Education

2021–present
Ph.D. Candidate in Film and Digital Media, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, USA
2013
Certificate in Sonology, The Royal Conservatoire of The Hague, The Hague, The Netherlands
2007
MFA in Fine Arts, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, Korea
2004
BFA in Sculpture, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022
Frames of Sound, SONGEUN, Seoul, Korea
2019
Bones of Sound, Visitor Welcome Center, Los Angeles, USA
2014
Bespoke Wallpaper Music, Solomon Building+CAKE Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2011
Room 402, Seoul Art Space Mullae, Seoul, Korea
The Units of the World according to ;Semicolon, Project Space Sarubia, Seoul, Korea
2009
Lesson for a Naming Office: Chapter 1, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, Korea
2006
Listeners, Insa Art Space, Seoul, Korea

Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings

2025
Korea Artist Prize 2025, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2024
PANSORI, a Soundscape of the 21st Century, 15th Gwangju Biennale, Han Hee Won Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
2023
Beyond the Crest, M+ Museum, Hong Kong
Image Forum Festival, Theater Image Forum, Tokyo / The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto / Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya, Japan
Monitoring: This Image Will Become Important Later, Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, KulturBahnhof Kassel, Kassel, Germany
Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Prague, Czech Republic (Online Screening)
Jecheon International Music & Film Festival, Jecheon, Korea
Asian American International Film Festival, New York, USA
Real DMZ Project, kHaus, Basel, Switzerland
2022
Past. Present. Future., SONGEUN, Seoul, Korea
2021
Signaling Perimeters, Nam-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Humming to the Sound of Fear, Helen J Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Border Crossings: North and South Korean Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
2020
IAS 2000–2020, Insa Art Space 20th Anniversary Archive Project, Insa Art Space, Seoul, Korea
Artists in Their Times: Korean Modern and Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
COLA 2020, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (Online Exhibition)
2019
LOOP Discover Award, Center Civic Convent de Sant Agusti, Barcelona, Spain
Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah, UAE
2018
Unclosed Bricks, ARKO Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2017
17th SONGEUN Art Award, SONGEUN Art Space, Seoul, Korea
The Melting Sea, Art Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
2016
X: Korean Art in the 1990s, SeMA Gold, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Art Spectrum, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2015
Klingsor’s Last Summer, HITE Collection, Seoul, Korea
Radiophrenia, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, UK

Selected Lectures and Presentations

2024
“GB Talk,” Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
“Sound and Writing in East Asia,” Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
2023
“Atmospheres of Violence,” Department of Art, Film and Visual Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
“Arts and AI Innovations,” Science & Justice Research Center, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, USA
2022
“Differentiating Sound Studies: Politics of Sound and Listening,” Music Research Center, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
2020
“How to Collect Time – Please bring your work saved on an external hard drive,” Nam-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2019
“Ear Level: Sound and Museum,” SeMA Nanji Residency, Seoul, Korea
2016
“Listening to Space,” Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

Selected Awards and Grants

2023
Korean Competition Short Winner, Jecheon International Music & Film Festival, Korea
2020
City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship, USA
2017
Grand Prize, SONGEUN Art Award, Korea
Honorary Mentions, Prix Ars Electronica, Austria
2014-2015
Mondriaan Fund Fellowship, The Netherlands

Selected Residencies

2018
Q-O2: workspace for experimental music and sound art, Brussels, Belgium
2014-2015
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Selected Collections

Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Korea
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
Seoul Museum of Art, Korea
The Sigg Collection, Switzerland