Bohnchang Koo

Koo Bohnchang Born in 1953, Seoul, Korea Lives and works in Seoul, Korea Education 1985 Diploma Fotodesign, Fachhochschule, Hamburg, Germany 1975 Bachelor of Business Administration, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea Selected Solo Exhibitions 2025 Through the Window I Saw , gguggum art centre, Daegu, Korea echo , ippo-plus, Osaka, Japan 2024 Koo Bohnchang: The Look of Things , National Asian Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea 2023 Koo Bohnchang's Voyages , Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Self-Portrait , Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France Lingering in Time , Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Guangzhou, China 2022 Lingering in Time: Koo Bohnchang’s Photography (1990-2021) , Three Shadows Xiamen Photography Art Centre, Xiamen, China Beyond the Masks - Gangneung Gwanno Gamyeongeuk , Gangneung Museum of Art, Gangwon, Korea 2021 Lingering in Time: Koo Bohnchang's Photography (1990-2021) , Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China Lingering in Time, Modern Studio (ZIWU), Shanghai, China 2020 Light Shadow , Korean Cultural Centre Australia, Sydney, Australia Dreams of Blue and White , HK Art & Antiques LLC, New York, US 2019 Beyond the Silver , Space 22, Seoul, Korea Clandestine Pursuit in the Long Afternoon , Zen foto, Tokyo, Japan Incognito , The Museum of Photography, Seoul, Korea The Allure of Blue , Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain 2018 Koo Bohnchang , Kukje Gallery, Busan, Korea Koo Bohnchang , Changseong-dong laboratory, Seoul, Korea Aqua , Acquario Civico Milano, Milano, Italy The Hidden Face , Gallery 343, Seoul, Korea 2016 花 , Shinsegae Gallery Incheon, Incheon, Korea 花 , Shinsegae Gallery Gwangju, Gwangju, Korea Vies silencieuses , Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France White Vessels , Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2015 Porcelain Time , Yido Gallery, Seoul, Korea Koo Bohnchang, Nanohana Gallery, Hakone, Japan 2014 White on White , Villa Flor, S-chanf, Switzerland Open End , Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milano, Italy Dong Gang Photography Award Exhibition KOO Bohnchang , Dong Gang Museum of Photography, Yeongwol, Korea Koo Bohnchang Archives: 18 Exhibitions , National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea Jung Hai-chang: an Encounter with the Still Life Works of Koo Bohnchang , Trunk Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2013 Slow Talk , Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain Interpretation of Surface , Bundo Gallery, Daegu, Korea The Interpretation of Landscape , J - Hee Gallery, Gwangju, Korea Happy Memories , Ryugaheon gallery, Seoul, Korea 2011 Bohnchang Koo , Kukje gallery, Seoul, Korea The Baptist, Nuda gallery, Daejeon, Korea Snow , Jeju Island , Trunk gallery, Seoul, Korea 2010 Plain Beauty: Korean White Porcelain/Photographs by Bohnchang Koo , Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US Masks, Stone Art Museum, Duson Art Museum, Jeju, Korea 2009 Vessel · Soap · Interiors , Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France Purity , Galerie Raum mit Licht, Vienna, Austria Pencil of Nature , Gallery Bow, Ulsan, Korea 2008 In the Beginning , Trunk Gallery, Seoul, Korea Coolness and Passion , MBC Gallery M, Daegu, Korea 2007 Bohnchang Koo , Goeun Museum of Art, Busan, Korea Galerie 206, Berlin, Germany Soap, Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2006 Hasted Hunt Gallery, New York, US Vessel , Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea Koo Bohnchang , Kahitsukan, Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyoto, Japan 2005 Portraits of Time , White Room Gallery, Los Angeles, US La beaute endormie , Langon, France Stilled , Gallery 339, Philadelphia, US 2004 Masks, White , Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France 2003 Bohnchang Koo: Recent work, Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York, US Masks , Museum of Photography, Seoul, Korea White , In the Beginning , Picture Photo Space, Osaka, Japan 2002 Fragile Tremors, San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, US Masterworks of Contemporary Korean Photography , Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, US In the Beginning, Shadai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2001 Base Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Prinz Gallery, Kyoto, Japan Samsung Rodin Gallery, Seoul, Korea Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, US 2000 White Series , Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York, US Good-Bye Paradise , Galleri Image, Aarhus, Denmark 1999 Flow , Gallery Won, Seoul, Korea 1995 In the Beginning , Gallery Ississ, Kyoto, Japan Breath , Seomi Gallery, Seoul, Korea 1993 Good-Bye Paradise , Seomi Gallery, Seoul, Korea 1990 The Sea of Thought , Seomi Gallery, Seoul, Korea 1988 Veiled Pursuit in the Long Afternoon, Gallery Busan, Busan, Korea 1987 One Minute Monologue , Gallery Wide, Tokyo, Japan Photo Interform, Osaka, Japan 1985 Twelve Deep Sighs , Hanmadang Gallery, Seoul, Korea 1984 Fotogenes, Hamburg, Germany 1983 Pine Hill Gallery, Seoul, Korea Selected Group Exhibitions 2025 Couleurs de Corée, Lumière sur l’art contemporain coréen , Centre Culturel Coréen, Paris, France Life Practice , Onyang Folk Museum, Asan, Korea Hangeul International Pre-Biennale , Jochiwon 1927 Art Center, Sejong, Korea DongGang International Photo Festival 2025: Main International Exhibition Museum Project , DongGang Museum of Photography, Yeongwol, Korea Have You Eaten Today? , Francis Gallery, Los Angeles, US Surrealism and Korean Modern Art , National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Deoksugung, Seoul, Korea Mega Seoul 8 Decades , Museum Hanmi, Seoul, Korea Moving Letters , KF KR Gallery, Seoul, Korea Elegance and Simplicity , HK Art and Antiques, New York, US Lunar Phases: Korean Moon Jars , Denver Art Museum, Colorado, US Staged: Studio Photographs from the Collection , Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US 2024 Resonating Lagacies of White Porcelain , Cheonan Museum of Art, Cheonan, Korea Collection 24 , Gangneung Museum of Art, Gangneung, Korea Meot: Korean Art from the Frank Bayley Collection , Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, US Cement : Moment , Hanyang University Museum, Seoul, Korea Endless Journey to Black Night , Museum Hanmi, Seoul, Korea The Spinning Earth , Namwon Kimbyungjong Art Museum, Namwon, Korea MMCA Photographs Collection: What's the Time in Your World? , National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea Bird's Shadow Under the Stars , Ferris Gallery, Shenzhen, China Korean Modern & Contemporary Art : The Echoes of the Times , Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan, Korea 2023 Ceramic Ritual Vessels, Connecting Heaven and Earth , Gyeonggi Ceramic Museum, Gwangju, Gyeonggi-do, Korea RETURN OF CHEONMA , Gyeongju National Museum, Gyeongju, Korea Five by Five , Chuncheon Culture & Art Center (CCAC), Chuncheon, Korea Anthology of White , Korean Craft Museum, Cheongju, Korea More Than Meets The Eye , Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Xiamen, China Making Worlds , Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 2022 Dear Photography , MAF, Seoul, Korea Morning Calm , Francis Gallery, Los Angeles, California, US LA TEXTURA DE LAS PROMESAS , Kutxa Kultur Artegunea, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain White Porcelain: How Have We Humans Breathed Life into Soil? , Seoul Museum of Craft Art, Seoul, Korea Motion in Stillness: Tracing the Spirit of Korea – Unfolding Clay Art , Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Koka, Japan UNCOMMERCIAL: Korean Commercial Photography, 1984 and Beyond , Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Sounding The Gaze, Korea Photographers Gallery, Seoul, Korea The Hidden Masterpiece, Gallery BK, Seoul, Korea 2021 F E A S T , Atlas Gallery, London, UK Sounding The Gaze , KP gallery, Seoul, Korea Lunar Sonata : Hanji Works and Contemporary Art, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonbuk, Korea Post Modernity : Modernity = Hyper Reality : Reality, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea Why we are attracted to Moon jar, Gallery Now, Seoul, Korea Medium , Space55, Seoul, Korea 2020 Six Perspectives , Gwangju National Museum, Gwangju, Korea Forme , Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France Why are we fascinated by moon jars , Gallery Now, Seoul, Korea Moon Jar , Choeunsook Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2019 Seeing Time , Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea The 9th Korea Hoguk Art Exhibition , Gyeryongdae, Gyeryong, Korea Allurements of Still Life , Muan Seungwoo Oh Museum of Art, Muan-gun, Korea Greetings from South Korea , Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China 2018 Water, Embracing Life , Gallery Hyeyum, Gwangju, Korea The Portrait With(out) Artists , Nam Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Blooming at the Junction , Korean Cultural Center Hong Kong, Hong Kong 2017 Uri Korea – Ruhe in Beschleunigung, Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg, Germany Wintering, National Folk Museum of Korea, Seoul, Korea GalleryWe, Seoul, Korea Vogue lika a painting , Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea Chuncheon Culture & Arts Center, Gangwon-do, Korea Coordination of energy , Arts Center KUH, Daejeon, Korea A JOY of SPRING: Scenery, Blossom and Delicacy , National Folk Museum of Korea, Seoul, Korea 室礼展 -Offerings-III , Terminal Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan Time, Visibilizing the invisible , Centro Cultural PUCP, Lima, Peru Body, The Language of Sensation, Muan Seungwoo Oh Museum of Art, Muan, Korea DNA of Coreanity , Wooyang Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeongju, Korea 2016 T he Colors in Korean Life and Culture , National Folk Museum of Korea, Seoul, Korea Ordinary , Korean Cultural Centre Gallery’, Sydney, Austraila DNA of Coreanity , Milad Tower, Tehran, Iran Getxophoto 2016 , Gexto, Spain Unconscious Aesthetics, Breathing Heritage: Contemporary Korean Ceramics , Fondation Bernardaud, Limoges, France Noonbit Collection of Korea Photographer’s Work , Ryugaheon gallery, Seoul, Korea Public to Private: Photography in Korean Art since 1989 , The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea Chefs-d'œuvre de la céramique coréenne , Grand Palais, Paris, France 室 礼 ～Offerings～ Ⅱ , Terminal Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan Hyundai Department Gallery H, Daegu, Korea Living at the Speed of Life , Gallery Now, Seoul, Korea 2015 Gimhae Arts Center, Gimhae, Korea People, remembered , Art Space J, Gyeonggi-do, Korea A Homage to Korean Architecture-Wisdom of the Earth , Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Simsimhada, Doosung Paper Gallery, Seoul, Korea In the Spirit of George Rose , KF Gallery, Seoul, Korea Choi Sunu House, Seoul, Korea Le Parfum dans tous les sens , Jardins du Palais Royal, Paris, France BODY , Handok Museum of Medicine and Pharmacy, Eumseong, Korea Simple Forms: Contemplating Beauty , Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan OBIECTA, Giacomo Guidi, Rome, Italy 2014 Korean Beauty Two Kinds of Nature , National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea The Other & Me , Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, UAE Dual Natures in Ceramics , SFO Museum, San Francisco, US Admiration of White Porcelain , Seoul Museum, Seoul, Korea 2012 Mega Seoul 4 decades , The Museum of Photography, Seoul, Korea Ilwoo space, Seoul, Korea Books & Objects , Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul, Korea FOLD lll: USELESS / Upcycling in Art + Design , Art+Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai, China 2011 Korean Spirit; Six Photographers , Goyang Aram Nuri Arts Center, Goyang, Korea Books & Objects , Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul, Korea 紙花 , Kokdu museum, Seoul, Korea 2010 Korean Contemporary Art – Plastic Garden , Mingsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography , Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, US Biennale Internationale de l’Image a Luang Prabang, Vientiane, Laos 2009 Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography , Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, US Met First, Yet Familiar, Korean Contemporary Photograph , 798 Space, Beijing, China 2009 Odyssey, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea Serotonin , Gallery Now, Seoul, Korea 2008 Contemporary Korean Photographs 1948-2008 , National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea Inspired Simplicity: Contemporary Art from Korea , Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, US Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea 2007 Chuseok - Korean Harvest Festival , British Museum, London, UK Void in Korean Art , Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea 2004 Water , FotoFest Biennial 2004, Houston, US What happens between Art and Popular Culture, National Museum of Contemporary and Modern Art, Gwacheon, Korea 2003 Facing Korea , Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands East of Eden , Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, UK 2002 Two Korean Photographers , Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, US Now, What is Photo, Gana Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea Floating , Art Center Silkeborg Bad, Denmark Everyman: A Search for the Male Form, Camera Work, San Francisco, US 2001 Awakening , Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia 2000 Standing on the Threshold of Time , Odense Foto Triennale, Odense, Denmark Contemporary Korean Photographers, FotoFest 2000, Houston, US 1999 Phenomena, Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, US Fragments of Document and Memory, 3rd Tokyo International Photo-Biennale, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan 1998 Landscape and Man, Ostasiatiska Museum, Stockholm, Sweden Alienation and Assimilation, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, US 1996 A.O.I. Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico US 1995 Gwangju Biennial 1995, Gwangju, Korea Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeongju, Korea Body or Gender , Gallery Nun, Seoul, Korea 1994 Pima Community College Art Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, US 1993 Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia 1990 Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, US 1988 The New Wave of Photography , Walkerhill Art Center, Seoul, Korea 1987 Lying Down as if Being Dead with Half-closed Eyes , Hanmadang Gallery, Seoul, Korea Selected Awards 2025 Samsung Ho-Am Prize, The Ho-Am Foundation, Korea 2024 15th Seoul Culture Today Cultural Awards Special Grand Prize, Korea 2022 63rd 3.1 Culture Award, Samil Foundation, Korea 2015 47th Republic of Korea Culture and Arts Award, Korea 2014 Dong Gang Photography Award, Korea 2003 Gangwon Documentary Prize, Korea 2000 Lee Myoungdong Prize, Korea Selected Public and Private Collections Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonbuk, Korea Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, NY, US The British Museum, London, UK Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, US Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, US Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, US San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, US Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California, US Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, US Philadelphia Museum of Art, US National Folk Museum of Korea, Seoul, Korea Denver Art Museum, US Museum of Art and Craft, Hamburg, Germany Musée Carnavalet, Paris, France Musée Guimet, Paris, France Fondation Herzog, Basel, Switzerland Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia State Library Victoria, Australia Reykjavik Museum of Photography, Iceland Kahitsukan, Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyoto, Japan Shadai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, Japan National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Municipal Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeongju, Korea The Museum of Photography, Seoul, Korea The Amore Museum, Seoul, Korea Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeju, Korea Goeun Museum of Photography, Busan, Korea