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KWON KI SOO

시와 달이 있는 풍경 Poem and Landscape with Moon-Golden Waves

시와 달이 있는 풍경 Poem and Landscape with Moon-Golden Waves

2023, real gold leaf and acrylic on canvas on board, 72.7X60.6cm

Meditation in the reflected red forest with flame flowers

Meditation in the reflected red forest with flame flowers

2013-2014, acrylic on canvas on board, 116.7X90.9cm

Stand in the penumbra-bronze-Gold

Stand in the penumbra-bronze-Gold

2023, real gold leaf and acrylic on canvas on board, 72.7X53cm

Freedom from all thoughts-You and I-Silver

Freedom from all thoughts-You and I-Silver

2019, acrylic on canvas on board, 90.9x116.7cm

Bio
M.A. Painting, Hongik University Graduate School
B.A., Painting, Hongik University, School of Fine Arts

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024   Spring_Rainbow, Muehyung Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwangju
2023   Nana Nana Nana Nana, Gallery Pi&Kim, Seoul
2022   Dongdong, Wanwol Jangqu, Jaha Museum of Art, Seoul
2015    Hoosou 後素, Lotte Gallery Main Branch, Seoul
2013    The Golden Garden, Park Yeosuk Gallery, Jeju
2011    Reflection : 明鏡止水, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul
2010    Are you waiting for me?, Metaphysical Art Gallery, Taipei
2006   Black Forest, Artpark Gallery, Seoul


Awards and Residencies
2015    Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence (Visiting Professor), New York, NY
2003   Jerusalem Center for Visual Arts, Jerusalem, Israel

 

About the artist

 Kwon Ki-soo (b. 1972) coined the term "dongguri," meaning a person who is not defined by gender or age, and has made the world aware of Korean art by presenting contemporary interpretations of traditional Eastern ideas and techniques. He studied Korean painting at Hongik University and Dong Graduate School, and his work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, Busan Biennale, Shanghai Long Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, MORI ART Museum, Japan, Saatchi Gallery, London, Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), New York, UN Headquarters, New York, MoCA Taipei, Taipei, and Today Art Museum, Beijing.
In 2015, he was selected as a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Visiting Professor, one of the most prestigious scholarships in the world, and was twice selected to participate in Google Art projects alongside world-renowned contemporary artists such as American contemporary artist Jeff Koons, Japanese architect and installation artist Kengo Kuma, and world-renowned French aerial photographer Yann Arthus Bertrand. His works are in the collections of leading museums in Korea, including the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul Museum of Art, Gyeonggi Provincial Museum of Art, and Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as major art institutions abroad, including the Long Museum, Shanghai, and the Fondazione Claudio Buziol, Venice.

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