Seungwon Yang utilizes digital images to produce pseudo-images that blur the boundaries between realities and fabrications and explores the possibility of expanding our epistemology as well as the domain of photography. He is working on fracturing the process of perception that we have faced of a certain situation or a landscape which is taken for granted, by revealing hidden parts of contemporary society. Furthermore, he captures the heterogeneity created by the interface between the real and the fictional or the difference in materiality seen in the gap between nature and imitation, and also questions the decontextualized landscapes of reality that arise from a superficial understanding of region and place. Recently, he creates landscapes of inexperience that everyone knows but has never seen in the process of visualizing experiences, memories and emotions, or has moved away from the flat and lightweight medium of photography to produce sculptural forms that are taken out of the frame like fragments of memory.
He has held solo exhibitions including Overwrite (N/A, Seoul, 2022), Glimpse (Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, 2021), Covered Moment (HITE Collection, Seoul, 2019) and participated in various group exhibitions such as The Hanging Gardens of Babylon (Nam-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, 2023), A Glimpse of Our Time (Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, 2023), Another letter to nature (Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, 2023), Psychedelic Nature (ART SPACE BOAN, Seoul, 2019), Summer Love (SongEun ArtSpace, Seoul, 2019). He was selected as a resident artist for the SeMA Nanji Residency (Seoul, 2024), MMCA Residency Goyang (Goyang, 2023), Seoul Art Space Geumcheon (Seoul, 2022), Asia Culture Center Asiaplex Studio (Gwangju, 2021), Gyeonggi Creation Center Residency (Ansan, 2017) and K’ARTS Residency (Seoul, 2016).
Education
2015 M.A. in Fine art, University of the Arts London: Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
2011 B.A. in Photography, Seoul Institute of the Arts, Ansan, Korea
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 Overwrite, N/A, Seoul, Korea
2021 Glimpse, Seoul Museum of Art SeMA Storage, Seoul, Korea
2019 Covered Moment, HITE Collection, Seoul, Korea
2018 Ctrl+c, Ctrl+v, SongEun ArtCube, Seoul, Korea
2018 Wrong things, Different things, Outhouse, Seoul, Korea
2017 Hide-And-Seek, Studio 148, Seoul, Korea
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Countless Windows and a World of Layers, Shinhan Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2024 to dream the impossible dream, The Great Collection, Seoul, Korea
2023 CLOSE TO THE BOUNDARY, Bucheon Art Bunker B39, Bucheon, Korea
2023 The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Nam-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2023 A Glimpse of Our Time, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2023 Another letter to nature, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
2023 MAN-MADE NATURE, ii R, Seoul, Korea
2022 Exhibition / Publication, WESS, Seoul, Korea
2021 New World New Word, ACC Asiaplex Studio, Gwangju, Korea
2019 Psychedelic Nature, ART SPACE BOAN, Seoul, Korea
2019 Summer Love, SongEun ArtSpace, Seoul, Korea
2019 Inter-City, Ansan Arts Center, Ansan, Korea
2018 Inter-City, Yunseul Art Museum, Gimhae, Korea
2018 Us; Coexisting, Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation Lobby Gallery, Suwon, Korea
2018 Inter-City, Danwon Art Museum, Ansan, Korea
2017 Bracketing, Gyeonggi Creation Center, Ansan, Korea
2017 The Plateau with a Wind, Gyeonggi Creation Center, Ansan, Korea
2017 Drifting Unconsciousness, Gyeonggi Creation Center, Ansan, Korea
2016 The Great Artist, POSCO Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
2015 A Unique Celebration Of Contemporary Photography, Dray Walk Gallery, London, UK
2015 The Poetics of Space, Maverick Projects Safehouse1, London, UK
2015 Summer Show, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
2015 CompoSITE, Cook House Gallery, London, UK
2014 Tangent, Cook House Gallery, London, UK
2010 SCOUT, Imazoo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2010 Open Critique House, Unofficial Preview Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2010 FF (▶▶), Michael Schultz Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2009 MYA: Message from Young Artists, KWANHOON Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Residencies
2024 SeMA Nanji Residency, Seoul, Korea
2023 MMCA Residency Goyang, Goyang, Korea
2022 Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, Korea
2021 Asia Culture Center Asiaplex Studio, Gwangju, Korea
2017 Gyeonggi Creation Center Residency, Ansan, Korea
2016 K’ARTS Residency, Seoul, Korea
Awards & Grants
2024 MH Talent Portfolio, Museum Hanmi, Seoul, Korea
2024 Art Support Program, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul, Korea
2023 Artist of The Portfolio Seoul, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2023 Selection of Gyeonggi Arts Support, Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, Suwon, Korea
2022 Art Support Program, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul, Korea
2020 Emerging Artists & Curators Supporting Program, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2018 Solo Exhibition Support, SongEun Arts & Cultural Foundation, Seoul, Korea
2018 Art Support Program, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul, Korea
2017 Art Support Program, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul, Korea
2015 A Unique Celebration Of Contemporary Photography, 125 Magazine, London, UK
2010 Young Artist, PHOTONET Magazine, Seoul, Korea
