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Koo Bohnchang Biography
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1971 - 1975 |
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B.A. Business Administration, Yonsei University, Seoul
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1980 - 1985 |
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Diploma, Photography, Fach Hoch Schule, Hamburg, Germany
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1992 |
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Guest Professor for Pentiment, Hamburg Summer School, Germany
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1997 |
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International Fellowship, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston, U.K.
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1986 - 1998 |
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Lecture for Photography, Chung-Ang University, Korea
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1999 |
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Visiting Professor, Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design
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2000 |
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Lee Myoungdong Prize, Seoul, South Korea
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1999 - 2001 |
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Professor of Photography at Kaywon College of Art and Design
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2003 |
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Gangwon Documentary Prize, Korea
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2004 |
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Guest Professor, Pentiment, Hamburg Summer School
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2008 |
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Art Director, Daegu Photo Biennale 2008
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Lives and works in Seoul, Korea
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2011
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Bohnchang Koo, Kukje gallery, Seoul (solo)
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2010
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Plain Beauty: Korean White Porcelain/Photographs by Bohnchang Koo, Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA (solo)
Masks, Stone Art Museum, Duson Art Museum, Jeju (solo)
A Positive View, Somerset House, London
Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography, Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Eternal Blinking: Contemporary Art of Korea, University of Hawaii
Biennale International de l’Image, Luang Prabang
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2009
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Art Road 77 - with art, with artist!, Lee & Park Gallery, Paju
The Face beyond Faces, Sungkok Museum, Seoul
Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography, MFAH, Houston
Met First, Yet Familiar, Korean Contemporary Photograph, 798 Space, Beijing
Pencil of Nature, Gallery Bow, Ulsan (solo)
Serotonin, Gallery Now, Seoul, South Korea
Valentine's Day! Art for You!’, 915 Industry Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Artists and Moon Jars, Gallery Hyundai Gangnam, Seoul, South Korea
Masks’, Dong-gang International Photo Festival 2009, Dong-gang Museum of Photography, Yeongwol, South Korea
2009 Odyssey, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea
Made in Korea, Hannover Messe 2009, Hannover, Germany
Translated Celadon: The Five Different Stories’, Haegang Ceramics Museum, Icheon, South Korea
Three Photographers, Canon Plex, Seoul, South Korea
Problem, Dr.Park Gallery, Yangpyeong-gun, South Korea
Purity, Galerie Raum mit Licht, Vienna, Austria (solo)
Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France (solo)
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2008
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In the Beginning’, Trunk Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (solo)
Coolness and Passion’, MBC Gallery M, Daegu, South Korea (solo)
Gaze, Gallery Grimson, Seoul, South Korea
Back to the Roots’, Gallery Soheon, Daegu, South Korea
Bohnchang Koo & Maggie Taylor’, Verve Gallery of Photography, Santa Fe, USA
Contemporary Korean Photographs 1948-2008’, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, South Korea
Inspired Simplicity: Contemporary Art from Korea, Seattle Art Museum, USA
Treasures Within, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
Emotional Scenes, Blanca Berlín Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Today's Korean Art , Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea
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2007
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Chuseok - Korean Harvest Festival, Gallery Talk ‘The Korean Moon Jar’, The British Museum, London, UK
Painterly Photos, Leehwaik Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Bohnchang Koo’, Goeun Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea (solo)
Galerie 206, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Soap, Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Void in Korean Art, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
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2006
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Hasted Hunt Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Vessel, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (solo)
Koo Bohnchang, Kahitsukan, Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyoto , Japan (solo)
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2005
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Portraits of Time’, White Room Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
La beaute endormie, Langon, France (solo)
Camera Obscura, Paris, France (solo)
Stilled: Bohnchang Koo and Edward Dimsdale, Gallery 339 Philadelphia, PA
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2004
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Fountain, Fotofest, Houston, TX, USA
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2003
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Recent Work, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Masks, The Museum of Photography, Seoul, South Korea (solo)
White, ‘In the Beginning’, Picture Photo Space, Osaka, Japan (solo)
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2002
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Fragile Tremors, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA (solo)
Masterworks of Contemporary Korean Photography, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA (solo)
Two Korean Photographers, Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Korean Contemporary Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Sendai mediatheque, Japan
Photographie Contemporaine Coreenne, La Galerie Photo, Montpellier, France
Floating, Art Center Silkeborg Bad, Denmark
Everyman: A Search for the Male Form, Camerawork, San Francisco, USA
In the Beginning, Shadai Gallery, Tokyo (solo)
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2001
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Prinz Gallery, Kyoto, Japan (solo)
Base Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Rodin Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (solo)
Awakening, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Photo Festival, Gana Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
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2000
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Moonlight Becomes You - A Thousand and One Nights of Peace on Earth
The Center for Photography, Woodstock, New York, USA
Fotofest 2000: Contemporary Korean Photographers, Houston, USA
White, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Good-bye Paradise, Gallery Image, Aarhus, Denmark (solo)
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1999
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Flow, Gallery Won, Seoul, South Corea (solo)
Phenomena, The Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco
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1998
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Poetics of Time: Korean Contemporary Art, Ho-Am Art Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, USA
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1997
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Stanley Picker Gallery, UK
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1996
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National Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwacheon, Korea
Art at Home, Seomi Gallery, Seoul
A.O.I. Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
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1995
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Gwangju Museum of Modern Art, Gwangju, Korea
Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeongju, Korea
Body or Gender, Gallery Nun, Seoul
In the Beginning, Gallery Ississ, Kyoto, Japan (solo)
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1994
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Pima Community College Art Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
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1993
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Good-bye Paradise, Seomi Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (solo)
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
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1992
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Ah! Korea, Jahamun Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
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1991
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Total Museum, Seoul, South Korea
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1990
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Rochester Institute of Technologe, Rochester, USA
The sea of Thought, Seomi Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (solo)
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1988
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Clandestine Pursuit in the Long Afternoon, Gallery Pusan, Pusan, South Korea (solo)
The New Wave of Photography, Walkerhill Art Center, Seoul
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1987
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Lying Down as if Being Dead with Narrow Eyes, Hanmadang Gallery, Seoul
A One Minute Monologue, Gallery Wide, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
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1985
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Twelve Deep Sighs, Hanmadang Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (solo)
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1984
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Fotogenes, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
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1983
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Pine Hill Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (solo)
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| Literature |
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2009
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Purity, Galerie Raum mit Licht, Austria
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2008
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A Perspective on 1980s, Wow Image, Korea
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2007
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Everyday Treasures, Rutles, Japan
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2007
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Vessel’ Rutles, Japan
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2006
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Koo Bohnchang, The Kahitsukan, Japan
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2006
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Deep Breath in Silence, Hangil Art, Korea
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2006
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Revealed Personas, Hangil Art, Korea
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2006
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Vessels for the Heart, Hangil Art, Korea
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2004
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Portraits of Time, Homi, Korea
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2004
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Koo Bohnchang: Mask, The Museum of Photography Seoul, Korea
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2004
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Koo Bohnchang’, Youlhwadang, Korea
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2003
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Bohnchang Koo, Hysteric Nine’, Hysteric Glamour, Japan
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1998
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In the Beginning, WorkShop 9, Korea
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1994
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Art Vivant, Contemporary Korean Artists, Sigongsa, Korea
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1992
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The Sea of Thought, Hanglim, Korea
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