2010 The 1st Doosan Artist Award Recipient
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Education
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| 2000 | M.F.A. in Sculpture, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, U.S.A |
| 1998 | B.F.A. in Sculpture, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea |
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Solo Exhibitions
2022 Flaget 2017-2117: 2022 Good Luck, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark |
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| 2014 | Night Theft, Audio Visual Pavilion, Seoul, Korea |
| 2013 | Extra Stimuli, PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea |
| 2012 | No Dog Walking on the Roof, DOOSAN Gallery New York, New York, NY, U.S.A |
| Koo Donghee, DOOSAN Gallery Seoul, Seoul, Korea | |
| 2008 | Synthetic Experience, Atelier Hermes, Seoul, Korea |
| 2006 | Disturbance, Arario Seoul, Seoul, Korea |
| 2005 | The Day Off The Duty Free, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany |
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Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Back to the Future: An Exploration of Contemporaneity in Korean Contemporary Art, MMCA, Seoul EXiS 2023, SEOUL ART SPACE MULLAE, Box Theater, Seoul 2022 10-Year Path of Korea Artist Prize, MMCA, Seoul Open up!, www.kode.or.kr, China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Oline/Beijing Abstract Cabinet, AVP LAB, Seoul 2021 Hi Woman! La notizia del future, Museo di Palazzo Pretorio Prato, Tuscany, Italy Watch and Chill: Streaming Art to Your Homes, MMCA, Seoul; MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiangmai, Thailand; MCAD, Manila, Philippine; M+ Museum, Hongkong 2021 Seoul International Book Fair - PUNCTUATION: New World Coming, S Factory, Seoul IGMO: Ignorant Mobility, Art Council Korea, igmo.app (Web) 2020 Abstract Cabinet, Art Visual Pavilion, Seoul, http://abstractcabinet.org/exhibition/goodday/ (Web) Home Work-KPS, Art Sonje Center, http://homework-artsonje.org/2020/kps-merry-christmas (Web) Hare Way Object, Deoksugung, Seoul Busan Biennale 2020, an exhibition in ten chapters and five poems, BNK Art Cinema Gallery, Busan Life on Film, Physical Video and Point of View, The Centre Beaudesert, Queensland, Australia 2019 2019 ARKO’s Special Program: Super Future Food, Arko Art Center, Seoul 2018 Genre Allegory – The Sculptural, Total Museum, Seiyk SSamzie Space 1998-2008-2018: Enfants Terribles, As Ever, Donuimun Museum Village, Seoul Center for Architecture & Urbanism, Seoul A Mode, Yeji-dong Watch & Camera Street, (old) Grand Department, Seoul New Media Archive: Allegory Things Memonics, MMCA, Seoul On the Periphery of Vision, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York Digital Promenade, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul The Scrap, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul Exhibition of Exhibition of Exhibition, Cecil Theater, Seoul Walking On The Fade Out Lines, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China GMoMA Media Collection: Single Channel Video 2000-2010, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Gyeonggido 2017 London Korean Film Festival 2017, Lux, London, UK 8 Works, Collections of the Artists, Art Visual Pavilion, Seoul Sharjah biennale 13-Tamawui, Sharjah, UAE 2016 2016 Seoul Focus: No Longer Objects, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul MMCA Media Art wall Project-Unframed, MMCA, Seoul Media + Art Paradigm, Art Center White Block, Paju, Korea Labor, Art, Husslehof, Frankfurt, DE EMAF 2016, S.O.S. SaveOurSouls-Art for a Time of Urgencies, Arthouse MOMO, Seoul Palace, Deoksugung Junmyeongdang, Seoul 2015 Embeddedness: Artist Films and Videos from Korea 1960s to Now, TATE, London Megastudy, Audio Visual Pavillion, Seoul, Korea Sublime Masochism, MoA, Seoul |
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| 2014 | Korea Artist Prize 2014, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea |
| How To Hold Your Breathe, DOOSAN Gallery Seoul, Seoul, Korea | |
| 2013 | Animism, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea |
| New Scenes, Buk Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea | |
| 2012 | Spell on You: Media City Seoul 2012, the 7th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea |
| Hermes Foundation Misulsang Prize Show, Atlier Hermes, Seoul, Korea | |
| 2011 | 19min Performance Relay, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea |
| From Bank Pages, Art Space Pool, Seoul, Korea | |
| Docking, Gunsan Art Residency Studio, Gunsan, Korea | |
| Countdown, Seoul Square Media Canvas, Seoul, Korea | |
| Countdown, Seoul Culture Station 284, Seoul, Korea | |
| Secret Societies, to Know, to Dare, to Will, to Keep Silence, CAPC-musee d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France;Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany | |
| Video et Apres, Ondes et Flux, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France | |
| Space Study, Samsung Museum of Art PLATEAU, Seoul, Korea | |
| Physical Video, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia | |
| Closer to Contemporary Art, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea | |
| The Last Summer, Gallery Jungmiso, Seoul, Korea | |
| Courage, Contemporary Art from Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Aosta, Centro Saint Benin, Italy | |
| 2010 | Platform Seoul 2010: Projected Image, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea |
| The Trickster, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea | |
| Busan Biennale 2010; Living in Evolution, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea | |
| Oblique Strategies, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Kroea | |
| Adelaide International 2010; Apart we are together, Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, Australia | |
| 2009 | Text@Media Fest, Paralanguage: Patient Control, Seoul Art Space_Seogyo, Seoul, Korea |
| The 1st Off & Free Film Festival, Cinematheque KOFA, Seoul, Korea | |
| Video: Vide&O, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea | |
| Double Fantasy, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan | |
| Text@Media Fest, Paralanguage: Patient Control, Moonji Cultural Institute SAII, Seoul, Korea | |
| Magnetic Power, space*c, Seoul, Korea | |
| 100 Daehangro, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea | |
| Now Jump!, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, Korea | |
| 2008 | Donghee Koo, Hyunjhin Baik, Dongwook Lee, Arario Gallery Beijing, China |
| Reflective Asia, The 3rd Nanjing Triennial, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China | |
| On the Road, The 7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea | |
| Creation Anatomy, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea | |
| Festival Bo:m, Korean National University of Arts, Seoul, Korea | |
| 2007 | Disturbed, Peres Project, Berlin, Germany |
| Le Truc, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland | |
| Love Addiction: Prectices in Video Art from ’61 to the Present, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, Italy | |
| 2006 | All Look Same?, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy |
| Beautiful Cynicism, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China | |
| 2005 | Video Screening, SSamzie Space Baram, Seoul, Korea |
| 2004 | A Grain of Dust A Drop of Water, The 5th Gwanju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea |
| Interference, Romer Str.2, Stuttgart, Germany | |
| Video screening, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey | |
| 2003 | Where is My Friend’s Home?, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmo, Sweden |
| Dumbo Art under the Bridge Festival, Dumbo Arts Center, New York, NY, U.S.A | |
| Demirrorized Zone, De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| System, BizArt Center, Shanghai, China | |
| Media Center Project, Long March Foundation, Beijing, China | |
| 2002 | Puddles' Reportage Exhibition/Art Research Program in Asia, Gallery Surge, Tokyo, Japan |
| Performance at SSamzie Sound Festival, Sungkyunkwan Univeristy, Seoul, Korea | |
| Volatile Boundary, PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea | |
| Emerging, SSamzie Space, Seoul, Korea | |
| 2001 | Alchemy, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea |
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Award and Residencies 2019 SFAC Funds |
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| 2012 | Hermes Misulsang, Hermes Foundation, Seoul, Korea |
| DOOSAN Residency New York, New York, NY, U.S.A | |
| 2010 | DOOSAN Artist Award, Doosan Yonkang Foundation, Seoul, Korea |
| Seoul Fondation for Arts and Culture Grant, Seoul, Korea | |
| 2007 | Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2004 | Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany |
| 2003 | Korean Culture & Art Foundation Grant for Emerging Artist, Seoul, Korea |
| 2002 | SSamzie Space, Seoul, Korea |
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Collections
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| Centre Pompidou, Paris, France | |
| Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia | |
| Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Italy | |
| Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea | |
| Arario Collectiion, Seoul, Korea | |