Kwon, Ki-Soo
(www.kisoo.com, www.kwonkisoo.com, www.dongguri.com E-mail: kissart@chol.com)
Born in Young-ju, Korea
Education
1998 M.F.A. Hongik university, Seoul
1996 B.F.A. Hongik university, Seoul
Solo Exhibitions
2012 Hello, Dongguri (Artmia, Beijing)
2011 Reflection : 明鏡止水 (Gallery Hyundai, Seoul)
Dongguri's mysterious smile (Sigiarts Gallery, Jakarta)
Dream Worlds (Opera Gallery, Dubai)
2010 Are you waiting for me? (Metaphysical Art Gallery, Taipei)
New paintings (Urban art, Seoul)
I have a dream (Opera Gallery, Paris)
Recent Work (Flowers Gallery, New York)
Sky High ( ILWOO Space, Seoul)
2009 Travel (Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeju Special Self-Governing Province)
Utopia (Bamboo Art Space, Shanghai)
From deep black (Flowers Gallery, London)
2008 4 Seasons (Parkryusook Gallery, Seoul)
Who's Dongguri?(Metaphysical Art Gallery,Taipei)
Layer (Gallery NoW, Seoul)
2006 Black Forest (Artpark Gallery,Seoul)
2005 Kwon, Ki Soo-Animation (PaikHaeYoung Gallery, Seoul)
2004 A Red Fountain (Gallery Fish, Seoul)
2002 Wow, This Is A Flower! ('Congdu' In An Annex To The Woljon Art Center, Seoul)
Wow, This Is A Flower! ( Gallery Fish, Seoul )
1998 The Show 1998 (Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul)
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2012 Korean Art in the textbooks (Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul)
Korean eye( Fairmont Bab Al Bahr, Abu Dhabi)
Future Pass (National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiching, Taiwan)
Jin(to Advance). Tong(to Communicate). Contemporary Korean Art Since the 1990’s (Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju)
The Garden with Plum flowers (Whanki Museum, Seoul)
2011 Logic of Imagination (Zaha Museum, Seoul)
Poem and Drawing (Gana Art Center, Seoul)
Closer to Contemporary Art (Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan)
Future Pass - from Asia to the World : Collateral Event of the 54th International art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia (Abbazia di San Gregorio, Venice)
靑-Beyond the Blue (Gallery Hyundai, Seoul)
Technology meets tradition (Ewha Womans University Museum, Seoul)
Korean Eye: Energy and Matter (Museum of Art and Design, New York)
Where’s My Friends’ Home? (Nam Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul)
Future Pass (Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam)
2010 Invitation to a Wondrous House (NAM SEOUL annex building of the SEOUL MUSEUM of ART)
Free Style : A Dialogue Between Art and Design (Hongik Museum of Art HOMA, Seoul)
Medium & Imagination(Ehwa Art Center, Seoul)
In the Name of Korean Painting (Pohang Museum Of Steelart, Pohang)
40X40X40X40 (Cottenseed, Seoul)
Very Fun Park (Fubon Art Foundation, Taipei)
Busan Biennale - Now Asian Artist (Busan)
small is beautiful XXVIII (Flowers gallery, London)
2009 In Search of Plum Blossoms in Paintings (Gwangju National Museum, Gwangju)
Korean Eye-Moon Generation (Phillips de Pury & Company Space at The Saatchi Gallery, London)
Animamix Biennial (Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai, Today's Art Museum in Beijing, Guangdong Museum of Art in Guangzhou)
2008 One Fine Spring Day (Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju,Korea)
Child at Heart :Purity in Innocence in Korean Art (Ewha Womans University Museum, Seoul)
Larger than Life Art Gallery - iGoogle artist campaign (NewYork)
An Island 649-11(LIG ArtHall, Seoul)
2008 Very Fun Park (Fubon Art Foundation, Taipei)
YooEoGong(遊於空), Wander on the Sky (63 Sky Art Museum, Seoul)
Mirror,mirror!(The Children's Gallery of the National Museum of Contemporary Art. Korea)
2007 Exposition Animanga-EXIT and VIA's international Festivals (Creteil/Maubeuge, France)
Funny Nature-1st NeW&NoW program (Gallery NoW, Seoul))
Surplus Time (THE Gallery, Seoul)
Another Home (Cais Gallery, Hong Kong)
Giants in Illusion (Seajong art center, Seoul)
Asian Art Now (Soka Art Center, Taipei)
Flowers, their Beauty (Aram Art Gallery,The Goyang cultural Foundation,Goyang)
The blooming day in the Museum(Gongju National Museum, Gongju)
Animamix Biennial;From Modernity to Eternity(MOCA Shanghai, Shanghai)
Moon! (Garam Gallery, Seoul)
3L4D-3rd life 4th dimension, (Sun Yat-sen Museum,Taipei)
One More, Please!-2007 Hong Kong Art Buffet(Hong Kong City Hall, Hong kong)
2006 A Hat and A Boa (Gallery Skape, Seoul)
Fiction @ Love (MOCA Shanghai, Shanghai)
Joyful art travel (Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju,Korea)
The 2td China International Cartoon and Animation Festival( Hangzhou , China)
Portrait of innocence mind (Garam Gallery, Seoul)
Power of imagination (Korea University Museum, Seoul)
Fiction @ Love (Singapore Art Museum, Singapore)
Fusion Korean Painting (Homeplus gallery, Gwangyang)
Who are you (Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul)
Cha-Do-Sal-In-G-Gea(Cais Gallery, Seoul)
Juan Media Festival-Joy mART(Youth Media Cultural Center, Juan)
Busan biennial-'Living Furniture'(Busan, Korea)
On-go-e-g-shin (Daejeon Municipal Museum of Art, Daejeon)
The 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (Queensland Art Gallery, Australia)
2005 New Acquistions 2004 (National Museum of Contemporary Art. Korea)
The Family (Insaartcenter, Seoul)
Traveling Art Museum 2005 (National Museum of Contemporary Art.Korea)
The Elegance of Silence(MORI ART MUSUEM, Tokyo)
Tuch, Tuch (Kwanghwamun Gallery, Seoul)
Looking Both Ways : Three Artists (Yellow Bird Gallery, Newburgh, New York )
The Zoo in the Museum (Jeonbuk Province Art Museum)
Seoul Exhibition of Young Artists (Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul)
MAM SCREEN (Mori Bilding Screen, Tokyo)
The 1st China International Animation and Comic Industrial Expo (Hangzhou, China)
Rainbow Sherbet (Gallery Skape, Seoul)
Paper, pens and ink (Kumho Museum, Seoul)
The Magic of Art (Chosun-ilbo Museum, Seoul)
United Buddy Bears Seoul Festival 2005 (Seoul Olympic Park, Seoul)
AnSan Media Art 2005 (Danwon gallery, Ansan)
The Character in Contemporary Art ( Home Plus Gallery, Seoul)
Share the Love with Avenuel (Avenuel, Seoul)
Dive into Life ( Shinsegae Gallery, Incheon)
Art Toon,Toon Art (Gail Art Museum, Gapyeong)
The Magic of Art (Gallery M, Daegu)
2004 Sinjinsadaeboo(Hyundai Department Sky Park, Seoul)
2004 Traveling Art Museum (National Museum of Contemporary Art.Korea)
Beauty and the Beast (Marronnier Art Center, Seoul)
What happens between Art and Popular Culture(National Museum of Contemporary Art.Korea)
Wow, This Is A Flower! (Jebiwool Art Museum, Gwacheon)
Butterfly which dream (Unicef hall, Chuncheon)
Gulliver's Travels (Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul)
Summer Screen ( ⓜgallery ,SK Telecom mobile gallery june)
Fiction.Love-Ultra New Vision in Contemporary Art(Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, MOCA-Taipei)
The 1st Juan Media Festival-Joy mART(Youth Media Cultural Center, Juan)
Image Utopia (Kepco plaza, Seoul)
Tadpole and frog (Gallery Artpark)
Art Toon/Toon Art (Gail Art Museum, Gapyeong)
2003 'Prince & Princess' (Gallery Hyundai, Seoul)
Comics in Art, Art in Comics (Ewha Womans University Museum, Seoul)
Children's Room with Furniture & Pictures (Insaartcenter, Seoul)
Jeonju International Film Festival 2003-Special Projects<JIFF MIND2003> (Jeonju)
Funny sculpture! Funny painting! 2 (Gallery Sejul, Seoul)
Korean painting Paradiso (Posco Art Museum, Seoul)
Plastic (Gallery Artpark, Seoul)
Fly Dongguri-KBS(Korea Broadcasting Station) Digital Museum
Finding the hidden images-Befor & After (Daejeon Municipal Museum of Art, Daejeon)
Korean Contemporary Art Exhibition-Art and Playing (Hangaram Art Museum of Seoul Arts Center, Seoul)
Museum Made of Block (A＋Space,Seoul)
Little Masters (Gallery Artpark, Seoul)
Pleasure Factory (Seoul Museum of Art , Seoul)
Moist window 04 Season's greetings (Art center Nabi, TTL zone, Mobie service-June)
Very special gift (Stone & Water gallery)
Garden of Dreams & Memories(PaikHaeYoung gallery, Seoul)
Charity-present (Ssamzie art speace, seoul)
2002 Flow: New Tendencies in Korean Art - Paradise Among Us (Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul)
Seoul Performing Arts Festival 2002-'La Cantarrice Chauve', -The Stage Design and Theatre Exhibition (Munye Theater - small theater , Seoul)
The 1st Floodgate Open Art Museum Project (Hangang Park, Seoul)
2002 Kwanghwamun Cartoons Exhibition (Kwanghwamun Gallery, Seoul)
Soo-Mook Painter Challenge-BlackAni (Marronnier Art Center, Seoul)
2001 81-3 Culture space (Sejong Center, Seoul)
Filter-The 4th(HanWon Art Center, Seoul)
Korean Spirit (Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul)
2000 Market-Make up (Mapogu.Seoul)
1999 Don,Don,Don(Gallery Savina, Seoul)
Filter-Anxiety (Seoul Art Center, Seoul)
Bus-Demonstration (Sung-gok Art Museum, Seoul)
Visual Culture-Change a Century (Sung-gok Art Museum, Seoul)
Ho-Bu-Ho-Hyong (Art Sunje Center, Seoul)
1998 Filter-Come Out of the Forest (Insa Gallery, Seoul)
Kim's Outlet Open Festival (Kim's Outlet, Bundang)
Filter-Accustomed and Unaccustomed (Boda Gallery, Seoul)
Drawing and Painting (Dukwon Gallery, Seoul)
1997 Mirror (Seo-nam Art Museum, Seoul)
1996 The 15 th Grand Art Exhibition of Korea(National Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwachun)
Sand paper(Seokyung Gallery, Seoul)
Residence
2003 Jerusalem Center for Visual Arts, Jerusalem, Israel