KWON Hayoun
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Biography
KWON Hayoun (b. 1981) explores the vast potential of new media technology as it stretches across the spectrum of animation, documentary, 3D, and virtual reality (VR). Artist weaves stories of the time, memory, stories of the people who intermediate with her. Based on historical events or doubts about collective memory, the artist meets people who have experienced it and organizes the work based on their voices and personal memories. As a result, the events in work lies between the facts that we have accepted and the truth of those who have actually experienced them. Through experiencing the conflict and amalgamation between our memories and new testimony, our stories and memories are newly rebuilt. The event, space, time, and narratives in the work start from an extremely objective foundation, but the viewer can verify the truth of the incident in the process of experiencing the path given by the artist, becomes increasingly private and confused, which is a unique the artist’s work has.
KWON Hayoun has participated in solo exhibitions at Arario Gallery (Shanghai, China) in 2019, Galerie Sator (Paris, France), Doosan Gallery (Seoul, Korea) in 2018, Palais de Tokyo (Paris, France) in 2017, Lectoure Photo and Art Center (Lectoure, France), École des Beaux-Art Chateauroux (Chateauroux, France) in 2015. Major group exhibitions included Ulsan Museum of Art (Ulsan, Korea) in 2022, MMCA (Seoul, Korea), Ilmin Museum of Art (Seoul, Korea) in 2021, the Busan Biennale (Busan, Korea) in 2020, Culture Station Seoul 284 (Seoul, Korea), Ilmin Museum of Art (Seoul, Korea), Nicolas Kunstahalle(Copenhagen, Denmark), Daegu Museum of Art (Daegu, Korea) in 2019, Arario Gallery Seoul I Rise Hotel (Seoul, Korea), Jean Grand Duke of Contemporary Art (Luxembourg), Seoul Museum of Art (Seoul, Korea) in 2018, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art(Seoul, Korea),Namjun Paik Art Center(Youngin, Korea), MoMA(NY, US) in 2017, Art Sonje Center(Seoul, Korea) in 2015. She won a number of awards in addition to Arc Electronica(Austria), Lisbon Indie Animation(Portugal), Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival(Romania), Palais de Tokyo(France), European Media Festival(Germany),International Documentary Film Festival (Russia) and etc.
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[News] The Stories of Taiwanese Indigenous People and U.S. Military Comfort Women... Experiencing 'Others' Worlds' Through VR
November 14, 2024Lee Youngkyoung, Kyunghyang NewsRead more -
[News] Who are the four nominees for the "Artist of the Year 2024" award at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea?
October 31, 2024Lee Jeongmi, VogueRead more -
[News] The search for this year's "Artist of the Year" to showcase to the world has begun.
October 30, 2024Sung Suyoung, HankyoungRead more -
[News] "Guardians of Oksan" by KWON Hayoun
October 24, 2024Jang Sueyoung, News 1Read more -
[News] Who will be the 'Artist of the Year' at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art? Exhibition of works by four finalist artists.
October 24, 2024Hwang Heekyoung, Yeonhap NewsRead more -
[News] Who will be the 'Artist of the Year' at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art? Exhibition of works by four finalist artists.
October 24, 2024Jo Sunghyun, SBS NewsRead more -
[News] National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art's "Transport to Another World" Exhibition and Jo Deokhyun's Solo Exhibition at Um Museum
October 17, 2024Hwang Heekyoung, Yeonhap NewsRead more -
[News] Right now, Paris is a K-art exhibition hall!
July 24, 2024Lim Eon Young, Korea Policy BriefingRead more -
[News] Korean media art is also going to the Paris Olympics
July 22, 2024Heo Yoon Hee, Chosun IlboRead more -
[News] The Personal Story of Others Experiencing with VR
July 22, 2024Jeon Da Hee, Art InsightRead more -
[News] Le K-art s’expose au Grand Palais Immersif : une plongée high-tech dans la société coréenne
July 19, 2024Aurélia Antoni, Beaux ArtsRead more -
[News] From Korea to the world: Olympics exhibition will immerse visitors in the country's complex modern history
July 15, 2024The Art NewspaperRead more -
[News] The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art selects four artists who sponsored the SBS Cultural Foundation's
April 16, 2024époquehannamRead more -
[News] National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, nominated 4 artists including KWON Hayoun for the award "Artist of the Year"
April 9, 2024Yeonhap NewsRead more -
[Exhibition] KWON Hayoun: BOMULSUN 3.0 Unlock the Secret
25 October 2022The new 3D animated VR work 'Peach Garden 2' by KWON Hayoun is on view at the 'New Technology Based Content Lab Showcase: BOMULSUN 3.0...Read more -
[Exhibition] KWON Hayoun, Nalini MALANI: The Brilliant Days
7 January 2022As part of Ulsan Art Museum's collection, KWON Hayoun's VR work 'Bird Lady' and Nalini MALANI's video work 'Can You Hear Me?' are on view...Read more -
[Exhibition] KWON Hayoun: Dear Amazon_Anthropocene 2019-2021
24 March 2021KWON Ha-youn participates in the exhibition 'Dear Amazon: Anthropocene 2019-2021'. The project started out with an exhibition held in 2019 at the Ilmin Museum of...Read more -
[Exhibition] KWON Hayoun: XXth Attempt towards the Potential of Magic
19 February 2021KWON Hayoun participates in 'MMCA Performing Arts 2021: Multiverse' at the Seoul Project Gallery, MMCA with 'XXth Attempt towards the Potential of Magic'. This new...Read more -
[Exhibition] KWON Hayoun: The Gold Rush
8 October 2020Arario artist KWON Hayoun features in “The Gold Rush”, a group exhibition at Ilmin Museum of Art. The exhibition examines historical records dating back to...Read more -
[Gallery] Exhibition Notice
5 June 2018Arario Gallery Seoul | Ryse Hotel will be extending the Inaugural Exhibition 'Remembering, or Forgetting” through 8 July 2018.Read more