Ku Ja-Young

Biography

Ku Ja-Young

Seoul, b. 1969

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Seoul, b. 1969

Ku, Ja-Young(1969) studied B.F.A and M.F.A Painting at Seoul National University and received MFA, New Forms at Pratt Institute in NY, USA. The artist has worked as a visiting artist at Brigham Young University in Utah in 2001, Afterward being at Art Omi International Artist’s Residency in Omi, New York in 2001, by establishing himself as an international artist. Ku was invited to numerous solo exhibitions and group exhibitions at prominent art museums and galleries in the world, including Witworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England; Arts Center Nabi, Korea; Carrillo Gil Museum, Mexico City, Mexico and Krakow Triennial Print Exhibition, Krakow, Poland.

Career

    Education

  • 2020

    MFA, New Forms, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY; Certificate of Excellence for Outstanding Merit

  • 1994

    MFA, Painting, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

  • 1992

    BFA, Painting, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

    Award

  • 2017

    Fulbright OLF, NOVA Manassas, Manassas

  • 2013

    Konkuk University (KU) Best Teacher Award, Konkuk University, Seoul

  • 1991

    Excellence Prize – Exhibition of the Korean Contemporary Prints, Total Gallery, Seoul

    Solo Exhibition

  • 2025

    <Round and Round>, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea

  • 2022

    <Autumn, Winter/Spring Summer>, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea

  • 2021

    <Encounter A>, Gallery Nomad, Yeosu, Korea

    Group Exhibition

  • 2024

    <Gallery Simon 30th Anniversary Simon’s Friends>, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea

  • 2024

    <The First Here, and the Last on the Earth>, Culturetank T1, Seoul, Korea

  • 2022

    <Departure from Mundane, Discovery of Taste>, SeMA Bunker, Seoul, Korea

    Art Fair

  • 2008

    <KIAF 2008>, COEX, Seoul

Featured artworks
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Ku Ja-Young

Walker

Gallery Simon

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Ku Ja-Young

Rock in Red

Gallery Simon

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Ku Ja-Young

Green Forest

Gallery Simon

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Ku Ja-Young

Blue Tree

Gallery Simon

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