b. 1974
Education
2004 M.F.A. in Sculpture, Hongik University, Seoul, KR
2000 B.F.A. in Sculpture, Hongik University, Seoul, KR
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Seoul's Glittering, B the B Communication Lounge, DDP, Seoul, KR
AIR MASS: a path of wind, Lotte Gallery, AVENUEL ART HALL, Seoul, KR
2022 The Other Self, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
Still Life, EVERYDAY MOOONDAY Gallery, Seoul, KR
OUR SET: OURLABOUR X GWON OSANG, Art Space Gwanggyo, Suwon, KR
2021 Sequence, TYPE, Seoul, KR
2016 Relief Relief, Willing N Dealing, Seoul, KR
The Sculpture, ARARIO GALLERY, Shanghai, CN
The Art of the Image New Sculpture, Hermes, Sydney, AU
Recontemporary, Waterfall Gallery, New York, US
New Structure and Relief, ARARIO GALLERY, Seoul, KR
2015 The Pivots, ARARIO MUSEUM TAPDONG CINEMA, Jeju, KR
New Structure, Okinawa Contemporary Art Center, Okinawa, JP
New Structure, Baik Art, Los Angeles, USA
2014 Structure, Perigee Gallery, Seoul, KR
Osang Gwon, JOYCE PARIS, Paris, FR
Osang Gwon: The Deodorant Type, Statoil Art Programme, Statoil, Bærum, NO
2013 Osang Gwon, Temenggong Artists-In-Residence, Singapore, SG
Postmodern Times, HADA Contemporary, London, UK
Masspatterns, 13 S/S Collaboration Exhibitions #03, MANMADE WOOYOUNGMI, Seoul, KR
2012 Osang Gwon, Arario Gallery, Seoul, KR
2011 Sculpture, DOOSAN Gallery Seoul, Seoul, KR
Adore, Aando Fine Art, Berlin, DE
2010 Torso, Gallery 2, Seoul, KR
Osang Gwon, DOOSAN Gallery New York, New York, NY, US
2009 Arario Gallery, New York, NY, US
2008 Deodorant Type: Sculpture by Gwon Osang, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
2007 Arario Gallery, Beijing, CN
2006 Gwon, Osang, Union II, London, UK
The Sculpture, Arario Gallery, Cheonan, KR
2005 Deodorant Type & The Flat, Andrew Shire Gallery & 4-F Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
2001 Deodorant Type, Insa Art Space, Seoul, KR
Group Exhibitions
2023 Romantic Irony, ARARIO GALLERY, Seoul, KR
2022 Metal Fluid, Park Tae Joon Memorial Hall, Busan, KR
Kim Bokjin and Korean Modern and Contemporary Sculptors,
Cheongju Museum of Art, Cheongju, KR
Art & Industry, Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan, KR
Hallyu! The Korean Wave, V&A South Kensington, London, UK
HiKR Art Museum Inaugural Exhibition, HiKR Ground, Seoul, KR
Kak, Hite Collection, Seoul, KR
Children’s Day 100th Anniversary Special Exhibition, Hello Museum, Seoul, KR
Another Asian Artist, THE SHOPHOUSE, Tai Hang, HK
The Glitter Path, Art Space Hohwa, Seoul, KR
New Acquisitions, Pohang Museum of Steel Art, Pohang, KR
2021 Art Token: KARTZ Art Shapes the Future, Nodeul Island, Seoul, KR
Arcane, Scene, Seoul, KR
The Premiere, Cheongdam A Lounge, Seoul, KR
Texture House, P.ARK, Busan, KR
The Chronicle of Lost Time, Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
2020 YES/NO/LIKE/DISLIKE/LOVE/HATE/REPLY/SHARE, Art Delight, Seoul, KR
The Guide to the Earth Life, Koo House Museum, Gyeonggi-do, KR
NO SAPCE JUST A PLACE: ETEROTOPIA, Daelim Museum, Seoul, KR
Remix, Pohang Museum of Steel Art, Pohang, KR
2019 Furniture, ARARIO MUSEUM in Space, Seoul, KR
To the Moon with Snoopy, Lotte Museum, Seoul, KR
MOKA Triangle, Hyundai Museum of Kid’s Books & Art, Pangyo, KR
The Third Image, Kim Chong Yung Museum, Seoul, KR
2018 Endless Column, ARARIO GALLERY Ryse Hotel, Seoul, KR
Post 88, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
2015 Tech 4 Change, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratoriumn, Vestfossen, NO
2014 Pillars, ARARIO GALLERY, Seoul, KR
Tomorrow 2014 Part 2: Culture Print, DDP, Seoul, KR
Medium at Large, Singapore Art Museum, SG
K–Pop: Korean Contemporary Art, Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, TW
2012 Re-Opening DOOSAN Gallery Seoul : DOOSAN Residency Artists 2009-2011,
DOOSAN Gallery Seoul, Seoul, KR
2011 Artists with Arario Part 1, Arario Gallery, Seoul, KR
Embracing the Void, Hada Contemporary, London, UK
Pohang Museum of Art, Pohang, KR
Chopping Play, ION Gallery, SG
Collector's Stage, Singapore Art Museum, SG
2010 Memories of Future, Samsung Museum of Art Leeum, Seoul, KR
Negotiations, Today Art Museum, Beijing, CN
Korean Eye: Fantastic Ordinary, Saatchi gallery, London, UK; Arts House, Singapore; SC First
Bank building, Seoul Museum of Art, Korea Foundation Cultural Center, Seoul, KR
New York Photo Festival, Smack Mellon, New York, NY, US
Present Tense: An Imagined Grammar of Portraiture in the Digital Age,
The National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, AU
On the Cutting Edge - Aspects of Korean Contemporary Photography,
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, TW
Roundabout, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, NZ
Man Ray & His Heritage, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul; Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, KR
A Positive View, Somerset House, London, UK
2009 Art & Techne, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, KR
Peppermint Candy: Contemporary Art from Korea, National Museum of Korea, Gwacheon, KR
Manipulating Reality, the Center for Contemporary Culture Strozzina, Florence, IT
Conflicting Tales - Inaugural Exhibition of the Burger Collection, Zimmerstrasse, Berlin, DE
Logic of Sensibility, Interalia Art Company, Seoul, KR
2008 Youth Portraits, Avanthay Contemporary, Zurich, CH
Peppermint Candy: Contemporary Art from Korea, National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, AG
Asian Art Triennale, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Global Eurasia Special Exhibition, ART COLOGNE, Cologne, DE
2007 Mad Love, Arken Museum for Modern Art, Copenhagen, DK
Wonderland: Contemporary Korean Art, The National Art Museum of China, Beijing, CN
Peppermint Candy: Contemporary Art from Korea, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, CL
Urban Reviews Seoul: Space, People, Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen(ifa), Stuttgart, Berlin, DE
2006 Give Me Shelter, Union Gallery, London, UK
Beautiful Cynicism, Arario Gallery, Beijing, CN
Seoul; Until Now, Charlottenborg Udstillingbygning, Copenhagen, DK
Post IMF, Art Ark Gallery, Shanghai, China
2004 Young Artists from Korea, China and Japan, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, KR
Officina Asia, Galleria d'arte moderna, Bologna, IT
UNUSUAL COMBINATION, Plus Gallery, Nagoya, JP
Real Reality, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, KR
Out the Window, The Japan Foundation Asia Center, Tokyo, JP
2003 Unique, Gallery VU, Paris, FR
Facing Korea-ID, Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
Mobile, Alternative Space Care Of, Milano, IT
2002 ORIENT-EXTREME, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, FR
Area of Photograph, Museum of Art Saitama, Saitama; Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai, JP
Mirror of Daily, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, KR
2001 Silence of the City, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, KR
Alchemy, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, KR
Family, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
2000 Disturbance Exhibition, Boda Gallery, Seoul, KR
Join & Expression, Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwangju, KR
Expression of the Times: Eye & Hand, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, KR
Error Interchange, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, KR
Ji-Rok-Wi-Ma, Seonam Museum, Seoul, KR
1999 Hoboo-Hohyung, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, KR
Transtion of the Century, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, KR
Vacuum-packed Exhibition, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, KR
Awards and Residency
2013 Kim Se Choong Sculpture Prize, Seoul, KR
Temenggong Artists-in-Residence, SG
2010 DOOSAN Residency New York, New York, NY, US
2005 National Art Studio Changdong, Seoul, KR
2003 Youngeun Artist-in-Residence, Gwangju, KR
2001 Photograph Critique Awards, Seoul, KR
Public Collections
The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, KR
Busan Museum of Art, Busan, KR
Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, KR
Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwangju, KR
SSamzie Collection, Seoul, KR
Asano Institute, JP
Laurence Geoffrey’s, Seoul, KR
Embassy of Switzerland, CH
David Roberts Art Foundation, UK
The Zabludowicz Collection, UK
Burger Collection, DE
Roundabout Collection, Wellington, NZ
Universal Music Group, UK
Arario Collection, Seoul, KR