Kyung Woo HAN
BORN 1979
ARTIST STATEMENT
All the facts are relevant. One fact can be interpreted in several ways depending on our perception, and from opposite views, two different facts can look the same. My work deals with perception and optics. Humans rely on the visual sense more than any other sense when perceiving the world. This 'seeing' behavior plays a very important role in my work. I want to show the reality that the world can only be interpreted at a subjective point of view, and it is impossible to maintain objectivity. All works have different standards which makes a unique system. I visualize this system to give an idea that how we perceive this world without any doubt.
BIOGRAPHY
Education
- 2010 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
- 2007 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA, Film Video & New Media, Chicago, IL
- 2005 Seoul National University, BFA, Sculpture, Seoul, Korea
Awards/ Residencies
- 2018 Gallery Purple Artist in Residence, Gallery Purple, Deokso, Korea
- 2014 Finalist, The Sovereign Asian Art Prize, The Sovereign Art Foundation, Hong Kong
- 2013 Goyang Art Studio Artist inResidence, Goyang Art Studio, Goyang, Korea
- 2012 Nanji Studio Artist in Residence, Nanji Studio, Seoul, Korea
Byucksan Foundation Grant, Byucksan Foundation, Seoul, Korea - 2011 Grand Prize Winner, 11th Song Eun Art Award, Song Eun Art Center, Seoul, Korea
- 2010 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY
NYFA Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, Brooklyn, NY - 2009 Yaddo Artist in Residence, The Corporation of Yaddo. Saratoga Springs, NY
Smack Mellon Hot Picks, Smack Mellon. Brooklyn, NY - 2008 AIM 28, Artist in the Market Place, The Bronx Museum of the Arts. Bronx, NY
- 2007 Swing Space, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY
AHL Foundation Visual Arts Award, AHL Foundation, New York, NY - 2006 ACC Grant, Asian Cultural Council, New York, NY
Solo Exhibitions
- 2021 Anechoic Figures, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea
- 2017 Far too Close, Hyundai motorstudio, Seoul, Korea
- 2015 Uncommon Sense, Salon de H, Seoul, Korea
- 2014 I MIND, Song Eun Art Space, Seoul, Korea
- 2012 Standard Disorder Salon de H, Seoul, Korea
- 2011 Red Cabinet, Gallery Loop, Seoul, Korea
- 2006 Displacement, LG space, Chicago, IL
Projects
- 2018 HanGang Art Park Public Art Project, Seoul, Korea
- 2018 Pyeongchang Olympic Podium, Tray design, Pyeongchang, Korea
- 2017 HanSung Motor, Dream Gream, KIAF 2017, Seoul, Korea
- 2015 SongDo Art City Public Art Project, SongDo Central Park, Incheon, Korea
- 2014 Scene by Scene, Collaboration with Wooyoungmi, Manmade, Seoul, Korea
- 2010 Chashama Windows Program, Donnell Library Window Space, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2021 Remote Control, GALLERY 2, Jeju, Korea
- 2020 Intended Imaginmation, Won Sung Won, Han Kyung Woo Two Person show, GALLERY PURPLE, Namyangju, Korea
Watching Together, Jeju Museum of ART, Jeju, KOREA - 2019 Surmountable Podium, seMA storage, seoul, Korea
Bauhaus and modern life, KumHo museum of art, seoul, Korea
Video Symphony, national museum of art, jeju, Korea
The Security has been Improved, space c, seoul, Korea
Geometry, Beyond Simplicity, museum san, wonju, Korea - 2018 Oscillation: Between Korea and the United States, Museum of Art Seoul National University, Seoul Korea
Art Technology Museum, Seongnam Art Center, Seongnam, Korea
Bring Your Own Beamer!, Igong, Seoul, Korea
Selfie, Seongsan Art center, Changwon, Korea - 2017 Selfie, Savina museum, Seoul, Korea New acquisitions, Nam Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Water that Remembers All, Kimtschang-yeul Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea
City and the People, Buk Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea - 2016 Some Where No Where, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
As the Moon Waxes and Wanes, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, Gwacheon, Korea
The Third View, Ilhyun Museum of Art, Yangyang, Korea
The Shadow Never Lies, 21st century Misheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
PlayArt-Art via Games, Suwon iPark Museum of Art, Suwon, Korea - 2015 New Future, Korea-Indonesia Media Installation Art Exhibition, Art:1, Jakarta, Indonesia
Sovereign Asian Art Prize Exhibition, Hong Kong 201_5 Gamdo, Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea - 2014 The Brain, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
Human, Space, Machine. Stage Experiments at the Bauhaus, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Busan Biennale: Inhabiting the World, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
Simultaneous Echoes, Fortabat Art Collection Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Liquid Times: Contemporary Art of Korea and China, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul - 2013 New Scenes, Buk Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
The Aesthetics of Imitation, Ewha Womans University Museum, Seoul, Korea
Photosight, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, Gwacheon, Korea
Once upon a time, Vittorio Corsini, Kyung Woo Han Two Person Show, Gazelli Art House, London, UK
The Future of Techno-Imagination, Daegu Art Factory, Daegu, Korea
We are just bits, One and J Gallery, Seoul, Korea - 2012 The Unseen, Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Art Spectrum
- 2012, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
SeMA Blue 2012: 12 Events for 12 Rooms, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Plastic Days, Pohang Museum of Steel Art, Pohang, Korea
Keeping it Real, Cu Art Museum, Boulder, CO - 2011 11th Song Eun Art Award Exhibition, Song Eun Art Space, Seoul, Korea
Asia Unspecific, Five Myles, Brooklyn, NY
Mr. Rabbit in Art Land, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
Still or Sparkling, Gazelli Art House, London, UK
Blind Spot, Kyung Woo Han, Moon Ho Lee Two Person Show, Salon de H, Seoul, Korea - 2010 Extended Senses, Gallery Loop, Seoul, Korea Jack in the Space, Dean Project, Long Island City, NY
- 2008 Movement, Smith College Museum of Art, Northhampton, MA
The Bridge, GANA 25th anniversary exhibition, Insa Art Center. Seoul, Korea
How Soon is Now, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY - 2007 Contemporary Korean Artists in New York, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
Fresh Illusions, White Box, New York, NY
Breathe in Between, Kyung Woo Han, Eun Sun Lee Two Person Show, Dead Tech, Chicago, IL
Conversations at the Edge, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL
Collections
- National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, Gwacheon, Korea
- Art Bank, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, Gwacheon, Korea
- Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
- Song Eun Art Foundation, Seoul, Korea
- Smith College Museum of Art, Northhampton, MA
- Seoul National University Hospital, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
Kyung woo HAN is featured on ‘It’s Nice That’ magazine regarding the work Green House
Please click the link below for the full article of ‘Art: Mindbending life-size optical illusion built by Kyung Woo Han’ by Sophia Epstein
https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/kyung-woo-han