Park Chan-kyong

Park Chan-kyong is born in Seoul (1965) and has lived in the city. He had majored in Painting at the College of Fine Arts but after graduation, he has mainly written about art and curated exhibitions. His first solo exhibition in 1997 was titled Black Box: Memory of the Cold War Images (Kumho Museum of Art). From this show on, Park had dealt with the theme of the division of the Korean peninsula and the Cold War, amid relations with mass media or interests of politics and psychology. He worked mainly through photograph and video, such as Sets (2000), Power Passage (2004), Flying (2005), and Believe It Or Not (2018). Upon presenting Sindoan in 2008, he began directing feature films and short films on modernity of Korea through topics of Korean folk religion and shamanism. Such theme continued in Anyang, Paradise City (2010), Manshin: Ten Thousand Spirits (2013), Citizen’s Forest (2016). Park’s recent work, Belated Bosal (2019), also touches upon contemporary disaster via an episode handed down in Buddhism. Not only being active as an artist, Park has also written essays on artists, art institutions, Minjung art and (post)modernism, and tradition. He has participated in the launching and editing of Forum A and journal BOL, as well. Park has been awarded the Hermès Foundation Missulsang (2004), the Golden Bear for Best Short Film of the Berlin International Film Festival (2011), the Grand Prize for a Korean Feature Film of the 12th Jeonju International Film Festival (2011) among others, and he was designated as the artist of MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2019. He had also curated the exhibition SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2014, Ghosts, Spies, and Grandmothers.

SMB11 (2021) Advisory Committee Member
SMB09 (2016) Evaluation Committee Member
SMB09 (2016) Artistic Director Selection Committee Member
SMB08 (2014) Artistic Director
SMB08 (2014) Ghosts, Spies, and Grandmothers Report Chief Editor
SMB08 (2014) Ghosts, Spies, and Grandmothers - Modernities against modernity Contributor, Chief Editor
SMB08 (2014) Ghosts, Spies, and Grandmothers Catalogue Contributor, Chief Editor
SMB08 (2014) Art In Culture CAST June Theater of the Cold War Contributor
SMB07 (2012) Exhibition Evaluation Committee Member
SMB06 (2010), SMB01 (2000), SM02 (1998) Artist