Walk in Emptiness
CHOI, SOO-WHAN
최수환 CHOI, SOO-WHAN
CHUGYE UNIVERSITY FOR THE ARTS
Born 1972, Gyeongju, Korea
Present : Professor at Chugye University for the Arts
2004-2006 M.F.A. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, U.S.A.
1993-1998 B.F.A. ChuGye University for the Arts, Seoul, Korea
RESIDENCIES
2014-2016 STUDIO M17, Paju, Korea
2009-2012 JangHeung Atelier, Korea
2008 CHEONGJU Art Studio, Korea
2007 THE CANAL CHAPTER, New York
2006 Studios Midwest, Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, U.S.A.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Walk in Emptiness, Pyo Gallery SEOUL, Seoul, Korea
2015 from dot, Makeshop Art Space, Paju, Korea
2015 Walk in Emptiness, Gallery Lee & Bae, Busan, Korea
2012 Emptiness, Yoo Art Space, Seoul, Korea
2011 through Thousand Years, Gallery M, Daegu, Korea
2009 Light Wave & Love Wave, ILJU ART, Seoul, Korea
2009 What sees what?, CHEONGJU Art Studio, Korea
2008 From Moment to Moment, ART SPACE H, Seoul, Korea
2005 Walk in Emptiness, Gallery X, Chicago
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & TWO PERSON SHOWS
2016 How to keep winter, Shinsegae gallery, Incheon, Korea
2016 “road-look back, C21, Seoul, Korea
2016 Document The traces of 10years The future of the 10years, CHEONGJU Art Studio, Korea
2015 Fall, GUM BO SUNG ART,Seoul, Korea
2015 Light & View, Gallery KUNST, Daegu, Korea
2015 BLUE, Gallery Lee & Bae, Busan, Korea
2015 ART BUSAN, BEXCO, Busan, Korea
2015 ART GYEONGJU 2015 SPECIAL EXHIBITION, HICO, Gyeongju, Korea
2014 DREAMLAND, YANGPYEONG, yangpyeong art museum, Yangpyeong, Korea
2014 Prologue 2014, MakeShop Art Space, Paju, Korea
2014 LANTERN FESTIVAL 2014, Cheonggyecheon, Seoul, Korea
2014 MakeShop Top10, MakeShop Art Space, Paju, Korea
2014 SeMA’s New Acquisitions 2013, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2013 Winter Project_ALIVE ART MUSEUM, yangpyeong art museum, Yangpyeong, Korea
2013 The 4th International Contemporary Art Gwangju Art· Vision Exhibition, Exhibition halls of
2013 Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
2013 The Enjoy Encounter, Pangyo, Korea
2013 Pyeong Chang Biennale, ANGVA Expo gallery, Gangwon, Korea
2013 Museum + Summer Vacance, Shinsegae gallery, Incheon, Korea
2012 ILLUMINATION-Light in Today’s Art, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
2012 CheonMa Opening Special Exhibition, Cheonan, Korea
2012 CHEONGDAM ART FAIR, Art space Who, Seoul
2012 KIAF/12, COEX, Seoul
2012 Gana Atelier Resident Artists Report Exhibition, Gana Art Center, Seoul
2012 Artience Project, the Expo Science Park, Daejeon, Korea
2012 contemporary art space c21 opening exhibition, Chugye University for the Arts, Seoul
2012 The Vision & Reflection 2012, Kyoung Book National University Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
2011 2011 Ceramic ART & TECHNOLOGY, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
2011 Forty, Art Today, Gallery H, Seoul, Korea
2011 MAGIC HOUR, Lotte Gallery, Busan, Korea
2011 dot and… , interalia Art Company, Seoul, Korea
2011 Hotel Art Fair, Daegu, Korea
2011 Mural Project, Anguk Station, Seoul, Korea
2011 Minimal Art, Gallery CHUNGDAM, Cheongdo, Korea
2010 Oh, Happy Day!, Lotte Gallery, Anyang, Korea
2010 Light Effect, Lotte Gallery, Daejeon, Korea
2010 Christmas Is All Around, JangHeung Artpark Red space, JangHeung, Korea
2010 ceramic ART & TECHNOLOGY, aT center, Seoul, Korea
2010 ART EDITION 10’, BEXCO, Busan, Korea
2010 123 gallery, 123 GALLERY, Seoul, Korea
2010 Art Road 77 Art Fair 2th-With Art, With Artist!, Gallery HANGIL, Heyri, Korea
2010 fantastic, Cheongju Art Studio, Cheongju, Korea
2010 my room our atelier, Gana Contemporary, Seoul, Korea
2010 International Fine Art Project, South Africa
2010 Art Amsterdam 2010, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2010 Facing Korea Now, Canvas International Art gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2010 New ARTPARK: Individuals, ART PARK, Seoul, Korea
2010 Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2010 Happy New Art, Road to the Museum, Seoul, Korea
2009 LIGHT ON!, Johyun Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2009 Korea Tomorrow, SETEC, Seoul, Korea
2009 The First Noel, Severance Art Space, Seoul, Korea
2009 Daegu Art Fair, Daegu, Korea
2009 Oil’s other name, Yeonhui-dong Projects, Seoul, Korea
2009 Velvet Inspiration, KIMI Art. Seoul, Korea
2009 HAECHI Parade, Gwanghwamun Plaza, Seoul, Korea
2009 Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Cheongju, Korea
2009 Living Furniture, Cheongju Art Studio, Cheongju, Korea
2009 The desire & restriction_about a virtual image, LEEAHN Gallery, Daegu, Korea
2009 Christmas in August, Gana Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2009 Mad for Furniture, Nefspace. Seoul, Korea
2009 THE INITIATIVE_Seoul, MUE Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2009 Ways of tracing moments, KT Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2009 Truth about retina, Inter Alia, Seoul, Korea
2009 Seoul Living Design Fair 2009, COEX, Seoul, Korea
2009 The tactic confronting with the island, Chungjeonggak, Seoul, Korea
2009 Take out, Curiosity, Seoul, Korea
2008 an interim report, CHEONGJU Art Studio, Korea
2008 Illusion of light, World Culture Open Center, New York
2008 SAIC + DCB, Design Center Busan, Busan, Korea
2007 The 11th Annual Art Under The Bridge Festival, DUMBO, Brooklyn
2007 Canal Chapter Residency Project, New York
2007 Its Me!, Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, IL
2007 The 2ndAll that is solid melts into air, Chashama, New York
2006 Studios Midwest Exhibition, Ford Center for the Fine Arts, Galesburg, IL
2006 All that is solid melts into air, Gallery 2, Chicago
2006 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Gallery 2, Chicago
2006 Generations, South Side Community Art Center, Chicago
2006 Light Experiments, ATS deep display of SAIC, Chicago
2005 STREET STORIES, Walsh Gallery, Chicago
2004 Nippon U.S.A. / SAIC Presidential Award Exhibition, Chicago
2001 Same Generation & Next Generation, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2001 “TA-RAE”, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2000 26th AJAC Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2000 The 5th Art Festival-Graduate School of Arts, Chung-Ang University Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2000 Kwangju Biennale Special Exhibition “forest of Human Beings, Forest of Painting,” Korea
2000 “Art of art” Chung-Ang University Art Center, Seoul, Korea
1999 “TA-RAE” , DongDuk Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1998 “TA-RAE” , KongPyng Art Center, Seoul, Korea
1997 BFA Graduate Exhibition, DukWon museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
1997 Up coming New Artists, Inter Gallery Art Center, Seoul, Korea
1997 Neo – 97 The Trend of Korean Art, DukWon museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
1997 “The Great Koguryo Exhibition at the British Museum” Memorial Art Festival
1997 LOGOS Gallery, England
LECTURES
2006 Walk in Emptiness, Ford Center for Fine Arts, Knox College, Galesburg, U.S.A.
2006 Ready-Made Karma, SAIC Auditorium, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
INTERVIEWS
2011/02 Happy Home Vol.282 FEB 2011 P.89
2011/01 VOEF vol. 8
2010/09 ARTPEOPLE Vol.006 SEP-OCT 2010 P.120 ~ P.121
2010/02 LED, Designer’s new reclaimed land, DESIGN VOL.380 FEB 2010 P.136
2009/10/27 LED, creating light art!, MBC Cultural Contemplation, MBC, Korea
2009/03/30 Light Artist_SOOWHAN CHOI, KBS 1TV Cultural Field, KBS, Korea
2006/07/26 Studios Midwest, Galesburg Radio 14 WGIL, Galesburg, U.S.A.
AWARDS
2006 Fred & Susan Novy Leadership Award, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
2005 Targetti Light Art Award, Florence, Italy
2004 Nippon U.S.A. / SAIC Presidential Award, Chicago, U.S.A.
COLLECTIONS
2016 Korea Electric Power Corporation, Uijeongbu, Korea
2016 Jeju museum of Contemporary Art, Jeju, Korea
2014 Korean National oil Corporation, Ulsan, Korea
2013 Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2011 Sheraton D Cube City Hotel, Seoul, Korea
2011 Tesco Homeplus Academy, Incheon, Korea
2011 Daegu MBC, Daegu, Korea
2009 LIG Insurance Co., Ltd., Seoul, Korea
2009 Dongseo University, Busan, Korea
2009 Ocean Hills Country Club, Cheongdo, Korea
2008 FAWOO Technology, Korea
2007 Michael Aram, Inc., New York
2006 Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, IL
2005 Targetti Sankey S.p.A., Florence, Italy
2005 VOA Associates, Inc., Chicago
2005 LEASECORP, Chicago