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Artist

GWON Doyeon

Seoul, born 1980
• Term : Mar, 2019 - Jan, 2020
• yasziro@gmail.com
• www.dogwon.com


GWON Doyeon studied literature in university, and then majored in photography in graduate school. The artist employs photography as a tool to explore the relationships between knowledge and memory, visual images and languages. He has had solo exhibitions, including 《Flashbulb Memory》(Gallery Lux, Seoul, 2018), 《The Art of the Shovel》 (KT&G Sangsangmadang, Seoul, 2015), and 《Traveller Novice》 (Gallery Ryugaheon, Seoul 2011), and has participated in many group exhibitions, including FotoFest Biennial (US), PHotoESPAÑA Biennial (Spain), Daegu Photo Biennale (South Korea), GoEun Museum of Photography, Seoul Museum of Art. He has received the Sajin Bipyong (Photography Criticism) Award (2011), has been selected as a finalist for the 7th KT&G Sangsangmadang SKOPF (2015), was included in the British Journal of Photography’s “Ones to Watch” (2016), and Fotofest Biennale (2018).
During his time at Incheon Art Platform, he will collect and construct images of disturbed ecosystems in the Gyeongin Ara Waterway located on the west side of Incheon. Inspired by the cultural anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss’ concept of remote observation—in other words, the concept of gaining perspective of a subject as we distance ourselves from it—through photography, the artist will restructure the geopolitical/ecological relationships of the space and creatures of the Ara Waterway.


[Incheon Culture Communication 3.0] Artist Introduction Interview : http://news.ifac.or.kr/archives/18787

Profile

Education
- 2016 MFA, Photography, Graduate School of SangmyungUniv Seoul, Korea.  
- 2007 BFA, German Literature, Hanyang Univ. Seoul, Korea

Solo Exhibitions
- <Flashbulb Memory>, Gallery LUX, Seoul, Korea, 2018
- <The Art of the Shovel>, KT&G Sangsangmadang, Seoul, Korea, 2015
- <Traveller Novice>, Gallery Ryugaheon, seoul, Korea, 2011

Group Exhibitions
- <representing>, Art space J, Sungnam, Korea, 2019
- <Write an Art, Draw a Book>, Kyungpook National University Art Museum, Daegu, Korea, 2018
- <DAL&1>, Space DAL, Seoul, Korea, 2018
- <Salon de Nook>, Gallery NOOK, Seoul, Korea, 2018
- <291 Report>, Space 291, Seoul, Korea, 2017
- <Studio 13>, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art residency,
   Goyang, Korea, 2017
- <From Flatness>, 021 Gallery, Daegu, Korea, 2017
- <Intro>, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art residency,
   Goyang, Korea, 2017
- <Melancholy of Books>, Kyobo Art Space, Seoul, Korea, 2017
- <The emancipated memories>, Good Morning House, Suwon, Korea, 2016
- <Encounter IV : Daegu Photo Biennale>, Daegu, Korea, 2016
- <Twofold Dialogue>, Nook Gallery, Seoul, Korea, 2016
- <Ones To Watch>, Photo Espana, Madrid, Spain, 2016
- <Kairos Photography>, KT&G Sangsangmadang, ChunCheon, Korea, 2016
- <Dimension>, Gallery Shinsegea, Seoul, Korea, 2016
- <New Force of Photography>, GoEun Museum of Photography,
   Busan, Korea, 2015
- <Mapping Territories: FotoFest in 2015>, NRG Center ,Houston, USA, 2015
- <Outside Timeline>, Nowhere, Seoul, Korea, 2015
- <International Discoveries V : Fotofest Biennale>, Houston, USA, 2015
- <Seoul Luna PhotoFest>, Boan1942, Seoul, Korea, 2014
- <Sajin Bipyong>, Space 22, Seoul, Korea, 2014
- <Succeeding>, Gallery Ilum, Seoul, Korea, 2013
- <Here and Now>, Gallery Grimson, Seoul, Korea, 2012
- <Seoul Photo Festival 2011>, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea, 2011        
- <Dongbangyogoi>, MBC Gallery M, Daegu, Korea, 2011    
- <13nd Sajin Bipyong Awards>, Gallery ilum, Seoul, Korea, 2011
- <Morden Art Draws Attention from Major Media Forms>,
   Seoul Art Space Festival, Seoul, Korea, 2010
- <A Soft Gap of Time>, Gallery LUX, Seoul, Korea, 2009

Awards & Grants
- Scholarship Program for International : Fotofest Biennale, Houston, USA, 2018
- Ones To Watch, British Journal of Photography, UK, 2016
- Korean Photographer＇s Fellowship- Final Artist of the year, KT&G Sangsangmadang, 2014
- Winner of portfolio review, Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu, 2014
- 12nd Sajin Bipyong Awards, Photospace, Seoul, 2011

Residencies
- Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, 2019
- Space DAL, Seoul, 2018
- MMCA Residency Goyang, Goyang, 2017

Gallery