Moon Kyungwon
Illustration — Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho, El Fin Del Mundo, 2012, HD Film installation view at Documenta Halle
Moon Kyungwon
- Born
- 1969 · Seoul.
- Nationality
- South Korea
- Occupation
- painter
- Education
- Ewha Womans University
- Languages
- Korean
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Illustration — Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho, El Fin Del Mundo, 2012, HD Film installation view at Documenta Halle
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• Hangul — %문경원 • Hanja — 文敬媛 Moon Moon Kyungwon (born 1969) is a Seoul-based artist who received her Masters of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and Ph.D in Visual Communication from Yonsei University, South Korea. Moon held her solo exhibition at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in 2004. Her recent exhibitions include Poiesis of Collective Intelligence at Yamaguchi Center Arts and Media in 2013 and A Different Similarity at BOCUM Museum, Germany in 2010. In 2012, Moon and a fellow artist, Jeon Joonho, participated in Documenta (13) in Kassel, Germany and collectively received the 2012 Noon Award Grand Prize and 2012 Korea Artist Prize at Gwangju Biennale. In 2013, the two artists put on a large-scale exhibition called News from Nowhere at the Sullivan Galleries inside the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Curated by Sook-Kyung Lee from Tate Modern, Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho were selected to showcase their collaborative video installation, The Ways of Folding Space and Flying at the Korean Pavilion for 2015 Venice Biennale. Moon currently works and resides in Seoul, South Korea and teaches at the College of Art and Design, Ewha Womans University
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- 1.Gallery Hyundai, Gallery Hyundai. MOON Kyungwon & JEON Joonho. galleryhyundai.com. Gallery Hyundai.
- 2.d13.documenta.de. MOON Kyungwon & JEON Joonho, artists.
- 3.SAIC. Sullivan Galleries Presents First Major US Exhibition of Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho. saic.edu.
- 4.Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo Wonder Site. Creator Information. tokyo-ws.org. Tokyo Wonder Site.
- 5.dOCUMENTA (13), dOCUMENTA (13). the utopian dream and its unexpected side effects. d13.documenta.de. dOCUMENTA (13).
- 6.Biennial Foundation. MOON KYUNGWON & JEON JOONHO TO REPRESENT KOREA AT 56TH VENICE BIENNALE. biennialfoundation.org.
- 7.Sullivan Galleries Presents First Major US Exhibition of Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho. saic.edu/.
- 8.SAIC. Chicago Reader: News From Nowhere is Best Bet for Fall Art. saic.edu.
- 9.Tate, Tate. Sook-Kyung Lee, Research Curator, Tate Research Centre: Asia-Pacific. Tate.
- 10.ArtReview. The Venice Questionnaire 2015 #14: Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho. April 22, 2015.
- 11.Korean Pavilion. The New Ways of Folding Space and Flying: A Project by Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho. koreanpavilion2015.com.
- 12.Bria, Geneva. Venice Biennale. The pavilion of Korea told by Sook-Kyung Lee. Artribune. May 1, 2015.
- 13.Lee, Woo-youn. Venice features emerging Korean artists. The Korea Herald. April 15, 2015.
- 14.Ewha WomansUniversity. Faculty. ewha.ac.kr.
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