HAF Hong Kong 2018March 23-26, 2018
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River,RT205,gelatin silver print,2013
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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 |
