Jongkwan Paik has been continuously working on experimental video projects based on archiving and research. By approaching everyday events from an unconventional perspective, he collects images and sounds to explore how they can appropriate social contexts within their given environments. Additionally, he creates works that reflect on the history and fate of audiovisual media/devices using collected footage, questioning aesthetic and political boundaries. He has collaborated with artists from various fields, including dance, theater, and architecture. In particular, after experiencing contemporary dance as a dancer, he has pursued projects that reveal the history and structure of the body and space in performance ― along with their modes of representation ― through the playful use of ‘dispositif’. 

He has participated in various residency programs, including the Cite internationale des arts in Paris (2024) and the MMCA Goyang Residency (2021). He has held solo exhibitions such as On the Art of Writing Letters (Incheon Art Platform, 2023) and Fly on the Eye (Space Onsu, 2019) and His work has also been featured in group exhibitions including Every Island is a Mountain (Palazzo Malta, Venice, 2024), This Is Not Just Local: Tactical Practices (Busan Museum of Contemporary Art, 2024), The 23rd SONGEUN Art Award (SONGEUN, 2023), Young Korean Artists 2023 (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, 2023). Additionally, He has presented his works across various media and platforms, including film festivals such as Dance Camera West Film Festival (LA, 2022), InShadow - Lisbon Screendance Festival (Lisbon, 2021), Prismatic Ground (New York, 2021), Image Forum Festival (Tokyo, 2018), and Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin: New Cinema and Contemporary Art (Paris/Berlin, 2018).

Education

2016 Film(MFA) at Yonsei University Graduate School of Communication & Arts, Seoul, KR

2009 Psychology(BA) at Chung-Ang University, Seoul, KR

Solo Exhibitions

2023 On the Writing of Letters, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, KR
2019 Fly on the Eye, Space Onsu, Seoul, KR
2018 DownTime, Konya Gallery, Fukuoka, JP
2016 SUPERLIMINAL: In Search of Lost Frame, Post Territory Ujeongguk, Seoul, KR

Group Exhibitions / Screenings

2024 Every Island is a Mountain, Palazzo Malta, Venice, IT
2024 This Is Not Just Local: Tactical Practices, Busan Museum of Contemporay Art, Busan, KR
2023 The 23rd SONGEUN Art Award, SONGEUN, Seoul, KR

2023 Young Korean Artists 2023, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, KR

2022  Dance Camera West Film Festival, LA, US

2021 The Pineal Eye, Goethe-Institut Peking, Beijing, CN

2021 InShadow - Lisbon Screendance Festival , Lisbon, PT

2021 Beyond Film and Theater, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, KR

2021 Signaling Perimeters, Nam-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, KR

2021 How to become an unnecessary theater, Samilo Theater, Seoul, KR

2021 Non-Caption Interview, Gallery OOOJH, Seoul, KR
2021 For Love and Peace, ARKO Art Center, Seoul, KR

2021 Prismatic Ground, New York, US (Virtual)

2019 RE:4WALLS, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, KR

2019 Video/Spectrum/Dance, Elephant Space, Seoul, KR

2018 Projection Platform, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, KR

2018 Dear Cinema 4, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, KR

2018 Image Forum Festival, Tokyo, JP

2018 “Special Project 2: Experimental Forms of Documentary - How Far Can They Expand?”, DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, Goyang, KR

2018 Play Videoarte, Centro Cultural Universitario, Corrientes, AR

2018 Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Hamburg, DE

2018 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin New Cinema and Contemporary Art, Paris/Berlin, FR/DE

2018 Sad and Beautiful Disquiet, Amado Art Space, Seoul, KR

2017 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Sewoon Makers Cube + Changsin-dong Special Exhibition Hall , Seoul, KR

2017 BLU-RAY.MKV.JPEG, ONEROOM, Seoul, KR

2014 Where the heart is, ARKO Art Center, Seoul, KR

Residencies

2024 Cite Internationale des Arts - the Institut Francais residency program, Paris, FR

2023 Incheon Art Platform Residence Program, Incheon, KR

2021 MMCA Residency Goyang, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Goyang, KR

2017 Move Arts Japan Residency, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Sapporo-Kanazawa-Fukuoka-Tokyo, JP

2017 Barim Residency, Gwangju, KR

Prizes

2022 Dance Camera West(LA, US), Best Short Documentary Prize, Los Angeles, US

2017 EBS International Documentary Film Festival, Mobile Shorts, Second Prize, Ilsan, KR

2016 Seoul Independent Film Festival, Jury Prize, Seoul, KR

2016 Jeonju International Film Festival, Korean Shorts, Best Director Prize, Jeonju, KR

Artistic Collaborations (as a Video(on stage) Designer, Director)

2024 Modern Dance Middle-Walking-Middle by Kunjoong Kim, Daehakro Art Center, Seoul, KR

2023 Modern Dance Between Bodies by Yoonpuluem, Daehakro Art Center, Seoul, KR

2023 Theater When Your Left Hand Holds My Left Hand and Their Left Hand, Doosan Art Center, Seoul, KR

2022 Theater Camino de Far East Siberia by Jin-se Jung, ACC Theater/National Theatre Company of Korea, Seoul, KR

2019 Performing Arts Post-Apartment by Youngdoo Jung, Doosan Art center, Seoul, KR

2017 Modern Dance DEGESBE by Emmanuel Sanou, Post Theater, Seoul, KR

Collections

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art

Korean Film Archive