Born 1979, South-Korea
Lives and works in Krakow, Poland
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 ‘Born with a Void’, Le Scalze, Naples
2021 ‘Burial and Sowing’, T293, Rome
2020 ‘Shaman Woman’, HOS Gallery, Warsaw gallery Weekend, Warsaw, Poland
2020 ‘MAM Project 028: Si On’, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2020 ‘Si On: Female Creature’, Hunt Kastner, Prague
2019 ‘Hyon Gyon’, Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London
2017 ‘Cruel World’, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong
2016 ‘Emotional Drought’, Shin Gallery, New York
2015 ‘Hyon Gyon and the Factory Chashama’, New York
2015 ‘No-Mad Nomad’, Pioneer Works, New York
2013 ‘Phantoms on Parade’, Shin Gallery, New York
2013 ‘All Night Haps’, HAPS, Kyoto, Japan
2012 ‘The Incarnation of The World’, Gallery Golmok, Seoul, Korea
2011 ‘New incubation 3, On a Knife Edge’, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan
2010 ‘Giragira’, g3 gallery, Tokyo
2010 ‘Tamahuri’, g3 gallery, Tokyo
2009 ‘lyoiyo’, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong
2008 ‘Iyoiyo’, Magical ArtRoom, Tokyo
2008 ‘TWS-Emerging 099’, Awesome Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo
2008 ‘Tokyo Wonder Wall’, Tokyo Metropolitan Government Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 ‘Uncombed, Unforeseen, Unconstrained’, Parasol unit, Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello, Venice
2019 ‘Elements of Transcendence’, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong
2019 ‘Paint, also known as blood. Woman, Affect, and Desire in Contemporary Painting’, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland
2019 ‘Trip’ (in collaboration with Jakub Julian Ziolkowski), BWA Wroclaw Galleries of Contemporary Art, Wroclaw, Poland
2018 ‘Great Nobles of the Country’, BWA Tarnów, Poland
2018 ‘Holy Nothing’ (in collaboration with Jakub Julian Ziolkowski), Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
2018 ‘Sue Coe, Eliza Douglas, Joseph Geagan, Hyon Gyon’, James Fuentes Gallery, New York
2017 ‘Culture City of East Asia 2017’, Kyoto, Japan
2017 ‘The World is a Stage, but the Play is Badly Cast’, Batu Museum, New York
2017 ‘Naturalia’, Paul Kasmin, New York
2016 ‘Art for Art’s Sake: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation’, Carnegie Art Museum, California, USA
2016 ‘BEYOND SECRETARY’, Mark Borghi Gallery, New York
2015 ‘The Brooklyn Artists Ball’, Brooklyn Museum, New York
2013 ‘KAWAI, CAMP – Contemporary Art Meeting Point’, Athens
2013 ‘Kyoto Artist Meeting 2013’, Antenna Media, Kyoto, Japan
2013 ‘Kyoto Studio’, @KCUA, Kyoto, Japan
2012 ‘Phantoms of Asia’, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
2012 ‘Transmit Program #3 Metis’, @KCUA, Kyoto, Japan
2011 ‘Tokyo Frontline’, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo
2010 ‘Tokyo Wonder Wall 10th Anniversary Museum of Contemporary Art’, Japan
2010 ‘Neoneo Part2 (girl) Neoneo Girls Open Iwato Personally’, Takahashi I collection, Tokyo
2009 ‘Wakuwaku Joban-Kashiwa Proj-Ect’, TSCA, Kashiwa, Japan
Public Collections
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow MOCAK, Krakow, Poland
Brooklyn Museum, New York
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA
Fredrick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan
Kyoto Bank, Kyoto, Japan
Takahashi Collection, Tokyo, Japan
Education
2011 PhD in Painting Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan
2008 MA in Painting Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan
2002 BA Western Painting Mokwon University, Daejeon, Korea
Residencies
2015 Pioneer Works, New York
Residency Unlimited, New York
2014 ISCP (International Studio & Curatorial Program), New York
Fellowships /Awards
2014 Kyoto Cultural Award
2014 Tokyo Wonder Wall Competition Prize
2012 Kyoto City Special Bounty of Art and Cultural
2006-2008 Asao Kato International Scholarship