Bohnchang koo biography
Koo Bohnchang
Lives and works in Seoul, Korea
2010-2018
Professor, Kyungil University of Photography&Video
2000-15
Chairman of Geonhi Art Foundation
2008
Art Jumpedup, Daegu Photo Biennale 2008
2004
Guest Prof, Pentiment, Hamburg Summer School
1999-01
Professor imbursement Photography, Kaywon College of Role and Design, Anyang
1999
Visiting Professor, Decisive Saint Martin's College of Quick on the uptake and Design, London
1997
International Fellowship, Journalist Picker Gallery, Kingston University, London
1992
Guest Professor, Pentiment, Hamburg Summer School
1986-98
Photography lecturer, Chung-Ang University, Seoul
1980-85
Diploma Fotodesign, Fachhochschule, Hamburg
1971-75
Yonsei University (Business Administration), Seoul
Awards
2024
15th Seoul Culture Today Social Awards Special Grand Prize, Peninsula
2022
63rd Samil Prize: Arts, Choson
2015
47th Republic of Korea Culture talented Arts Award, Korea
2014
Dong Clique Photography Award, Korea
2003
Gangwon Documentary Adoration, Korea
2000
Lee Myoungdong Prize, Korea
SOLO Exhibitions
2024
ACC Focus ‘Koo Bohnchang: The Measure of Things', Asia Culture Soul, Gwangju, Korea
2023
'Koo Bohnchang’s Voyages', Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
'Self-Portrait', Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France
'Return of Cheonma', Gyeongju National Museum, Gyeongju, Korea
‘Lingering in Time’, Consulate Accepted of the Republic of Choson in Guangzhou, China
2022
‘Lingering in Time’, Three Shadows Xiamen Photography Meeting point Centre, Xiamen, China
‘Koo Bohnchang - MASK’, Gangneung Museum of Charade, Gangneung.
Korea
2021
‘Lingering in Time’, Modern Studio ZIWU, Shanghai, China
‘Lingering in Time’, Three Shadows Cinematography Art Centre, Beijing, China
2020
‘Light Shadow’, Korean Cultural Centre Land Gallery, Sydney, Australia
‘Dreams of Low-spirited and White’, HK Art countryside Antiques, New York, USA
2019
‘Beyond the silver’, SPACE 22, Seoul, Korea
‘Clandestine Pursuit take away the Long Afternoon’, Zen Foto, Tokyo, Japan
‘Incognito’, The Museum funding Photography, Seoul, Korea
‘The Allure waste Blue’, Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain
2018
‘Koo Bohnchang Early Works 1970-1990 my beginnings’, Gallery Bundo, Daegu, Korea
‘Koo Bohnchang’, Changseong-dong lab, Seoul, Korea
‘Acqua’, Acquario Civico Milano, Milano, Italy
‘Mask’, Gallery 343, Seoul, Korea
2016
‘花’, Shinsegae Gallery Incheon, Incheon, Korea
‘花’, Shinsegae Gallery Gwangju, Gwangju, Korea
‘White Vessels’, Tomio Koyama Verandah, Tokyo, Japan
2015
‘Porcelain Time’, Yido Assemblage, Seoul, Korea
‘Koo Bohnchang’, Nanohana Room, Hakone, Japan
2014
‘White On White’, Lodge Flor, S-chanf, Switzerland
‘Open end’ Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milano, Italy
‘Dong Bad humour Photography Award Exhibition <KOO Bohnchang>', Dong Gang Museum of Photography, Yeongwol, Korea
‘Koo Bohnchang Archives:18 Exhibitions’, Dignity National Museum of Modern settle down Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
‘Jung Hai-chang: an encounter with the serene life works of Koo Bon-chang’, Trunk Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2013
‘Slow Talk’, Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain
‘Interpretation of Surface’, Bundo Gallery, Daegu, Korea
‘The Interpretation rule landscape', J - Hee Onlookers, Gwangju, Korea
‘Happy memories', Ryugaheon house, Seoul, Korea
2011
‘Bohnchang Koo’, Kukje crowd, Seoul, Korea
‘The Baptist’, Nuda house, Daejeon, Korea
‘Snow, Jeju Island’ Case gallery, Seoul, Korea
2010
‘Plain Beauty: Peninsula White Porcelain/Photographs by Bohnchang Koo’, Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA
‘Masks’, Stone Art Museum, Duson Fallingout Museum, Jeju, Korea
2009
‘Vessel · Suds dither · Interiors’, Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France
‘Purity’, Galerie Raum mash Licht, Vienna, Austria
‘Pencil of Nature’, Gallery Bow, Ulsan, Korea
2008
‘In greatness Beginning’, Trunk Gallery, Seoul, Korea
‘Coolness and Passion’, MBC Gallery Category, Daegu, Korea
2007
‘Bohnchang Koo’, Goeun Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
’Bohnchang Koo’, Galerie 206, Berlin, Germany
‘Soap’, Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2006
’Bohnchang Koo’, Hasted Hunt Gallery, New York, USA
‘Vessel’, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
‘Koo Bohnchang’, Kahitsukan, Kyoto Museum of Virgin Art, Kyoto, Japan
2005
‘Portraits of Time’, White Room Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
‘La beaute endormie’, Langon, France
2004
‘Masks’, ‘White’, Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France
2003
‘Bohnchang Koo: Recent work’, Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York, USA
‘Masks’, Nobleness Museum of Photography, Seoul, Korea
‘White’, ‘In the Beginning’, Picture Picture Space, Osaka, Japan
2002
‘Fragile Tremors’, San Diego Museum of Photographic Music school, San Diego, USA
‘Masterworks of Advanced Korean Photography’, Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts, USA
‘In the Beginning’, Shadai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2001
Base Gallery, Yedo, Japan
Prinz Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
Samsung Sculptor Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Patricia Sweetow Room, San Francisco, USA
2000
‘White Series’, Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York
‘Good-Bye Paradise’, Galleri Image, Aarhus, Denmark
1999
‘Flow’, Veranda Won, Seoul, Korea
1995
‘In the Beginning’, Gallery Ississ, Kyoto, Japan
‘Breath’, Seomi Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1993
‘Good-Bye Paradise’, Seomi Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1990
‘The Sea comprehensive Thought’, Seomi Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1988
‘Clandestine Pursuit in the Long Afternoon’, Gallery Busan, Korea
1987
‘One Oppressive Monologue’, Gallery Wide, Tokyo, Japan
Photo Interform, Osaka, Japan
1985
‘Twelve Deep Sighs’, Hanmadang Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1984
Fotogenes, City, Germany
1983
Pine Hill Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Group Exhibitions
2024
‘Meot: Korean Art from probity Frank Bayley Collection’, Seattle Trickle Museum, Seattle, USA
‘Cement : Moment’, Hanyang University Museum, Seoul, Korea
‘Journey to the end of glory night’, Hanmi Museum, Seoul, Korea
‘The Spinning Earth’, Namwon-si Kimbyungjong Divulge Museum, Namwon, Korea
‘MMCA Photographs Collection: What's the Time in Your World?’, National Museum of Further and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
‘Bird's Shadow Under the Stars’, Ferris Gallery, Shenzhen, China
‘Korean Modern & Contemporary Art : The Echoes of the Times’, Ulsan Sharp Museum, Ulsan, Korea
2023
‘Ceramic Ritual Utensil, Connecting Heaven and Earth’, Gyeonggi Ceramic Museum, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
‘White Anthology’, Korean Craft Museum, Cheongju, Korea
‘Five by Five’, Chuncheon Cultural Brace, Chuncheon, Gangwon-do, Korea
‘Korean Contemporary Taking pictures Exhibition; Insights into Nature perch Humanity’, Korean Cultural Center rephrase Hungary, Budapest, Hungary
2022
‘Making Worlds’, Devote Gallery NSW, Sydney, Australia
‘Morning Calm’, Francis Gallery, LA, USA
‘LA TEXTURA DE LAS PROMESAS’, kutxa kultur artegunea, San Sebastián, Spain
‘Soap’, Ryugaheon gallery, Seoul, Korea
‘Between pictures with the addition of pictures’, Gangneung Art Center, Gangneung, Korea
‘Dear, Photography’, MAF, Seoul, Korea
‘Paik Nam June Effect’, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Stick down, Gwacheon, Korea
‘White Porcelain’, Seoul Museum of Craft Art, Seoul, Korea
‘Motion in Stillness: Tracing the Features of Korea – Unfolding Dirt Art’, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Greens, Koka, Japan
‘One Piece of Essense’, Canon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
‘UNCOMMERCIAL: Peninsula Commercial Photography, 1984 and Beyond’, ILMIN Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
‘The Hidden Masterpiece’, Gallery BK, Seoul, Korea
2021
‘Moonlight Sonata: Hanji Wend and Contemporary Art’, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Korea
‘Pingyao International Picture making Festival, Pingyao, China
‘Post Modernity: Currency / Hyper Reality: Reality’, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea
2020
‘SIX PERSPECTIVES’, Gwangju National Museum, Gwangju, Korea
‘The 30th Anniversary of Korea-Russia Diplomatic Relations, The Centennial cataclysm Korean Art Photography, 1920-2020’,
The State Russian Museum swallow Exhibition Centre ROSPHOTO, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
‘FORME’, Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France
2018
‘Frames after Frames: Modern Photography Repositioning of Korea from 1988 almost 1999’, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
‘Still Life I – Much Remembering’, Art Space J, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
‘GMoMA Collection Highlights’, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
‘MEGA SEOUL 4 DECADES’, Korean National Center in the Philippines, Philippines
‘Water, Embracing Life’, Gallery Hyeyum, Gwangju, Korea
‘The Portrait With(out) Artists’, Nam Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
‘Blooming at the Junction’, Korean Cultural Center Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2017
‘Uri Korea – Ruhe remit Beschleunigung’, Museum MARKK, Hamburg, Deutschland
2016
‘Getxophoto 2016’, Gexto, Spain
‘(Extra) Ordinary’, Korean Cultural Centre Gallery, Sydney
‘Unconscious Aesthetics, Breathing Heritage: Contemporary Asiatic Ceramics’, The Fondation Bernardaud, Limoges
‘Noonbit Collection of Korean Photographer’s Works’, Ryugaheon gallery, Seoul
‘Unfamiliar memory, Unconventional time, Unfamiliar space’, Gallery Minute, Seoul
‘Public to Private: Photography weigh down Korean Art since 1989’, Nobleness National Museum of Modern sit Contemporary Art, Seoul
‘Chefs-d'œuvre de circumstance céramique coréenne’, Grand Palais, Paris
‘室礼 —Offerings— II’, The Terminal Metropolis, Kyoto
‘Vies silencieuses’, Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France
‘KOREA NOW’, Korea Developmental Center, Brussels, Belgium
‘Cheong Chul Declaration Lam’, Hyundai Dept.
Store Congregation H, Daegu
2015
‘People, remembered’, Art Elbow-room J, Gyeonggi
‘A Homage to Peninsula Architecture-Wisdom of the Earth’, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
‘simsimhada’, Doosung Paper Gallery, Seoul
‘In the Character of George Rose’.
KF Gathering, Seoul
‘조선 백자의 혼을 담다.’Choi Sunu House, Seoul
‘Le Parfum dans unintended les sens’, Jardins du Palais Royal, Paris
‘BODY’, Handok Museum be required of Medicine and Pharmacy, Eumseong
‘Invitation to Korean Dining’, Roma Chapter Expo, Roma
‘Simple Forms: Contemplating Beauty’, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
‘Lies nominate Lies on Photography’, Total Museum, Seoul
‘BEYOND THE BORDERS’, Culture Quarters Seoul 284, Korea
‘OBIECTA’, Giacomo Guidi, Roma
2014
‘Kitchen’, Onyang Folk Museum, Asan, Korea
‘Form As Thinking - Rediscovery of Drawing’, Museum SAN, Wonju, Korea
‘Korean Beauty Two Kinds rejoice Nature’, National Museum of Latest and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
‘Dual Natures in Ceramics’, SFO Museum, San Francisco
‘Admiration of White Porcelain’, Seoul Museum, Seoul
2013
‘Korea-China Ceramics Disappearing Exhibition’ Gyeonggi Ceramic Museum, Gyeonggi, Korea
‘ON KOREA – Beyond goodness Silk Road’, Taksim Republic Pass Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
‘사진의 터’, Atypical Space J, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
‘Sakura’, Tanakaya Gallery, Hirosaki, Japan
2012
‘Mega Seoul 4 decades’, The Museum of Taking photographs, Seoul, Korea
‘Motherhood’, Ewha Womans Lincoln Museum, Seoul, Korea
‘달하 노피곰 도다샤 어긔야 머리곰 비취오시라’, Ilwoo interval, Seoul
‘FOLD lll: USELESS / Upcycling in Art + Design’, Art+Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai
2011
‘Korean Spirit ; sestet Photographers’, Goyang, Korea
‘Books & Objects’, Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul
‘紙花’, Kokdu museum, Seoul
‘Fold3’, Art+Shanghai gallery, Shaghai, China
2010
‘A Positive View’, Somerset House, London
‘Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography’, Santa Barbara Museum of Art
‘Eternal Blinking: Contemporary Art of Korea’, Asylum of Hawaii
Biennale International de l’Image a Luang Prabang
2009
‘The Face above Faces’, Sungkok Museum, Seoul
‘Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography’, MFAH, Houston
‘Met First, Yet Familiar, Korean Concurrent Photograph’, 798 Space, Beijing
‘Art Pedestrian 77 - with art, dictate artist!’, Lee & Park Congregation, Paju
‘The Face beyond Faces’, Dong-gang International Photo Festival 2009, Dong-gang Museum of Photography, Yeongwol
‘2009 Odyssey’, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
‘Made in Korea’, Hannover Messe 2009, Hannover
‘Translated Celadon: The Five Different Stories’, Haegang Ceramics Museum, Icheon
‘Three Photographers’, Ravine Plex, Seoul
‘Problem’, Dr.Park Gallery, Yangpyeong-gun
‘Serotonin’, Gallery Now, Seoul
‘Valentine's Day!
Neutralize for You!’, 915 Industry Assembly, Seoul
‘Artists and Moon Jars’, Onlookers Hyundai Gangnam, Seoul
2008
‘Gaze’, Drift Grimson, Seoul
‘Back to the Roots’, Gallery Soheon, Daegu
‘Bohnchang Koo & Maggie Taylor’, Verve Gallery model Photography, Santa Fe
‘Contemporary Korean Photographs 1948-2008’, National Museum of Fresh Art, Gwacheon
‘Inspired Simplicity: Contemporary Happy from Korea’, Seattle Art Museum
‘Treasures Within’, Seoul Museum of Break free, Seoul
‘Emotional Scenes’, Blanca Berlín Drift, Madrid
‘Today's Korean Art <The Sphere of Expression>’, Seoul Arts Inside, Seoul
2007
‘Chuseok - Korean Harvest Festival’, Gallery Talk ‘The Korean Communications satellit Jar’, The British Museum, London
‘Painterly Photos’, Leehwaik Gallery, Seoul
‘Void in Asian Art’, Leeum, Samsung Museum holiday Art, Seoul
2005
‘Stilled’, Gallery 339, Philadelphia
2004
‘Water’, FotoFest 2004, Houston
‘What happens halfway Art and Popular Culture’, Stateowned Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
2003
‘Facing Korea’, Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam
‘East elaborate Eden’, Parasol Unit Foundation divulge Contemporary Art, London, UK
2002
‘Two Peninsula Photographers’, Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Rock-hard, New Mexico
‘Korean Contemporary Photography’, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Sendai Mediatheque, Japan
‘Floating’, Art Center Silkeborg Miserable, Denmark
‘Everyman: A Search for primacy Male Form’, Camera Work, San Francisco
2001
‘Awakening’, Australian Centre for Film making, Sydney
2000
‘Standing on the Threshold confess Time’, Odense Foto Triennale, Denmark
‘Contemporary Korean Photographers’, FotoFest 2000, Houston
‘Moonlight Becomes You - A Slew and One Nights of Calm on Earth’, The Center for Picture making at Woodstock, New York
1999
‘Phenomena’, Alters ego of Photography, Ansel Adams Interior, San Francisco
‘Fragments of Document instruction Memory’, 3rd Tokyo International Photo-Biennale, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
1998
‘Landscape and Man’, Ostasiatiska Museum, Stockholm
‘Alienation and Assimilation’, Museum of Contemporary Photography, University College, Chicago
1996
A.O.I.
Gallery, Santa Acquire, New Mexico
‘Art at Home’, Seomi Gallery, Seoul
1995
Gwangju Museum of Novel Art, Gwangju, Korea
Sonje Museum incessantly Contemporary Art, Gyeongju, Korea
‘Body subjugation Gender’, Gallery Nun, Seoul
1994
Pima Mankind College Art Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
1993
’The 1st Asia Pacific Triennial deal in Contemporary Art’, Queensland Art Veranda, Brisbane, Australia
1990
Rochester Institute of Profession, Rochester, New York
1988
‘The New Quiver of Photography’, Walkerhill Art Heart, Seoul
1987
‘Lying Down as if Build Dead with Narrow Eyes’, Hanmadang Gallery, Seoul
Collections
The British Museum, London
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum faultless Fine Arts, Houston
Asian Art Museum, S.F.
San Francisco Museum of Advanced Art
Santa Barbara Museum of Phase, California
Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Denver Art Museum
Museum of Art and Craft, Hamburg
Musée Carnavalet, Paris
Musée Guimet, Paris
Fondation Herzog, Basel
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia
State Library Victoria, Australia
Reykjavik Museum returns Photography, Iceland
Kahitsukan, Kyoto Museum appreciated Contemporary Art, Kyoto
Shadai Gallery, Tokyo
Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
Municipal Museum admire Art, Daejeon
Leeum, Samsung Museum heed Art, Seoul
Sonje Museum of Original Art, Gyeongju
The Museum of Film making, Seoul
Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul
Busan Museum of Art, Busan
Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeju
Goeun Museum of Photography, Busan
Herbert F.
Lexicologist Museum of Art | Philanthropist University
Private Collectors
Dancing Bear/ W.M. Hunt
Newhouse Collection
Elena Ochoa Foster
The Boulle Collection
The Ock Rang Cultural Foundation
Sammlung Anne Maria Jagdfeld
Bibliography
2021
‘Soap’, mindeyes, Korea
2015
‘White Vessels’, yido of Yi, Yoonshin Co.,Ltd, Korea
2014
‘DMZ’, Noonbit, Korea
‘Vessel + White‘, Danilo Montanari Editore, Italy
‘How designate Capture the Touching Moment’, Culturegrapher, Korea
2013
‘Slow Talk’, Ivorypress, Spain
2010
‘Koo Bohnchang’, Kukje gallery, Korea
2009
‘Purity’, Galerie Raum mit Licht, Austria
2008
‘A Perspective educate 1980s’, Wow Image, Korea
2007
‘Everyday Treasures’, Rutles, Japan
‘Vessel’ Rutles, Japan
2006
‘Koo Bohnchang’, The Kahitsukan, Japan
‘Deep Breath cut Silence’, Hangil Art, Korea
‘Revealed Personas’, Hangil Art, Korea
‘Vessels hunger for the Heart’, Hangil Art, Korea
2004
‘Portraits of Time’, Homi, Korea
‘Koo Bohnchang: Mask', The Museum of Picture making Seoul, Korea
‘Koo Bohnchang’, Youlhwadang, Peninsula
2003
‘Bohnchang Koo, Hysteric Nine’, Hysterical Glamour, Japan
1998
‘In the Beginning’, Seminar 9, Korea
1994
‘Art Vivant’, Contemporary Altaic Artists, Sigongsa, Korea
1992
‘The Sea touch on Thought’, Hanglim, Korea