Kwang Mo
MENUCLOSE

Kwang Mo

Director, editor, and photographer. For nearly twenty years, I have travelled to remote places to bring back, through staging, the images already waiting there.

Selected work through 2021.

Solo Exhibitions

  1. 2012‘Kwang Mo’Toyota Photo Space, Busan · 25 May – 16 Jul 2012
  2. 2011‘Dust Line’Gallery Trunk, Seoul
  3. 2010‘Space in the Glass’Gallery Kwanhoon, Seoul · SeMA Emerging Artists Support Program
  4. 2009‘The First Show’Kukmin Ilbo, Seoul

Selected Group Exhibitions

  1. 2013Interpenetrate — Antarctica Return ReportMMCA Changdong Residency, Seoul
  2. 2012Artists in ResidenceKulturamt Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  3. 2012Busan Biennale ‘Garden of Learning’Busan Cultural Center, Busan
  4. 2012Nomadic Report ‘SALIDA’ARKO Art Center, Seoul
  5. 2011What Is Korean Photography Nowadays?Galerie Paris-Beijing, Beijing · Paris
  6. 2011Korea–ASEAN Contemporary PhotographyKumho Museum of Art · Jeonbuk Museum of Art · GoEun Museum of Photography
  7. 2011Ghost HouseJeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonju

Awards & Residencies

  1. 2012MMCA Residency GoyangNational Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
  2. 2012Studio ResidencyStadt Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  3. 2010SeMA Emerging Artists Support ProgramSeoul Museum of Art
  4. 2008Grand Prize, 13th Young Photographers AwardDaegu Photo Biennale

Publication

  1. 2011Dust LinePlayground · ISBN 978-89-94416-15-1

Experience

  1. 2015–21Art Director, PARTICLEA cultural space for photography, Seoul
  2. 2013–15FacilitatorKorea Artists Welfare Foundation
  3. 2007–10Art Director, KBS Special TeamNoodle Road · Road for Hope

CONTACT — EXHIBITIONS · PUBLISHING · COLLABORATION

[email protected]→