| Lives and works in Seoul, Korea |
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| Present | Chairman of Geonhi Art Foundation
Professor, Department of Photography & Video, Kyungil University |
| 2008 | Art Director, Daegu Photo Biennale 2008 |
| 2004 | Guest Professor, Pentiment, Hamburg Summer School |
| 1999-01 | Professor of Photography, Kaywon College of Art and Design, Anyang |
| 1999 | Visiting Professor, Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design, London |
| 1997 | International Fellowship, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, London |
| 1992 | Guest Professor, Pentiment, Hamburg Summer School |
| 1986-98 | Photography lecturer, Chung-Ang University, Seoul |
| 1980-85 | Diploma Fachhochschule (Photography), Hamburg |
| 1971-75 | Yonsei University (Business Administration), Seoul |
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| AWARDS |
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| 2003 | Gangwon Documentary Prize, Korea |
| 2000 | Lee Myoungdong Prize, Korea |
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| SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2010 | ¡®Plain Beauty: Korean White Porcelain / Photographs by Bohnchang Koo¡¯, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia |
| ¡®Masks¡¯, Duson Art Museum, Jeju |
| 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 | ¡®Bohnchang Koo¡¯, Goeun Museum of Art, Busan |
| Galerie 206, Berlin |
| ¡®Soap¡¯, Koyama Gallery, Tokyo |
| 2006 | Hasted Hunt Gallery, New York |
| ¡®Vessel¡¯, Kukje Gallery, Seoul |
| ¡®Koo Bohnchang¡¯, Kahitsukan, Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyoto |
| 2005 | ¡®Portraits of Time¡¯, White Room Gallery, Los Angeles |
| ¡®La beaute endormie¡¯, Langon, France |
| 2004 | ¡®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¡¯, The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, curated by Carol McCusker |
| ¡®Masterworks of Contemporary Korean Photography¡¯, Peabody Essex Museum, Messachusetts, curated by Clark Worswick |
| ¡®In the Beginning¡¯, Shadai Gallery, Tokyo |
| 2001 | Base Gallery, Tokyo |
| Prinz Gallery, Kyoto |
| Samsung Rodin Gallery, Seoul |
| Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco |
| 2000 | ¡®White Series¡¯, Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York |
| ¡®Good-Bye Paradise¡¯, Galleri 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 Busan, Korea |
| 1987 | ¡®One Minute Monologue¡¯, Gallery Wide, Tokyo |
| Photo Interform, Osaka |
| 1985 | ¡®Twelve Deep Sighs¡¯, Hanmadang Gallery, Seoul |
| 1984 | Fotogenes, Hamburg |
| 1983 | Pine Hill Gallery, Seoul |
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| GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2010 | ¡®Korean Contemporary Art ? Plastic Garden¡¯, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai |
| ¡®Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography¡¯, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara |
| ¡®On the Line¡¯, Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul |
| ¡®Cycle, Recycle¡¯, Interalia Art Company, Seoul |
| ¡®Primavere del Bianco¡¯, Museum of Art Seoul National University, Seoul |
| ¡®Man Ray's Photography & His Heritage¡¯, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul |
| ¡®Biennale internationale de l'Image a Luang Prabang¡¯, Laos |
| ¡®Eternal Blinking: Contemporary Art of Korea¡¯, The University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Hawaii |
| ¡®30th Anniversary of Young Korean Artist¡¯, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea |
| ¡®Seoul Photo 2010¡¯, COEX, Seoul |
| ¡®Him of Gyeonggi-do¡¯, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan |
| 2009 | ¡®The Face beyond Faces¡¯, Sungkok Museum, Seoul |
| ¡®Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography¡¯, MFAH, Houston |
| ¡®Met First, Yet Familiar, Korean Contemporary Photograph¡¯, 798 Space, Beijing |
| ¡®Art Road 77 - with art, with artist!¡¯, Lee & Park Gallery, 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¡¯, Canon Plex, Seoul |
| ¡®Problem¡¯, Dr.Park Gallery, Yangpyeong-gun |
| ¡®Serotonin¡¯, Gallery Now, Seoul |
| ¡®Valentine's Day! Art for You!¡¯, 915 Industry Gallery, Seoul |
| ¡®Artists and Moon Jars¡¯, Gallery Hyundai Gangnam, Seoul |
| 2008 | ¡®Gaze¡¯, Gallery Grimson, Seoul |
| ¡®Back to the Roots¡¯, Gallery Soheon, Daegu |
| ¡®Bohnchang Koo & Maggie Taylor¡¯, Verve Gallery of Photography, Santa Fe |
| ¡®Contemporary Korean Photographs 1948-2008¡¯, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon |
| ¡®Inspired Simplicity: Contemporary Art from Korea¡¯, Seattle Art Museum |
| ¡®Treasures Within¡¯, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul |
| ¡®Emotional Scenes¡¯, Blanca Berlin Gallery, Madrid |
| ¡®Today's Korean Art <The World of Expression>¡¯, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul |
| 2007 | ¡®Chuseok - Korean Harvest Festival¡¯, Gallery Talk ¡®The Korean Moon Jar¡¯, |
| The British Museum, London |
| ¡®Painterly Photos¡¯, Leehwaik Gallery, Seoul |
| ¡®Void in Korean Art¡¯, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul |
| 2005 | ¡®Stilled¡¯, Gallery 339, Philadelphia |
| 2004 | ¡®Water¡¯, FotoFest 2004, Houston |
| ¡®What happens between Art and Popular Culture¡¯, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea |
| 2003 | ¡®Facing Korea¡¯, Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam |
| ¡®East of Eden¡¯, 14 Wharf Road, London |
| 2002 | ¡®Two Korean Photographers¡¯, Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| ¡®KoreanContemporary Photography¡¯, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, |
| Sendai Mediatheque, Japan |
| ¡®Floating¡¯, Art Center Silkeborg Bad, Denmark |
| ¡®Everyman: A Search for the Male Form¡¯, Camera Work, San Francisco |
| 2001 | ¡®Awakening¡¯, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney |
| 2000 | ¡®Standing on the Threshold of Time¡¯, Odense Foto Triennale, Denmark |
| ¡®Contemporary Korean Photographers¡¯, FotoFest 2000, Houston |
| ¡®Moonlight Becomes You - A Thousand and One Nights of Peace on Earth¡¯, |
| The Center for Photography at Woodstock, New York |
| 1999 | ¡®Phenomena¡¯, 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 |
| 1996 | A.O.I. Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| ¡®Art at Home¡¯, Seomi Gallery, Seoul |
| 1995 | 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 |
| 1993 | Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia |
| 1990 | Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York |
| 1988 | ¡®The New Wave of Photography¡¯, Walkerhill Art Center, Seoul |
| 1987 | ¡®Lying Down as if Being Dead with Narrow Eyes¡¯, Hanmadang Gallery, Seoul |
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| COLLECTIONS |
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| 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 |
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| 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 | |
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| 2009 | ¡®Purity¡¯, Galerie Raum mit Licht, Austria |
| 2008 | ¡®A Perspective on 1980s¡¯, Wow Image, Korea |
| 2007 | ¡®Everyday Treasures¡¯, Rutles, Japan |
| ¡®Vessel¡¯ Rutles, Japan |
| 2006 | ¡®Koo Bohnchang¡¯, The Kahitsukan, Japan |
| ¡®Deep Breath in Silence¡¯, Hangil Art, Korea |
| ¡®Revealed Personas¡¯, Hangil Art, Korea |
| ¡®Vessels for the Heart¡¯, Hangil Art, Korea |
| 2004 | ¡®Portraits of Time¡¯, Homi, Korea |
| ¡®Koo Bohnchang: Mask', The Museum of Photography Seoul, Korea |
| ¡®Koo Bohnchang¡¯, Youlhwadang, Korea |
| 2003 | ¡®Bohnchang Koo, Hysteric Nine¡¯, Hysteric Glamour, Japan |
| 1998 | ¡®In the Beginning¡¯, WorkShop 9, Korea |
| 1994 | ¡®Art Vivant¡¯, Contemporary Korean Artists, Sigongsa, Korea |
| 1992 | ¡®The Sea of Thought¡¯, Hanglim, Korea |
