Chung Hee Seung KOREA, b. 1974

EDUCATION

2007     MA, London College of Communication, London, UK

2005     BA, London College of Communication, London, UK

1996     BFA, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022     Rejoice: Still Life, Lotte Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2020     Copier, Sindoh Art Space, Seoul, Korea

2017     Stanza, GoEun Museum of Photography, Busan, Korea

2016     Rose is a Rose is a Rose, Perigee Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2014     Heeseung Chung, PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2014     Inadequate Metaphors, HADA Contemporary, London, UK

2013     Inadequate Metaphors, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea

2012     Still Life, Doosan Gallery New York, New York, USA

2011     Unphotographable, Doosan Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2008     Persona, Gallery Wa, Seoul, Korea

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024     45cm, Chapter II, Seoul, Korea

2023     Maniera, Doosan Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2023     Brilliant Cut, Gallery Baton, Seoul, Korea

2023     The Images, Hite Collection, Seoul, Korea

2023     Romance Rooted in Eternity: Flowers in Bloom, Jeonnam Museum of Art, Gwangyang, Korea

2023     Faint Afterglow, Gallery Baton, Seoul, Korea

2022     The Artplace HMC 2022 - Welcome FRIEZE, The Oakwood Premier COEX Center, Seoul, Korea

2022     A Season of Meditation, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea

2022     Better Not to be Named, Chapter II, Seoul, Korea

2021     The Review, Chosunilbo Museum/Noblesse Collection, Seoul, Korea

2021     Super-fine: Light Photography, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2021     Collection_Opening Hacking Mining, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2020     Korea Artist Prize 2020, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

2020     Art Plant Asia 2020: Hare Way Object, Deoksugung, Seoul, Korea

2019     Live Forever, Hite Collection, Seoul, Korea

2019     Seeing Unaccompanied, Chapter II, Seoul, Korea

2019     Controlled Perspcectives, Belfast photo Festival, Belfast, UK

2018     Bookshelf of the Artist, Goyang Aram Nuri Arts Center, Goyang, Korea

2018     Imagined Border, 12th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea

2018     Daegu Photo Biennale 2018, Daegu Arts Center, Daegu, Korea

2018     Of Nature, Suwon Ipark Museum of Art, Suwon, Korea

2017     SongEun Art Storage: Not Your Ordinary Art Storage, SongEun Art Storage, Seoul, Korea

2017     Media Study: Tension and Relaxtion, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea

2017     You are a Space, Nook Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2016     The Art of Not Landing, Cake Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2016     DoRaBom (Reflections): Special Exhibition Celebrating Songeun Foundation Chairman Mr. Sang-Duck Yoo’s Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award, SongEun Art Space, Seoul, Korea

2016     Photo: Five Rooms, Doosan Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2016     Public to Private: Photography in Korean Art since 1989, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

2016     Monkey in the Cabinet of Curiosity, Shinsegae Gallery, Busan, Korea

2015     Dialogues of Space, Korean Cultural Centre UK, London, UK

2015     Lies of Lies, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

2014     Klingsor's Last Summer, Hite Collection, Seoul, Korea

2014     Follow Me, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2014     2014 Nanji Art Show VII: Documentaties: The World Behind the Moon, SeMA Nanji Exhibition Hall, Seoul, Korea

2014     Ode to Youth: Korea-China Young Artists Exhibition, Hongik Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2014     2014 Nanji Art Show: Band of Feeling, SeMA Nanji Exhibition Hall, Seoul, Korea

2014     Art Spectrum 2014, Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2014     Photography and Media: 4AM, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2013     Heeseung Chung, Richard Kolker, Jochen Klein, Ruoff Stiftung, Nurtingen, Germany

2013     Chung Heeseung & Je Baak, HADA Contemporary, London, UK

2011     The 11th Songeun Art Award Exhibition, SongEun Art Space, Seoul, Korea

2010     The Triumph of Failure, South Hill Park, Bracknell, UK

2010     I Love Your Profile, Espacio Menosuno, Madrid, Spain

2010     Singapore International Photography Festival, National Museum of Singapore, Singapore

2010     Divided Gaze, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2010     I Love Your Profile, University of Cadiz, UK

2010     Maden Pictures, Arario Gallery, Cheonan, Korea

2010     The Triumph of Failure, Noam Gallery, Seoul, Korea

AWARDS

2023     1st Ralph Gibson Awards, The Gibson Ι Goeun Museum of Photography, Korea

2018     Sindoh Artist Support program (SINAP), Korea

2016     Unveil’d Photobook Award, UK

2012     The 11th Daum Prize, Korea

2011     The 11th SongEun Art Award, SongEun Foundation, Korea

2008     Photo España 2008, Descubrimientos PHE, Spain

2008     Critical Mass Top 50, Photolucida, USA

2007     Nikon Discovery Awards, UK

2007     Sproxton Memorial Award' for Best in Show, London College of Communication, UK

RESIDENCIES

2021     Chapter II Residency, Seoul, Korea

2014     SeMA Nanji Residency, Seoul, Korea

2012     Doosan Residency New York, New York, USA