Heinkuhn Oh
(b. 1963)
Starting as a documentary photographer who captured the social landscapes on the streets, Heinkuhn Oh has focused on documenting specific groups of people that present a certain type of social convention created by the Korean society.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 ‘Left Face’, Art Sonje Center, Seoul
2016 ‘Portraying Anxiety’, La Chambre Gallery, Strasbourg, France
2012 ‘Middlemen’, Art Sonje Center, Seoul
‘Middlemen’ Go Eun Museum of Photography, Busan
2011 ‘Girl’s Act’, In Camera Gallery, Paris, France
‘Portraying Anxiety’, Trunk gallery, Seoul
2009 ‘Heinkuhn Oh’, Miki Wick Kim Gallery, Zurich, Swiss
2008 ‘Cosmetic Girls’, Kukje Gallery, Seoul
2004 ‘Girl’s Act’, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul
1999 ‘Ajumma’, Art Sonje Center, Seoul
1993 ‘Heinkuhn Oh ․ Photographs & Films’, Choi Gallery, Seoul
1991 ‘Uncertain Presence’, Seigfred Gallery, Athens, Ohio
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 ‘Checkpoint’, Wolfsburg, Germany
2020 ‘MaytoDay, Spring of Democracy’, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Asia Cultural Center, Gwangju
‘Negotiating Borders’, Fiminco Foundation, Paris, France
2019 ‘Aging World’, SeMA(Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art), Seoul
‘The Square: Art and Society in Korea’, MMCA(National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art), Seoul
2018 ‘The Real DMZ’, New Art Exchange Gallery, Nottingham, England
2016 ‘Please Return to Busan Port’, Vestfossen Museum, Norway
‘Turbulent Transition’, Le Maillon Art Center, Strasbourg, France
2015 ‘Seoul Vite, Vite’ , Lille 3000 Art Festival, Lille, France
‘Journey to Photography’, Gimhae National Museum, Gimhae
2014 ‘Biennale Archive Special Exhibition 1’ , Busan Biennale, Busan
‘Beyond Face’ Garden of the Zodiac Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska
2013 ‘Photoquai 4th Biennial’ Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France
‘Beyond the Silk Road’ Taksim Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
‘Real DMZ Project’ , Cheorwon, Gangwondo
‘Who is Alice?’ Spazio Lightbox, Venice, Italy
‘Hurroo Hurroo’ GoEun Museum of Photography, Busan
2012 ‘Hidden Track’, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
‘Being Political Popular’ University of California, CA
‘Dream Walking in the Magical Reality’ National Museum of Contemporary Art, Kaw-chun
2011 ‘Believing is Seeing’, F fotogallery, Wales, England
‘Korean Rhapsody’,Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
‘New Photography in Korea II’, Galerie Paris Beijing, Beijing, China
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, Taiwan
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
‘Activating Korea’, Govett-Brewster Art gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
‘Elastic Taboo’, Vienna Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
‘Raised by Wolves’, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
2006 ‘Somewhere in Time’, Artsonje Center, Seoul
‘The 1st Daegu Photo Biennale’, Daegu
‘Portrait of Adolescence’, Rodin Gallery, Seoul
2005 ‘Secret beyond the Door-Korean Pavilion’, The 51st Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
‘Fast forward, Photographic Message from Korea’, Fotografie Forum International Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
‘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 Contemporary Art, Kwa-chun
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 ‘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 ‘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, Texas
1999 ‘Seoul Alive; through the eyes of photographers’, Kommunale Gallery, Berlin, Germany
‘A Contemporary Arts in Korea since 1990’, Ellen Kim Murphy Gallery, Seoul
1998 ‘Site of Desire, 1st Taipei Biennial’, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
‘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
‘Asian View’, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
1995 ‘Saeck’, Artsonje Center, Seoul
1994 ‘New Wind of Korean Photography’, Guardian garden Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
‘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
‘Alternative 90’, Seigfred Gallery, Athens, Ohio
1989 ‘Selected Works 89’, Black Gallery, Los Angeles
Publication
Middlemen, IANN Books
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)
Collection
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Wolfsburg Museum of Art
National Museum of Contemporary Art
Leeum-Samsung Museum of Art
Ilmin Museum of Art
Artsonje Center
Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art
Fotomuseum den Haag
Aaron M. Tighe Collection
Award
2011 Dong Gang Photography ‘The Photographer of the Year”
Education
1993 M.F.A. Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
1988 B.A. Brooks Institute of Photography, Santa Barbara, California
Present
Associate Professor in Department of Photographic Art at Kaywon University of Art and Design
© 1989-2024 HEINKUHN OH