Bohnchang Koo
Lives and works in Seoul, Korea
EDUCATION AND TEACHING
2004 Guest Professor, Pentiment, Hamburg Summer School
1999-01 Professor of Photography, Kaywon College of Art and Design, Seoul
1999 Visiting Professor, Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design, London
1997 International Fellowship, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, London
1986-98 Photography lecturer, Chung-Ang University, Seoul
1992 Guest Professor, Pentiment, Hamburg Summer School
1980-85 Diploma Fachhochschule (Photography), Hamburg
1971-75 Yonsei University (Business Administration), Seoul
AWARDS
2003 Gangwon Documentary Prize, Korea
2000 Lee Myoungdong Prize, Korea
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005 ¡°Portraits of Time¡± White Room Gallery, LA
2005 ¡°La beaute endormie¡± Langon, France
2004 -05 "Masks," "White," Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris
2003 "Bohnchang Koo: Recent work," Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York
"Masks," Museum of Photography, Seoul
"White," "In the Beginning," Picture Photo Space, Osaka
2002 "Fragile Tremors," San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts, U.S.A., curated by Carol McCusker
"Masterworks of Contemporary Korean Photography," Peabody Essex Museum,
U.S.A., curated by Clark Worswick
"In the Beginning," Shadai Gallery, Tokyo
2001 Base Gallery, Tokyo
Prinz Gallery, Kyoto
Samsung Rodin Gallery, Seoul
Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco
2000 "White Series," Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York
"Good-Bye Paradise," Gallery Image, Aarhus, Denmark
1999 "Flow," Gallery Won, Seoul
1995 "In the Beginning" Gallery Ississ, Kyoto
"Breath," Seomi Gallery, Seoul
1993 "Good-Bye Paradise," Seomi Gallery, Seoul
1990 "The Sea of Thought," Seomi Gallery, Seoul
1988 "Clandestine Pursuit in the Long Afternoon," Gallery Busan, Korea
1987 "One Minute Monologue," Gallery Wide, Tokyo
Photo Interform, Osaka
1985 "Twelve Deep Sighs," Hanmadang Gallery, Seoul
1984 Fotogenes, Hamburg
1983 Pine Hill Gallery, Seoul
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005 ¡°Stilled,¡± Gallery 339, Philadelphia, U.S.A
2004 "Alchemy of Daily Life," National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
"Water," FotoFest 2004, Houston, U.S.A.
2003 "Facing Korea," Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam
"East of Eden," 14 Wharf Road, London
"Four Contemporary Korean Photographers," Galerie Gana-Beaubourg, Paris
2002 "Two Korean Photographers," Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
"Now, What is Photo?" Gana Art Center, Seoul
"Korean Contemporary Photography," Museum of Modern Art, Saitama,
Sendai Mediatheque, Japan
"Photographie Contemporaine Coréenne" Galerie Photo, Montpellier, France
"Gaggles, Flocks and Coveys, Further Exaltations and Murders: A Bird Show," Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York
"Floating," Art Center Silkeborg Bad, Denmark
"Everyman: A Search for the Male Form," Camera Work, San Francisco
"Three-Person Show," Kumho Museum, Seoul
"2002 Asia Photo Biennale: Living in the City" Gallery La Mer, Seoul
2001 "Awakening," Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
"Photo Festival," Gana Art Center, Seoul
2000 "Standing on the Threshold of Time," Odense Foto Triennale, Denmark
"Moonlight Becomes You: A Thousand and One Nights of Peace on Earth," The Center for Photography at Woodstock, New York
"Contemporary Korean Photographers," FotoFest 2000, Houston
1999 "Phenomena," Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco
"Fragments of Document and Memory," 3rd Tokyo International Photo-Biennale, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
1998 "Landscape and Man," Ostasiatiska Museum, Stockholm
"Alienation and Assimilation," Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago
"Poetics of Time," Korean Contemporary Art, Ho-Am Museum of Art, Seoul
"Body and Photography," Hanlim Art Museum, Daejun
1997 Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, London
1996 Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seoul
A.O.I. Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Kumho Art Museum, Seoul
"SIAF," COEX Center, Seoul
1995 "Art at Home," Seomi Gallery, Seoul
Gwangju Museum of Modern Art, Gwangju, Korea
Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeongju, Korea
"Body or Gender," Gallery Nun, Seoul
1994 Pima Community College Art Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
Ursula Blickle Prize, Kraichtal, Germany
"Horizon of Korean Photography," Gong Pyung Art Center, Seoul
1993 Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
1992 "Oh, Korea!" Jahamun Museum of Art, Seoul
"A Group of Young Artists," National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
1991 Total Museum, Seoul
1990 Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
"Mixed Media," Kumho Art Museum, Seoul
Taipei Sunny-Gate Gallery, Taiwan
1988 "The New Wave of Photography," Walkerhill Art Center, Seoul
COLLECTIONS
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
Municipal Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
Samsung Museum of Art, Korea
Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
The Museum of Photography, Seoul
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Henry Buhl Collection, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Art and Craft, Hamburg
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Reykjavik Museum of Photography, Iceland
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2004 ¡°Portraits of Time¡±, Homi, Seoul
"Bohnchang Koo: 'Mask,'" Camera Work, vol. 2, Museum of Photography, Seoul
Koo Bohnchang, Youlhwadang, Korea
Photographic Art Magazine, May, pp. 54-73
2003 "The Photographs of Bohnchang Koo," by Diana Gaston, Art on Paper, Jan.-Feb., Vol. 7, No. 4
Bohnchang Koo, Hysteric Glamour, Japan
2002 "Now, What is Photo?" Gana Art, Seoul
2001 Art Magazine Wolgan Missool, May
Kunstforum 156, pp. 468-470
2000 "Ganjin," Tokyo Great Visual, Tokyo
FotoFest 2000, Houston, U.S.A.
1994 Art Vivant, Contemporary Korean Artists, Sigongsa, Korea
1993 "Korean 30 Artists Now," Gana Art, pp. 44-55
Déja-Vu, Tokyo, Japan
1992 The Sea of Thought, Hanglim, Korea
BalGeunBang (Bright Room) 1,2,3,4, Youlhwa Dang, Korea
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