Ellie Kyungran Heo is an artist who explores socio-ecological solidarity, conflict and coexistence through time-based media, primarily film, and interdisciplinary research. Her artistic practice examines how art can reflect and reconstruct relationships, with a focus on creating imagined or alternative communities as new forms of resilience. Heo's recent films are distributed by LUX, a London-based arts organisation dedicated to artists' moving image practices: https://lux.org.uk/artist/ellie-kyungran-heo.
Selected Solo Exhibitions/Screenings
2024 Did You Eat Rice?, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK
2024 Utopia Garden, NEMAF: Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival, Seoul, KR
2022 Radical Naturalism, Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Alabama Auburn, US
2021 Plantarians, 2017-2020, LUX, London, UK
2021 Indi-Visual: Ellie Kyungran Heo, EXiS: Experimental Film & Video Festival Seoul, Seoul, KR
2020 Plantarians, Galleri 54, Gothenburg, SE
2020 Plantarians, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL
2018 Dear Cinema 4: Ellie Kyungran Heo, MMCA: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, KR
2017 Mount Florida Solo Screening: Ellie Kyungran Heo, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, UK
2016 Asahi AIR Exhibition: Did You Eat Rice?, Isshi Art Space, Nagano Omachi, JP
Selected Group Exhibitions/Screenings
2024 HOPE - who will turn the tide, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, AT
2024 ARCTIC GARDEN, Nordic Docs, Fredrikstad, NO
2024 FOODWAYS, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, CA
2024 Tempo/Poem of Site, THE STREAM & SPACE ÆFTER, Seoul, KR
2024 You Cannot Elaborate the Dark Thickness of Night As They Can, DOOSAN Art Center, Seoul, KR
2023 The Time of a Lap, La Chartreuse, Villeneuve-les-Avignon, FR
2023 Future Legends, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, KR
2023 Monographs, Asian Film Archive, Oldham Theatre, SG
2023 The Garden on Your Belly, Experiments in Cinema v18.4, New Mexico, US
2021 Festival Forum: EXiS, e-flux Video & Film, New York, US
2021 A Thing That Holds Something Else, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, UK
2020 A Museum for All, A Museum for Dogs, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, KR
2020 Video Acts, THE STREAM & Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, KR
2019 Island, Contemporary Art Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil, Sao Paulo, BR
2019 Every Second Counts, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK
2016 Sense of Place, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2015 Colony, South London Gallery, London, UK
Selected Residencies/Education
2023 Mobility Program Residency, Echangeur22, Saint Laurent des Arbres, FR
2022 Spitsbergen Residency supported by Arts Council England, Svalbard, NO
2019-2020 Jan van Eyck Academie Residency, Maastricht, NL
2018 Summer Lodge Residency, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK
2017 Hospitalfield Summer Residency, Angus, UK
2016 Asahi Artist Residency supported by Omachi City Council, Nagano, JP
2015 MA Fine Art, Moving Image, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2003 BA Interior & Environmental Design, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, KR
