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HAF Hong Kong 2018

March 23-26, 2018
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River,RT205,gelatin silver print,2013
Min Byunghun (1955~)

Byung-Hun Min was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1955. Min started out as a musician and vocalist, then a student of electronic engineering, before finally discovering photography. He turned to study photography in his late 20’s at the Soon-tae Hong studio, from where he has pursued a successful career in photography, eventually awarded the Dong-A International Photography Salon’s silver medal (1984).
Min’s black-and-white photography often represents nature and the environment; and his pictures aim to capture the essence of the Korean landscape. His photographs also draw references back to traditional Korean and East Asian art and culture, with a resemblance to Ink Scroll Paintings, floral themes, and a focus on simplicity and minimalist compositions. His pictures are often attributed to being able to capture the delicacy and silence of nature. Min’s photographs also require effort on the part of the viewer. The subject of his pictures may be obscured, like the canvas of a greenhouse in his Weeds series, or obscured by light, like in the Snow land series, or the subject may be in the distance beyond a fog-like vale, forcing the viewer to focus his attention persistently in order to have the subject of the picture revealed, as in the Trees and Flowers series.

​Selected Solo Exhibitions

2015  Gallery Planet, Seoul
2014  Mimesis Art Museum, Paju/ La Galerie Particulière, Paris
2013   The Museum of Photography, Seoul/ Ryu Hwarang, Seoul
2012   Gallery Jireh, Paju
2011    La Galerie Particulière, Paris/ The Museum of Photography, Seoul/
            CAIS Gallery, Seoul
2009  LEEHWAIK Gallery, Seoul
2008  CAIS Gallery, Seoul
2007  Gallery KONG, Seoul/ Peter Fetterman Gallery, Santa Monica/
           Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris
2006  KIMHYUNJOO Gallery, Seoul/ CAIS Gallery, Seoul
2004  Dosi Gallery, Busan/ The Museum of Photography, Seoul
2002  Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe
2001   Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris/ CAIS Gallery, Seoul
1999    Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul/ Jan Kesner Gallery, LA
1998    CAIS Gallery, Seoul/ Time Space, Seoul
1997    Jan Kesner Gallery, LA
1996    Gaain Gallery, Seoul

Selected Group Exhibitions
2016   Public to Private: Photography in Korean Art since 1989, National Museum of
            Modern and Contemporary Art
2015   Korea Spirit-Materiality and Spirit of the Contemporary Art, Grimson Gallery, Seoul; 
            Gangneung Museum of Art, Gangneung
2014   The Emptying Fullness, SPSI Art Museum, Shanhai; Shanghai Korean Center,                
            Shanghai
            Korean beauty-Two kinds of Nature, National Museum of Modern and
            Contemporary Art, Seoul
2013    Korea Tomorrow 2013, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
            PHOTOSCAPE: Eye for the Ordinary Miracle, Interalia Art Company, Seoul
2012    Personal Photo, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara
2011     Korean Spirit: Six Photographers, Goyang Aram Nuri Arts Center, Goyang
2010    21 & Their Times, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul/ A Positive View, Somerset House,
            London
2009   Photography Now, China, Japan, Korea, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
            San Francisco
            Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography, Museum of Fine Art,
            Houston, Houston
2008   Visual art of today, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
2007   Landscape of Korean Contemporary Photography, Nam Seoul Annex building of the
            Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
            Painterly Photos, LEEHWAIK Gallery, Seoul
2006   Meditative Forest, Nam Seoul Annex building of the Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
             Art of focus, Soka Contemporary Space, Beijing
2005   DEUX Photographers, Galerie Lumen, Paris/ Modernism of Korea, Kumho Museum
             of Art, Seoul
2004   Koo Bohnchang, Min Byung-Hun, Bae Bien-U, White Wall Gallery, Seoul
             Mark Making, Schneider Museum of Art, Oregon
2003   Photographers- Reading the 6 Codes, Sunggok Art Museum, Seoul/ Crossing 2003,
             The Contemporary Museum, Hawaii
2002   Joo Myung-Duck, Koo Bohnchang and Min Byung-Hun, Kumho Museum of Art,
             Seoul/ The Nude, Savina Museum, Seoul
2001    Sight of Korean Art, Sunggok Art Museum, Seoul/ AWAKENING, Australian Centre
             for Photography, New South Wales, Australia
2000   La Coree: Figures et Paysage, Centre Culturel Coreenen France, Paris/ Autumn
             Aroma, Gallery Hello Art, Seoul

Collections
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara
The Contemporary Museum, Hawaii
The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
Brookings Institution, Washington DC
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA
Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
Museum of Photography, Seoul
Daejon Museum of Art, Daejon
Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul
Daelim Museum of Art, Seoul
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwachon
Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
Gyeonggido Museum of Art, Ansan
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