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OUM Jeongsoon

OUM Jeongsoon (1961-) explores new possibilities of perception through her collaborations with visually impaired individuals. Since founding the non-profit art lab ‘Another Way of Seeing’ in 1996, she has pursued a sustained inquiry into the origins and essence of vision. This has resulted in a diverse body of work encompassing sculpture, painting, and publication. Her life-sized elephant sculptures, The Elephant without Trunk, emerged from this conceptual shift. By presenting an elephant devoid of its most iconic feature—the trunk—the work compels viewers to confront the collapse of familiar perceptual frameworks and to question the assumptions that underpin our ways of seeing. From the void left by the absent form, fundamental questions begin to surface.

OUM’s efforts to subvert conventional modes of perception and to engage with non-human beings are also evident in her drawings and paintings. She contends that only by relinquishing anthropocentric perspectives can we begin to perceive the myriad forms of communication that have long eluded human awareness. By giving visual and material form to sensory exchanges that transcend human cognition, her practice seeks to recover a fundamental and universal gaze—one that reconsiders the status of all beings while challenging the ableist and human-centred structures of contemporary society.

 

OUM Jeoungsoon was born in Chungju, Korea. She received her BFA in Painting from Ewha Womans University and later earned her MFA in Painting at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, Munich, Germany. She subsequently served as a professor in the Department of Painting at the College of Arts, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea.
Since 1996, she has founded and directed the non-profit organization Our Eyes, through which she has carried out a wide range of projects related to art education, including art programs for schools for the visually impaired, as well as publications, exhibitions, art projects, and educational initiatives.
Her solo exhibitions include 《Fuzz - Tangible Incident》 (2026, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea), 《SIGNAL ON SALE: the folds of time》 (2025, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea), 《Elephant in swing》 (2024, Duson Gallery, Seoul, Korea), and 《Elephant Walk》 (2015, Anthracite, Seoul, Korea). Selected group exhibitions include 《Ten Eyes》 (2025, Busan Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan, Korea), 《I Thought It Was Lost!》 (2024, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea), 《Soft and Gentle Like Water》 (2023, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea), and 《Unfolding the Elephant’s Wrinkles》 (2015, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea; Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon, Korea; Blume Museum of Art, Paju, Korea).
Her works are held in the collections of the National Museum of Contemporary Art (Gwacheon), National Folk Museum of Korea (Seoul), Seoul Museum of Art (Seoul), Samsung Culture Foundation (Seoul), Seoul Arts Center (Seoul).

 

 

 

Biography

1961      Born in Chungju, Korea

Lives and works in Seoul, Korea

Education

1988      M.F.A. Painting, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, Munich, Germany

1983      B.F.A. Department of Painting, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026      Fuzz – Tangible Incident, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2025      SIGNAL ON SALE: the time of folds, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2024      Elephant in swing, Duson Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2015      Elephant Walk, Anthracite, Seoul, Korea

2010      OUM Jeongsoon, Shinsegae Dept Main store Artwall Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2007      WELLSIDE GALLERY, Seoul, Korea

2006      Gallery IHN, Seoul, Korea

2003      Exhibition of Prize of Credit Lyonnais Art Book, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1999      Gallery IHN, Seoul, Korea

1997       Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan

               Keumsan Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1996       Gallery Nine, Seoul, Korea

1994       total Museum, Yangju, Korea

               Space Samtoe, Seoul, Korea

1993       Gallery Seomi, Seoul, Korea

1990       Gallery IHN, Seoul, Korea

1989       Galler Hyundai, Seoul, Korea

  

Awards

2025      Korea Picture Book Award, Korea 

2023      Park Seo Bo Art Prize, The 14th Gwangju Biennale, Korea

2021      Daum Award 131, Korea

2003      Prize of Credit Lyonnais Art Book, Korea

 

Publication

2024     If you touch an elephant, woorischool

2018     How do you see the world?, Samtoh

2008     Dots coming together, Changi Publishers

 

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025     Ten Eyes, Busan Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan, Korea

             Move, Imagine, See Differently!, Art book Bogo, Seoul, Korea

             Our Bodies, Embedded with Others, ACC CONTACT, Seoul, Korea

2024     I Thought I Lost It!: Oum Jeongsoon·Ding Yi·Shiota Chiharu, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2023     Gwangju Biennale: Soft and Gentle Like Water, Gwangju, Korea

2015     Unfolding the fold of elephant, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea; Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon, Korea; Blume Museum of Art, Paju, Korea

2012     Ceramics Commune, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea

2010     Floating Pedals, Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2008     Inter_viewing Paintings, SOMA Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

             Busan Biennale Sea Art Festival, Busan, Korea

2007     Peony after peony, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea

2006     Cut the Gordian Knot, CAIS Gallery, Seoul, Korea

 

Collections

National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, Gwacheon, Korea

National Folk Museum of Korea, Seoul, Korea

Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Seoul, Korea

U.S. Embassy in the Republic of Korea, Seoul, Korea

Art Bank, Seoul, Korea

Samsung Culture Foundation, Seoul, Korea

Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea

Korea University, Seoul, Korea

Ewha Womans University Museum, Seoul, Korea

Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance, Seoul, Korea

Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea

Shinsegae Department, Seoul, Korea

POSCO Global R&D Center, Incheon, Korea

Hyundai Development Company, Seoul, Korea

Samsung Hotel in Geoje, Geoje, Korea

Artworks
The Elephant without Trunk 4

2025

Steel, Concrete, Custom coating

110x90x110cm

The Elephant without Trunk 6

2025

Ceramic

28x20x33cm

The Elephant Written in Graphite-The Unwritten Library

2026

Charcoal on braille book

29x21cm

Tangible Echo 1, 2, 3

2025

Mirrored glass, Wood, Ceramic (Furniture-based haptic installation object)

가변설치

The Moment 2001-1

2026

1,000 Braille textbooks, Aluminum profiles, Electric fans

250x1000x890x800cm, 가변설치

The Elephant without Trunk 7

2025

Ceramic

31x26x36cm

An Edge of the Elephant 8

2023-2025

Wool tapestry, Mash

55x110x15cm

An Edge of the Elephant 7

2023-2025

Wool tapestry, Mash

120x80x15cm

An Edge of the Elephant 6

2023-2025

Wool tapestry, Mash

130x55x15cm

An Edge of the Elephant 5

2023-2025

Wool tapestry, Mash

70x55x15cm

An Edge of the Elephant 4

2023-2025

Wool tapestry, Mash

50x47x10cm

An Edge of the Elephant 3

2023-2025

Wool tapestry, Mash

60x40x20cm

An Edge of the Elephant 2

2023-2025

Wool tapestry, Mash

20x60x15cm

An Edge of the Elephant 1

2023-2025

Wool tapestry, Mash

24x45x10cm

An Edge of the Elephant 6

2025

Oil, Oil pastel on paper

30x42cm

An Edge of the Elephant 3

2025

Oil, Oil pastel on paper

60x168cm

An Edge of the Elephant 2

2025

Oil, Oil pastel on paper

60x168cm

An Edge of the Elephant 1

2025

Oil, Oil pastel on paper

60x168cm

Patternless Rhythm 2-6

2025

Acrylic, Tapestry on canvas

61x72.7cm

Patternless Rhythm 2-5

2025

Acrylic, Tapestry on canvas

61x72.7cm

Patternless Rhythm 2-4

2025

Acrylic, Tapestry on canvas

61x72.7cm

Patternless Rhythm 2-3

2025

Acrylic, Tapestry on canvas

61x72.7cm

Patternless Rhythm 2-2

2025

Acrylic, Tapestry on canvas

61x72.7cm

Patternless Rhythm 2-1

2025

Acrylic, Tapestry on paper

56x120cm

Patternless Rhythm 1-6

2025

Acrylic, Wool on paper

76x56cm

Patternless Rhythm 1-5

2025

Acrylic, Wool on paper

76x56cm

Patternless Rhythm 1-4

2025

Acrylic, Wool on paper

76x56cm

Patternless Rhythm 1-3

2025

Acrylic, Wool on paper

76x56cm

Patternless Rhythm 1-2

2025

Acrylic, Wool on paper

76x56cm

Patternless Rhythm 1-1

2025

Acrylic, Wool on paper

76x56cm

Elephant Reassemble III

2025

Lithography on Japanese paper

65x50.5cm

Elephant Reassemble I

2025

Lithography on Japanese paper

65x50.5cm

Elephant Reassemble II

2025

Lithography on Japanese paper

65x50.5cm

Elephant Reassemble IV

2025

Lithography on Japanese paper

65x50.5cm

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