Park Chan-Kyong
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Born in 1965
Lives and works in Seoul
Education
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1988 BFA College of Fine Art, Seoul National University, Seoul
1995 MFA Program in Photography, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
Selected Solo Exhibitions
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2023 Park Chan-kyong: Gathering, The Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art, Washington D.C.
2019 MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2019: Park Chan-kyong – Gathering, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
2018 Citizen’s Forest, Tina Kim Gallery, New York
PARKing CHANce, CCK, Centro Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires (with Park Chan-wook)*
PARKing CHANce 2010-2018, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea (with Park Chan-wook)*
2017 안녕 安寧 Farewell , Kukje Gallery, Seoul
2016 Park Chan-Kyong Solo Exhibition, Tina Kim Gallery, New York
2015 Pa-gyong : Last Sutra Recitation, INIVA, London
2012 Natacha Nisic & Park Chan-Kyong, Atelier Hermès, Seoul*
2010 Radiance, PKM Gallery | Bartleby Bickle & Meursault, Seoul
Brinkmanship, REDCAT, Los Angeles (with Sean Snyder)*
2008 Sindoan, Atelier Hermès, Seoul A Mountain, Gallery Soso, Paju, Korea
2005 Flying, Ssamzie Art Space, Seoul
2003 Koreans Who Went to Germany, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
2002 Sets, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
Sets, rraum02, Frankfurt
1997 Black Box: Memory of the Cold War Images, Kumho Museum, Seoul
*asterisk denotes two-person show
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Selected Group Exhibitions
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2023 Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Watch and Chill 2.0 : Streaming Senses, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
Macao International Art Biennale, Macao
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2022 Checkpoint. Border Views from Korea, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Off the Page, Daejeon Art Center, Korea
2021 Margins of Error, Nirox Sculpture Park, Krugersdorp, South Africa
2020 We Never Sleep, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main
Negotiating Borders, Fondation FIMINCO, Paris
Yokohama Triennale 2020 Afterglow, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
The 60th Anniversary Exhibition of 3.15 Movement: Rewriting the poetry, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon, Korea
2019 Asian Art Biennial: The Strangers from beyond the Mountain and the Sea, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei
Aichi Triennale 2019: Taming Y/Our Passion, Aichi Arts Center/Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
2018 24th Busan International Film Festival, Busan, Korea
Rituals of Signs and Metamorphoses “仪礼·å…†ä¸Žæ˜“”, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing
The German Library Pyongyang (Project by Sara Sejin Chang), Kuandu Biennial, Taipei
Making Time, Galleria Poggiali, Florence, Italy
DMZ PEACE PROJECT, Camp Greaves, Paju, Korea
在集结 Assembling, K11 Shenyang, Shenyang, China
Collection Highlights: Synchronic Moments, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
体 Modern Images of the Body from East Asia, Smith College Museum of Art, Massachusetts
Mise-en-Scène: A History of Images, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
Paradoxa, Arte da metà Corea, Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Casa Cavazzini, Udine, Italy
2017 Highlights la Collection de la Fondation Cartier pour l'art Contemporain, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2 or 3 Tigers, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Art Basel Unlimited 2017, Art Basel, Basel
Ghosts and Spectres - Shadows of History, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
2016 The Taipei Biennial 2016, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
MMCA Gwacheon 30 Years 1986-2016 - As the Moon Waxes and Wanes, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Land of Happiness, Buk Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
The Time is Out of Joint, Asia Culture Center – Theater, Gwangju, Korea
2015 The 70th Anniversary of Liberation Day , Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
The Young and The Restless, Common Center, Seoul
2013 ANIMISM, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul
Homeworks 6, Artheum, Beirut
The Shadows of the Future: 7 Video artists from Korea, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest
Buk Seoul Museum of Art Inaugural Exhibition Part â…¡ from SeMA Collection #2_NEW SCENES, The Buk Seoul Museum of Art,
Seoul
Real DMZ Project: From the North, Artsonje Center, Seoul
2012 Project Daejeon 2012: Energy, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
Cosmic Laughter, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal, Germany
Korean Film Festival DC 2012, Freer l Sackler, The Smithsonian’s Museums of Asian Art, Washington DC
Crossroads + Asian Gothic, Festival Bom, Seoul
2011 Countdown, Culture Station Seoul 284 (former Seoul Station), Seoul
Second Worlds, Steirischer Herbst Festival 2011, Austria
Image Clash: Contemporary Korean Video Art, CU Art Museum, Colorado
Tell me Tell me: Australian and Korean Contemporary Art 1976-2011, National Art School Gallery, Sydney;
National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Seoul
Korean Rhapsody - Crossing the History, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
Happy Window, Art Center Nabi, Seoul
2010 Projected Image, Platform 2010, Artsonje Center, Seoul
The Flower on the Snow, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
The 3rd Anyang Public Art Project [APAP2010], Anyang, Korea
Discoveries, ShContemporary 10, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai
Trust, Media City Seoul 2010, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
Linguistic Morphology: Art in Context, The Association of East Asian Art and Culture, The Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul
Random Access, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, Korea
Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Vision 2010, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
Oh! Masterpieces: 2009 New Acquisitions Collections, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
Him of Kyeooggi-do, 2010 Gyeoggi Art Project, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
2009 Unconquered: Critical Visions from South Korea, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City
Made in Korea: Leisure, a disguised labor?, Kaufhaus Sinn & Leffers, Hanover
7th Festival Signes de Nuit, Paris
Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul (EXIS), Seoul Art Cinema and Indie Space, Seoul
Void of Memory, Platform Seoul, Seoul
Shared. Divided. United, Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin
New Political Art in Korea Since The 1990s: Bad Boys Here and Now, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
Another Masterpiece: 2008 New Acquisitions, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
2008 Shoot Me Film Festival, The Hague, Netherlands
Jeonhyanggi: Kim Soo Young 40th Anniversary Retrospective,
Alternative Space Pool, Seoul
IAS Media Screening, Insa Art Space of Arts Council Korea, Seoul
6th Festival Signes de Nuit, Paris
Still Present Pasts, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
2007 Seoul: Räume, Menschen, Institute fur Auslandsbezienhungen, Stuttgart and Berlin
Fast Break, PKM Gallery Beijing, Beijing
Activating Korea: Tides of Collective Action, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, International Competition, Oberhausen, Germany
JNP Production, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo
2006 Move on Asia, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul; travelled to Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo; Arario Beijing, Beijing; Remo,
Osaka; Shanghai Doulun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
A Tale of Two Cities: Busan-Seoul / Seoul-Busan, 5th Busan Biennale, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
Fever Variations, The 6th Gwangju Biennale 2006, Gwangju, Korea
Daegu Photo Biennale, EXCO, Daegu, Korea
Pyongyang Report: Architecture, Design & People in North Korea, Book House, Paju, Korea
2005 Seoul: Until Now!, Charlottenborg Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen
Critical Society, Badischer Kunstverein. Karlsruhe, Germany
Parallel Life, Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt
Incongruent: Contemporary Art from South Korea, Richard F. Brush Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
DMZ_2005: Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea, Paju, Korea
2004 Unplugged Theater, Gallery Bhak, Seoul
Hermès Korea Missulsang, Artsonje Center, Seoul
Four Years 2000–2004, Insa Art Space of Arts Council Korea, Seoul
2003 Facing Korea: Demirrorized Zone, de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam
Borderline, Kunstverein Schorndorf, Schorndorf, Germany
Para>Sites, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
2002 P_a_u_s_e: Project 3 - Stay of Execution, The 4th Gwangju Biennale 2002, Gwangju, Korea
Parallel World, K & S Gallery, Berlin
Korean Air France, La Vitrine and Glassbox, Paris
2001 Sunshine: Three Perspectives on North and South Korea, Insa Art Space of Arts Council Korea, Seoul
2000 between 0 and 1, media_city seoul 2000, Seoul Museum of Art and 13 subway stations, Seoul
Pyongyang, The Subject of Seoul, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
1999 The Photograph Looks at Us, Seoul Photo Exhibition 1999, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
1998 Seoul and Media: Food, Clothing, Shelter, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
Alienation and Assimilation, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
Gwangju, Finding Way from the Mirror, Songwon Gallery, Gwangju, Korea
1996 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Yamagata, Japan
Politics and Art, Boda Gallery, Seoul
16th Symposium on Photography: Allan’s Fish Story, Photography Between Discourse and Document, Graz, Austria
1995 Vision of Koreans, San Francisco Cinema Tech, San Francisco
Fellowship, Awards & Residencies
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2014 Fasken Martineau Best Feature Film or Video Award for Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, Toronto
New Vision Award for Muju Film Festival, Muju, Korea
2012 Intelligence award for 7th A-Awards, Seoul, Korea
Best Motion Picture (NOVES VISIONS) for 44th Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival, Sitges, Catalonia
2011 Silver prize (Film Craft) for Spikes Asia Advertising Festival, , Singapore
Golden Bear for the Best Short Film, 61st Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin
Grand Prize for a Korean Feature Film, 12st Jeonju International Film Festival, Jeonju, Korea
2010 Arts Council Korea, Seoul
2007 Tokyo Wonder Site Residency Program, Tokyo
2005 Arts Council Korea, Seoul
2004 Hermès Korea Missulsang, Seoul
2002 Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
Arts Council Korea, Seoul
2001 Arts Council Korea, Seoul
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Collections
Tate Modern, London
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Kadist, Paris & San Francisco
LACMA, Los Angeles
M+, Hong Kong
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, US
Daejeon Museum of Art, Korea
Daimler Contemporary, Berlin
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
Ulsan Art Museum, Korea
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
Artsonje Center, Seoul
Maeil Dairies, Korea
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes, France
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e-mail address
chankyongstudio@gmail.com