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 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 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 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 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 |