ALL I KNOW IS ME

AS AN ART
HOPEFULLY I AM FROM FAR FAR AWAY
FROM WHERE I AM

I AM AN INTERNATIONAL ARTIST FROM SOUTH KOREA. I STUDIED BACHELOR IN PRINTMAKING IN SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA, AND STUDIED MASTER OF FINE ART IN TROMSØ, NORWAY. BASED ON NORWAY I AM EXPRESSING A HELL OF AN AMOUNT OF MY GRUMPY MOOD AND KEEPING ON WHINING ABOUT MY IMMATURITY

ARTIST                    PRINTMAKER                    MUSEUM MEDIATOR

CV

EDUCATION

Master of Indigenous Studies
UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø | 2022–2025

Master of Fine Art
Kunstakademiet i Tromsø, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway | 2019–2022

Bachelor of Fine Art
Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea | 2013–2018

SELECTED ARTISTIC ACTIVITIES

Solo / Group Exhibitions & Events

  • Hide and Seek – Find your Inner Child, SpareBank 1 North-Norway Tromsø, Norway (12.2025)

  • Tromsø Open 2025, Troms Fylkekultursenter, Tromsø, Norway (10.2025)

  • Tromsø Utstilling 2024, Kunstsentralen Nord Solstad, Tromsø, Norway (10–11.2024)

  • Small Projects’ Juleutstilling, Tromsø, Norway (12.2023)

  • Jul på Kysten, lithography workshop, Tromsø, Norway (12.2023)

  • Youth Biennial 2023 – Bijenale mladih, Belgrade, Serbia (09.2023)

  • Tromsø Open 2023, Tromsø, Norway (06.2023)

  • Bodø Biennale 2022, Color, the Memory of Sadism, Bodø, Norway (09.2022)

  • PUST with Open Out Festival, Tromsø Havneterminalen, Norway (08.2021)

  • Tromsø International Film Festival (TIFF), Tromsø, Norway (01.2020)

  • INSOMNIA Festival, artist decorator, Tromsø, Norway (2019 & 2020)

  • Young Creative Korea, selected artist, Seoul, South Korea (05.2018)

  • Seoul Illustration Fair, Seoul, South Korea (2015 & 2016)

Voluntary/Community Work

  • Art therapy volunteer, Seoul (08–09.2014)

  • Illustration for children's fairy tale, Bundang, South Korea (03.2014)

ART PROJECTS – recent 5 years

  • Hide and Seek (2025) — collaboration between art and psychology in public space

  • Violent Green (2024–ongoing) — Lithographic installation exploring climate justice and Indigenous land

  • Color, the Memory of Sadism (2020–ongoing) — Portrait series using color symbolism and emotional analysis

ART & CULTURE WORK EXPERIENCE

  • Workshop Leader, Docent & Exhibition Guide, Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromsø (05.2022–present)

  • Silkscreen Workshop Assistant, Kunstakademiet Tromsø / NNKM (2019–2022)

  • Event Assistant, Coast Contemporary, Tromsø (09.2022)

  • Art Instructor, Louvre Atelier, Seoul (12.2015–02.2019)

STUDY-RELATED ACTIVITIES

BFA, Hongik University

  • Focused on traditional printmaking (2013–2016)

  • Annual student exhibitions (2013–2015)

  • Graduation show 京風 – Scenery of Seoul (2016)

MFA, Kunstakademiet Tromsø

  • Silkscreen workshop assistant (2019–2022)

  • Group exhibition Memorial Morties during Kulturnatta (2019)

  • Semester exhibitions (2019, 2021)

  • Student representative, UMAK Faculty Council (2021–2022)

  • Admissions committee, MA program (2022)

  • Graduation exhibition: Color, the Memory of Sadism (2022)