Sun_Mu_Oil_Painting
Title: “Mind the Gap” by Sun Mu from North Korea
Exhibition Venue: SB D Gallery, 125 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003
Medium: Oil Painting
Exhibition Date: July 16 – August 20 2011
Opening Reception: July 16 2011 from 5-8pm
Quantity: 9 paintings
Guest Curator: Yu Yeon Kim
Director: Seolbin Park
Sun Mu, North Korean Artist who escaped from North Korea to China, Vietnam, Laos then finally to South Korea, will be presented his paintings to New York City for the first time in history.
Sun Mu’s work has been widely reported by BBC, Time magazine, New York Times, Financial Times and international press when he attended at art college in South Korea last 3 years.
His painting has been echoed his tremendous life dangered experience then living in materialistic capitalism in South Korea and questioning dramatically different life, ideologies, controlled information and isolation.
His articles are following;
NEW YORK TIMES
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/21/world/asia/21painter.html
BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8000769.stm
TIME By Michael Gibb, Monday, Sep. 07, 2009
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1919276,00.html
<Biography>
Artist, SUN MU
2007 Graduate from Hong-Ik University, Fine Art – B.A degree
2009 Graduate from Hong-Ik University, Fine Art – M.A degree
Solo Exhibitions
2008 Nothing to envy in this World, Gallery Ssamzie, Seoul
2008 We are living in the happy world, Alternative Space Chung Jeong
Gak, Seoul
Group Exhibitions
2009 Shared, Divided, United, Deutchiland-Korea;
Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin
2009 Art in Busan 2009, Busan Museum of Art, Busan
2009 Exhibition of hte 9th North Korean Human Rights International
Conference
Grand Hyatt Hotel, Melbourne, Australia
2009 New Acquisitions, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan
2008 Korea Now, artLink, Inc and Sotheby’s, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2007 Sweet and Scary Presidential Election, Chung Jeong Gak, Seoul
2007 We are Happy, Gallery Curiosity, Seoul
Curatorś Biography
Yu Yeon Kim
Born (Busan) in South Korea, Yu Yeon Kim is an independent curator based in Seoul and New York. She is the founder of DMZ-KOREA and co-founder of PLEXUS Art & Communication, a non-profit internet art organization since 1994.
Kim was a Commissioner/curator for ;
– The 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa (1997-8),
– The 1st Cinco Continentes y Una Ciudad expositions, Mexico City (1998)
– The 3rd Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2000) (Latin American Section)
– The 3rd Liverpool Biennial, UK (2004)
– The 1st Mediations Biennale, Poland (2008)
She has curated numerous exhibitions in museums around the world including ;
– Fluid Form, Contemporary Art & Urban Design from Arab Countries, supported by
Korea-Arab Society, Seoul and the Korea Foundation
– Magnetic Power, South Asian Contemporary Art, Seoul (2009), organized by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Republic of Korea and ASEAN-Korean Center
– The Los Puntos del Compas (The Points of the Compass), Korean Contemporary Art, Cuba Ludwig Foundation, Havana, Cuba (2008), supported by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Republic of Korea and Korea Foundation
– Counterpoint, at the Coreana Museum of Art in Seoul, Bund18 Creative Center in Shanghai, China and Poznan, Poland (2007-8), supported by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Republic of Korea and Arts Council Korea
– Korea Transfer, Korean Cultural Service and Republic of Korea Consulate General, New York (2006)
– DMZ-2005, Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea, an International Art Project in Paju Book City and Heyri, South Korea (2005), organized by Gyeonggi Province and Paju City
– Identifying the Monitor; A Crisis of Individuality in the 21st Century, Tate Liverpool Museum and Foundation for Art & Creative Technology, UK (2004)
– Translated Acts; Performance and Body Art from East Asia at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Queens Museum of Art, New York and Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, Mexico (2001-2003)
– Fragmented Histories (Asia-Pacific section) Mexico City Museum (1998), organized by Ciudad de Mexico
– Exotica Incognita (Latin American section) Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2000)
– In the Eye of Tiger, Exit Art/Third World, New York City and Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul (2000-1)
– Transversions, Museum Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa (1997-8)
– Omnizone; Perspectives in Mapping Digital Culture, Net Art project at the PLEXUS and Guggenheim Museum website (1996-8)
Her writings have appeared in many exhibition catalogues and journals including;
Atta Kim; Deconstructing the sacred and profane (APERTURE, New York), Live Art; Performance and the Contemporary (Tate Modern, London), DMZ-2005; Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea (DMZ-Korea), Translated Acts (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin), Zhang Huan; Intensified Corporeality (Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany), Bypass; Tower of Babel, Osvaldo Romberg’s art work from 1990-2000 (Bonn Museum, Germany). Art Journals including Yishu Art Journal (Canada), Art AsiaPacific (US), Wolgan Joongang (Seoul) and more
She has served as a juror and advisor including; Tijuana Biennale Mexico, Gwangju Biennale South Korea, Asian Contemporary Art Week (Asia Society Museum, Museum of Modern Art, New York), Korean Consulate (New York) and Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism Republic of Korea.
