b. 1987
Education
2011 BFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Chicago, IL, U.S.A
2015 MFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Chicago, IL, U.S.A
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Pickled City, Saga, Seoul, South Korea
Seaweed Adventures, Shhh Project, Incheon, South Korea
My Garden My Sanctuary curated by Carrie Chan, Fact, Liverpool, UK (2 person exhibition)
2020 Media Artist Series ‘Yaloo,’ Korea Culture Center, Washington DC, U.S.A.
2019 K Delicacies, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, USA
New Year Parade, West Oregon University, Oregon, USA
New Year Parade, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, South Korea
2018 Yaloocharm for Heart II, Kneet, Seoul, South Korea
2017 Yaloo House, Yes! Sebum, Whistle, Seoul, South Korea
Yaloopark, Yes! Sebum, Fukuoka Asian Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
New Millennium Workout Routine, La Bande Vidéo, Manif d'art La biennale de Québec, Quebec City,
Canada
2016 Yaloo Farm, Romansusan, Chicago, IL, USA
2014 New Millennium Workout Routine, 36 S Wabash Window, SAIC, Chicago, IL, USA
New Millennium Workout Routine, Gallery 900, Chicago, IL, USA
2013 Magic Wand for Your Mind, Gallery Jungdabang Project, Seoul, South Korea
2012 Mountain For Your Mind, Student Union Gallery, SAIC, Chicago, IL, USA
2011 Amusement Park for Your Mind, No Nation gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Team Project Exhibitions
2023 (upcoming) Homo Paulinella the Lab, Elektra Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2022 Homo Paulinella the Lab, Korea Culture Center, Ottawa, Canada
Homo Paulinella the Lab, Platform L Contemporary Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Selected Group Exhibitions / Screenings / Festivals
2023 (upcoming) DOOSAN ART LAB Exhibition 2023, Doosan Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2022 (upcoming) Meta Realities, Sejong Motors Gallery, Sejong Center, Seoul, South Korea
Zer01ne Day, S Factory, Seoul, South Korea
Port to the New Era, Incheon International Airport, South Korea
Single Artist Spotlight as part of Supernova Festival of Denver Derageti, Denver, USA
M. PAVILION: NATURALLY, WILD FUTURES, Floriade, Art Pavilion, Almere, Netherlands
Body Manual, Space Onsu, Seoul, South Korea
2021 O’Flat 1st Universal Code of Conduct Seminar, Euljiro OF, Seoul, South Korea
Pleasure Garden, the Horse, Dublin, Ireland
Amor Spiritus Computatoris, Galleri CC, Malmo, Sweden
Flood, LAD, Seoul, South Korea
Spooky Season, Well Well Project, Portland,USA
Denver Digerati, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A
Still Moving, Purdue University, Indiana, USA
Unclosed eyes, Squish bodies, Song of the Microorganisms, Busan Educational and Cultural Center
for Students, Busan, South Korea
æd [ad,add], Lounge Sai at Yeongdeungpo Market Station, Seoul, South Korea
2020 Co- lab, Aerodynamics, Space9, Seoul, Korea
Mullae District, Mualle Arts Space, Seoul, Korea
Yokohama Triennale as part of ‘Volcano Brainstorm’ by Elena Knox, Yokohama, Japan
Goodiepal Collection, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
Benefit auction, Western Front Society, Vancouver, Canada
Peephole Cinema, Sanfrancisco, USA
2019 Mt Prospect community Screen, Vancouver, Canada
Overkill Festival, Enschede, Netherlands
Wrong Biennale, internet
Project Space Festival Juárez, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
Food Hack, ACT Festival x ISEA, Asia Culture Center,Gwangju, South Korea
Hirokawa Creators Hub Festival, Hirokawa Town, Japan
Yosoou Asobu, Mojiko, Japan
2018 Hyper Virtuality, Radiator Gallery, Long Island City, USA
Postmodernism and Aesthetics:collide or Steer, Korean Cultural Center, NYC, USA
To My Little Prince, K Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Stuck on the Ride, Open Signal, Portland,USA
Remoto + Charm for Heart, High Concept Labs, Chicago,USA
Fukuoka Castle Site, Maizuru Park, Fukuoka, Japan
Pink Noise Pop Up, SpaceOne, Seoul, South Korea
Biennale De l'Image Possible, Liège, Belgium
2017 Future Reboot, Hudson County Community College, New York, USA
Body Farm, Paradice Palace, Brooklyn, USA
Solstice, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Fiction Within, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago,USA
2016 Multiple Exposures, Art Mora, New York, NY,USA
Ethno/graphics, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL,USA
Current New Media Art Festival, El Museo Cultural De Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
I Don't Want Your Future, ACRE Project, Chicago, IL,USA
DATE-DATE-DATE, 4e gallery, Chicago, IL,USA
ACRE Screening, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL,USA
BYOB Chicago, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL,USA
Radiant Visions, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL,USA
Künstlermesse-Dresden, Dresden, Germany
2015 Gala, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL,USA
VIA Fest Chicago, Chicago, IL,USA
BYOB, Ballroom, Chicago, IL,USA
Intimacies, Roger Brown Study Collection, Chicago, IL, USA
Leasing inquiry Project, Jungdabang Project, Seoul, Korea
MFA Thesis Show, Sullivan Galleries (SAIC), Chicago, IL,USA
Myth and Mutation, Reverse, Brooklyn, NY
Torrent, One and J Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Future Legends, Palladium i Malmö, Malmö, Sweden
gURL FREAX, Church of Templehead, Chicago, IL,USA
2014 Many People, Someone Definitely, Nightingale Cinema, Chicago, IL,USA
Somebody, Many People Probably, Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, IL,USA
Screenshots, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA,USA
Traversing the Imaginary Castration, No Nation gallery, Chicago, IL,USA
Cloud Makers and Open Tech, MakerLabs, Vancouver, Canada
Brain Frame, Constellation, Chicago, IL,USA
Nippon Steel Presidential Award Exhibition, Chicago, IL,USA
2013 The BLOB-(ish), Vertigo, Denver, CO,USA
Monsters, Wesley Kimler Studio, Chicago, IL,USA
New Media Festival, Prak-sis, Chicago, IL,USA
3rd Year Anniversary show, Tri-triangle, Chicago, IL,USA
2012 Korean American Art Exhibition, Korean Cultural Center, Des Plaines, IL,USA
Korean American Art Exhibition, Richard J. Daley Center, Chicago, IL,USA
2011 Shape. Shift. Substitute. Tom Robinson Gallery, Chicago, IL,USA
SALONATHON (Presented by Chicago Underground Film Fest), Beauty Bar, Chicago, IL,USA
Closing Game, Parallax Gallery, SAIC, Chicago, IL,USA
BFA Thesis Exhibition, SAIC, Chicago, IL,USA
Midnight screening in Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
Video Verses, No Nation Gallery, Chicago, IL,USA
Touch and Pull or Maybe Nothing, Defibrillator, Chicago, IL,USA
2010 Stories of Relativities, Sullivan Galleries SAIC, Chicago, IL,USA
Awards
2022 Studio Space grant, Seoul Foundation of Arts and Culture, Korea
2021 Creative Talent Initiative program sponsored by Korea Creative Content Agency, Art Center Nabi,
Seoul, Korea
Artist Community Grant, Youngdeungpo Foundation of Arts and Culture, Seoul, Korea
2020 Interdisciplinary Art Exhibition Grant for Emerging Artists, National Arts Council Korea, Korea
2020/2017 Foreign Exchange Grant, Incheon Foundation of Arts and Culture, Korea
2019 Semi Finalist, Soorim Foundation Visual Arts Award, Seoul, South Korea
2018 Finalist, Lumin Arts Foundation Visual Arts Award, Chicago, USA
2016 Gold prize, AHL foundation Visual Art award, New York, USA
2012 Video Data Bank Lyn Blumenthal Memorial Fellowship
Fred J. Forster Graduation Fellowship
2011/2008 Nippon Steel Inc. U.S.A & SAIC Presidential Award Scholarship
2011 SAIC Student Leadership Award
2007 SAIC Merit Scholarship
Residencies
2022 Zero1ne Creator by Hyundai Motors, Seoul, South Korea
2019 Creators in Lab, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea
2019 Grunt Gallery+Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
2019 Hirokawa Creators Hub, Hirokawa Town, Japan
2019 Mojiko Art Platform, Kitakyushu, Japan
2018 High Concept Labs, Chicago, USA with Pablo Monterrubio
2018 Headlands Art Center, San Francisco, USA
2017 Fukuoka Asian Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
2017 Kimmel Harding Nelson Residency, Nebraska city, USA
2017 Bemis Studio Art Center, Omaha, USA
2017 La Bande Video, Quebec City, Canada
2016 Augmented & Virtual Reality Research Residency sponsored by Upfor and Eyebeam NY, Portland OR, USA
2016 Hatch Project, Chicago, USA
2015 Acre, Steuben, Wisconsin, USA
2015 Mote, Columbus, Ohio, USA
2015 Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, USA
Collection
M. meer dan een museum, Almere, Netherlands