| Bohnchang Koo | |
| Lives and works in Seoul, Korea | |
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| EDUCATION AND TEACHING | |
| 2008 | Artistic Director, 2008 Daegu Photo Biennale |
| 2004 | Guest Professor, Pentiment, Hamburg Summer School |
| 2000-present | Chairman of Geonhi Art Foundation |
| 1999-01 | Professor of Photography, Kaywon College of Art and Design, Seoul |
| 1999 | Visiting Professor, Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design, |
| London | |
| 1997 | International Fellowship, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, |
| London | |
| 1986-98 | Photography lecturer, Chung-Ang University, Seoul |
| 1992 | Guest Professor, Pentiment, Hamburg Summer School |
| 1980-85 | Diploma Fachhochschule (Photography), Hamburg |
| 1971-75 | Yonsei University (Business Administration), Seoul |
| AWARDS | ||
| 2003 | Gangwon Documentary Prize, Korea | |
| 2000 | Lee Myoungdong Prize, Korea | |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2009 | ¡®Vessel ¡¤ Soap ¡¤ Interiors¡¯, Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris |
| ¡®Purity¡¯, Galerie Raum mit Licht, Vienna | |
| 'Pencil of Nature', Gallery Bow, Ulsan | |
| 2008 | 'In the Beginning', Trunk Gallery, Seoul |
| 'Coolness and Passion' MBC Gallery M, Daegu | |
| 2007 | Goeun Museum of Art, Busan |
| Galerie 206, Berlin | |
| 'Soap' Koyama Gallery, Tokyo | |
| 2006 | Hasted Hunt Gallery. New York |
| Kukje Gallery, Seoul | |
| 'Koo Bohnchang', Kahitsukan, Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art, | |
| Kyoto | |
| 2005 | 'Portraits of Time', White Room Gallery, LA |
| 'La beaute endormie', Langon, France | |
| 2004-05 | 'Masks', 'White', Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris |
| 2003 | 'Bohnchang Koo: Recent work', Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York |
| 'Masks', The Museum of Photography, Seoul | |
| 'White', 'In the Beginning', Picture Photo Space, Osaka | |
| 2002 | 'Fragile Tremors', San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts, U.S.A., |
| curated by Carol McCusker | |
| 'Masterworks of Contemporary Korean Photography' | |
| Peabody Essex Museum, U.S.A., curated by Clark Worswick | |
| 'In the Beginning', Shadai Gallery, Tokyo | |
| 2001 | Prinz Gallery, Kyoto |
| Base Gallery, Tokyo | |
| Samsung Rodin Gallery, Seoul | |
| Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco | |
| 2000 | 'White',Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York |
| 'Good-bye Paradise', Gallery Image, Aarhus, Denmark | |
| 1999 | 'Flow', Gallery Won, Seoul |
| 1995 | 'In the Beginning', Gallery Ississ, Kyoto |
| 'Breath', Seomi Gallery, Seoul | |
| 1993 | 'Good-bye Paradise', Seomi Gallery, Seoul |
| 1990 | 'The sea of Thought', Seomi Gallery, Seoul |
| 1988 | 'Clandestine Pursuit in the Long Afternoon', Gallery Pusan, Pusan |
| 1987 | 'A One Minute Monologue', Gallery Wide, Tokyo |
| Photo Interform, Osaka | |
| 1985 | 'Twelve Deep Sighs', Hanmadang Gallery, Seoul |
| 1984 | Fotogenes, Hamburg, German |
| 1983 | Pine Hill Gallery, Seoul |
| GROUP EXHIBITIONS | ||
| 2009 | ¡®Art Road 77 - with art, with artist!¡¯, Lee & Park Gallery, Paju |
2008 | ¡°Gaze¡±, Gallery Grimson, Seoul |
| ¡°Back to the Roots¡±, Gallery Soheon, Daegu | ||
| ¡°Bohnchang Koo & Maggie Taylor¡±, Verve Gallery of Photography, Santa Fe, U.S.A | ||
| ¡°Contemporary Korean Photographs 1948-2008¡±, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon | ||
| Inspired Simplicity: Contemporary Art from Korea, Seattle Art Museum, U.S.A | ||
| ¡°Treasures Within¡±, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul | ||
| 2007 | "Chuseok - Korean Harvest Festival" Gallery Talk - ¡°The Korean Moon Jar¡± The British Museum, London | |
| "Emotional Scenes" , Blanca Berlin Gallery, Madrid, Spain | ||
| ¡°Today's Korean Art 'The World of Expression¡± Seoul Arts Centre, Seoul | ||
| ¡°Painterly Photos¡± Leehwaik Gallery, Seoul | ||
| ¡°Void in Korean Art¡± Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul | ||
| 2005 | "Stilled", Gallery 339, Philadelphia, U.S.A | |
| 2004 | "Alchemy of Daily Life," National Museum of Contemporary Art, | |
| Gwacheon, Korea | ||
| "Water", FotoFest 2004, Houston, U.S.A. | ||
| 2003 | "Facing Korea," Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam | |
| "East of Eden," 14 Wharf Road, London | ||
"Four Contemporary Korean Photographers," Galerie Gana-Beaubourg, Paris |
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| 2002 | "Two Korean Photographers" Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico | |
| "Now, What is Photo?" Gana Art Center, Seoul | ||
| "Korean Contemporary Photography" The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Sendai mediatheque, Japan | ||
| "Photographie Contemporaine Coreenne" La Galerie Photo, Montpellier, France | ||
"Gaggles, Flocks and Coveys, Further Exaltations and Murders: A Bird Show," Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York |
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| "Floating" Art Center Silkeborg Bad, Denmark | ||
| "Everyman: A Search for the Male Form" Camerawork, San Francisco | ||
| "Three-Persons Show" Kumho Museum, Seoul | ||
| 2002 Asia Photo Biennale-Living in a City" Gallery La Mer, Seoul | ||
| 2001 | "Awakening" Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney | |
| "Photo Festival" Gana Art Center, Seoul | ||
| 2000 | "Standing on the Threshold of Time" Odense Foto Triennale, Odense, Denmark | |
| "Moonlight Becomes You - A Thousand and One Nights of Peace on Earth", The Center for Photography, Woodstock, New York | ||
| "Contemporary Korean Photographers," FotoFest 2000, Houston | ||
| 1999 | "Phenomena" The Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center, | |
| San Francisco | ||
| "Fragments of Document and 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, Columbia College, Chicago | ||
| "Poetics of Time," Korean Contemporary Art, Ho-Am Museum of Art, Seoul | ||
| "Body and Photography," Hanlim Art Museum, Daejun | ||
| 1997 | Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, London | |
| 1996 | Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seoul | |
| A.O.I. Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico | ||
| National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea | ||
| Kumho Art Museum, Seoul | ||
| "SIAF," COEX Center, Seoul | ||
| 1995 | "Art at Home," Seomi Gallery, Seoul | |
| Gwangju Museum of Modern Art, Gwangju, Korea | ||
| Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeongju, Korea | ||
| "Body or Gender," Gallery Nun, Seoul | ||
| 1994 | Pima Community College Art Gallery, Tucson, Arizona | |
| Ursula Blickle Prize, Kraichtal, Germany | ||
| Ursula Blickle Prize, Kraichtal, Germany | ||
| "Horizon of Korean Photography," Gong Pyung Art Center, Seoul | ||
| 1993 | Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia | |
| 1992 | "Oh, Korea!" Jahamun Museum of Art, Seoul | |
| "A Group of Young Artists," National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea | ||
| 1991 | Total Museum, Seoul | |
| 1990 | Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York | |
| "Mixed Media," Kumho Art Museum, Seoul | ||
| Taipei Sunny-Gate Gallery, Taiwan | ||
| 1998 | "The New Wave of Photography". Walkerhill Art Center, Seoul | |
| COLLECTIONS | |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Houston San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle Museum of Art and Craft, Hamburg Kahitsukan, Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyoto Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Reykjavik Museum of Photography, Iceland National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon Seoul Museum of Art Municipal Museum of Art, Daejeon Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeongju The Museum of Photography, Seoul The Amore Museum, Seoul Busan Museum of Art, Busan Fondation Herzog, Basel Shadai Gallery, Tokyo |
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| PRIVATE COLLECTORS | |
| Dancing Bear/ W.M. Hunt
Newhouse Collection Elena Ochoa Foster The Buhl Collection The Ock Rang Cultural Foundation Sammlung Anne Maria Jagdfeld |
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| BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
| 2008 | ¡°A Perspective on 1980s¡±, Wow Image, Seoul |
| 2007 | ¡°Everyday Treasures¡±, Rutles, Japan |
| ¡°Vessel¡± Rutles, Japan | |
| 2006 | "Koo Bohnchang", The Kahitsukan, Japan |
| "Deep Breath in Silence", Hangilsa, Seoul | |
| "Revealed Personas", Hangilsa, Seoul | |
| "Vessels for the Heart", Hangilsa, Seoul | |
| 2004 | "Portraits of Time", Homi, Seoul |
| "Bohnchang Koo: 'Mask,'" Camera Work, vol. 2, Museum of Photography, Seoul | |
| Koo Bohnchang, Youlhwadang, Korea | |
| Photographic Art Magazine, May, pp. 54-73 | |
| Photographic Art Magazine, October, pp. 40-47 | |
| 2003 | "The Photographs of Bohnchang Koo," by Diana Gaston, Art on Paper, Jan.-Feb., Vol. 7, No.4 |
| Bohnchang Koo, Hysteric Glamour, Japan | |
| 2002 | "Now, What is Photo?" Gana Art, Seoul |
| 2001 | Art Magazine Wolgan Missool, May |
| Kunstforum 156, pp. 468-470 | |
| 2000 | "Ganjin," Tokyo Great Visual, Tokyo |
| FotoFest 2000, Houston, U.S.A. | |
| 1994 | Art Vivant, Contemporary Korean Artists, Sigongsa, Korea |
| 1993 | "Korean 30 Artists Now," Gana Art, pp. 44-55 |
| D?ja-Vu, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 1992 | The Sea of Thought, Hanglim, Korea |
| BalGeunBang (Bright Room) 1,2,3,4, Youlhwa Dang, Korea | |
| WEB SITE |
| www.bckoo.com |