Koo Jeong A

Koo Jeong A(b.1967), who lives and works across the globe, has gained the attention of the international art world through her distinctive artistic practice of examining the fragile and ephemeral nature of objects and everyday lives to highlight their poetic mundaneness. Koo works across a diverse range of media—from poetries, fictions, installations, paintings, moving images, audio works, and architectural projects—and her delicate and detailed works question the boundaries between the fact and fiction and the actuality and imaginary. Koo held solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf, Germany), Dia Art Foundation, Dia: Beacon (Beacon, USA), and Centre Pompidou (Paris, France) and gained her international stature. She participated in various group shows including Venice Biennale, Liverpool Biennale, Gwangju Biennale, The Jewish Museum (New York, USA), The Guggenheim Museum (New York, USA), the Fondation Louis Vuitton (Paris, France), and Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul, Korea). Koo was a finalist for the Hugo Boss Prize in 2002, won the Hermes Korea Prize for contemporary art in 2005, and was named as ‘2016 artist of the Year’ by the Korean Cultural Centre UK.