A photographer born and based in Seoul, Korea. He has published four monographs: Ajumma-portraits of middle-aged women in Korea (1999) , Girl\'s Act (2004), Cosmetic Girls (2008). Upcoming solo exhibitions are with Kukje Gallery in Seoul and Mikkiwick gallery in Zurich March 2009. Recent group exhibitions include Deadpan: The James gallery in New York, Correspondence: Sonje art center and Elastic Taboo: Vienna Kunsthalle in Vienna, Austria.
He had participated in the exhibition of Korean Pavilion, 51st Venice Biennale in 2005 and his works are in permanent collections of several museums including National Museum of Art, Leeum-Samsung Museum of Art, Sonje Museum of Art, Ilmin Museum of Art in Seoul Korea and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Japan.

Solo Exhibitions
2008
Cosmetic Girls, Kukje gallery, Seoul
2004
Girl\'s Act, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul
1999
Ajumma, Sonje Art Center, Seoul
1993
Hein-Kuhn Oh-․Photographs & Films, Choi Gallery, Seoul
1991
Uncertain Presence, Seigfred Gallery, Athens, Ohio

Selected Group Exhibitions
2008
‘Deadpan’ The James Gallery, New York
‘Correspondence’ Sonje Art Center, Seoul
2007
‘10 Korea Contemporary Photographers’
The Hanmi Museum of Photography, Seoul
‘Landscape of Korea Contemporary Photography’ Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
‘Activating Korea’ Govett-Brewster Art gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
‘Myth in The Mirror’ Sonje Art Center , Seoul
‘Elastic Taboo’ Vienna Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria
‘Raised by Wolves’ Art Gallery of Western Australia Perth, Australia
‘Body and Flesh’ Trunk Gallery, Seoul
2006
‘Somewhere in Time’ Sonje Art Center , Seoul
The 1st Daegue Photo Biennale, Daegue
‘Portrait of Adolescence’ Rodin Gallery, Seoul
‘Women’ Papertainer gallery, Seoul
2005
‘Secret beyond the Door-Korean Pavilion’, The 51st Venice Biennale, Italy
‘Fast forward, Photographic Message from Korea’,
Fotografie Forum International gallery, Germany
‘Korean Photography since 1945 - The Restoration of Independence’, Museum of Maronier, Seoul
2004
‘Document’ A map of Photographic Archives, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
‘What happens between Art and Popular Culture‘, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwa-chun
2003
‘From Fashion Photography’, Daelim Comtemporary Art Museum, Seoul
‘Image. Korea’, Seoul Arts Center Seoul
‘Girl’s Act’ , Typology III, Space Photography’ Gallery, Seoul
2002
‘Photographe Contemporaine Coreenne’, a La galerrie photo, Montepellier France
‘Actor’s School’, Typology II, Space Photography’ Gallery, Seoul
‘Pause’, Project 3, The 4th Gwangju Biennale, Gwang-ju
‘High school Girl’, Typology I, Space Photography’ Gallery, Seoul
2001
‘Awakening’, Australian Center for Photography, Australia
‘The 1st Gana Photography Festival’, Gana Art Center, Seoul
‘The 6th Internationale Fototage in Herten’, Herten, Germany
2000
‘After time’, Howart Gallery, Seoul
‘Crying Game’, Boda Gallery, Seoul
‘Contemporary Korean Photographers, a new generation. Fotofest 2000’, William Towers Gallery, Houston, Texas
1999
‘Seoul Alive; through the eyes of photographers’,
Kommunale Gallery, Berlin, Germany
‘35mm Personal Scene’, SK Cannon Gallery, Seoul
‘A Contemporary Arts in Korea since 1990’, Ellen Kim Murphy Gallery, Seoul
1998
‘A History of Photography exhibition in Korea’, Seoul Arts center, Seoul
‘Two eyes, two windows’, Seoshin Gallery, Jeon-ju
‘Site of Desire’, 1st Taipei Biennial: Taipei Fine Arts Museum
‘Alienation and Assimilation’; Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago
‘Contemporary Asian Photography Exhibition’, AOI Gallery, New York
1997
‘Expression of the Unexpressible’, Posco Gallery, Seoul
‘Seoul Photography Exhibition’97’, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
‘The Importance of Living’, Seonam Gallery, Seoul
1996
‘Three eyes’, Sal Gallery, Seoul
‘Photography as it is...’, Samsung Photo Gallery, Seoul
‘Asian View’, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
1995
‘Saeck’ Art Sonje Museum, Seoul
1994
‘New Wind of Korean Photograph’y, Guardian garden Gallery, Tokyo
‘Korean Contemporary Photography’, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
‘Korean’, Indeco Gallery, Seoul
1993
‘Eccentric Seoul’, Sonamu Gallery, Seoul
‘On the point of me and Others’, Walker Hill Museum of Art, Seoul
‘November, A horizon of Korean Photography’, Seoul Museum of Art
1992
‘Uncertain Presence’, Midtown Y Gallery, New York
‘Selected Works 92’, Eye Gallery, San Francisco
1991
‘Art changes.,’ Roberta Kuhn Gallery, Columbus
‘We say...’, Seigfred Gallery, Athens, Ohio
‘Alternative 90.’ Seigfred Gallery, Athens, Ohio
1989
‘Selected Works 89’, Black Gallery, Los Angeles

Publication
‘Hein-kuhn Oh’ (2008) - Kukje Gallery
‘Girl’s Act’ (2005) - Davinchi Publication
‘少女演技‘(2004)- Davinchi Publication
‘Typology\" (2003) - Purunsesang Publication
‘Ajumma’ (1999) - Hong Design Publication

Collections
Leeum-Samsung Museum of Art,
National Museum of Contemporary Art,
Sonje Museum of Art,
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of photography,
Ilmin Museum of Art
Gallery Van Zoetern Daal in Holland,
Aaron M. Tighe Collection,

Education
1993
M.F.A.
Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.
1988
B.A.
Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California.

Present
Associate Professor at the Department of Photography at the Kaywon School of Art and Design