Yisook Sohn
Photographer
Yisook Sohn obtained her BA at Korean Literature, Ewha Woman’s University, and an MFA in Photography at Sangmyung University, Seoul, Korea.
Solo Exhibitions include Baedari Gallery, Incheon, B. CUT Gallery, Seoul, Chansgsungdong Laboratory Gallery, Seoul, Cyart Space, Seoul, Toyota Photo Space, Busan, Korea, and Kimjinhye Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
Group Exhibitions include The Reflection on Certain Landscape, Seohakdong Gallery, Jeonju, Korea, Knot Choice, Art Space Knot, Seoul, Korea, Photo Review Exhibition in Seoul Photo Festival 2011, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Across the Divide: Critical Mass 2010, Photo Center North West, Seattle; Newspace Center for Photography, Portland; Rayko Photo Centre, San Francisco, USA, Art of Attraction, F.L.O.A.T. Gallery, New York, MAYDAY, Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography, Pontiac, USA, 15th Griffin Juried Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, USA, International Exhibition of Fine Art Photography, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, USA, It’s different but that’s OK, Now Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
Awards include Cyart Space New Discourse, Korea, Critical Mass Top 50, Photolucida, LensCulture International Exposure Awards, Honorable Mention, 3rd Annual Photography Masters cup, Honorable Mention, 1st Edition of Hey, Hot Shot! Honorable Mention.
Yisook Sohn
Photographer
Yisook Sohn obtained her BA at Korean Literature, Ewha Woman’s University, and an MFA in Photography at Sangmyung University, Seoul, Korea.
Solo Exhibitions include Baedari Gallery, Incheon, B. CUT Gallery, Seoul, Chansgsungdong Laboratory Gallery, Seoul, Cyart Space, Seoul, Toyota Photo Space, Busan, Korea, and Kimjinhye Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
Group Exhibitions include The Reflection on Certain Landscape, Seohakdong Gallery, Jeonju, Korea, Knot Choice, Art Space Knot, Seoul, Korea, Photo Review Exhibition in Seoul Photo Festival 2011, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Across the Divide: Critical Mass 2010, Photo Center North West, Seattle; Newspace Center for Photography, Portland; Rayko Photo Centre, San Francisco, USA, Art of Attraction, F.L.O.A.T. Gallery, New York, MAYDAY, Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography, Pontiac, USA, 15th Griffin Juried Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, USA, International Exhibition of Fine Art Photography, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, USA, It’s different but that’s OK, Now Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
Awards include Cyart Space New Discourse, Korea, Critical Mass Top 50, Photolucida, LensCulture International Exposure Awards, Honorable Mention, 3rd Annual Photography Masters cup, Honorable Mention, 1st Edition of Hey, Hot Shot! Honorable Mention.
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Chiara Bersani: DesertersOct 27, 2023 – Jan 7, 2024Deserters is a live installation by Chiara Bersani (b. 1984, San Rocco al Porto, IT) consisting of a performance interpreted by three performers with motor impairments and a large environment in which bodies meet and interact without any aid, leaving traces of their movement. Deserters addresses the issues of vulnerability and interdependence, interweaving the languages of visual art and performance (more…)
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WITCHES! About bodies, knowledge and powerOct 7, 2023 – Jan 14, 2024From the 15th century to the present day, this theme has also been used to shape a wide variety of images of femininity in art: the ugly old woman as well as the young, seductive femme fatale. The witch was and is a fascinating motif in works since Albrecht Dürer and Hans Baldung Grien. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the male perspective on the subject has been contrasted with a female, positive view (more…)
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Irving Penn / The BathSep 23 – Nov 30, 2923What I remember is the purity of the relationship of these young people and an innocence so different from today’s. As I look at these pictures, how the dancers touch each other, how they embrace [ . . . ] there’s a serenity that as a photographer I’m not used to. –Irving Penn, 1995 (more…)
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Sean ScullyArtistSean Scully is one of the most important painters of his generation. While known primarily for his large-scale abstract paintings, Scully also works in a variety of diverse media, including printmaking, sculpture, watercolor and pastel. (more…)
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Marta Zgierska: From All AnglesSep 29, 2023 – Jan 7, 2024Marta Zgierska is a photographer who has developed a distinctive style that blends various opposites. The artist creates cool, aesthetically pleasing and formally sophisticated compositions in which images of abstracted objects or her own body convey emotional messages and metaphorically illustrate existential reflection. Zgierska’s broad liberal arts education makes her a keen interpreter of her own work. (more…)
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Ingredients MiningAug 5, 2023 – Jan 7, 2024Beginning in 2023 BusanMoCA Platform: Ingredients Mining is to be an annual program held by Busan Museum of Contemporary Art with the aim of exploring, manifesting, and disseminating ongoing social concerns and reflections on ecosystems and the environment (more…)
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ChannelingSep 23, 2023 – Feb 11, 2024Channeling presents new acquisitions alongside other works from the MUSEUM MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNST’s collection. Different perspectives may emerge in the space between objects. This space relates to the distance of time between the works’ making and their positioning in the exhibition. The collection was formed in 1981, and the museum opened in 1991. How have sensibilities and discourses changed since the museum’s foundation? (more…)
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NonmemorySep 15, 2023 – Jan 14, 2024Through a variety of media and material, the artists in this exhibition use space as the repository for dreams, fantasies, traumas and anxieties, while offering opportunities to re-imagine and recreate reality. The title of the exhibition Nonmemory, takes direct inspiration from Kelley’s use of the term, a way of treating, reordering and representing the complex and unstable relationship between memory, space and identity. (more…)
