Gallery Chosun

Gallery Chosun Artists

The gallery represents Korean artists working with diverse practices and interests. Both traditional and new media are scrutinized, as in JEONG Jeongju’s architectural installations concerned with space and light and AHN Sanghoon’s paintings exploring painting-ness expanding over the canvas. and KU Myungseon’s pencil drawings that depict young girls absorbed in their private narratives. WOO Minjung metaphors human life through craft paintings made from clay. Hye Kyoung Kwon uses the old medium, flat painting, differently, treating it like an object or sign. Yohan Hàn seeks to ‘resonate’ with the audience through performances and exhibitions that use not only the body but also the devices that mediate it. Also, Vicky Kim, questions the role of images through her abstracted, geometric drawings and sculptural installations.

Tradition and modernity are discussed not only in the medium but also at the level of the subject matter of the work. CHOE Sooryeon copies traditional Oriental texts into paintings, dealing with tradition, modernity, and internalized Orientalism. LEE Houk seeks to overcome the dichotomy between tradition and modernity through ink-and-wash painting.

Contemporary life is at the core of others’ works, PARK Bona, who stages performances and projects that interrogate the various systems that govern our lives. MIN Sunghong collects items left behind by people who have left for redevelopment and creates ‘totems’ to comfort them.

Some young artists are under the influence of the Internet and online life. WOO Taekyung places pieces of images on the canvas and connects them to create paintings. LEE Eun paints the short movements of GIF memes. LEE Yoonseo transfers the impressions of images she encounters online into paintings. Axl Le creates videos based on questioning the distinction between virtuality and reality.

Of course, artists' interests and subject matters are not distinct from each other and sometimes span multiple areas.

Gallery Chosun Exhibitions and Art Fairs

The gallery regularly organizes solo and group exhibitions, while participating in domestic and international art fairs such as Art Cologne; and Galleries Art Fair. the Korean International Art Fair; and Miami Art Basel. Gallery Chosun has also helped organize alternative art fairs such as Solo Show and The Gallerist.