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BOOMOON

Boomoon is a Korean photographer currently working in Seoul and Sokcho. Boomoon studied photography at Chung-Ang University in Seoul after studying painting in high school. He opened his first solo exhibition at Seoul Press Center in 1975. His works, which captured street scenes of Seoul, Daegu, and Busan in dark atmosphere, received either extremely good or extremely bad responses. These dramatic differences in critique encouraged the artist to ponder about his photography and pursued to be a professional photographer with theory.


Boomoon has been engaging with natural landscapes in his work as a mean of self-reflection, producing large scale photographs of vast expanses of sky, sea, and land. He compared the landscape with "a cloud afloat in the wind": "it takes form in accordance with the receptiveness of my spirit and my capacity for interpretation. Fluid, it fluctuates; it is a process of exchange between me and the visible world." Therefore, viewing landscapes ultimately means discovering and reflecting upon oneself. The stillness and the solitude emanating from the works of Boomoon do not only depend on the fact that there is no human presence. The viewers in front of his works are themselves utterly left alone. That's a sine qua non to experience a landscape. Solitude has to be overcome to stroll in the image.


Boomoon has exhibited internationally and his works are held in many private and public collections including Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea; Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan; Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea; Hana Bank Collection, Seoul, Korea; JGS Foundation, New York; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea; Art Bank of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea.


 

Biography

1955     Born in Daegu, Korea

           B.F.A. Department of Photography, Chung-Ang University, Seoul

 

Lives and Works in Seoul and Sokcho, Korea

 

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

2015     Hakgojae Shanghai, Shanghai, China (scheduled in September)

           Naksan, Flowers Gallery, New York

2014     Boomoon, Flowers Gallery, London

2013     Soldiers 1978, Bongsan Cultural Center, Daegu, Korea

           Constellation, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea

2012     In the Woods, Leeahn Gallery, Daegu, Korea

2011     Sansu, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery-Azamio, Yokohama, Japan

           Sansu and Naksan, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul

2010     Presence, Gallery Shilla, Daegu, Korea

2009     Presence, Johyun Gallery, Seoul

           Northscape, Johyun Gallery, Busan, Korea

2008     Close and Wide, Gallery Shilla, Daegu, Korea

           On the Clouds, Gallery Bhak, Seoul

           Northscape, Parkryusook Gallery, Seoul

2007     To the Stones, C-Fine Art, Seoul

           Boomoon: Photographs 2000-2007, Arko Art Center of Arts Council Korea, Seoul

2006     Johyun Gallery, Busan, Korea

           On the Clods, Gallery Shilla, Daegu, Korea

2002     Ci-Gong Gallery, Daegu, Korea

2000     Gallery Shilla, Daegu, Korea

1999     Gallery Side2, Tokyo

           Hahoe Vollage of Andong, Photographs 1976-90, Artinus Gallery, Seoul

1997     Boo Moon Kwon: Attitudes, Chapelle St. Louis de la Salpêtrière, Paris

           Boo Moon, Recent Works, Chun Gallery, Seoul

1996     Chun Gallery, Seoul

1994     Inkong Gallery, Seoul

1993     Soo Gallery, Seoul

1989     Inkong Gallery, Seoul

1983     Countryside, Gallery Maek-Hyang, Daegu, Korea

1975     Photo Poems, Press Center, Seoul; Gallery Dae-Baek, Daegu, Korea


 

Selected Group Exhibitions 

 

2013     Asia Code_Zero, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul

2012     Photography from the Museum Collection: Images in Silence, National Museum of

           Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

2007     Void in Korean Art, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul

           Views of Water, From Monet and Taikan to the Present, Yokohama Museum of Art,

           Yokohama, Japan

2004     Officina Asia, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy

2001     The Horizon: See and Sky, Galeria Berini, Barcelona, Spain

2000     Contemporary Photography II: Anti-Memory, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan

           Natural Blues, Arte Contemporanea Zero, Piacenza, Italy

1998     Personal Visions: Focus on Photography, Dream Collection Part IV, Miami Art Museum,

           Miami, U.S.A

 

 

Collections

 

JGS Foundation, New York, U.S.A

Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan

Hana Bank Collection, Seoul

Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul

National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

Art Bank of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

 

 

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