born in 1970
Education
2004 Studied in Audio-Visual Media, Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, Köln, Germany
1998 B.A. Music Composition, Chugye University for the Arts, Seoul, Korea
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Artist of the Year, Korean Cultural Centre UK, London, UK *upcoming
2017 Plenum, Koreanisches Kulturzentrum, Berlin, Germany
Gyre, Gallery Baton, Seoul, Korea
2016 Evanescent, SongEun ArtSpace, Seoul, Korea
2014 Whiteout, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, Korea
2013 Eluvial Horizon, Jiri Svestka Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Locus Solus, Studio Locus Solus, Seoul, Korea
2012 States of Being, Edith-Ruß Haus, Oldenburg, Germany *with Kerstin Ergenzingers
Genial & Geheim: Etappen 8-10, HNF Museum, Paderborn, Germany
Carved Air, Ernst Schering Stiftung, Berlin, Germany
2011 Celestial Dust, 21Rosendaal Aktuelle Kunst, Enschede, Netherland
Amorph, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2009 Epiphora, Gallery Kunstdoc, Seoul, Korea
Group Exhibitions
2018 Exhibition of the Collide International Award, FACT, Liverpool, UK *upcoming
The Perception of Machine, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany *upcoming
Our Place in Space, Museum of Natural History Vienna, Vienna, Austria *upcoming
DIA-LOGOS. Ramon Llull und die Kunst des Kombinierens, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany *upcoming
100% Festival: Psychedelisms, la Villette, Paris, France *upcoming
We are Star Stuff, DOOSAN Gallery Seoul, Seoul, Korea
2017 Touch Me Festival, Pogon Jedinstvo, Zagreb, Croatia
2016 Beijing Media Art Biennale 2016, China Millennium Monument Museum, Beijing, China
Project Daejeon 2016: Cosmos, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
Kollision-Im Labyrinth der unheimlichen Zufälle, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2015 ACT Festival-Plastic Myth, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
SOMA Drawing: Mindful Mindness, SOMA Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Kontiuum, Im Ersten, Vienna, Austria
The Mechanical Corps. On the trail of Jules Verne, HMKV, Dortmund, Germany
2014 Super Nature, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
International Triennial of New Media Art: ThingWorld, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
The Mechanical Corps. On the trail of Jules Verne, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Vida 15.0 Awardee’s Exhibition, Espacio Fundación Telefónica Madrid, Madrid, Spain
2013 Out of the Box, MAK, Vienna, Austria * Participated as project team: Liquid Things
Beautiful Minds, Klein Humbolt Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Anybody Who is Disturbed by Flow of Information, SAVVY contemporary, Berlin, Germany
2010 6th Electrohype, Ystads Konstmuseum, Ystad, Sweden
Balmoral Blend, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen, Germany
ISEA2010, Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
Artefakt Festival, STUK Art Center, Leuven, Belgium
2009 Select Media Festival, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL. U.S.A.
Organ Mix, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Proliferations, Art Space 300m3, Göteborg, Sweden
2008 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale: Mediacity Seoul, SeMA, Seoul, Korea
Digital Playground 2008-Hack the City!, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Select Media Festival, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Elastic Mind, MOMA Online-Exhibition, U.S.A.
Kunst unter Strom, LAB30-7, Augsburger Kunstlabor, Ausburg, Germany
Universal Electronic Art, Seongnam Arts Center, Seongnam, Korea
LAB30, Augsburger Kunstlabor, Augsburger, Germany
2007 CONNECTIVITY, Sibiu, Romania
Klangtransfer, Kulturbunker Mülheim Köln, Köln, Germany
SOUND//BYTES, Edith-Ruß-Haus, Oldenburg, Germany
2006 Electrohype, Lund Kunsthalle, Lund, Sweden
LAB30, Augsburger Kunstlabor, Augsburger, Germany
2006 Ars Electronica, OK Centrum Für Gegenwartkunst, Linz, Austria
La Noche En Blanco, Madrid, Spain
WAVES, the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia
2005 L’art de produire l’art, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France
Espacio Digital, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain
Expanded Arts NO.2, Gütersloh, Germany
Banquete_comunicación en evolución, Medialab Madrid, Madrid, Spain
2004 Electrohype, Malmö Kunsthalle, Malmö, Sweden
CPH:DOX, Kopenhagen, Denmark
1. Berliner Kunstsalon, Berlin, Germany
Split New Media Art Festival, Split, Croatia
1st Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition, Beijing, China
Galerie Projektraum, KHM, Köln, Germany
EMAF, Osnabrück, Germany
Transmediale(fly utopia), Berlin, Germany
2002 2002 Ars Electronica: unplugged, Linz, Austria
2001 Moltkerei Werkstatt, Köln, Germany
9th New York Digital Salon, New York, NY, U.S.A.
IST, Düsseldorf, D 2000 “scheint”, Gießen, Germany
2000 Scheint, Giessen, Germany
Awards & Residencies
2016 Collide International Award 2016, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
2013 Third Prize, VIDA 15.0, Vida Telefonica Fondacion, Madrid, Spain
2012 Project Fluid Skies, Ernst Schering Stiftung, Berlin, Germany
Grants to Fluid Skies, Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea
Grants to Fluid Skies, UCIRA(University of California Institute for Research in the Arts), Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
2011 Scholarship, Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany
2010 Scholarship, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea
Scholarship, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems, Germany
2008 New Trend Artist, Seoul Art Foundation, Seoul, Korea
2006 Honorary mentioned at Interactive Art, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
2005 Award for Media Artist, NRW(State of North Rhine-Westphalia), Germany
2004 Honorary mention, Transmediale, Berlin, Germany