KWON KI SOO
![]() 시와 달이 있는 풍경 Poem and Landscape with Moon-Golden Waves2023, real gold leaf and acrylic on canvas on board, 72.7X60.6cm | ![]() Meditation in the reflected red forest with flame flowers2013-2014, acrylic on canvas on board, 116.7X90.9cm |
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![]() Stand in the penumbra-bronze-Gold2023, real gold leaf and acrylic on canvas on board, 72.7X53cm | ![]() Freedom from all thoughts-You and I-Silver2019, 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.