Choi Byung So

Overview

Education

1974 BFA College of Art, Jung-ang University, Seoul, Korea

1985 MFA Painting, Graduate School of Keimyung University, Daegu, Korea

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025 Choi Byung-So, Untitled, Woosongallery, Seoul, Korea

2024 Now Here, Indang Museum of Daegu Health College, Daegu, Korea

2022 CHOI Byoungso, Wooson gallery, Daegu, Korea

2020 SENS ET NON-SENS: Works from 1974 to 2020, ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL, Seoul, Korea

2018 Wooson gallery, Daegu, Korea

2016 Erasing and Emptying, Art Center Kuh, Daejeon, Korea

2016 Oeuvres Sur Papier, Galerie Maria Lund, Paris, France

2016 Musée d’art Moderne et Contemporain, Saint-Étienne Métropole, Saint- Étienne, France

2016 Weight of Cigarettes, ARARIO MUSEUM TAPDONG BIKESHOP, Jeju, Korea 2015 Wooson Gallery, Daegu, Korea ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL, Seoul, Korea

2014 Deleting and Drawing, Gallery Date, Busan, Korea

2013 Gallery Nuovo, Daegu, Korea

2012 Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea

2012 Nowhere / Everywhere, IBU Gallery, Paris, France

2012 Gallery P&C, Daegu, Korea

2011 Culture and Art Center, Daegu, Korea

2010 Gallery Aso, Daegu, Korea

2009 Gallery 604, Busan, Korea Han Kisook Gallery, Daegu, Korea

2008 Gaain Gallery, Seoul, Korea Memory Space, Bongsan Culture Center, Daegu, Korea

2006 Birth from Disappearance, Gallery M, Daegu, Korea

2005 Black Mirrors, Gallery IBU, Paris, France

2003 CI-GONG Gallery, Daegu, Korea

2002 Space 129, Daegu, Korea 1997 CI-GONG Gallery, Daegu, Korea

1979 Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1978 Seoul Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 Estuary II: Between Calm Tides, ChapterII, Seoul, KR

2025 Eyes Reflecting the World: Works from Mr. Jinyoung Kim Collection, New Spring Project, Seoul, Korea

2024 SeMA Omnibus: I Want to Love Us, Seoul Museum of Art (Buk-Seoul), Seoul, Korea

2024 Collection 24, Gangneung Museum of Art, Gangneung, Korea

2024 Graphite.Extension, Art Project CO, Seoul, Korea

2024 Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea 1960s-1970, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US

2023 Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea 1960s-1970, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US

2023 Contemporary Art – In Search of Light, Suseong Artpia, Daegu, Korea

2023 With Paper, Horim Museum Sinsa, Seoul, Korea

2022 Black. White: Conversation on performance, Art Project CO, Seoul, Korea

2022 The 12th Seoul Media City Biennale: Station, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2022 The Poetic Collection, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul Seosomun Main Building, Seoul, Korea

2021 New Ways of Living for ( ), Suwon I-Park Museum of Art, Suwon, Korea

2021 Forêt, ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL, Seoul, Korea

2020 The Moment of “ㄱ”, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea

2020 The Great Epics, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea

2020 Made in Daegu II, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea

2018 Renegades in Resistance and Challenge, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea

2017 Tracing the Past and Shaping The Future, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China

2017 Paper Sculpture (Paper Taking Shape), Museum SAN, Wonju, Korea

2017 Voice of Asia, ARARIO GALLERY SHANGHAI, Shanghai, China

2017 Trace of Time, Kim Tschang-Yeul Museum, Jeju, Korea

2016 As the Moon Waxes and Wanes, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

2016 Busan Biennale Korea (Korea's Avant-Garde Movement: A Rebellious Escape), Busan, Korea

2016 When words fail, Hite Collection, Seoul, Korea

2016 Dansaekhwa l'aventure du monochrome en Corée, des années 70 à nos jours, Domaine de Kerguehennec, Bignan, France

2015 Korea Tomorrow 2015, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea

2015 The Sound of Things, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

2014 Between the Lines: Korean Contemporary Art Since 1970, ARARIO GALLERY CHEONAN, Cheonan, Korea Video Artist 1978, Bongsan Culture Center, Daegu, Korea

2014 Draw a Painting, Gallery Sejul, Seoul, Korea

2013 Haein Art Project 2013, Haeinsa, Hapcheon, Korea

2012 Dansaekhwa of Korea, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

2011 Depaysement-Blooming the City, Arko Art Museum, Seoul, Korea

2011 Qi is Full - Drawing Yi, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea

2011 Lee In-Seong Art Award Winners’ Exhibition, Daegu Culture & Arts Center, Daegu, Korea

2010 Invisible Window, YFO Gallery, Daegu, Korea

2009 Joint Show, YFO Gallery, Daegu, Korea

2008 Layer, Gallery SoSo, Paju, Korea Inter-Viewing Paintings, SOMA Museum, Seoul, Korea

2007 From Nothingness, Culture and Art Center, Daegu, Korea

2002 Erasing & Drawing, Shin Gallery, Cheongju, Korea Age of Philosophy and Aesthetics, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea 2000 Landscape of Spirit, Gallery M, Daegu, Korea Mix-up, Total Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1999 Looking at the Alchemy of an Age, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, Korea

1997 Korea-China-Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition, Culture and Art Center, Daegu, Korea

1996 Development of Korean Modernism, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Daegu Asia Art Exhibition, Culture and Art Center, Daegu, Korea

1981 Korean Drawing NOW, Brooklyn Museum, New York, US

1980 Impact Art Festival, Kyoto Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan

1979 Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil 1978 Korean: The Trend for the Past 20 Years of Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

1977 Korean Contemporary Painting, Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan

1977 A Facet of Korean Contemporary Art, Central Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

1975-79 Seoul Contemporary Art Festival, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

1976-79 Ecole de Seoul, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

1974-78 Daegu Contemporary Art Festival, Keimyung University, Daegu, Korea

1974 Korean Experimental Artists, Daebaek Gallery, Daegu, Korea

Awards

2010 11th Lee Insung Art Prize, Daegu, Korea

Selected Collections

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

Suwon Museum of Art, Suwon, Korea Busan