Hein-kuhn Oh

BIOGRAPHY

EDUCATION
1993
M.F.A. Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

1988
B.A. Brooks Institute of Photography, Santa Barbara, California

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
Middlemen, Artsonje Center, Seoul
Middlemen, GoEun Museum of Photography, Busan

2011
Girl's Act, In Camera Gallery, Paris
Hein-kuhn Oh’s Portraits, Dong Gang Museum of Photography, Yeongwol
Portraying Anxiety, Trunk gallery, Seoul

2009
Hein-kuhn Oh, Miki Wick Kim Gallery, Zurich

2008
Cosmetic Girls, Kukje Gallery, Seoul

2004
Girl's Act, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul

1999
Ajumma, Art Sonje Center, Seoul

1993
Hein-Kuhn Oh ? Photographs & Films, Choi Gallery, Seoul

1991
Uncertain Presence, Seigfred Gallery, Athens, Ohio

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017
Lesson Zero, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon

2016
Public to Private: Photography from Korean Art since 1989, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
MMCA Gwacheon, 30 Years 1989-2016: As the Moon Waxes and Wanes, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon

2015
Séoul, vite, vite ! Exposition Renaissance Lille3000, Lille

2013
Photoquai 4th Biennial, Musee du Quai Branly, Paris
Beyond the Silk Road, Taksim Gallery, Istanbul
Real DMZ Project , Cheorwon, Gangwondo
Beyond Face, Garden of the Zodiac Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska
Who is Alice?, Spazio Lightbox, Venice
Hurroo Hurroo. GoEun Museum of Photography, Busan

2012
Osan Photo Festival, Culture Factory Osan, Osan
Hidden Track, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
Being Political Popular, UClrvine Art GAlleries, CA
Landscape of Moment, SeongNam Arts center, Seong-nam
Dream Walking in the Magical Reality, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gacheon

2011
Believing is Seeing, F fotogallery, Wales, England
Seoul Photo Festival-Photo Nanum, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
Portrait: The reflection of the times, Bukchon Art Museum, Seoul
Korean Rhapsody, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
New Photography in Korea II, Galerie Paris Beijing, Beijing

2010
Chaotic Harmony, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
A Positive View, Somerset House, London, England
Man Ray and His Heritage, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
On the Line, Daerim museum of Art, Seoul
On the cutting Edge-Aspects of Korean Contemporary photography, Taipei Museum of Modern Art, Taipei

2009
Chaotic Harmony, The Museum of fine arts, Houston, Texas
Mask, Dong Gang Museum of photography, Yeongwol
Odyssey-Korea contemporary photography, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul

2008
Deadpan, The James Gallery, New York
Correspondence, Artsonje Center, Seoul

2007
10 Korea Contemporary Photographers, The Hanmi Museum of Photography, Seoul
Landscape of Korean Contemporary Photography, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
Activating Korea, Govett-Brewster Art gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Myth in The Mirror, Artsonje Center, Seoul
Elastic Taboo, Vienna Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
Raised by Wolves, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Body and Flesh, Trunk Gallery, Seoul

2006
Somewhere in Time, Artsonje Center, Seoul
The 1st Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu
Portrait of Adolescence, Rodin Gallery, Seoul
Women, Papertainer Gallery, Seoul

2005
Secret beyond the Door-Korean Pavilion, The 51st Venice Biennale, Venice
Fast forward, Photographic Message from Korea, Fotografie Forum International Gallery, Frankfurt
Korean Photography since 1945 - The Restoration of Independence, Marronier Art Center, Seoul

2004
Document a map of Photographic Archives, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
What happens between Art and Popular Culture, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gacheon

2003
From Fashion Photography, Daelim Comtemporary Art Museum, Seoul
Image, Korea, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
Girl's Act, Typology III, Space Photography Gallery, Seoul

2002
Photographe Contemporaine Coreenne, La Galerie photo, Montpellier, France
Actor's School, Typology II, Space Photography Gallery, Seoul
Pause, Project 3, The 4th Gwangju Biennale, Gwang-ju
High school Girl, Typology I, Space Photography Gallery, Seoul

2001
Awakening, Australian Center for Photography, Paddington, Australia
The 1st Gana Photography Festival, Gana Art Center, Seoul
The 6th Internationale Fototage, Herten, Germany

2000
After time’, Howart Gallery, Seoul
Crying Game, Gallery Boda, Seoul
Contemporary Korean Photographers, a new generation Fotofest 2000, William Towers Gallery, Houston
1999 Seoul Alive; through the eyes of photographers, Kommunale Gallery, Berlin
35mm Personal Scene, SK Cannon Gallery, Seoul
A Contemporary Arts in Korea since 1990, Ellen Kim Murphy Gallery, Seoul

1998
A History of Photography exhibition in Korea, Seoul Arts center, Seoul
Two eyes, two windows, Seoshin Gallery, Jeon-ju
Site of Desire, 1st Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
Alienation and Assimilation, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
Contemporary Asian Photography Exhibition, AOI Gallery, New York

1997
Expression of the Unexpressible, Posco Gallery, Seoul
Seoul Photography Exhibition97, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
The Importance of Living, Seonam Gallery, Seoul

1996
Three eyes, Sal Gallery, Seoul
Photography as it is..., Samsung Photo Gallery, Seoul
Asian View, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan

1995
Saeck, Artsonje Center, Seoul

1994
New Wind of Korean Photography, Guardian garden Gallery, Tokyo
Korean Contemporary Photography, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
Korean, Indeco Gallery, Seoul

1993
Eccentric Seoul, Sonamu Gallery, Seoul
On the point of me and Others, Walker Hill Museum of Art, Seoul
November, A horizon of Korean Photography, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

1992
Uncertain Presence, Midtown Y Gallery, New York
Selected Works 92, Eye Gallery, San Francisco

1991
Art changes, Roberta Kuhn Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
We say..., Seigfred Gallery, Athens, Ohio
Alternative 90, Seigfred Gallery, Athens, Ohio

1989
Selected Works 89, Black Gallery, Los Angeles

PUBLICATION
Hein-kuhn Oh's portraits, Dong Gang Museum of Photography (2011)
Unfinished Portrait, Hanmi Museum of Photography (2010)
Cosmetic Girls, Kukje gallery (2010)
Girl's Act, Da Vinchi, (2005)
少女演技, Da Vinchi, (2004)
Dogam-geon, Purunsesang, (2003)
Ajumma, Hong Design, (1999)

COLLECTIONS
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art
Ilmin Museum of Art
Artsonje Center
Gallery Van Zoetern Daal, Holland
Aaron M. Tighe Collection

AWARDS
2011 Dong Gang Photography 'The Photographer of the Year''