Images courtesy of the artists | September 14-December 8, 2023| Firing clay has been amongst the few mediums to have persevered through thousands of years. Three contemporary ceramic artists pursue their own exploration with clay while reshaping the tradition. Transcending the stereotype of the medium, Janny Baek, Steven Young Lee, and Sunkoo Yuh offer new […]
Images courtesy of the artists | Two young Korean-American photographers present a series of images, a poignant portrait of a community and its habitants from the areas considered to be “Koreatown”—one in Los Angeles, one in New York. Emanuel Hahn and Janice Chung document the lives and stories in two of the most diverse neighborhoods […]
January 19 – April 14, 2023|Opening Reception: Thursday, January 19, 2023 5-7 PM (EST)| Artist Talk: Tuesday, March 21, 2023 6 PM (EST)| In her solo exhibition at The Korea Society, Seongmin Ahn presents a series of paintings and wall installations that fuses her insight in the relativity of perception with a deep regard for […]
September 15 – December 9, 2022| Artist Talk : Tuesday, October 25, 2022 5 PM ET| In his paintings Young Min Moon depicts Jesa, a Confucian ritual for commemoration of the deceased, which was one of the earliest memories he holds while growing up in the military regime of South Korea in the 1970s and […]
June 9 – August 25, 2022| Opening Reception: Thursday, June 9, 2022 5-7 PM ET| Artist Talk : Tuesday, July 12, 2022 5 PM ET| Although her intricate installations are often so large that they spread over walls onto ceilings and floors, Heeseop Yoon thinks of her work as freehand drawings. All of Yoon’s works […]
Image courtesy of the artist March 3 – May 27, 2022| Opening Reception: Thursday, March 3, 2022 | 6-8 PM (ET)| Artist Talk : Wednesday, April 20, 2022 | 5 PM (ET)| In Wonju Seo’s hands, the aesthetics, forms, and techniques of bojagi— traditional Korean wrapping cloths—are reconfigured as abstract textile art for a global […]
September 30, 2021 – January 28, 2022| Opening Reception: September 30, 2021 | 6 – 8 PM| In this group exhibition, three artists challenge and redefine the conventional idea of fiber and textile art by employing already-established techniques of weaving, embroidery, and assemblage with new materials and creating and inventing new forms. Featuring the work […]
Image courtesy of Mina Cheon Studio (Photo by Cyrus Feldman) May 3 – September 2, 2021| The global art activist Mina Cheon draws inspiration from the partition of the Korean peninsula, exemplified by her parallel body of work created under her North Korean alter ego, Kim Il Soon, in which she enlists a range of […]
@Byun Soonchoel. Courtesy of the artist and ARARIO GALLERY September 8 – February 26, 2021| Exhibition extended through February 26, 2021 The Korea Society presents Soonchoel Byun: Eternal Family, his first solo exhibition in New York in two decades. In his Eternal Family series, Byun imagines and digitally creates a reunion between family members separated […]
Current Exhibition: January 16 – May 21| Internationally acclaimed artist Ik-Joong Kang’s new site-specific installation “Floating Dreams to the Moon” premiers at the Korea Society. This solo exhibition will feature several new paintings by the artist as well as an installation of objects and over 6,000 drawings from Korean War refugees. Kang’s artistic practice provides […]
