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Sun Woo: ‘I’m interested in how the body navigates unfamiliar territory’

Sun Woo, a Korean-born artist who moved to Canada as a child, is featured in the Korean Artists Today project, which selects emerging Korean artists with global potential. Her work explores displacement, cultural hybridity, and the body's navigation of unfamiliar territories, blending digital and analogue techniques. Her paintings, sculptures, and installations often merge bodily elements with mechanical devices, referencing female exploitation and labor, as seen in her 2024 painting *Weaver's Room*.

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Minae Kim on creating a ‘ludicrous sculptural sitcom’

Minae Kim, a Seoul-based artist born in 1981, creates site-specific installations and sculptures that she describes as a 'ludicrous sculptural sitcom,' revealing the frustrations and contradictions of everyday life. She earned an MA in sculpture from the Royal College of Art in London and an MFA from Seoul National University, and her work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as Atelier Hermès in Seoul, Doosan Gallery in New York, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. Kim was a finalist for the 2020 Korea Artist Prize and has received awards including the Doosan Yongang Artist Award and Bloomberg New Contemporaries.

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Korean Artists Today 2025

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Jewyo Rhii: ‘If you don’t die today, you get another opportunity to live’

Jewyo Rhii, a Seoul-born artist from the first generation to come of age during South Korea's dramatic political shifts in the 1980s, has been selected for this year's Korean Artists Today project. Her work, which began as personal explorations of misplacement and survival using ephemeral materials and found objects, evolved around ten years ago into collaborative projects like Love Your Depot (2019), a series of storage-unit-like installations that question the lifespan of artworks. Rhii's practice includes object-oriented performance pieces such as Ten Years Please (2007-17) and Lie on the Han River (2003-06), and she has shown at institutions including the Queens Museum, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) in Seoul, and the Venice Biennale.

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Min ha Park: ‘I think about creating situations where things don’t immediately explain themselves’

Min ha Park, a Korean artist born in Seoul in 1984, is featured as part of this year's Korean Artists Today project, which selects emerging Korean artists with global potential. Park began her artistic journey as a form of teenage rebellion against classical music training, moving to New York in 2002 to study at the School of Visual Arts. After a residency at Woodstock through the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in 2008, she shifted to painting as her primary practice, later earning an MFA from Yale University in 2011. Her luminous, abstract works capture ephemeral natural phenomena like light through fog or rain, using materials such as spray paint, wax, and oil to create layered, unresolved visual experiences. She has recently expanded into performance, collaborating with choreographer Yanghee Lee on a piece titled Shimmering.

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Che Onejoon: ‘The AfroAsia collective is now more important to me than my personal art’

Che Onejoon, a South Korean artist, has shifted his focus from documenting North Korea's Cold War-era monument-building in Africa to working directly with West African migrant communities in South Korea. His earlier projects, including the Mansudae Masterclass series and films like *Black Monument* (2017) and *My Utopia* (2018), explored the little-known history of North Korean-built statues and buildings across at least 20 African nations. More recently, he co-founded Space AfroAsia, the Afroasia Eco Museum, and the AfroAsia Artist Collective, and now lives and works in the Bosan-dong "Africa Town" near the Demilitarized Zone, creating multilingual music videos and even a K-pop girl group with a mixed Korean-African lineup.

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Byungjun Kwon: ‘I want to break away from the passive, one-sided way of experiencing performances’

Byungjun Kwon, a South Korean artist whose practice spans sound, technology, and performance, has been selected for the 2025 Korean Artists Today project. Kwon began his career as a singer-songwriter in the 1990s, later earning a degree in Art Science from the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague and working as a hardware engineer at the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music in Amsterdam. His works include immersive sound installations, custom-built instruments, and robotic stage machinery, with pieces such as 'Self-sounding Town Resonant Village' (2019) exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Busan. He is currently preparing a new project, 'Speak Slowly, and It Will Become a Song', for the Aichi Triennale in Japan.

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