Kwon Kisoo
( www.kwonkisoo.com, www.kisoo.com, www.dongguri.com )
E-mail: kissart26@gmail.com, kissart1@naver.com)
Instagram @KWONKISOO_STUDIO
Education
1998 M.F.A. Hongik university, Seoul
1996 B.F.A. Hongik university, Seoul
Solo Exhibitions(selected)
2024 Spring_Rainbow(MDMoCA-Mudeung Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwanju)
Colour Bamboo 色竹(Project Space Mium, Seoul)
2023 Neonanananananeona(Gallery Pi&Kim, Seoul)
Gift Box (Space Supernormal. Seoul)
Artist, Who are You!(Culture Station Seoul 284 RTO-Artist Project, Seoul)
Beyond Eternity (Handok Museum, Eumseong )
Beyond Eternity (Handock Future Complex, Seoul)
2022 The Universe in the Golden Eye (Atelier Aki, Seoul)
Dong-Dong, Wanwoljangchwi( 玩月長醉) (Zaha Museum, Seoul)
2021 Art Skybrige (BODA Gallery, Incheon Academy of Science and Arts)
Dongguri 20 Years (Project Space Mium, Seoul)
2019 Part I Pacho(芭蕉) Plantain_ Permanent Blue (Atelier Aki, Seoul)
Part II Drowing (Atelier Aki, Seoul)
2015 Hoosou(後素) (Lotte Gallery, Seoul)
2013 The Golden Garden (Parkryusook Gallery, Jeju Special Self-Governing Province)
Kwon Kisoo (Space.1- Daum Communications, Jeju Special Self-Governing Province)
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)
2024 Sabo Collection & Ingo Mauer_Sabo und Freunde(Das Zimmer Gallery, Seoul)
Special Day with NAVER (NAVER company building 1784, Seongnam)
Moon and Labyrinth (SH gallery, Seoul)
Wave Exhibition of the 3th Generation of Korean Painting (Hanbyeokwon Art Museum, Seoul)
Hanbok, Reborn as Art (Nazarbayev Centre, Kazakhstan)
Eight Eccentrics of Wanju(完州八怪) (Open Space Nu-e, Wanju)
WEEKEND+ in Gangdong(Gangdong Foundation for Arts & Culture, Seoul)
Time Traveler's Collection(Das Zimmer Gallery, Seoul)
2023 A Glance Back~ The Theater of Youth 回眸~ 靑春劇場 (Metaphysical Art Gallery, Taipei)
The New Peach Blossom Land Paintings 新桃源圖 (Woljeon Museum of Art Icheon, Icheon)
Hanbok, Reborn as Art (Savina Museum, Seoul)
Jeonnam International Sumuk Biennale (Mokpo City, Jindo Country, and other parts of Jeollanam-do)
Reflection of the Three(Project Space Mium, Seoul)
Turn Together in the Water (Yeonorang Seonyeo Theme Park GWIBIGO, Pohang)
Image of the Times, the Times of Image: How Can We Explain about This (Lee Kang Ha Art Museum, Gwangju)
Art Show & Fundraiser (Savina Museum, Seoul)
2022 Semi Art Community Project : Boogie Woogie Art Museum (Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan)
Art Seongsu (Hello Museum, Seoul)
Distance Between Me&Me (Powerlong Art Center / Xu Gallery, Shanghai)
Reboot01: Pre-open (Gallery Pi&Kim, Seoul)
2021 One Day in The Future...(如果有一天...) (Metaphysical Art Gallery, Taipei)
Public Art Project -Youngheung Neulpurn Art Center(Neulpurn Center, Youngheung)
Uncomfortably Exciting (Gangnam Interior Design Week, Seoul)
The Encounter Between Hanguel and Korean Painting (Korean Cultural Center in Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
The Labyrinth 迷宮 - Painting and Aesthetics (One·Edition Art Space, Seoul)
2021 World Callegraphy Biennale of Jeollabuk-do - To embrace nature (Sori Arts Center of Jeollabuk-do, Jeonju)
2020 Dialogue (Atelier Aki, Seoul)
Super Collection (Superior Gallery, Seoul)
Endless : Extended sight (Atelier Aki, Seoul)
2019 Korean eye:2020 Korean Contemporary Art, pop-up(Hana Bank, Seoul)
2018 Return of Desire (Jungnang Art Center, Seoul)
The Third Print 'Homo Archivist; The Artist's Intervention' (Dohing Art, Seoul)
Urban Art (Urban Art, Seoul)
Where is Our Home? (Seoul Arts Center, Seoul)
2017 DNA of Coreanity (Wooyang Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeongju)
Nangmanchangcheon 浪漫窓前 (Kyungpook National University Art Museum, Daegu)
Moving Korea(Korean Cultural Center Philippines, Manila)
Happy End of Elephant Factory : Pleasant and Rustic Contemporary Art (Kyobo Art Center, Seoul)
Animamix Biennale 2017 : Myth & Science (Art:1 New Museum, Jakarta)
Small is beautiful (Flowers gallery, London)
2016 Sympathy (交感) : Berween art (Topaz Hall, Pangyo)
The Discovery of Space (Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan)
DNA of Coreanity (Tehran Milad Tower Gallery, Tehran)
Save the Earth : Green Corps (UN Headquarters, New York)
Falling in Love with women's Portraits (Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul)
Small is beautiful (Flowers gallery, London)
2015 Flower Power (Parkryusook Gallery, Seoul)
Public Project : Run Piano (Seoul)
The Moment of Karma-Singapore Open Media Art Festival(SOMAF)(Gillman Barracks, Singapore)
夢中哀傷-三色桃 (Zaha Museum, Seoul)
Hello Art (Gwanju Museum of Art, Gwanju)
Very Fun Park (Fubon Art Foundation, Taipei)
Children in Korean Art and Culture (Cheongju National Museum, Cheongiu)
2014 Neo-Sansu (Daegu Art Museum, Daegu)
A-AF Special Event (Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul)
2013 象-Image and Reality- Kwon Ki Soo * Kim Dong Yoo (SINDOH Art Space, Seoul)
In Search of Plum Blossoms (Parkryusook Gallery, Seoul)
Public Art Project 'Panorama of Paradise' (Dongchun Station, Incheon)
The Public's Extended (Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul)
ART & SHAKE -Daum Mobile Art project (Daum app)
Clues of Asia (Long Museum, Shanghai)
The Wind that Wakes Bamboo(Gwangju National Museum, Gwangju)
Animamix Biennale 2013-2014, Drama Within(Daegu Art Museum, Daegu)
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)
The art of a homepage(with Google)
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)
Grant
2015 Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence (Visiting Professor)
Residence
2003 Jerusalem Center for Visual Arts, Jerusalem, Israel