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GWON Osang biography | artworks | events

Born in 1974, Seoul, Korea
Lives and works in Seoul, Korea

Education
2004
MFA in Sculpture, HongIk University, Seoul, Korea
2000
BFA in Sculpture, HongIk University, Seoul, Korea

Selected Solo Exhibition
2010
Gallery 2, Seoul, Korea
Doosan Gallery, New York, USA
2009
ARARIO GALLERY, New York, USA
2008
* Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
2007
* ARARIO GALLERY, Beijing, China
2006
Gwon, Osang, Union II (Opening show), London, UK
* The Sculpture, ARARIO GALLERY, Cheonan, Korea
2005
Deodorant Type & The Flat, Andrew Shire Gallery & 4-F Gallery, LA, USA
2001
* Deodorant Type, Insa Art Space, The Korea Culture& Arts foundation, Seoul, Korea

Selected Group Exhibition
2010
*Plastic Garden_Korean Contemporary Art, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
*Memories of Future, Leeum, Seoul, Seoul, Korea
*Roundabout Collection, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand
*MAN RAY'S PHOTOGRAPHY & HIS HERITAGE, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
NY Photo Festival, Smack Mellon, New York, USA
*Korean Eye: Fantastic Ordinary, Saatchi gallery, London, UK
*On the Cutting Edge - Aspects of Korean Contemporary Photography, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
*Present Tense: An Imagined Grammar of Portraiture in the Digital Age, The National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia *A POSITIVE VIEW, Summerset House, London, UK
Artists with Arario, ARARIO GALLERY, Seoul, Cheonan, Korea
2009
Art & Techne, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea
Peppermint Candy: Contemporary Art from Korea, National Museum of Korea, Gwacheon, Korea
Manipulating Reality, the Center for Contemporary Culture Strozzina, Florence, Italy
Conflicting Tales - Inaugural Exhibition of the Burger Collection, Zimmerstrasse, Berlin, Germany
Logic of Sensibility, Interalia Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2008
Youth Portraits, Avanthay Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland
* Peppermint Candy: Contemporary Art from Korea, National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina
*Asian Art Triennale, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Global EurAsia Special Exhibition, ART COLOGNE, Cologne, Germany
2007
* Mad Love, Arken Museum for Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
* Wonderland: Contemporary Korean Art, The National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
* Peppermint Candy: Contemporary Art from Korea, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile
*Urban Reviews Seoul: Space, People, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen(ifa), Stuttgart, Berlin, Germany
2006
Give Me Shelter, Union Gallery, London, UK
2005
*Beautiful Cynicism, ARARIO GALLERY, Beijing, China
*Seoul; Until Now, Charlottenborg Udstillingbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark
Post IMF, Art Ark Gallery, Shanghai, China
2004
*Young Artists from Korea, China and Japan, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwhachon, Korea
*Officina Asia, Galleria d'arte moderna, Bologna, Italy
*UNUSUAL COMBINATION, Plus Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
*Real Reality, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
*Out the Window, The Japan Foundation Asia Center, Tokyo, Japan
2003
Unique, Gallery VU, Paris, France
*Facing Korea-ID, FOAM (Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam), Netherland
*Mobile, Alternative Space Care Of, Milano, Italy
2002
*ORIENT-EXTREME, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France
*Area of Photograph, Museum of Art Saitama, Saitama, Japan
*Area of Photograph, Sendai mediatheque, Sendai, Japan
*Mirror of daily, Pusan Metropolitan Museum of art, Busan, Korea
2001
*Silence of the City, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
Alchemy, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
*Family, Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2000
*Disturbance Exhibition, Boda Gallery, Seoul, Korea (Selected two person’s exhibition)
*Join & Expression, Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwangju, Korea
* Expression of the Times- eye& hand, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
*Error Interchange, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
*Ji-Rok-Wi-Ma, Seonam Museum, Seoul, Korea
1999
*Hoboo-Hohyung, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
*Transtion of the Century, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Vacuum-packed Exhibition, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, Korea



*Catalogue Published

Residency
2010
Doosan Residency, New York, USA
2005
National Art Studio Changdong, Seoul, Korea
2003
Youngeun Artist-in-Residence, Gwangju, Gyeonggi, Korea

Collaboration
2009
Collaboration with W Korea, August Issue, Seoul, Korea
Hoodie on Moment, Nike Sportswear, Gallery HYUNDAI Gangnam Space, Seoul, Korea
2008
Collaboration with Haper’s Bazaar, Boon the Shop, Seoul, Korea
Collaborative Deodorant-type work with Kean Band, Kean Band Concert, London, UK
NIKE SU08_DUNK “Be True”, Seoul, Korea
2006
Collaboration with Fendi, Galley IHN, Seoul, Korea
2002
Advertisement of OPAQUE, Department store in Ginza, Tokyo, Japan

Collections  
The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Korea
Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
Art Sonje Center, Korea
Ssamzi Collection, Korea
Asano Institute, Japan
Laurence Geoffrey’s, Korea
Embassy of Switzerland, Switzerland
David Roberts Art Foundation, UK
The Zabludowicz Collection, UK
Burger Collection, Hong Kong
Roundabout Collection, Hong Kong
Universal Music Group, UK
Arario Collection, Korea

 

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