Education
2002, Master of Pure Photography, Rochester Institute of Technology 1999, Master of Photography Design, Hongik University 1996, Bachelor of Industrial Design, Gwangju University 1989, Graduated from Changwon Munseong High School
Career
Solo Exhibition 2015 "Nabi", Soul Art Space, Busan 2015 "See the Unseen", BMW PHOTO SPACE, Busan 2014 "Journey of Light" Shinsegae Gallery, Busan 2014 "One Day-Tree of Life" Logos Power Gallery, Uiwang 2014 "Let There Be The Light" Zendai Contemporary Art Space, Shanghai, China 2014 "Palette of Light" Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul 2014 "Tree of Life in Island" Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul 2014 "Tree of Life in Island" Shinsegae Gallery, Gwangju 2013 "Tree of Life in Island", Soul Art Space, Busan 2013 "Light & Revelation", Light Gallery, Seoul 2012 "Decoding Scape", Hanmi Photo Gallery, Seoul 2012 "Decoding Scape", Duson Museum, Jeju 2012 "See the Unseen", Soul Art Space, Busan 2010 "Tree of Life", Light Gallery, Seoul 2010 "Tree of Life", Shinsegae Gallery, Gwangju 2009 "Lee Jeong-rok", Kook Geun Hye Gallery, Seoul 2007 "The Mythic Scape", Trunk Gallery, Seoul 2007 "The Mythic Scape", Shinsegae Gallery, Gwangju 2003 "Aquarium", Shinsegae Gallery, Gwangju 2002 "Clarias", Nine Gallery, Gwangju 2001 "Clarias", SPAS Gallery, Rochester, New York 1998 "The Land of the South", Gallery 2000, Seoul Group Exhibition 2018, Scenery Exhibition, Gwangju Municipal Photography Exhibition Center, Gwangju 2017, Clay Arc Spring - Butterfly, Clay Arc Gimhae Museum, Gimhae 2017, Wan Bus Exhibition, Gwangju Metropolitan Museum of Art Branch Ha Jung Woong Museum, Gwangju 2017, Community of Reflection: National, Individual and Korean, Seoul Museum of North Seoul, Seoul 2015 "Surveying the Landscape: Contemporary Korean Photography", Wall Space gallery, Santa Barbara, USA 2015 "Seoul Photo Festival, Happy New Year - Photo 70th Anniversary of Religious Photography", Seoul Museum of North Seoul, Seoul 2015 "Foto Istanbul", Kabatas, Istanbul, Turkey 2015 "Dali International Photography Festival", Dali Goseong, Yunnan Province, China 2015 "Magic Realism", S plus gallery, Seoul 2015 "Master of Light", Shine Artist, London, UK 2015 "Water Dreams", Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju 2014 "Ha Jung Woong Young Artist Invitation Exhibition - Light 2014", Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju 2014 "Daegu Photography Biennale Special Exhibition - Full Moon", Daegu Culture and Arts Center, Daegu 2014 "Plagued by the Rise", Arko Art Museum, Seoul 2014 "Photography Festival in the Museum - History", Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju 2013 "Breath of Trees", Cheonan Art Center, Cheonan 2013 "Scenes of Reality", Woljeon Museum of Art, Icheon 2013 "Utopia", Opera Gallery, Seoul 2013 "Fact or Fiction", Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul 2012 "9th Gwangju Biennale - Round Table", Gwangju Biennale Hall, Gwangju 2012 "Mudeung Dynasty", Today's Art Museum, Beijing, China 2012 "Secrets, Range of Error", Arko Art Museum, Seoul 2012 "Snowy Landscape", Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul 2012 "Yesterday and Today", Gana Art Gallery, Busan 2012 "Mudeung Sulwa", Henan Museum of Art, Zhengzhou, China 2011 "Today's Shinhwa", Pohang City Museum of Art, Pohang 2011 "Magic Land, Yangpyeong", Yangpyeong-gun Museum of Art, Yangpyeong 2011 "Nature, Image", Ilwoo Space, Seoul 2011 "Exercise - Let's Go", Kumho Gallery, Gwangju 2011 "3rd International Contemporary Art Gwangju Art Vision: Creation of Fingertips", Gwangju Biennale Pavilion, Gwangju 2011 "Open It to Your Mom", Gallery Nau, Seoul 2010 "Nanjing Biennale: AND_WRITERS", Jiangsu Province Museum of Art, Nanjing, China 2010 "View of Contemporary Korean Photography", National Taiwan Museum of Art, Taichung, Taiwan 2010 "The Moment", 63 Sky Art Museum, Seoul 2010 "2010 Media Art Festival DIGIFESTA Main Exhibition: Light Speed-Hour 2010", Gwangju Biennale Pavilion, Gwangju 2009 "Seoul International Photography Festival", Garden Five Gallery, Seoul 2009 "Gwangju & Seoul Creative Studio Artist Exchange Exhibition: NO ...", Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju 2009 "Serotonin 2", Seoul Museum of Art Kyungheung Palace Branch, Seoul 2009 "OZ Thema", Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul 2009 "Make Up Photo", Light Gallery, Seoul 2009 "GETXOPHOTO Festival", Keigo, Spain 2009 "Blue dot Asia", Seoul Arts Center, Seoul 2009 "Utopia", Gallery Irum, Seoul 2009 "New Digital Age", Novosibirsk State Museum, Novosibirsk, Russia 2008 "Illusion", 2x13 Gallery, Seoul 2008 "Art at Home: Wonderful Life", Doosan Art Center, Seoul 2008 "Factory", Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul 2008 "Contemporary Korean Art", Korean Cultural Service, London, UK 2008 "Time of Resonance", Arario Gallery, Beijing, China 2007 "Multiple Artist Bus", Gallery M, Daegu 2007 "Shanghai eArts Festival", Shih Fei Art Museum, Shanghai, China 2007 "The Breath of Our Country, Our Country", Gwangju Municipal Folk Museum, Gwangju 2007 "Daegu and Gwangju New Vision Exhibition", Daebak Gallery, Daegu 2007 "The first 10 years - Prize winning appliances for art festival", Shinsegae Gallery, Gwangju 2006 "Ryoja Creative Studio Open Studio", Ryoja Museum, Gwangju 2006 "Media Experiment", Chosun University Museum of Art, Gwangju 2006 "History and Culture Travel: Island", Shinsegae Gallery. Gwangju 2006 "Anglo's Humanity", Gwangju Metropolitan Museum Branch, Gwangju 2006 "Saemaeul: Image of Modern Life", Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul 2005 "Stories of Five Villages", Gu Jeonnam Provincial Government Special Exhibition Hall, Gwangju 2005 "Geumgang Nature Art Biennale: Work from Nature", Yutu Nature Museum, Princess 2005 "Past and Present of Korean Photography", Sejong Cultural Center Museum, Seoul 2005 "The 1st Environmental Art Festival: Toward Ecotopia", Ogawa Museum, Ogaki 2004 "Geumgang Nature Art Biennale: Animal Nature", Gongju Police Station Geumgang Biennale Special Exhibition Hall, Princess 2004 "Korea Youth Biennale 2004", Daegu Culture and Arts Center, Daegu 2004 "Landscape of 10 people in our era", Ryoja Museum, Gwangju 2003 "Landscape", Choheung Gallery, Seoul 2003 "Look and Look," Shinsegae Gallery, Gwangju 2003 "Amazing Things Happen in Gwangju River", Lotte Gallery, Gwangju 2001 "Intersection", SPAS Gallery, Rochester, New York 2001 "19 Photographers with Calm Land", Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan 2001 "Digital Art", Gallery r, Rochester, New York 2001 "Honor Show", SPAS Gallery, Rochester, New York 2000 "More Than Several", SPAS Gallery, Rochester, New York 1999 "The Silent Land", Sai Gallery, Seoul 1999 "Honam Photo Exhibition", Family Land Special Exhibition Hall, Gwangju 1998 "Still Country", Gallery 2000, Seoul 1997 "HIPHO", Indeco Gallery, Seoul 1997 "Communicate", Samsung Photo Gallery. Seoul
Awards career
2015 2nd Prize in Forest Photography Culture Prize 2006 Gwangju Shinsegae Art Festival Grand Prize
Born in Gwangju in 1971 and currently working at Gwangju