entitled
“All of Us Are Children of Happiness” at
Alternative Space Chunjung-gak, Seoul.
His works were exhibited in several
group exhibitions in Seoul among them
Grau Gallery, Sangsang Madang and
Gallery Velvet.
Jeong Il Oh, b. 1972
Jeong Il Oh earned his B.F.A and M.F.A
from the Painting Department at Hong-Ik
University, Seoul. In 2003 he held a solo
exhibition at Gallery Sang in Seoul. Oh
exhibited in numerous group exhibitions,
among them “GRIDA - Illusion/
Disillusion” at the Seoul Museum of Art,
“Brush Hour” at Space Ieum in Beiijing,
China and “Young Realism” at Gallery
Artside in Seoul. He was a finalist of the
ArtLink@Sotheby’s International Young
Art Program 2000.
Seung Mo Park, b. 1969
Seung Mo Park studied at the Graduate
School of the Department of Fine Arts at
Dong-A University, Busan. Park held a solo
exhibition at Artside Gallery is Seoul in
2005 and participated in numerous group
exhibitions in Korea and worldwide. Among
the group exhibitions he took part in are
exhibitions at Albemarle Gallery, London,
China World Trade Center, Beiijing, Mok-A
Museum, Seoul, Insa Gallery, Seoul and
Cultural Center, Busan. He won the Grand
prize at the Newcore Arts Contest in 1997
and a Special Prize for Sculpture at the
Korea National Arts Contest in 1998.
So Hyun Park, b. 1985
So Hyun Park recently earned her
B.F.A from the Painting Department at
Sungshin’s Women University, Seoul.
In the past year she has exhibited in a
few group exhibitions in Seoul, at the
Dongduk Art Gallery, Sinsang Art Galley
and Gallery Young.
Young Kyu Song, b. 1972
Young-kyu Song obtained both his B.F.A
and M.F.A from the Hong-Ik University
College of Fine Arts, Seoul in 1999 and
2001 respectively. He has held several
solo exhibitions in Seoul, among them
“The Confessions” in 2001 at the In-sa
Art Space and “Blind Hand” at Gallery
Sang in 2003 and “Ear Cries” at Munhwa
Ibo Gallery. Song has participated in
numerous group shows in Korea, including
an exhibition at the National Museum
of Contemporary Art, Kwachon in 2000,
“Psycho Drama” at Sungkok Art Museum,
Seoul in 2003 and two exhibitions at The
Seoul Museum of Art in 2006 and 2007. Song
was a finalist of the ArtLink@Sotheby’s
International Young Art Program 2002.
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Jeong Im Yi, b. 1971
Jeong Im Yi received her M.F.A in
Painting from the San Francisco Art
Institute in California in 2004. Prior to
that she obtained an M.F.A and B.F.A from
the Painting Department at the HongIk University, Seoul. Yi’s seventh solo
exhibition will open this December at
NoAm Gallery, Seoul. She has exhibited
solo exhibitions at the Sungkok Art
Museum, Seoul, Nabis Gallery Tokyo, and
various art galleries in Seoul. Jeongim Yi exhibits extensivlly in group
exhibitions in Korea and the United
States, among them at The SungKok Art
Museum, Seoul, Seoul Municipal Art
Museum, Seoul, The Asian Art Museum,
San Francisco, Lisa Dent Gallery, San
Francisco and Gallery Paule Anglim, San
Francisco. She has recently won the 2008
Artistic Selection Award, 16th Korean
Cultural Center Annual Juried Exhibition,
LA, CA. In 2005 Yi was nominated for SECA
award from the SFMOMA, San Francisco, she
won Diplome D’honneur in the Biennale Des
Artistes Haute-Marnais 2001, Chaumont,
France and received a Bronze Medal from
Salon Violet, Paris. In 2000 she was
received Tomorrow’s Artist Award by the
Sungkok Art Museum, all these among other
awards. Jeong Im Yi was a finalist of the
ArtLink@Sotheby’s International Young
Art Program 2000.
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Jae Heung You, b. 1968
Jae Heung You earned his PhD in Fine Arts
Philosophy from Hong-Ik University, Seoul
in 2007. You’s seventh solo exhibition was
held at Noam Gallery, Seoul, this year. You
participated in various group exhibitions
in Korea and abroad, among them “The
International Exhibition of Contemporary
Sculpture 2006” at Miyazaki Airport,
Japan. Jae Heung You was a finalist of the
ArtLink@Sotheby’s International Young Art
Program 2003.
Wee Dong Yun, b. 1982
Wee Dong Yun recently (2008) earned his
B.F.A from Chung-An University, Anseong.
Since his graduation, he participated in
the group exhibition ASYAAF, Asian Young
Artists at Seoul’s old train station.
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Index
(alphabetical order)
Song Cho / p. 14-15
Sung Myung Chun / p. 22
Myung Su Ham / p. 31-34
Hee Jin Jang / p.40-41
Sung Suk Jang / p. 12-13
Ji Hyun Jeong / p. 56
Acknowledgements
Hea Yun Jung / p. 52-53
ArtLink would like to
extend special thanks to
Kyung Hee Jung / p.16-18
Jin Sun Kim / p.26-27
Hyeon Kyung Kim / p. 48-49
Yun Chang Lee / p. 8-10
Kang Won Lee / p. 37-39
Jae Hyo Lee / p. 42-44
Sun Mu / p. 28-30
Jeong Il Oh / p. 50-51
Seung Mo Park / p. 19-21
So Hyun Park / p. 24-25
Young Kyu Song / p. 54-55
Jeong Im Yi / p. 35-36
Jae Heung You / p. 11
Wee Dong Yun / p. 45-47
Ms. Sigal Mordechai
Co-Managing Director
Sotheby’s Tel-Aviv
Professor Jong shik Shin
Dean Fine Art School
Hong ik University
Seoul, South Korea
Jeong il Oh
Seoul, South Korea
Mr. K.H Lim
E-Max Cargo Co., LTD.
Gyunggi-do, South Korea
South Korea Country Coordinator:
Jeong Im Yi, San Francisco, USA
Catalog Design and Production:
Hagari Design, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Logistics and Shipping:
Simon Klyne, Safe Crate, Raanana, Israel
Public Relations:
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