Lives and works in Seoul
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Education
- 2007 MA, Photography with Distinction, London College of Communication, London, UK
- 2005 BA, Photography, London College of Communication, London, UK
- 1996 BFA, Painting, Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea
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Solo exhibitions
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2022
Rejoice: Still Life, Lotte Gallery, Seoul
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2020
Copier, Sindoh Art Space, Seoul
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2017
Stanza, GoEun Museum of Photography, Busan
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2016
Rose is a Rose is a Rose, Perigee Gallery, Seoul
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2014
Heeseung Chung, PKM Gallery, Seoul Inadequate Metaphors, HADA Contemporary, London
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2013
Inadequate Metaphors, Art Sonje Center, Seoul
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2012
Still life, Doosan Gallery, New York
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2011
Unphotographable, Doosan Gallery, Seoul
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2008
Persona, Gallery Wa, Seoul
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Selected group exhibitions
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2022
The Artplace HMC 2022 - Welcome FRIEZE, The Oakwood Premier COEX Center, Seoul
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Art Rebuild, Boan 1942, Seoul
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A Season of Meditation, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu
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Better No to be Named, Chapter II, Seoul
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2021
The Review, Chosun Ilbo Art Museum, Noblesse Collection, Seoul
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Super-fine, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul
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Collection_Opening Hacking Mining, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
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2020
Korea Artist Prize 2020, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
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Art Plant Asia 2020: Hare Way Object, Deoksugung, Seoul
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2019
Live Forever, HITE Collection, Seoul
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Seeing Unaccompanied, Chapter II, Seoul
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Controlled Perspectives, Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast, Ireland
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2018
Bookshelf of the Artist, Aram Nuri Arts Center Aram Art Museum, Goyang
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Imagined Borders, 12th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju
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Daegu Photo Biennale 2018, Daegu Arts Center, Daegu Of Nature, Suwon
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Ipark Museum of Art, Suwon
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2017
Songeun Art Storage: Not Your Ordinary Art Storage, Songeun Art Storage, Seoul
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Media Study: Tension and Relaxation, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu
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You are a Space, Nook Gallery, Seoul The Art of Not Landing, Cake Gallery, Seoul
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DoRaBom (Reflections): Special Exhibition Celebrating Songeun Foundation Chairman Mr. SangDuck Yoo’s Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award, Songeun Art Space, Seoul
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Photo: Five Rooms, Doosan Gallery, Seoul
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Public to Private: Photography in Korean Art since 1989, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
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Heren Project, PKM Gallery, Seoul
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Monkey in the Cabinet of Curiosity, Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul
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2015
Dialogues of Space, Korean Cultural Centre UK, London Lies of Lies: On Photography, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
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Klingsor’s Last Summer, HITE Collection, Seoul
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2014
Follow Me, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
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2014 Nanji Art Show Vlll: Documentaries: The World Behind the Moon, SeMA Nanji Exhibition Hall, Seoul
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Ode to Youth: Korea-China Young Artists Exhibition, Hongik Museum of Art, Seoul
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2014 Nanji Art Show: Band of Feeling, SeMA Nanji Exhibition Hall, Seoul
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ARTSPECTRUM 2014, Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul
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Photography and Media: 4AM, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
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Chung Heeseung & Je Baak, HADA Contemporary, London
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2011
The 11th Songeun Art Award Show, Songeun Art Space, Seoul
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2010
The Triumph of Failure, South Hill Park, Bracknell
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I Love Your Profile, Espacio Menosuno, Madrid
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Singapore International Photography Festival, National Museum of Singapore, Singapore
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Divided Gaze, KwanHoon Gallery, Seoul
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I Love Your Profile, University of Cadiz, Cadiz
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Maden Pictures, Arario Gallery, Cheonan
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The Triumph of Failure, Noam Gallery, Seoul
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2009
The Photography as Contemporary Art, Doosan Gallery, Seoul
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2008
Seoul International Photography Festival 2008: Humanscape, Ancient Seoul Station, Seoul
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Barge House, London Photo España 2008 Descubrimientos PHE, Consejeria de Cultura y Turisimo, Madrid
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Sensibility of the Artist, Ssamzie Art Mart, Seoul
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2007
Nikon Discovery Awards, Olympia London Conference Centre, London
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MAP 2007 Final Show, London College of Communication, London
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Photography for Begindners, LCC Eckersley Gallery, London
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Awards
- 2018 Sindoh Artist Support Program (SINAP), Korea
- 2016 Unveil’d Photobook Award, UK
- 2012 The 11th Daum Price, Korea
- 2011 The 11th Songeun Art Award, Korea
- 2008 Photo España 2008 Descubrimientos PHE, Spain Critical Mass Top 50, Photolucida, USA
- 2007 Nikon Discovery Awards, UK Sproxton Memorial Award, UK
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Happy Loosers
Archival pigment print
50 × 80.15 cm
Edition of 1/5 + 2AP
2020
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Happy Loosers
Archival pigment print
50 × 80.15 cm
Edition of 1/5 + 2AP
2020
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Happy Loosers
Archival pigment print
50 × 80.15 cm
Edition of 1/5 + 2AP
2020
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Cold Floor
Archival pigment print
109 × 146 cm
Edition of 1/5 + 2AP
2020
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