1969 Born in Pohang, Korea
Lives and works in Seoul, Korea
Education
2002 M.FA. in Sculpture, Yale University, New Haven, NY, U.S.A
1998 B.F.A. in Sculpture, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Eye Trace, DOOSAN Gallery Seoul, Seoul, Korea
2008 Animatus, Basel Natural History Museum, Basel, Switzerland
Animatuseum, Arario Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.
2007 The Homo species, Korean Pavilion, Giardini, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2006 Animatus, Arario Gallery, Cheonan, Korea
2004 The Objectuals, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 Sculptor's Drawing, SOMA Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Reopen at Hannam, Gallery Skape, Seoul, Korea
Made in Popland, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
2010 Plastic Garden, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Artist's Body, space*c, Seoul, Korea
2009 D AiR, DOOSAN Gallery New York, NY, U.S.A
Extreme Frontiers, Urban Frontiers, Institute Valencia d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
VRAOUM!, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
Mythologies, Haunch of Venison, London, U.K
Read and Feel the Pictures, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2008 GSK Contemporary, Royal Academy of Arts, London, U.K
METAMORPHOSES: Korean Trajectories, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
2007 Contemporary Korean Art : Wonderland, National Art of Museum China, Beijing, China
2006 ALL LOOK SAME? Art China Korea Japan Art, Fondazione Sandretto re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Give Me Shelter, Union Gallery, London, U.K
Art Spectrum, Samsung Museum of Art Leeum, Seoul, Korea
2005 Visions of the Body, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2004 Young Artists from Korea, China and Japan, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
The Joan Mitchell Foundation
2002 & 2003 MFA Grant Recipients, Cue Art Foundation Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A
Out the Window: Spaces of Distraction, Project Space Zip, Seoul, Korea; The Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo, Japan
2003 Fake & Fantasy, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea
Energy, Project Space Zip, Seoul, Korea Beauty, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Pleasure Factory, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2001 The Wight Biennial, The New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A
Residencies and Awards
2009 Gyeonggi Creation Center
2009 Pilot Program, Ansan, Korea DOOSAN Residency New York, New York, NY, U.S.A
2007 The 39th National Awards for ‘Today’s Korean Young Artists’, Seoul, Korea
2003 SSamzie Space, Seoul, Korea 2002 Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, New York, NY, U.S.A
2001 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, MN, U.S.A