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Shin Kiwoun

Shin Kiwoun

South Korea, 1976

BIOGRAPHY

EDUCATION

2010   MFA Fine ART at Goldsmiths College, LONDON 

2006   MA Sculpture_ Seoul National Univ, Seoul, Korea

2003   BA Sculpture_ Seoul National Univ, Seoul, Korea



AWARD

2012SIA Media Artist Award, Korea

2010Bloomberg-New contemporaries 2010, UK

200729th Joongang Fine Arts Prize _ Grand Prix, KOREA

2005 3rd Media artist award , DAUM foundation, KOREA

2005  5th  Seoul new media Festival 2005, KOREA

2003 1st Seoul Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, KOREA



RESIDENCY

2024Uncool Artist Residency, Brooklyn, USA

2013-16GPS Artist Residency program, NamYang-Ju, Korea

2013Lademoen Kunstner Verkstedet, Trondheim, Norway

2011Raumas Artist in Residence Programme, Rauma, Finland

2010The Guesthouse, Cork, Ireland

2005Chang dong ART studio, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul



RESIDENCY

2013 [international Artist residency program support]-Art Council Korea

2007[Supporting the Multi-culture and art]-Art Council Korea

2007 [Exhibition Support program]-SEOUL FOUNDATION for Art & Culture

2006[Supporting the international exchange of culture and art]-Art Council Korea

2006 [Exhibition Support program]-SEOUL FOUNDATION for Art & Culture

2005  [New Young Artist Support]-The Korean Culture and Arts foundation

2005  [Exhibition Support program]-SEOUL FOUNDATION for Art & Culture



SOLO EXHIBITION

2023<Two chair_Dialog_Without Floating Cloud>,Art space Pearl U, Ulsan, Korea.

        <There is no Sea> museum one, Busan

2022<Reality Test_ There are no Chair.>Bonsan Cultural center, Deagu

2020<From Nothing, To Something, To everything>>,artspace purl, Deagu

2020<The Honest exploration>,Space Ba+ Fundi Artlier, Seoul

2019<Nature project>, Seoullo Media canvas, Seoul

2018<There was, there is, there will be> Space Ba, Seoul

2017 <The world is Gray>, Space Willing N Dilling, Seoul

2015<Bate’s Room>, The Old Police station, London

          <Reality Test_ There is no Butterfly>, SungSu Factory, Seoul 

2013<Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, Good Nigh> Space Willing N Dilling, Seoul

         <Between Real and Reality>, Babel, Trondheim, Norway

2012<e,g, Shin Kiwoun>,Museum of Art at Brigham Young University, Prove, USA

2011<Movement/Anti-Movement>,Esplanade_Singapore Art Centre, Singapore

2006<20th Century Boy>, FLATFORM L in alternative space LOOP, Seoul

2005<Highly, Beautifully>, Space Cell, Seoul



GROUP EXHIBITION

2023<Kiaf Seoul special exhibition-Gray Box Area:Space as an event>,Coax, Seoul

2022<17th Gwanghwamun International Art Festival - Light, Sound and Gwanghwamun>, Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul

         <Save Earth _ I am Burning> Art space ARUM, Suwon, Korea

        <Technique of Healing>, Museum One, Pusan, Korea

        <A Season of Meditation> Daegu Art MUseum, Daegu, Korea

2021<404040, Seoul sculptors Society 40th Anniversary> Kimsechoong Museum, Seoul

        <Sensory Grammar >Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan, Korea

        <APMA, CHAPTER THREE : Collection>, Amore Pacific Museum of Art, Seoul

2020<Sense to Blue : Understanding Blue>, BE-IN House, Seoul

        <Collecting for All>SeMA, Seoul

2019<2nd South Sour Water Performance and Visual Art Festival>,Waley Art, Taipei

        <From Here to Eternity> , B-Galleria, Turku, Finland 

2017<Twinkle Twinkle Sewoon>, spaceBA, Seoul

        <Squat Seogsu> , S Factory, Seoul

        <Art and Disaster>, SVA Gallery, Straud, England

2016<Art and Disaster>,Hanmi Gallery, Seoul

         <Club Monster>, ACC, Kwangju, Korea

        <Festival 284: A Better Tomorrow> Culture station Seoul 284, Seoul

        <think twice, It*s All Right>, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea

         <Passing Landscapes Lasting Sights>, Gallery Purple, Namyangju, Korea 

2015<Finding E-waste:>, space_bar421, Seoul

         <2014 New Collection 2nd, Sema Media salon>, SeMA, Seoul

2014<The Brain>, Deajeon Museum of Modern Art, DeaJeon, Korea

        <Welcome to Media Space 2011-2013 II> , Cinema , Busan, Korea 

        <Welcome to Media Space 2011-2013>,Deagu Art space, Deagu, Korea

        <2014 Busan Biennale> Busan Culture Center, Korea

        <High price>, Skatch, London

2013<ANIMAMIX BIENNALE 2013-2014>, Deagu Art Museum, Korea

         <2013 kwang Ju International Media Art Festival>, Culture Complex, Gwan Ju si,, Korea

        <art in Motion>, Danwon Art Museum, An San, Korea

        <Gallery Purple open studio> Gallery Purple, Nam Ynag Ju-si, Korea

        <Human Movement in Paris>, Gallery89, Paris

         <Seoul Squair Art Festival>, Seoul squair, Seoul

        <Lademoen Open Studio>, Lademoen Kunstnerverkstedet, Trondheim, Norway

        <London Art Fair>, Business design centre< London, UK

2012<Admiration for things that disappear in vain > Gallery Jungmisi, Seoul

        <Lost & Found> Hanmi Gallery, London

        <In the Loop> Alternative space Loop, Seoul

2012<Temporal Being & On Manner of Forming> Edwin Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia

          <The Sound of the Muse: 6 Artist from London>, Art Sonje, Seoul

        <Keeping It Real: Korean Artists in the Age of Multi-Media Representation> CU Art Museum, Colorado, USA

        <Map the Korea: 4482>, Barge House, London

         <Position> CIT Wandersford Quay Gallery, Cork, Ireland

2011<Muse London: The 4th UK Korean Artist Exhibition>, Korean Culture centre, London

        <Video+Cast> Arko Museum, Seoul

        <Art:Gwangju:11> Kimdaejung Convention Center, Gwangju

        <Samsung Media Art Exhibition: Dream_white night>, Daegu City Hall wall projection event, Daegu

        <RE:form>, Art center Nabi, Seoul

        <Time Window>, Pohang Museum of Steel Art, Pohang, Korea

        <welcome to Media Space> Gallery Jungmiso, Seoul

        <why is that> Solomon Artist regidence_ Cake Gallery, Seoul

        <Convergence> OCI Museum, Seoul

        <Distance Making & Reducing>, Galleris 3H+K, Pori, Finland

        <Korean Design-Design Från Korea>, Design Museum, Helsinki, Finland

        <Reduction>, LEEDS Mets Gallery, LEEDS Metropolitan University, UK

        <4482-SASAPARI>, Bargehouse, London

          <Chopping Play_ Korean Art Now>,ION Art Gallery, Singapore

2010<Bloomberg New contemporaries 2010>-ICA, London, UK

         <Media Landscape,Zone east> - Korean Cultural Centre UK, London, UK

        <Control Issues>, Mills Gallery, Boston Center of Art, Boston, USA

        <Liverpool Biennial_ City State>-Contemporary Urban centre, Liverpool, UK

          <Liverpool Biennial_ New contemporaries 2010>-A Foundation, Liverpool, UK

               <imagine a sculpture>, Trädgården,  Stockholm, Sweden

        <Goldsmiths 2010 MFA Fine Art Degree Show>, Goldsmiths College, London

         <Ideas in Motion : Korean Moving Image>

        < Pause and Eject 2> Shoreditch Town hall, London

2009 <KNSTHS FMR # 2>, Ybl Palace, Budapest, Hungary

        <Two Degrees of Separation> Gallery Satori, New York

        <Inclemencia del Tiempo>, SUBTE, Montevideo, Uruguay

        Media Poll Project <Korean Neo-pop> Kang-Nam Dearo Media Poll, Seoul

        <Tempestade> Gasômetro, Porto Alegre, Brazil

        <Doors Open>  Korean Cultural Service NY, New York

          <crossfields: Young Korean Artists in London> Korean Cultural Centre UK, London

          <Korean Contemporary Art Exhibition "DOUBLE FANTASY">, MIMOCA (Marugame Genichiro  Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art), Japan

        <Korean Contemporary Art Exhibition "DOUBLE FANTASY">, MIMOCA (Marugame Genichiro  Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art), Japan

2010  <The Quiet Club + Ki woun Shin>, The Guest House, Ireland

          <4482-SASAPARI>, Bargehouse, London

2009 <Logic of Sensibility> Inter Alia, Seoul

        <Pause and Eject> The Rag Factory, London

           <2da Bienal del Fin del Mundo> , Centro Cultural Casa de España, Rosario , Argentina

        <2da  Bienal del Fin del Mundo>  Ushuaia, Argentina

        <Intempéries> OCA, São Paulo ,Brazil

        <Being And Nothing-ness>, Nolias Gallery, London 

        <Encounter: Dublin, Lisbon, Hong Kong and Seoul>, Korea Foundation Cultural Centre, Seoul 

2008<Adieu Media 2008! - Let it snow, Let it media art!>, W Gallery, Seoul

        <To Have or To Be>, Leisure and Cultural Services Department, Hong kong

        <The Spirit of Science And Korean Modern Art>, KAIST, Dae Jeon, Korea

         <To Have or To Be>, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Galeria Palacio Galveias, Ministreria da Cultura de Portugal, Portugal

         <The 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale>, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

         <The 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale>, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

           <To Have or To Be> The Office of Public Works, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2008 <The Fascination for Life>, LVS Gallery, Seoul

         <SeMA2008-Four Ways to Look at Art>, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

2007 <Young Artist Auction by KRUPS> Gallery NAYO, Seoul

        <Channel 1>, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul

        <Première Vue>, PASSAGE de RETZ, Paris

        <Art Beijing 2007>, National Agricultural Exhibition Center, Beijing, China

        <ShContemporary 2007> Shanghai Exhibition Center, China

        <The Thermocline of Art - New Asian Waves>, ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie), Germany

         <29th Joongang Fine Arts prize> Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul 

20062006 FACTORY AUCTION <work in progress>, Gallery factory, Seoul

        <6th Seoul new media festival>, Seoul

         <Rolling ART>, Gallery Factory, Seoul

        <Anewcity_Speculate for House>, Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, Suwon

        <Anewcity_Speculate about House>, arko museum, Seoul

         <Did you see that?> Gallery175, Seoul

20052005 FACTORY AUCTION <work in progress>, Gallery factory, Seoul

        <5th Seoul new media festival>, Seoul

        <Happiness>, Hanjean Artplaza,Seoul

        Chang dong open Studio <Chang dong Go>, Chang dong art Studio, National museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul

        <Hardcore machine>, Artspace hue+gallery skape, seoul 

2004 <2005 AUCTION>, Gallery Factoy, Seoul

        <Chang dong Art studio 3rd group exhibition> Chang dong Art studio, Seoul

          <Gwang Ju biennale 2004 - in Club>, [Theirplace] , Gwang Ju

         < AS AN ESCAPE>Sempio Space, I-cheon, Keong ki do

        <2nd Ha dea lee Summer art festival>, Ha hea lee, Kang won do

        [Black & White]-, Gallerly AnT Square,Seoul

        < preview >, Team_preview, Seoul

         <New concept art exhibition> , Hyndai department Roof Garden, Seoul

        <Partition> - In sa Art Plaza, Seoul

2003<Theirplace> - Gallery Hanty, Seoul

        <1st Seoul Museum of Modern Art>, Seoul Museum of Modern Art, Seoul

         <Ha dea lee summer art festival>- Ha hea lee, Kang won do

2002Artists* Group [Onetime], Seoul National Univ, Culture center, Seoul

2000 Artists* Group [Onetime], Seoul National Univ, Culture center, Seoul 


WORKS

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