Education
2012-4 MFA Painting candidate, Pratt Institute, New York, NY, USA
2010-2 BFA Painting, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) Chicago, IL, USA
2003-8 BFA Film, Video, and Moving Image, Hongik University, Korea
Awards
2025 Encouragement Prize, Seoul International Art Award
2024 Selected as the 16th Artist of Soohoh Gallery
2024 Blue Award, Art Korea International Art Competition
2023 Bucheon Cultural Foundation, Selected as one of the Bucheon 50 Artists
2023 Gwanghwamun International Art Festival, Selected as an Asia Youth Artist
2022 National Exhibition of Fine Arts, Special Selection
2021 Hyundai Engineering & Construction, the Original Home Gallery, Rising artist selection
2020 Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, Art Vaccine Project
2019 Guangzhou Art fair Awards
2019 Gyeonggi Art Contest Exhibition Awards
2017 9th New Discourse Awards
2016 Art Bank, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
2015 8th Seoul Metro Art Awards
2012-2014 Merit Scholarship, Pratt Institute, New York, NY, USA
2010-2012 Merit Scholarship, SAIC, Chicago, IL, USA
Selected Solo Exhibition (2012-)
2025 [A Step Further into the Light], Soohoh Gallery, Bundang, Korea
2023 [One step into the light] BrickSand x DeArt82, BrickSand Samcheong Branch, Seoul
2021 [One step into the light], Seoul Gallery, The Seoulshinmun Daily, Seoul, Korea
2021 [One step into the light], Nine Wells Gallery, Siheung, Korea
2020 [Fantasy Adrift], h contemporary, Sungnam, Korea
2020 [one step further], gallery insaart, Seoul, Korea
2019 [Scenes from a fantasy world], KBS Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2018 [Jump into a fantasy world], Gagosipo gallery, Seoul, Korea
2018 [Scene from the fantasy world], ILHO gallery, Seoul, Korea
2018 [Jump into the fantasy world], gallery Tom, Tomntoms Itaewon, Seoul
2017 [9th New Discourse Award], Cyart Space, Seoul, Korea
2016 [the Verge to a Fantasy], Seojin Art Space, Seoul, Korea2014 [My Ideal Masculine Beauty], Moon&Park Gallery, Busan, Korea
2012 [Instinctive Landscape], Career Center Pratt Institute, New York, NY, USA
Selected Group Exhibition (2012-)
2025
[Seoul International Art Award], KEPCO Art Center, Seoul
[Art Gangneung 25], Gangneung Art Center, Gangneung, Korea
[On the Boundary of Light and Darkness: The Meaning of the First Moment], Curated by Gallery
PINES, SMC Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Seoul
2024
[Sharing Love], Soohoh Gallery, Seongnam, Gyeonggi
[Design Korea 2024], Soohoh Gallery, COEX, Seoul
[Seocho × Gwanak Cultural Foundation Exchange Art Fair: artBnB], Seoripul Youth Art Gallery &
Gwancheon-ro Cultural Platform S1472, Seoul
[Youth Art Store Art Fair], Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
[Design Art Fair], Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
[B.A.F. 2024], Sejong Museum of Art, Sejong Center, Seoul
[Contrast: Beauty], Gallery Minjung, Seoul
2023
[Art Alliance], JnM Gallery, Seoul
[Gwanghwamun International Art Festival], Sejong Cultural Center, Seoul
[Breeze Art Fair Local Track], Nodeul Island Gallery, Seoul
[Bucheon Cultural Foundation, Bucheon 50 Artists], Gyeonggi Bucheon
[Art Fair Play Seoul Auction Black Lo]t, Beeum Gallery, Seoul
[This Space, Another Space], Art Association Iter, Busan
2022
[National Exhibition of Fine Arts], Korea Art Museum in Insa-dong, Seoul
[Korea Art Show], Suwon Convention Center, Gyeonggi Suwon
2021
[Art Prize Gangnam], Gangnam Furniture Street, Seoul
[Yeosu International Art Festival], Yeosu Expo Convention, Yeosu
[Step by step, Art on hanger], Alleyway, Gwanggyo, Korea
[Covid19 Healing Gyeonggi Art Collection Special Exhibition: Ecology, Peace, Cities, and Humanity],
Gyeonggi Provincial Government North Office, Uijeongbu, Korea2020
[Subtle Frame] Kisoeb Kim, Jihoon Yang, Soonyong Hong, Gagosipo gallery, Seoul
[Young Artist’s Store], Seoul Art Center, Seoul
K-Auction premium auction Art&craft, Seoul
2019
[YOUNG ARTISTS], Minoo media art museum, Gyeonggi-do
[Ecorock festival INSIDE], Starfield Goyang, Gyeonggi-do
[ONEIRISM] Kiseob Kim, Jihoon Yang, Gagosipo Gallery, Seoul
[ASYAAF Asian Students and Young Artists Art Festival], DDP, Seoul
[4th New Drawing Project], Chang Ucchin Museum of Art, Yangju
[100 Exhibition], Ecorockgallery, Seoul
[2nd K-painting], Yoonseung gallery, Seoul
2018
[Emerging Artists], Heesu Gallery, Seoul
[ARTMINING SEOUL 2018], Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul
[the Next Big Movement], KIMI Art gallery, Seoul
[New Thinking New Art], Violet gallery, Seoul
[A Midsummer night’s painting], Gagosipo gallery, Seoul
[Mix&Match], Guruji gallery, Seoul
[KIMI for you2018], KIMI Art gallery, Seoul
2017
[Art Campaign 2017 Art Gyeonggi], Art Festa, Gyeonggi-do
[Viva Li Artists, Artist Central Institute], Blue Square Gallery Nemo, Seoul
[Connecting to the disconnected], gagosipo gallery, Seoul, Korea
[Art Mining, Seoul Modern Art Show], Hangaram Museum of Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea
[2nd International Abstract Mind], CICA Museum, Kimpo , Korea
[Contemporary Nomadic Artists], Puesto Gallery, Seoul, Korea
[Art Terminal Section #4], Small Museum, Jungsun, Korea
[12th Idea Factory Emerging Artists], Idea Factory, Seoul, Korea
2016
[6th Art Gifts], EW Museum, Seoul, Korea
[3rd Orot Art Market], Seojin Art Space, Seoul, Korea
[4th Daejeon International Art Show 2016], Kotrex, Daejeon, Korea
[3rd With Art Fair 2016], Grand Intercontinental hotel, Seoul, Korea
[Tree, Landscape, Room, and Balloon], Jade Flower Gallery, Seoul, Korea
[Print Think 2016: Collaboration with Art in Print], Temple University, Philadelphia, USA[2016 Gwanghwamun International Art Festival], Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
[World art Dubai 2016], Dubai Convention Centre, Dubai
2015
[SAIC 150th] Insa Gallery, Seoul, Korea
[Artnshowcase], Bean Brothers, Seoul, Korea
[8th Seoul Metro Art Awards], Seoul Metro Museum, Seoul, Korea
[Open Exhibition], mika'rti design Gallery, Busan, Korea
2014
[Supermarket], Art District p, Busan, Korea
2013
[Morphing Identity], Steuban Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2012
[New York Paintings], Café Bene, New York, NY, USA
[Fall Open Studio Exhibition], Steuban Gallery, New York, NY, USA
[BFA SHOW], Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Activities
2024 Collaborating Artist, Bucheon Cultural Foundation, as part of Bucheon City's Cosmetics Industry
Development Support Project
2024 Selected Cover Image for Kyobo Bookstore CEO’s 2024 New Year’s Greeting Card
2020-23 Young Art Shop and Homecoming Day, Seoul Arts Center
2022 Disney+ Drama Project Collaboration
2020 TVN Drama Project Collaboration
2018 Guro Cultural Foundation, Resident Artist at Sindorim Station Cultural Railway 959, Seoul
2015 Contemporary Nomadic Artists Planning, Crude Creatures Contemporary Art Gallery, Chicago
Collections
Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation Gyeonggi Art Museum,
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
TomnToms, the Original Home Gallery, Insa Art Gallery, Seojin Art Space
Suwol Hanbang Hospital Daegu Suseong Branch
Busan University Hospital Professor Research Laboratory of Hematology-Oncology,
Numerous private collections including the residence of Vice Chairman of Hanwha Group