* Biography:


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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 :

2019

​2017

​2017

​2014

2013

2011

2010

2009

2009

2008

2007

2007

2005

2004

2004

Moon-Bow - Jarfo Kyoto

​'Repeat & Repeat' Sfera Exhibiton Kyoto

International artist's Solo Exhibition, CIGE, Beijing.

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

'Broken Knot', Gallery Dam, Seoul

'Gordian Knot', Imura art Gallery, Tokyo 

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

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

'Relationship's Shape', Imura Art Gallery, Kyoto

'Sangsun Bae' - Gallery Yemac, Seoul   

'The Dynamics of Stillness', Sfera, Kyoto

'Sangsun Bae' - Gallery NV, Seoul    

'Sangsun Bae' - Gallery  3A  

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

'The Active White', INAX gallery II, Tokyo  

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2014, 
15, 16

​2015,
16
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​2013-14

2013

2012


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2011


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2010


2008

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2006


2005


2005


2004

DMZ project exhibition (3 years running),
Gangwon-do, South Korea, 

Daejeon research project final show (2 years running)
TEMI art centre, Daejeon, South Korea

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

'Gift', Sfera, Kyoto

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

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

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

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

'Asian Artists’ exchange exhibition', 2011, Kyoto City University of the Arts Gallery, @KCUA Gallery, Kyoto

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

Sinsegae Gallery, prize winners’ group show, Gwangju 

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

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

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

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

Festival of Young Asian Artists Exhibition, Changwon, Korea 

 

Education :

2002 - 08

2003


2002


1997

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

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

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  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Awards and Scholarships :

2016

​2015

2014

2008

2005


2005

2003

2003

Artist in Residence, TEMI art centre, Daejon

Artist in Residence, TEMI art centre, Daejon
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Artist in Residence, Kyoto Art Center

Shinsegae Gallery Prize, Gwangju 

Plein Air Workshop Scholarship,
Art Association of Germany and Japan

Tenryu River Prize, Akino Art Museum 

Royal College of Art Scholarship

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 )