b.1971
Education
2000 M.A. Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, U.K.
1997 M.F.A. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
1995 B.F.A. Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
Solo Exhibitions
2017 The Day 3, Walls and Barbed, Amanda Wilkinson Gallery, London, U.K.
2015 Dear my love, Anti-Capitalist, Galerie Ursula Walbrol, Dusseldorf, Germany
Of Pictures, Sophie’s Tree, New York, NY, U.S.A.
2014 Jewyo Rhii, Amanda Wilkinson Gallery, London, U.K
Commonly Newcomer, Queens Museum, New York, NY, U.S.A.
2013 Night Studio, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
Walls to Talk to, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2012 Walls to Talk to, Galerie Ursula Walbrol, Dusseldorf, Germany
2010 Lodged, Galerie Ursula Walbrol, Dusseldorf, Germany
Night Studio - Fall, The Artist’s Studio in Itaewon, Seoul, Korea
Night Studio - Summer, The Artist’s Studio in Itaewon, Seoul, Korea
2009 Muscle Aches: Arrivals, Doosan Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.
2008 LIE ON THE HAN RIVER, Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden
Airport Romance, Galerie Ursula Walbrol, Dusseldorf, Germany
2007 Liegen am Han - Fluss (Lie on the Han River), Ursula Walbrol Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
Ten Years, Please, Gallery27, Kaywon Art & Design School, Uiwang, Korea
Something Mr. C Can’t Have, Korea International Art Fair, Seoul, Korea
2006 Jewyo Rhii, Samuso, Seoul, Korea
2005 SMALL, Galerie Ferdinand van Dieten - d'Eendt, Amsterdam, Germany
2001 Comfort Tools, Habitat Exhibition Space, London, U.K.
1998 Traveling by Foot, Coca-Container of Contemporary Art, Uiwang, Korea
1991 Forsty Fast Drawings, Dosan Park, Seoul, Korea
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 THE YEAR OF ARTIST, The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea (MMCA),
Seoul, Korea
2017 DAWN BREAKS, The Showroom, KCCUK, London, U.K.
DAWN BREAKS SEOUL, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea
2016 The 11th Gwangju Biennale, The Eight Climate (What Does Art Do?), Gwangju, Korea
2015 Days Push Off Into Night, Spring Workshop, Hong Kong
Unknown Packages (Dawn Breaks), Queens Museum, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Le Souffleur: Schurmann Meets Ludwig, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Aachen, Germany
2014 Boom She Boom: Works from The MMK Collection, MMK Museum fur Moderne Kunst,
Frankfurt, Germany
2013 Some End of Things, Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
2012 Intense Proximity, La Triennale Paris, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2011 Woraus bemerkenswerter Weise nichts hervorgeht, Galrie Ursula Walbrol, Dusseldorf,
Germany
2010 The River Project, Campbelltown Art Center, Australien, Australia
Media City Seoul: Trust, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2009 Everyday Miracles (Extended), Phase III, Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Everyday Miracles (Extended), Phase I, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
2008 The 7th Gwangju Biennale, Annual Report: A Year in Exhibitions, Gwangju, Korea
To Burn Oneself With Oneself: Romantic Damage Show, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
(Love) Will Tear Us, Kunstverein Medientrum, Graz, Austria
2007 Die Elbe In Between, Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
Videonale, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
Optimism In The Age Of Global War, The 10th Istanbul Biennale, Dream House, Antrepo,
Istanbul, Turkey
2006 Plug-In: Undeclared Crowd, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Tomorrow, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea
2005 Secret Beyond The Door, Korean Pavilion, The 51st Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Small, Galerie Ferdinand van Dieten - d’Eendt, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2004 Somebody Else’s Problem, Istanbul, Turkey
2003 Time After Time - Asia and Our Moment, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
The Postman Is Genius, Montevideo, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2002 Under Construction, Tokyo Opera City, Tokyo, Japan
Fantasia, Contemporary Arts Center, Beijing, China
Korean Air France, Ssamziespace, Seoul, Korea
Performances
2017 Ten Years, Please, Namsan Arts Center, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul, Korea
2016 Ten Years, Please (with Curatoral Lab Seoul (CLS), Seoul Art Space Mullae, Seoul, Korea
Selected Awards and Residencies
2014 The Queens Museum Studio Residency Program, New York, NY, U.S.A.
2011 DOOSAN Residency New York, New York, NY, U.S.A.
2010 Yanghyun Prize, Yanghyun Foundation, Seoul, Korea
2007 Hermes Korea Art Awards, Seoul, Korea
2004 The Rijksacademie Residency, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2001 Fantasia Residency, Space Ima, Seoul, Korea
Shinsegye Prize, Shinsegye Corporation, Gwangju, Korea
2000 Selected Artist, New Contemporaries 2000, Edinburgh, U.K.
Public Collections
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany