Sangsun Bae
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Sangsun Bae is a Korean Artist living and working in Kyoto, Japan. 

A graduate of Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Sangsun studied for her Doctoral Thesis at Kyoto city University of the Arts, during which time she won a scholarship to study in London at the Royal College of Art.

Twice selected for the prestigious VOCA art prise in Tokyo, Sangsun has shown internationally in NewYork, London and throughout Asia and is currently represented by Tosei Kyoto gallery in Japan and Gallery Lee & Bae in Busan, South Korea.




Selected Solo Exhibitions :

2020, More & Less Tosei gallery, Kyoto

2020, Layers of Time, Tosei gallery & KG+ , Kyoto

2020, Chandelier, Galerie Ashiya Schule, Ashiya

2019, Layers of time, Lee & Bae, Busan, South Korea

2019, Moon-bow, Kyotography KG+, Kyoto
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​2019, Repeat & Repeat, Sfera Exhibition Kyoto

2017, International artist's Solo Exhibition, CIGE, Beijing

2017, Line's Echo, Ujong Museum of Art, Korea

2014, Broken Knot', Gallery Dam, Seoul

2013, Gordian Knot', Imura art Gallery, Tokyo 

2011, Knot: Relationship's Metaphor', Gallery Dam, Seoul  

2010, White and Black, Shinsegae gallery, Busan / Gwangju

2009, Relationship's Shape, Imura Art Gallery, Kyoto
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2009, Sangsun Bae,  Gallery Yemac, Seoul   

2008, The Dynamics of Stillness, Sfera, Kyoto

2007, Sangsun Bae, Gallery NV, Seoul    

2007, Sangsun Bae, Gallery  3A, Kyoto

2005, Time's layers, Gallery La Fenice, Osaka    

2004, The Active White, INAX gallery II, Tokyo  

Selected Group Exhibitions:


2022, Static x Motion: Tracing the Spirit of Korea, The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park

​2022, The Dignity of Art’Duo Show: Hyojin Park & Sangsun Bae, Lee Bae, Busan

2022, Explore, Tosei Gallery, Kyoto

2022, DIALOGUE, Korea Arts Management Service

2022, Black, and White : The color of silence, Gallery Lee Bae, Busan

2021, Images don't or do they talk to each other? KG+ Tosei kyoto gallery

2021, Manifold : Manual Hangaram Art Museum- Arts Management Support Center, Seoul

2021, Soje, remember the city -City Memory Project, Daejeon Narae Museum, Daejeon

2019, Busan: It exists now as it was then, Busan Cultural Foundation F1963, South Korea

2016, Daejeon research project final show, TEMI art centre, Daejeon, South Korea

2013, 14, 15, DMZ project exhibition, Gangwon-do, South Korea, 

2014, Dividing Line, Connecting Line, Collaboration with Michael Whittle, Zuian-an, Kyoto

2014, Gift: 5 women artists group show, Sfera, Kyoto

2012, Secret Garden exhibition of abstract artists 31, Ujong Museum, Korea

2012, Art across Asia- renewed encounters, Asian Artists’ exchange, 2012, Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata, India

2011, Asian Artists' exchange exhibition, Kyung Sung University Museum, Korea

2011, Traces of emotion II, International drawing exhibition, Moodong Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea

2011, Asian Artists' exchange exhibition, @KCUA Gallery, Kyoto

2010, Flatland, a romance in many dimensions, APT gallery, London 

2009, Shinsegae Gallery, prize winners’ group show, Gwangju 

2008, The Vision Of Contemporary Art, VOCA 2008, The Ueno Mori Royal Museum, Tokyo

2005, Art for healing, Mushroom Art Open Center, 
New York

2005, Pleain Air Workshop - Art Association of Germany and Japan, Teterow, Germany

2005, The Vision Of Contemporary Art, VOCA 2005, The Ueno Mori Royal Museum, Tokyo

2004, Festival of Young Asian Artists Exhibition, Changwon, Korea 



 
Education :

2002-08:  京都市立藝術大学院博士課程満期退学
Kyoto city University of the Arts, PhD Candidate

2003: ロンドン.イギリス(交換留学生)
Royal College of Art, London,  Scholarship  

2002: 武蔵野美術大学大学院美術専攻卒業東京 
Musashino University of Art, Tokyo, MA Fine Art  

1997: 成均館大学美術教育学科卒業。ソウル
Sung Kyun Kwan University of Fine Art, Seoul, 
BA Fine Art Education 
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Articles :                            To read texts click here

2014: Dividing Line - Connecting Line - Dividing Line', Kawai Yuki, Curator, Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art, Kyoto

2014: 'The Presence of Sangsun Bae's works', Nakai Yasuyuji, Head Curator, Osaka National Museum of Modern Art

2009: 'Arising from the In-between', Hiraki Emiko, Art Director

2008: 'The Vision of Contemporary Art' (VOCA) 2008,  Otakaki Makoto, Art critic

2007: 'Sangsun Bae’s exhibition – Foreboding Art', Masahiro Aoki, Associate Director, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art

2006: 'Sangsun Bae’s exhibition – A great step in the work of Motion', (from 'Gallery of the month'), Tomoyuki Mitsui - Curator, Osaka Municipal Museum of Modern Art

2005: 'The Vision of Contemporary Art' (VOCA 2005), Tomita Akira, Chief Curator, Suntory Museum, Osaka

2004: 'The Active White, Paintings by Sangsun Bae, Irisawa Yuka, Chief Curator, Inax Gallery, Tokyo

2004: 'Time's Layers (Jusou-no-jikan) – The Works of Sangsun Bae', Yasuo Miwaki, Art Critic and Psychiatrist                                        
                                
Awards and Scholarships :

2016: Artist in Residence, TEMI art centre, Daejon

2015: Artist in Residence, TEMI art centre, Daejon
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2014: Artist in Residence, Kyoto Art Center

2008: Shinsegae Gallery Prize, Gwangju 

2005: Plein Air Workshop Scholarship,
Art Association of Germany and Japan

2005: Tenryu River Prize, Akino Art Museum 

2003: Royal College of Art Scholarship

2003: Obama Prize 




Permanent Collections :

The Allen Thomas jnr Collection, USA

Korean National Museum of Contemporary Art (Art-Bank), Seoul       ( 国立現代美術館 - 아트뱅크 )

Akino Fuku Museum, Japan      ( 天竜市立秋野不姫美術館 )

Ujong Museum, Korea

Kim Chongyung Sculpture Museum, Korea


International Suzuki Foundation, Japan      ( 財団法人都築国際育英財団 )




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