Painting of Seungtaik Jang which spans more than 30 years converges on one theme, which is to realize an exceptional and distinctive materiality the rectangular plane allows. His use of
lexiglas and industrial paint instead of oil paint and canvas well illustrates the radical and definite direction and attitude he chose. These new materials place his two-dimensional work in a realm that cannot be easily classified nor explained, and deepen the presence of pictorial objects by making the materiality of his work converge toward a more minimalistic and immediate plane. His work not only shows the perfection of the plane, but also fulfills conceptual completion as well as technical integrity.
A work of art is a cross section of a thoroughly individual world and a segmented interpretation. When we look at a work of art, we instantly realize the fact that it coincides with a form of thoroughly specific thinking. Nevertheless, the specificity of painting makes up the essential structure of the work, which only reveals itself minutely or with proportional scarcity. It is the vestige of paints minutely overlapped at the edges that reveals the pictorial quality in Layer Colors Painting, the latest series of Jang. Even though we are not sure whether it is intentional, only those who gaze at it are able to notice that the pictorial materiality is connected to an explosive emotion in such a minimized realm.
In his historical 1965 essay, ¡°Specific Objects,¡± Donald Judd defined painting as a three-dimensional object placed as a rectangle and a flat plane within a three-dimensional space. Instead of depending on the similarity to the world represented in it, painting is rather a distinctive object cut off as a part of the larger, unspecific world, and he emphasizes ¡°the thing as a whole, its quality as a whole is what is interesting.¡± The reason the world of each pictorial work is interesting is because of the shape and extraordinariness of the large and unspecific ¡®world¡¯ it belongs to. In this regard, Judd thinks the world of sculptors like his is in line with those of Rothko, Newman, Noland, and Stella. This idea places painting on a totally new horizon, by providing a clear perspective on the turn of paradigm that replaces oil painting and canvas with industrial paints and panels. As we know, what happened next was that the materiality of the plane takes the central place in our gaze.
There is another theme in the discussion of Judd to which we need to pay attention. That concerns an individual language that reveals the ¡®world.¡¯ When we talk about the painting as a flat object, we should discuss what cross section of the world it is, and how it is segmented from the world. To take an example, the painting of Rothko is not only a mass of cloud-like colors right at the center of a space surrounded by a rectangle, but also a cross section or segmented part of a universe, which can be infinitely extended through ¡®its¡¯ quality. Life and death, the subject and the object converge into the same quality in the world, and that convergence is called ¡®abstraction.¡¯ Its function is to condense the world in a concise and instant words, or to invent a kind of metonymic language.
We find several qualities that imply such condensation in Jang¡¯s work. The first one is ¡®overlapping.¡¯ His works consist of clear and translucent planes that are overlapped or accumulated. In Layer Colors Painting, the overlapping of brush strokes in different colors inevitably leads to a black plane. The traces of brush strokes, which had been made repeatedly and innumerably to create this deep, dark plane still remain at the edge. That is, we can find the surplus of painting that minutely reveals its physical structure at the edge of the non-material plane that takes up the greater part of the canvas. The second quality of the condensation is his pictorial rhetoric, which can be summed up as such that ¡°the essence of a painting exists in its vestige.¡± In other words, the essence of the darkness that covers the entire canvas is the vestige of the layers that accidentally present themselves at the edge of the painting. The essence of an object is the remnant left behind by the object, unknowingly and unconsciously pushed out of the range of gaze, and pushed aside to the edge. The visual rhetoric translated into words becomes the most powerful momentum driving his work.
The third is the concluded materiality of the canvas as ¡®a specific object.¡¯ The canvas as a special object is a crucial topic in painting and its way of existence is as universal as the gravity of the earth. Therefore, the point of our discussion is not why the canvas becomes the basic structure of painting. Instead, we need to recognize that this rectangular plane is directly connected to our existence. The question about the canvas is to question about our existence. Dealing with this question, Seungtaik Jang posits the object of painting as a thoroughly individual and completed object. To gaze at the object means to look at an existence that radiates a specific existential quality as well as its surface.
Layer Colors Painting series lies at the culminating point in the artist¡¯s long painting career. The topic of the work, the black, which has become as dark as an abyss through overlapping of countless brush strokes and acrylic paints with 20~30% opacity, looks like an equivalent of the universe that is itself full of life. The universe consists of overlapping of present moment that is constantly changing. If we compare the entire universe rolling from the infinite past to the present, each present moment corresponds to each individual scene from an infinitely long roll of film. The Universe is composed of infinitely overlapped present universes that are infinitely being segmented. The second law of thermodynamics says time does not exist in the physical reality. Time is a phenomenon that is recognized by the existence ruled by the irreversible principle of thermodynamics like humans. Perception, memory, and intuition of time take the form of overlapping. That is the most basic condition to constitute the ontological and epistemological characteristic of human being. Perception of time constructs the form of nowness that makes up a vast boundary between what has passed, what is to come, and what is in between. The act of perception is vast and vain. Connecting and aligning several flat brushes, Jang draws them in acrylic paint mixed with medium and makes a translucent membrane. Then he repeats the same act with a different color. Each brush stroke amounts to each individual present. The pictorial act of the artist in Layer Colors Painting, constitutes a form of reaction to the way the world and time exist as humans perceive.
Jang¡¯s work has not been fully appreciated in spite of its inherent completeness, stylistic originality and significance within the context of contemporary painting. His artistic world reminds us of the continuity of the Informel or abstract expressionist painting and at the same time implies a methodology of minimalism and conceptualism in terms of a new interpretation of painting through industrial media. The overlapping of layers or construction of immeasurably transparent or reflexive canvas in fact entails controversial issues regarding the structural qualities of painting. What we see is a self-perfecting and relational work calling for internal elements that penetrate the whole theory of painting at the same time. Through disproportional rhetoric, it creates a new type of visual narrative that operates like an index to the world, or symbol or sign. It is certain that Jang¡¯s work constitutes a totally important momentum in contemporary painting of Korea. We¡¯ll eventually understand that.
Colors render the shape more accurate and richer. The richer the color, the richer the shape looks. That stands to reason, however, Yeom Jin Uk reverses it. Rich colors wash out the spectator and the object to be seen, that is, the landscape, as well as the shape. There exists only it in there. Do you mean the displayed paintings make nothing be seen? They make things invisible but make them exist there. Rather, they render it to be itself.
The work of Yeom Jin Uk on display is characterized by the unique expression of the perception not only the artist but we experience in front of the landscape that would not allow description. The shape and color of an object we perceive usually helps us to tell it apart from the other, and definitely distinguishes the subject who sees it from the object that is to be seen. The work of the artist drives the objects as well as the spectator and the thing to be seen toward the state of undifferentiation, trying to secure a new realm in the very perception of ours. Her work does not make us see something, but place us in it or make us become the agent of seeing,
On the canvas where green, bluish green, and greyish blue unfold, we do not see any object nor are allowed to find the shape of an object. There are the flow of light and the shade, and we only encounter the shadows and the wind that only drop by briefly. The lucid light at the end of a scintillating object does not illumine the object which receives light. It rather makes an object break away from itself or makes us suspend such judgment. As a result, our gaze does not meet anything, and the tempted gaze becomes the gaze itself.
What we see is the wind, a flow of the air. We see mountains, grass and trees, which are also the flow, and the mountain which is one with the humid or clear air. The painting aspires to become the thing itself, instead of being mountains, trees, trails, rivers or ridges, or the shadow of a ridge. In her painting, it is not I who sees the painting. I exist in the painting as the air which wraps me around. I am in the air, in the wind, which is its flow. I am in the fragrance of the green itself. In her painting, our perception becomes both the cloud and the tree, both the tree and the mountain, and both the mountain and the wind at the same time. Objects are not differentiated from each other, and we experience being there as the body perceiving. There is no such gaze that looks at the ridges and the sky, clouds and trails, and the boundary of sparkling trees. There, our perception does not judge but become one with the objects.
The difference of color and light, the foot and the ridge of mountains, forests, rivers, trails, the sky, and rocks all become a part of me. Yeom Jin Uk is reduced to the eyes that combine the others into one on canvas, the experience in which she erases herself in the touch of the brush to become the other. It is the landscape that does not allow description and the moment in which gaze, perception, senses, experience, shapes and air are harmonized as one.
Jang SeungTaik
1959 Born in Pochun, Korea
Lives and works in Seoul
Education
1986 B.F.A, Hongik University, Seoul
1989 License, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs de Paris
Slected Solo Exhibitions
2019 Layer Color painting, Song Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2019 Layer Color painting, Gallery Bundo, Daegu, Korea
2016 Date gallery, Busan, Korea
2013 P&C Gallery, Daegu, Korea
2012 Gallery Skape, Seoul, Korea
2010 Gallery Date, Busan, Koaea
2008 Gallery Art Park, Seoul, Korea
2003 Gallery Bundo, Daegu, Korea
2002 Gaain Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2001 Gallery Ihn, Seoul, Korea
1999 Korea Art Gallery, Busan, Korea
1998 Gallery Yeh, Seoul, Korea
1998 C.A.I.S Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1997 Park Ryu-sook Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1996 Gallery Ci-Gong, Daegu, Korea
1995 Hak-chun Gallery, Cheongju, Korea
1995 Gallery Area, Paris, France
1993 Gallery Seomi, Seoul Art Fair, Seoul, Korea
1993 Gallery Seohwa, Seoul, Korea
1990 Choi Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1989 Korean Art Center, Paris, France
1989 Albert Chanot Art center, Clama, France
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 KIAF, COEX, Seoul, Korea
2019 Art Busan. BEXCO, Busan, Korea
2018 And never said a word, OCI Museum, Seoul, Korea
2018 The post Danseakhwa of Korea, Leeahn Gallery, Seoul/ Daegu, Korea
2017 Under the skin, Artbit Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2017 KIAF/ Solo project, Seoul, Korea
2015 Context Art Miami, Miami, USA
2015 KIAF, COEX, Seoul, Korea
2014 Empty Fullness : Materiality and Spirituality in Contemporary Korean Art, SPSI, Shanghai, China
2014 Draw the Painting, Gallery Sejul, Seoul, Korea
2013 The Color, Il Woo Space, Seoul, Korea
2012 Dansaekhwa- Korean Monochrnting, National Museum of Contemporary art
2012 Korea, Koreaome Pai, Vietnam
2011 Chinese, Korean and Japanese Modern Art Exhibition, Gallery 4 face space,
Beijing, China
2011 Captive Space, Gallery Skape, Seoul, Korea
2011 Dup, the meme, BIBI Space, Daejeon, Korea
2010 Temperate Aestetics, Tong-In Auction gallery, Seoul, Korea
2010 Drawing through process, Atelier 705, Seoul, Korea
2010 Daegu Art Fair, Daegu, Korea
2010 Seoul International Art Fair, COEX, Seoul, Korea
2010 In Side Out, Bongsan Cultural Center/ Seok Gallery, Daegu, Korea
2010 Korea Gallery Art Fairs 2010, BEXCO, Busan, Korea
2009 Daegu Art Fair, Daegu, Korea
2009 Painted painting, Gallery Art Park, Seoul, Korea
2008 Brushed, non-brushed after 10 years, Gallery Bundo, Daegu, Korea
2008 Seoul International Art Fair, KOEX, Seou
2007 color.Surface.Spirit, Gallery Topohous, Seoul, Korea
2006 Sharing the Passion, Gallery Yeh, Seoul, Korea
2006 Quadrangle's colors, Gallery M, Daegu, Korea
2006 Light &Mind, Shin Museum of Art, Chungju, Korea
2005 Korea International Art Fair, KOEX, Seoul, Korea
2005 Pochon Contemporary Art Festival, Pochon, Korea
2005 Korean Contemporary Art Festival, Art center, Seoul, Korea
2005 Soamu Paris/Seoul, Korean Foundation, Seoul, Korea
2005 Korean Contemporary Painting, Gallery Yeh, Seoul, Korea
2004 Monochrom Painting of Korea, Past and Present, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2004 Korean Contemporary Art Festival, Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2004 Gi-jun Art Festival, Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, Suwon, Korea
2003 The Plastic, Gallery Art Park, Seoul, Korea
2002 Understanding Abstract Art, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
2002 La difference et la coexistence, Noam Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2002 Chemical Art, Gallery Sagan, Seoul, Korea
2001 Korean Art 2001, The Reinstatement of Painting, National Museum of
2001 Contemporary Art, Korea
2001 3 Artists, Maechyang Gallery, Daegu, Korea
2001 Art &Space, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
2000 Gwang-ju Biennale 2000,Special Exhibition ; The facet of Korea and Japanese
2000 Contemporary Art, Kwangju, Korea
2000 Le Plastique, Gallery Bhak, Seoul, Korea
2000 The New Millenium, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
2000 Window Gallery, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
2000 Doh &Jang, Gallery Sagan, Seoul, Korea
2000 Beyond the canvas, Gallery Ihn, Seoul, Korea
2000 Painting &Sculpture, Gallery Seohwa, Seoul, Korea
1999 Meeting with Time and Space; three Dimentional Painting, Gallery Yeh, Seoul, Korea
1998 Media and Painting, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
1998 98' Seoul Art Fair, Park Ryu-Sook Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1998 San Francisco International Art Fair, USA
1998 '98 Art Chicago, USA
1998 Art as Theraphy, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
1998 Chungdam Art Fair, Park Ryu-Sook Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1998 Version 1, C.A.I.S Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1998 Five Freinds of Simon, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea
1998 Brushed, Non-Brushed, Sai Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1997 Three Artists, Hakchun Gallery, Chungju, Korea
1997 Special Exhibition Japan Indepandants, DongKyungdo Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1997 Ecole de Seoul, gallery Kwanhoon, Seoul, Korea
1996 Place to Space, Gallery Gaain, Seoul, Korea
1996 Courant d'Art, Deauville, France
1996 '94 Daegu Work Shop, Gallery Cigong, Daegu, Korea
1993 Small is Beautiful, Woong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1993 Sonamu Atelier, Korean Art Center, Paris, France
1993 Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge, France
1993 Salon de Bagneaux, France
1992 Work on paper, Gallery Seohwa, Seoul, Korea
1992 Gallery Guthac-Balin, Paris, France
1991 Three Artists Drawing, Choi Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1991 Salon de la Jeune Peinture, Grand Palais, Paris, France
1991 Maison des Beaux Arts Gallery, Paris, France
1989 Korean Contemporary Painting, Foundation Vasarery, Aix-en-Provence, France
1988 Salon de Montrouge, Montroug, France
1988 Vision de Paris, Hankook Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1988 Salon de montrouge, montrouge, France
1988 Independants, Art Center, Seoul, Korea
1988 Dong-A Grand Prix, National Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
1984 Beaumont Biennale, Beaumont, France
Public CollectionsNational
Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Seoul Metropolitan Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
University of MyungJi, Seoul, Korea
KIM Hyunsik
1965 Born in Sancheong, Korea
1992 BFA, Department of Painting, Hongik University, Seoul
Lives and works in Ulsan, Korea
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018 Light Reverberates, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul
2016 Who Likes K Colors?, Hakgojae Gallery, Shanghai
2016 Who likes Colors?, Art Loft, Brussels
2013 Inbetween Spaces, Mauger Modern Art, London
2012 Line¡¤Zen, Gallery Lee & Bae, Busan, Korea
2011 Kim Hyunsik solo exhibition, FN Art Space, Seoul
2010 Illusion, Gallery LVS, Seoul
2008 Beyond the Visible, Simyo Gallery, Seoul
2008 Beyond the Visible, Alliance Francaise De Busan, Busan, Korea
2008 In Between Spaces, Soul Art pace, Busan, Korea
2007 Between Spaces, Gallery Jung, Seoul
2007 Opening Show, Arbazaar, Busan, Korea
2006 Slash Spaces, Gallery NC, Busan, Korea
2005 Nuance, Insa Gallery, Seoul
2003 Time Hole, Gallery Aum Tae-Ik, Busan, Korea
2002 JIGO – From the long time ago, Insa Gallery, Seoul
2000 JIGO – A spotted puppy smiled like a girl, Gallery Sum, Busan, Korea
1995 JIGO – Shadow, Gallery Boda, Seoul
1993 JIGO – Traveling, Samjeong Art Space, Seoul
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 Art Miami – Korean Art Show (Organized by Galleries Association of Korea, Art Miami), The Art Miami
2017 Pavilion; The Context Pavilion, Miami, U.S.
2017 Asia Now – Paris Asian Art Fair, Avenue Hoche, Paris
2017 Art New York, Pier 94, New York
2017 Art Paris, Grand Palais, Paris
2016 Art 021, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai
2016 1st International Exhibition of Contemporary Art of E¡¯mei, E¡¯mei Contemporary Art Museum, E¡¯mei, China
2016 Dansaek Dagam (Ó¤ßäÒýÊï), Gallery Lee & Bae, Busan, Korea
2015 Made in the EAST, MDZ Art Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
2015 Start Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, London
2014 Korea Tomorrow, Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul
2014 Blue & D Major, Ilju & Sunhwa Gallery, Seoul
2014 Insight into Life, Soul Art Space, Busan, Korea
2014 Deep in Thought and Colors, Gallery Lee & Bae, Busan, Korea
2013 Silhouette, Gallery LVS, Seoul
2012 Art in House Space, Gallery Lee & Bae, Busan, Korea
2012 Busan Biennale – Special Exhibition, Busan Cultural Center, Busan, Korea
2012 K Art Star, Insa Art Center, Seoul
2012 Arumjigi, Horim Art Center, Seoul
2011 Korea Tomorrow – Happy Foundation, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
2011 G20 Seoul Summit Celebration Exhibition for the Korean Fine Art, National Assembly Library; Shuim Museum, Seoul
2011 Utopia Regret – Dream in Dream, Art Space Loo, Seoul
2011 Unique & Useful, Interalia Art Company, Seoul
2010 Korea Tomorrow, Hzone Curating Company, Seoul
2010 Coexistence II – Ramble the Future through Modern, Gallery IS, Seoul
2010 Financial News Commemoration Exhibition, Sejong Center For the Performing Arts, Seoul
2010 A State of Flux, Ahso Gallery, Seoul
2010 Two Men Show, Gallery Orem, Paris
2010 Hyper Color, CK Art Hall, Ulsan, Korea
2010 Ventriloquism of Images, Interalia Art Company, Seoul
2009 The Echo Wave, Gallery Club, Seoul
2009 Kim¡¯s Art Field Museum Opening Show, Kim¡¯s Art Field Museum, Busan, Korea
2009 Art Zurich, Zurich Oerlikon Railway Station, Zurich, Switzerland
2009 Art Messe Munchen, Messe Munchen, Munich, Germany
2009 A Happy Accompany, Gallery the K, Seoul
2009 Opening Show, Gallery Woolim, Seoul
2009 The Logic of Sensation, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
2009 Heads & Figures, Gallery von Braunbehrens, Munich, Germany
2008 The Soul of Korean Contemporary Art, Insa Art Center, Seoul
2008 KIM June & KIM Hyunsik, Urban Art, Seoul
2008 Art Zurich, Zurich Oerlikon Railway Station, Zurich, Switzerland
2008 Art Messe Munchen, Messe Munchen, Munich, Germany
2008 Two Men Show, Ming Art Center, Beijing
2008 10th Anniversary, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
2008 On the Face, Gallery Isang, Seoul
2008 The First Story, Designer Zoo Gallery, Seoul
2007 A Contemporary View, Soul Art Space, Busan, Korea
2007 KAMI's Choice – Best of Best 20, Insa Art Center, Seoul
2007 Imagination – View, Gallery Jung, Seoul
2007 The Diversity of Alike, Davin Art Space, Busan, Korea
2007 Wind from East Asia, Dingceng Hualang, Shanghai
2006 Another, Busan Metropolitan City Gallery, Busan, Korea
2006 40 – Movement of 33 Artists, Gallery Jamiwon, Busan, Korea
2006 Wa-In(ìÑ), Alliance Francaise, Busan, Korea
2006 GADA – The 2nd Story, Gallery Bow, Ulsan, Korea
2005 Small Artwork, Gallery Bow, Ulsan, Korea
2004 Memory & Document, Busan Metropolitan City Gallery, Busan, Korea
2004 Mr. Mustard¡¯s Excursion, Picasso Gallery, Busan, Korea
2004 A Bridge We Walk Across Together, Eulsukdo Cultural Center, Busan, Korea
2004 GADA, Ulsan Culture & Arts Center, Ulsan, Korea
2003 Contemporary Artists – Three Dimensional, Open Gallery, Busan, Korea
2003 Contemporary Artists in Busan, Busan Metropolitan City Gallery, Busan, Korea
2002 Hand in Hand, Simyo Gallery, Seoul
2002 Disposable Products, Yu Gallery, Busan, Korea
2001 Contemporary Artists in Busan, Busan Cultural Center, Busan, Korea
2001 Opening Show, Uhm Tae Ik Gallery, Busan, Korea
2001 Autumn Tales, A & D Gallery, Ulsan, Korea
2001 PCAG & TAC Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition, Daegu Arts Center, Daegu, Korea
2001 Artificial/Life, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
2001 6 Artists, Three Dimensional+Two Dimensional, Space Maru, Changwon, Korea
2000 20 Artists 200-Size Canvases, Seongsan Art Hall, Changwon, Korea
2000 Opening the New Morning, HHI Culture & Arts Center, Ulsan, Korea
1999 Life, Power, Death, Alternative Space Sum, Busan, Korea
MESS, Picasso Gallery, Busan, Korea
Contemporary Artists in Busan, Busan Cultural Center, Busan, Korea
1998 21C Young Artists, Yeouido Riverside, Seoul
1996 The Bodiless Institutions, Kumho Gallery, Seoul
1994 The Image of Humans, Reflecting the Mind, Dongho Gallery, Seoul
1993 Re-Drawing, Sagak Gallery, Seoul
1992 Re-Drawing, Cheongnam Art Space, Seoul
1989 Independent, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
1986 Independent, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Lee Seung-Hee
1958 born in Cheongju, Korea
EDUCATION
1986 Bachelor of art, majored in craft, Cheongju University
Works and lives in Zingdezhen, China
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
2019 TAO, LEE & BAE, Busan, Korea
2017 TAO: Between Dimensions, Park Ryusook Gallery, Korea
2016 From Clayzen to Tao, Gallery Lee & Bae, Korea
2016 TAO, Park Ryusook Gallery, Korea
2015 Object beyond Object, Force Gallery, Beijing, China
2014 Nada out of Nada, Gallery Lee & Bae, Korea
2013 Beyond Expectation, Park Ryusook gallery, Korea
2013 Path, Wally Findlay Gallery, Palm Beach, USA
2013 TAO, Shin Gallery, New York, USA
2011 Who Are You (ý§ä²êó), Artside, Korea
2010 CLAYZEN, Gallery Lee & Bae, Korea
2009 CLAYZEN, Korean Craft Museum,Cheonju, Korea
2009 CLAYZEN, UM Gallery, Korea
2009 CLAYZEN, ARTSIDE Gallery, Beijing, China
2006 CLAYZEN, Musim Gallery, Korea
2005 Sound Put in Bowl, Musim Gallery, Korea
2001 Media Future Language, Daejeon Strip Culture Center, Korea
2000 50 People Community Solo Exhibition, Cheogju Art Hall, Korea
1998 Dishes, Musim Gallery, Cheongju, Korea
1996 The shadow of possession, Musim Gallery, Cheongju, Korea
1995 Use and Enjoy, Hakcheon Gallery, Cheongju, Korea
1994 ÷Ïïï, To ¡¤ Art Space, Seoul, Korea
1994 Possession and Dream, Hakcheon Gallery, Cheongju, Korea
1993 Private civilization, Seonam Museum, Seoul, Korea
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2018 Korea Galleries Art Fair
2018, Coex, Seoul, Korea
2017 From, in, to Jingdezhen; Eight Experiences, ClayarchGimhae Museum, Gimhae
2017 Rethinking Craft, SeMA Nam-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2017 Reduction of Sense, Ozasa Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2017 Contemporary Korean Ceramics, V&A Museum, London, UK
2016 International Biennale ofVallauris
2016, Vallauris, France
2016 CCC. CéramiqueContemporaineCoréenne, FondationBernardaud, Limoges, France
2016 Not Two, Space MOM, Cheongju, Korea
2016 Lee And Lee: Empathy Zone, Daecheongho Museum of Art, Korea
2015 Familiar Otherness, HongKong Art Centre, HongKong
2015 Put souls in Joseon White Porcelain – GuBonchang and Lee Seunghee, Choi Sunu House, Seoul, Korea
2015 Cheongju International Craft Biennale, The Old Cheongju Tobacco Processing Plant, Cheongju, Korea
2015 START-This is Tomorrow, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2015 Constancy& Change in Korean Traditional Crafts, Milano Triennale Museum, Italy
2014 Transcription of typical museums, Daecheongho Museum, Cheongju, Korea
2014 Art, Toward Humanities, Gallery Lee & Bae, Busan, Korea
2014 White Porcelain Admiration, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2014 Casting Plus, City Gallery, San Dieogo, USA
2014 Walking in Origin, Force Gallery, Beijing, China
2014 Summer Art Festival – FEEL LIFE, Waterfall Mansion, New York, USA
2014 Beauty of Arts, Shanghai Art Collection Museum, Shanghai, China
2014 An Ode to Blue, Icheon World Ceramic Center, Icheon, Korea
2013 ART Hamptons, Hampton, New York, USA
2013 LeeSeunghee and Lee Ganghyo, UM Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2012 11 Artists with the MACKALLAN, Artside, Seoul, Korea
2012 Half and Half – Lee Seunghee and Lee Jongmok, Gallery Lee & Bae, Busan, Korea
2011 Transferred Image, Gallery Lux, Seoul, Korea
2010 Stubbornness of memory – Empty Bowl, A jar looks like the moon, SPACE MOM, Cheongju, Korea
2009 LikeYve Saint Laurent, Artside, Seoul, Korea
2006 BokJongsoon and Lee Seunghee, Halfway Gallery, Daejeon, Korea2006 Hopscotch, Musim Gallery, Cheongju, Korea
2005 Next to Gold Crown, Cheongju National Museum, Cheongju, Korea
2005 SOFT POWER, Deajeon National Museum, Deajeon, Korea
2004 Soft Repetition, Musim Gallery, Cheongju, Korea
2004 Objet& Objet, Gana Art Space, Seoul, Korea
2004 100 mirrors, Samsungdong Trade Center, Seoul, Korea
2003 Cheongju International Crafts Biennale, Space MOM, Cheongju, Korea
2002 Souvenir, MEMENTO, Lotte Gallery, Daejeon, Korea
2001 Youngnam¡¤Honam and Chungcheong, Daejeon National Museum, Daejeon, Korea
2001 JeonSangyong and Lee Seunghee, Shin Gallery, Cheongju,
2000 Movement of the center, Korea Arts & Culture Education Service, Seoul, Korea / Daejeon National Museum, Daejeon, Korea
1997 Mind of clay, Walkerhill Museum, Seoul, Korea
1995 Gongsan Art Festival, Dongah Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1994 Talking environment, Funabashi Citizen Gallery, Japan
1994 At the beach, Chiba Art Museum, Japan
YEOM JIN-UK
1964 Born in Busan, Korea
EDUCATION
B.F.A, M.F.A, in painting, Busan National University
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
1992 Memory of Mountain, Nouveau Gallery, Busan, korea
1997 Memory of Mountain, Sewon Gallery, Busan, Korea
2004 Memory of Mountain, Marine Gallery, Busan, Korea
2008 Memory of Mountain, Picasso Gallery, Busan, Korea
2009 Memory of Mountain, Cho Bu Kyung Gallery, Busan, Korea
2011 Memory of Mountain, Migwang Gallery, Busan, Korea
2013 Memory of Mountain, France Cultural Center Art Space, Busan, korea
2013 Memory of Mountain, Dong Pirang Gallery, Tongyeong, Korea
2015 Memory of Mountain, Migwang Gallery, Busan, Korea
2015 Memory of Mountain, Art Space, Busan, Korea
2017 Memory of Mountain, Gallery Dan, Busan, Korea
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
1987 '87 New Artist, Sain Gallery, Busan, Korea
1988 Grand Palais Exhibition, Grand Palais Museum, Paris, France
1989 Busan Fine Art, Today and Tomorrow, Sain Gallery, Busan, Korea
1992 '92 Everyday Life and its Interpretative Approach, Geum Gallery, Busan, Korea
1993 Meeting of nature and human being, Pohang Iron and Steel Exhibition Hall, Pohang, Korea
1995 Busan Art Rider, Busan Cultural Center, Busan, Korea
2000 Imagination and Symbol, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
2005 Lee, Jeong-ho, Yeom Jin-UK, and Sung Hyun-seob, Yu-u Gallery, Busan, Korea
2005 Yeom Jin-uk, Jang Soo Lim, Cho bu kyung Gallery, Busan, Korea
2008 Busan Art in 80 years, Busan Artists, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
2009 Spring ... , Craft Story, Busan, Korea
2012 Secret Forest, Busan Lotte Gallery, Busan, korea
2015 Busan Landscape, BEXCO, Busan, Korea
2015 Sculpture and Shape of Painting, Korean Cultural Center Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2015 Power of Busan, National Assembly Hall, Seoul, Korea
2015 , Haeun Art Gallery, Busan, Korea
2017 Exhibition for Three artist, E Wellness Dental Gallery, Busan, Korea
2018 Masterpiece of Today, Art Space, Busan, Korea
COLLECTIONS
Busan Museum of Art | National Museum of Contemporary Art | Daegu Bank | Busan City Hall | Faberge Museum
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