1971     Born in Seoul

1995     BA, Department of Political Science, Konkuk University

             MFA, Photographic Design, Graduate School of Industrial Art, Hongik University (withdrawal)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022     Shades of Furs, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul

             Poetry of Anchovy, 10ⁿ, Seoul

2018     Bloody Bundan Blues, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea

2017     The 4^th Wall: The State of Emergency Ⅱ, Art Sonje Center, Seoul

2016     Dance of Order, 43 Inverness Street, London

2015     reallyGood, murder, Gallery Sugata, Kyoto, Japan

2013     Oh Bu Ba, Seohakdong Photo Gallery, Jeonju, Korea; Ryugaheon, Seoul

2012     Forgetting Machines, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul

             Lunatic Allegiance, Dong Gang Museum of Photography, Yeongwol, Korea

2010     reallyGood, murder, Sangsangmadang, Seoul

             Lunatic Fidelity, GoEun Museum of Photography, Busan, Korea

2009     Estat D’Excepció, La Virreina, Barcelona, Spain

2008     State of Emergency, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany

2007     Red House, Gallery Lotus, Paju, Korea

2006     the strAnge ball, Shinhan Gallery, Seoul

2004     Smells like the Division of the Korean Peninsula, Kim Yong Seob Gallery, Seoul

Publications

2022     Eye to tell (Seoul, Hanbam bit)

2017     State of Emergency Ⅱ – The 4^th Wall (Seoul: Art Sonje Center)

2013     Oh Bu Ba (Seoul: Ryugaheon)

             In Search of Lost Thermos Bottles (Seoul: Ohmybook)

             Fur of Photography (Seoul: Cine21Books)

2012     Forgetting Machines (Seoul: Chungaram Media)

2010     reallyGood, muder (Seoul: Sangsangmadang)

2008     State of Emergency (Berlin: Hatje Cantz)

2007     Red House (Seoul: Chungaram Media)

2005     Smells like the Division of the Korean Peninsula (Seoul: Dangdae press)

Awards

2016     6^th Gu Bonju Art Prize, Gu Bonju Memorial Foundation, Seoul

2014     Korea Artist Prize, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

2012     11^th Dong Gang Photography Award, Dong Gang International Photo Festival, Yeongwol, Korea

2009     German Photo Book Prize, Deutsche Fotobuchpreis Organization Team, Germany

Public Collections

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

Art Bank, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea

Daelim Museum, Seoul

F.C. Gundlach Collection, Germany

The Museum of Photography, Seoul

Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul

Dong Gang Museum of Photography, Yeongwol, Korea

The May 18 Memorial Foundation, Gwangju, Korea

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022     To Where the Flowers Are Blooming, Spazio Berlendis, Venice, Italy

             Real DMZ Project – Checkpoint: Border Views from Korea, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

2021     JUPITR Project, Space Heem, Busan, Korea

             17^th Venice Biennale of Architecture: How Will We Live Together? (Italian Pavilion), Venice, Italy

             Distancing Strategies, Boan1942, Seoul

2020     Thread – Jeon Tae-il is Here, Ryugaheon, Seoul

             Artists in Their Times: Korean Modern and Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

             Forgotten Faces, Charles B. Wang Center, Stoney Brook University, New York

             Real DMZ Project – Negotiating Borders, Fondation Fiminco, Paris

             Unflattening, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul

             May to Day – Spring of Democracy, Art Sonje Center, Seoul

             The Square: Art and Society in Korea 1900-2019, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

2019     Bergen Assembly – Actually, the Dead Are Not Dead, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway

             Disaster, Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul

             CounterART: Aesthetics of South Korean Activism, Redline Contemporary Art Center, Denver, U.S.

             The Sea Will Not Sink, Art Space Pool, Seoul

             Flags, Doosan Gallery, New York

             Tilted Scenes – What Do You See?, Venice Meeting Point, Venice, Italy

             DMZ, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul

2018     Civilization: The Way We Live Now, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art,   Gwacheon, Korea

             Cracks in the Concrete Ⅱ from the MMCA Collection: A Glimpse into the World/Gazing into Eternity, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

             Forged into Collective Memory, Art Space IAa, Jeju, Korea

             Brave New World, Seoul Museum of Art (Buk-Seoul), Seoul

             AnnyeongHajae, Art & Culture Space Yeoinsuk, Gunsan, Korea

2017     Keyword Korean Arts 2017: Plaza Arts – From Torch to Candlelight, Jeju Museum Of Art, Jeju, Korea

             Soundless Memory, Jeju 4·3 Peace Foundation, Jeju, Korea

             Reminiscence, Hwaseoung City Museum of History, Hwaseoung, Korea

2016     Why Me, Field Museum of Poor Political Contemporary Art, Seoul

             As the Moon Waxes and Wanes, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary             Art, Gwacheon, Korea

             Public to Private: Photography in Korean Art since 1989, National Museum of Modern and              Contemporary Art, Seoul

             Art in Society – Land of Happiness, Seoul Museum of Art (Buk-Seoul), Seoul

             Mass and Individual: The Archive of the Guyanese Mass Games, Arko Art Center, Seoul

2015     Paradox of Place: Contemporary Korean Art, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, U.S.

             70^th Anniversary of Liberation Day NK Project, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

             Lies of Lies: On Photography, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul

2014     Korea Artist Prize, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

             Photography and History: Document, Monument, Memory, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea

             Living in Miryang, Ryugaheon, Seoul

             Roof Association, Space Heem, Busan, Korea

             Kangjung-Breath-Green, Suwon Art Center, Suwon, Korea

             Documentary Style, GoEun Museum of Photography, Busan, Korea

2013     Hermes Foundation Missulsang, Atelier Hermes, Seoul

             Black Square, Gallery 101, Seoul

             Real DMZ Project 2013: From the North, Art Sonje Center, Seoul

             Birth of a Museum, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul

             Corea Campanella, Hotel Amadeus, Venice, Italy

2012     9^th Gwangju Biennale: Round Table, Gwangju, Korea

             Public: Occupied Spaces, University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, Canada

             Road to 12,104 Miles, Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires

             Demonstrations – Making Normative Orders, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany

2011     The Spectrum of Contemporary Korean Art, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

             Abstract It!, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul

             Shifting Surfaces, Art Sonje Museum, Gyeongju, Korea

2010     Art of National Division – The Flower on the Snow, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea

             Re-Designing the East, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany

             Media City Seoul 2010: Trust, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

             Missing, Robert Goff Gallery, New York

             Criminal Scenes in Korea, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul

2009     New Political Art in Korea since the 1990s: Bad Boys Here and Now, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea

             Alogon Affair, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul

             Art in Busan 2009: Inter-City, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea

             Crane No. 85 – A History of ‘Mangloo’, space*peace, Seoul

             Platform Seoul 2009: Platform in Kimusa, Art Sonje Center (Hanok and Arthall), Old Defense Security Command Site (Kimusa), Seoul

             Made in Korea, Korean Express, Sinn Leffers, Hanover, Germany

2008     39 (2), Art Sonje Center, Seoul

             Daily Life in Korea, Queen’s Gallery, Bangkok

             Contemporary Korean Photographs, 1948-2008, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

             HeartQuake, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem

2007     Bbeong-Hwa-Ron Research, Ssamzie Space, Seoul

             Art toward the Society: Realism in Korean Art 1945-2005, The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata, Japan; Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

             Gyeonggi, National Highway No.1, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea

             Counterpoint, Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul

             Surface of War, space*peace, Seoul

             Landscape - Distance and Removal, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany

             Comical & Cynical, Dawn Center, Osaka, Japan

             Political Design & Design of Politics, Zeroone Design Center, Kookmin University, Seoul

2006     Asia Art Now: Globalization & Locality, SSamzie Space, Seoul

              6^th Gwangju Biennale: Fever Variation, Gwangju, Korea

             Familiar but Unfamiliar Scene, Arko Art Center, Seoul

             Circuit Diagram, Songwon Art Center, Seoul

             On Difference #2 + Middle Corea, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany

2005     Conjunction Points, Former Building of Jeollanam-do Provincial Government, Gwangju, Korea

             Kim In-Kyu, a Convicted Teacher, and His Inculpable Friends, Gallery Kkot, Seoul

2004     The Perpetual Moment – Visions from Okinawa and Korea, MoMA PS1, New York

             The Realing for 15 Years, Savina Museum, Seoul

             Prohibited Imagination, Korea Democracy Foundation, Seoul