Exhibitions

Image courtesy of the artist March 3 - May 27, 2022| Opening Reception: Thursday, March 3, 2022 | 6-8 PM (ET)| Artist Talk [video release]: Wednesday, April 20, 2022 | 5 PM (ET)| In Wonju Seo’s hands, the aesthetics, forms, and techniques of bojagi— traditional Korean wrapping cloths—are reconfigured as abstract textile art for a global audience. Seo combines needlework, painting, photography, and other techniques to create contemplative artworks that explore her transcultural identity and life... Read More

September 30, 2021 - January 28, 2022| Opening Reception: September 30, 2021 | 6 - 8 PM| In this group exhibition, three artists challenge and redefine the conventional idea of fiber and textile art by employing already-established techniques of weaving, embroidery, and assemblage with new materials and creating and inventing new forms. Featuring the work of Woomin Kim, Sui Park, and Jayoung Yoon. Our gallery is open only by appointment. The appointment must be made at least 24 hours prior to the scheduled... Read More

Image courtesy of Mina Cheon Studio (Photo by Cyrus Feldman) May 3 - September 2, 2021| The global art activist Mina Cheon draws inspiration from the partition of the Korean peninsula, exemplified by her parallel body of work created under her North Korean alter ego, Kim Il Soon, in which she enlists a range of mediums including painting, sculpture, video, installation, and performance to deconstruct and reconcile the fraught history and ongoing coexistence between North and South Korea. Her solo exhibition at... Read More

@Byun Soonchoel. Courtesy of the artist and ARARIO GALLERY September 8 - February 26, 2021| Exhibition extended through February 26, 2021 The Korea Society presents Soonchoel Byun: Eternal Family, his first solo exhibition in New York in two decades. In his Eternal Family series, Byun imagines and digitally creates a reunion between family members separated by the Korean War. Created with utmost sensitivity and respect for the personal and historical tragedy, Byun’s art is a poignant reminder of the... Read More

Current Exhibition: January 16 - May 21| Internationally acclaimed artist Ik-Joong Kang's new site-specific installation “Floating Dreams to the Moon” premiers at the Korea Society. This solo exhibition will feature several new paintings by the artist as well as an installation of objects and over 6,000 drawings from Korean War refugees. Kang's artistic practice provides a platform for humanity's aspirations for achieving what appears to be impossible. Just as Korean moon-jars are made from two precarious halves... Read More

CURRENT EXHIBITION | October 3-December 18, 2019 | Reception and Panel Discussion on Contemporary Photography in Korea: Thursday, November 14, 2019 | 6 PM The Korea Society is pleased to present Better Days, a solo exhibition featuring the photography of Korean artist Seunggu Kim. Better Days is a series of photographs depicting what the artist describes as “Korean spectacles.” South Korea’s rapid development in the last 50 years has caused a lot of social ironies and incongruities, one of them being long working... Read More

Meet us downtown! Join us at Martos Gallery with Assistant Director Sarah Han, and meet the artist Jennie Jieun Lee, whose solo exhibition Sizzling Gouba and Long Beach will be on view. Complimentary drinks available + - Tickets Click to collapse   The Korea Society Fellow, Patron and Corporate members: FREE with registration Tickets Members and Students with valid ID $5.00 USD Non-members $10.00... Read More

 © Jung Hee Choi 2019 | “...while watching Ms. Choi’s hallucinatory screen, you may find yourself in an altered state of consciousness, on the verge of some ineffable, transcendental revelation.” - The New York Times. Jung Hee Choi is an artist and musician who works in video, performance, sound and multi-media installations, known for creating a state of immersion that emphasizes the totality of sense perception as a single unit for her viewers. In the process of assessing and defining the nature of reality,... Read More

Master artist Kim Kyeong-Ho is a pioneer and transmitter of the art of Sagyeong, Korean Sutra Copying. He was appointed by the Korean Ministry of Employment and Labor as the sole Traditional Sutra Copying Skills Transmitter, and is both an accomplished artist and teacher of this unique art that had not been practiced for 600 years since the Joseon Dynasty. During the lecture, Master Kim will speak about the process and ingredients used in his sutra transcription as well as his philosophy and approach to this... Read More

  Simultaneity presents an ongoing series based on the Korean Dansaekhwa monochrome movement by artist Suh Seung Won (b. 1941), a pioneer of geometric abstraction in Korean contemporary art. Expanding on a career across five decades, Suh’s Simultaneity series explores his continued meditations on the concurrence of time and space, expressed through interactions between geometric forms and the underlying surface. This exhibition primarily shows Suh’s works created between 1970 and the present, in which the rigid... Read More