Artist
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Woo Kukwon
대한민국
- Works Biography Exhibitions Press release
Woo Kukwon
Woo Kukwon (b.1976) is based in Korea.
Tokyo Designer Gakuin College, Japan
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Querencia, Pyo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2017 Keep Breathing, GalleyIT, Tokyo, Japan
Redeemed, BK Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2016 Star Man, Salon de H, Seoul, Korea
Say Something, Delpino, The Gallery D, Gangwondo, Korea
Middle of Nowhere, salon de H, Seoul, Korea
2015 Keep Breathing, salon de H, Seoul, Korea
2014 Woo Kuk Won Solo Exhibition, Lee Eugean Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2012 13 Stories, salon de H, Seoul, Korea
2010 WAKE UP, Gallery Banditrasos, Seoul, Korea
2009 The Rainbow Connection, Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 Story Shower, Two Person Exhibition, space K, Seoul, Korea
Spring Art Shopping, Lotte Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2014 Draw, LIG Art Space, Seoul, Korea
2012 Red, Take Out Drawing, Seoul, Korea
11 Artists with MACALLAN, Artside, Seoul, Korea
Untitled, TV12 Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2011 Untitled, Gallery MK2, Beijing, China
Moa Invite, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
2010 Lyrical Memory, Gallery CurioMook, Seoul, Korea
32nd JoongAng Fine Arts, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
Imagine Paradise, Hyundai Department Store, Seoul, Korea
2009 Intermix, Gallery Gana, Seoul, Korea
COLLECTION
Art Bank, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
Maeil Dairies Co., Ltd., Seoul, Korea Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Ilshin Spinning Co., Ltd, Seoul, Korea The Jeonnamilbo, Gwangju, Korea
Kolon Corporation, Gwacheon, Korea
Tsutaty Culture Convenience Club Co. Lted, Japan
AWARDS
2011 Col Art Residency, Beijing, China
2010 JoongAng Fine Art Award, Seoul, Korea
ARTIST NOTE
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if
I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came ... had to teach, and not, when I came to die,
discover that I had not lived.
These words come from the book -Walden- written by the noted Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. His thoughts originate from the idea that being possessed by the past and future, while being ignorant of the present, is an unrecommended way of living a fulfilled life. Filling your thoughts with past humiliation of defeat or imaginations of future victory is an easy way to forget about what is happening at the present. He believes the way to happiness and a fulfilling life is to focus soundly on the present, rid yourself from endless and futile self-analysis, and be content with what you have today.