Minkyu Hwang directly shoots or collects vlogs from close family and friends, news and current affairs programs, as well as films and animations from subculture worldviews, and then re-edits them. His mockumentaries, positioned at the intersection of the ambiguous boundary between reality and the virtual, and the micro-level life stories and the dramatically vast worldviews, reveal the unstable underside of reality and seek alternative exits.
He has held solo exhibitions such as Out of the Blue (Project Space Sarubia, 2023) and SING A MIRACLE (The Reference, 2020), and has participated in exhibitions including Foreverism: Endless Horizons (Ilmin Museum of Art, 2024), The Continuous Present (SAHNG-UP GALLEY, 2021), Super Hero (Insa Art Space, 2020), Society of Person (wumin art center, 2020), and Image, Silhouette, and Motion (Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, 2019).
Education
2017 M.F.A. Graduate School of Sculpture Dept, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, KR
2013 B.F.A. Dept. of Sculpture, College of Fine Arts, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, KR
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Out of The Blue, Project Space Sarubia, Seoul, KR
2023 After Blue, Goyang Artist Residency Haeum, Ilsan, KR
2020 sing a miracle, The Reference, Seoul, KR
2018 Is this love?, out_sight, Seoul, KR
2017 Twisted Sekai, Cheongju Art Studio, Cheongju, KR
2016 forgotten trace, artspace o, Seoul, KR
Group Exhibitions
2024 FOREVERISM: ENDLESS HORIZONSS, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
2023 move, the necessaries, Seoul, KR
2022 SUNSET+FIELDSET, Goyang Artist Residency Space Haeum, Ilsan, Korea
2022 Inside Out, Gwacheon-ro Cultural Platform s1472, Seoul, KR
2022 Minkwan’s Silver: Plate, EungJeopSil, Incheon, KR
2021 Victory Over The Sun, OKSANGFACTORY, Seoul, KR
2021 Great Comfort, Ivy Lounge Gallery, Hwaseong, KR
2021 Up-Rissing,The Way of Remembering, May18 Memorial Culture Center, Gwangju, KR
2021 The Continuous Pressent, SAHNG-UP GALLEY, Seoul, KR
2020 Night-time Fancies That Disappear In The Mornung, Hotel Imaginary, Seoul, KR
2020 Society of Person, wumin art center, Cheong, KR
2020 Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media, megabox hongdea, Seoul, KR
2020 Super Hero, Insa Art Space, Seoul, KR
2020 Miniminimini’s Gold: Stones, Hwangumhyang, Seoul, KR
2020 speed of delivery, space55, Seoul, KR
2019 image, silhouette, and motion, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, KR
2019 Another 나쁜 せかい, space22, Seoul, KR
2019 A Rabbit Chaser, Schema art museum, Chengju, KR
2018 Mrs. Masako's Doubt: Rope, The Necessaries, Seoul, KR
2018 bridge project, space sieon, Jeonju, KR
2017 New Hero, jcc art center, Seoul, KR
2017 Another, Between, shinhan gallery, Seoul, KR
2017 refresh, the necessaries, Seoul, KR
2017 Unfamiliar, Arrival, Cheongju Art Studio, Cheongju, KR
2015 Ilhyun Travel Grant, Ilhyun Museum, Yang-yang, KR
2015 The 3rd Project Show, Project Space SARUBIA, Seoul, KR
Residency
2023-2022 Goyang Artist Residency Heaum, Ilsan, KR
2017 Cheongju Art Studio, Cheongju, KR
Award with Grants
2023 Art Creation Activity Support, Grant Winner,, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul, KR
2023 First Support for Young Artists, Arts Council Korea , Seoul, KR
2022 The Exhibition of Art & Media, Grand Prize, Daejeon MBC, Daejeon, KR
2021 Artist Research Fund - RE:SEARCH, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul, KR
2020 Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival Proposal Section, igong, Seoul, KR
2019 The First Arts Support, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul, KR
2018 The First Arts Support, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
2017 PUBLIC ART new hero, PUBLICART magazine, Seoul, KR
2016 Cover Artist, CNB Journal, Seoul, KR
2015 Travel Grant, Ulji Foundation , Seoul, KR
a residency program operated by the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) that was launched in 2006 after remodeling unused facilities in Nanji Hangang Park. Conceived as a means of supporting capable artists and researchers in Korea, the Residency organizes exhibitions such as the 'NANJI ART SHOW' and 'Art Critic Workshop', and runs other programs designed to enhance exhibitions and research capability. It also operates the International Artist Exchange Program to utilize international residency network and multiply exchanges, and hosts lectures in which art experts from Korea and other countries are invited to participate. By 2009, SeMA Nanji Residency had firmly established itself as a creative studio by providing creative spaces and working conditions to domestic young artists. Starting in 2010, it began to take the form of a program by subdividing its activities into ‘exhibition’, ‘research and academics’, and ‘exchange’, and supporting and operating them systematically. Since 2012, it has been developing into an international residential organization by operating various programs.
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