학력

• 1975 연세대학교 상경대학 경영학과 졸업
• 1985 함부르크 국립 조형미술대학교 사진 디자인 전공, 디플롬
• 1986-98 중앙대학교 강의
• 1992 함부르크에서 개최된 국제미술 아카데미 (Pentiment) 초청 교수
• 1997 런던 킹스턴大, 스탠리피커 갤러리, International Fellowship
• 1999 런던 세인트 마틴 스쿨 초청교수
• 1999-2001 계원조형예술대학 사진전공 교수 역임
• 2004 함부르크에서 개최된 국제미술 아카데미 (Pentiment) 초청 교수
• 2008 2008대구사진비엔날레 전시총감독
• 현재 경일대학교 사진영상학부 교수
• 박건희문화재단 이사장

개인전이력

• [개인전]
• 2024
• ACC Focus ‘Koo Bohnchang: The Look of Things', Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
• 2023
• 'Koo Bohnchang’s Voyages', Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
• 'Self-Portrait', Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France
• 'Return of Cheonma', Gyeongju National Museum, Gyeongju, Korea
• ‘Lingering in Time’, Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Guangzhou, China
• 2022
• ‘Lingering in Time’, Three Shadows Xiamen Photography Art Centre, Xiamen, China
• ‘Koo Bohnchang - MASK’, Gangneung Museum of Art, Gangneung. Korea
• 2021
• ‘Lingering in Time’, Modern Studio ZIWU, Shanghai, China
• ‘Lingering in Time’, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
• 2020
• ‘Light Shadow’, Korean Cultural Centre Australia Gallery, Sydney, Australia
• ‘Dreams of Blue and White’, HK Art and Antiques, New York, USA
• 2019
• ‘Beyond the silver’, SPACE 22, Seoul, Korea
• ‘Clandestine Pursuit in the Long Afternoon’, Zen Foto, Tokyo, Japan
• ‘Incognito’, The Museum of Photography, Seoul, Korea
• ‘The Allure of Blue’, Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain
• 2018
• ‘Koo Bohnchang Early Works 1970-1990 my beginnings’, Gallery Bundo, Daegu, Korea
• ‘Koo Bohnchang’, Changseong-dong laboratory, Seoul, Korea
• ‘Acqua’, Acquario Civico Milano, Milano, Italy
• ‘Mask’, Gallery 343, Seoul, Korea
• 2016
• ‘花’, Shinsegae Gallery Incheon, Incheon, Korea
• ‘花’, Shinsegae Gallery Gwangju, Gwangju, Korea
• ‘White Vessels’, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• 2015
• ‘Porcelain Time’, Yido Gallery, Seoul, Korea
• ‘Koo Bohnchang’, Nanohana Gallery, Hakone, Japan
• 2014
• ‘White On White’, Villa Flor, S-chanf, Switzerland
• ‘Open end’ Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milano, Italy
• ‘Dong Gang Photography Award Exhibition ', Dong Gang Museum of Photography, Yeongwol, Korea
• ‘Koo Bohnchang Archives:18 Exhibitions’, The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
• ‘Jung Hai-chang: an encounter with the still life works of Koo Bon-chang’, Trunk Gallery, Seoul, Korea
• 2013
• ‘Slow Talk’, Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain
• ‘Interpretation of Surface’, Bundo Gallery, Daegu, Korea
• ‘The Interpretation of landscape', J - Hee Gallery, Gwangju, Korea
• ‘Happy memories', Ryugaheon gallery, Seoul, Korea
• 2011
• ‘Bohnchang Koo’, Kukje gallery, Seoul, Korea
• ‘The Baptist’, Nuda gallery, Daejeon, Korea
• ‘Snow, Jeju Island’ Trunk gallery, Seoul, Korea
• 2010
• ‘Plain Beauty: Korean White Porcelain/Photographs by Bohnchang Koo’, Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA
• ‘Masks’, Stone Art Museum, Duson Art Museum, Jeju, Korea
• 2009
• ‘Vessel · Soap · Interiors’, Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France
• ‘Purity’, Galerie Raum mit Licht, Vienna, Austria
• ‘Pencil of Nature’, Gallery Bow, Ulsan, Korea
• 2008
• ‘In the Beginning’, Trunk Gallery, Seoul, Korea
• ‘Coolness and Passion’, MBC Gallery M, Daegu, Korea
• 2007
• ‘Bohnchang Koo’, Goeun Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
• ’Bohnchang Koo’, Galerie 206, Berlin, Germany
• ‘Soap’, Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• 2006
• ’Bohnchang Koo’, Hasted Hunt Gallery, New York, USA
• ‘Vessel’, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
• ‘Koo Bohnchang’, Kahitsukan, Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyoto, Japan
• 2005
• ‘Portraits of Time’, White Room Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
• ‘La beaute endormie’, Langon, France
• 2004
• ‘Masks’, ‘White’, Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France
• 2003
• ‘Bohnchang Koo: Recent work’, Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York, USA
• ‘Masks’, The Museum of Photography, Seoul, Korea
• ‘White’, ‘In the Beginning’, Picture Photo Space, Osaka, Japan
• 2002
• ‘Fragile Tremors’, San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, USA
• ‘Masterworks of Contemporary Korean Photography’, Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts, USA
• ‘In the Beginning’, Shadai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• 2001
• Base Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• Prinz Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
• Samsung Rodin Gallery, Seoul, Korea
• Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, USA
• 2000
• ‘White Series’, Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York
• ‘Good-Bye Paradise’, Galleri Image, Aarhus, Denmark
• 1999
• ‘Flow’, Gallery Won, Seoul, Korea
• 1995
• ‘In the Beginning’, Gallery Ississ, Kyoto, Japan
• ‘Breath’, Seomi Gallery, Seoul, Korea
• 1993
• ‘Good-Bye Paradise’, Seomi Gallery, Seoul, Korea
• 1990
• ‘The Sea of Thought’, Seomi Gallery, Seoul, Korea
• 1988
• ‘Clandestine Pursuit in the Long Afternoon’, Gallery Busan, Korea
• 1987
• ‘One Minute Monologue’, Gallery Wide, Tokyo, Japan
• Photo Interform, Osaka, Japan
• 1985
• ‘Twelve Deep Sighs’, Hanmadang Gallery, Seoul, Korea
• 1984
• Fotogenes, Hamburg, Germany
• 1983
• Pine Hill Gallery, Seoul, Korea

그룹전이력

• 2024
• ‘Meot: Korean Art from the Frank Bayley Collection’, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
• ‘Cement : Moment’, Hanyang University Museum, Seoul, Korea
• ‘Journey to the end of the night’, Hanmi Museum, Seoul, Korea
• ‘The Spinning Earth’, Namwon-si Kimbyungjong Art Museum, Namwon, Korea
• ‘MMCA Photographs Collection: What's the Time in Your World?’, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
• ‘Bird's Shadow Under the Stars’, Ferris Gallery, Shenzhen, China
• ‘Korean Modern & Contemporary Art : The Echoes of the Times’, Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan, Korea
• 2023
• ‘Ceramic Ritual Vessel, Connecting Heaven and Earth’, Gyeonggi Ceramic Museum, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
• ‘White Anthology’, Korean Craft Museum, Cheongju, Korea
• ‘Five by Five’, Chuncheon Cultural Foundation, Chuncheon, Gangwon-do, Korea
• ‘Korean Contemporary Photography Exhibition; Insights into Nature and Humanity’, Korean Cultural Center in Hungary, Budapest, Hungary
• 2022
• ‘Making Worlds’, Art Gallery NSW, Sydney, Australia
• ‘Morning Calm’, Francis Gallery, LA, USA
• ‘LA TEXTURA DE LAS PROMESAS’, kutxa kultur artegunea, San Sebastián, Spain
• ‘Soap’, Ryugaheon gallery, Seoul, Korea
• ‘Between pictures and pictures’, Gangneung Art Center, Gangneung, Korea
• ‘Dear, Photography’, MAF, Seoul, Korea
• ‘Paik Nam June Effect’, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
• ‘White Porcelain’, Seoul Museum of Craft Art, Seoul, Korea
• ‘Motion in Stillness: Tracing the Spirit of Korea – Unfolding Clay Art’, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Koka, Japan
• ‘One Piece of Essense’, Canon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
• ‘UNCOMMERCIAL: Korean Commercial Photography, 1984 and Beyond’, ILMIN Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
• ‘The Hidden Masterpiece’, Gallery BK, Seoul, Korea
• 2021
• ‘Moonlight Sonata: Hanji Walk and Contemporary Art’, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Korea
• ‘Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
• ‘Post Modernity: Modernity / Hyper Reality: Reality’, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea
• 2020
• ‘SIX PERSPECTIVES’, Gwangju National Museum, Gwangju, Korea
• ‘The 30th Anniversary of Korea-Russia Diplomatic Relations, The Centennial of Korean Art Photography, 1920-2020’,
• The State Russian Museum and Exhibition Centre ROSPHOTO, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
• ‘FORME’, Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France
• 2018
• ‘Frames after Frames: Modern Photography Movement of Korea from 1988 to 1999’, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
• ‘Still Life I – Still Remembering’, Art Space J, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
• ‘GMoMA Collection Highlights’, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
• ‘MEGA SEOUL 4 DECADES’, Korean Cultural Center in the Philippines, Philippines
• ‘Water, Embracing Life’, Gallery Hyeyum, Gwangju, Korea
• ‘The Portrait With(out) Artists’, Nam Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
• ‘Blooming at the Junction’, Korean Cultural Center Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• 2017
• ‘Uri Korea – Ruhe in Beschleunigung’, Museum MARKK, Hamburg, Germany
• 2016
• ‘Getxophoto 2016’, Gexto, Spain
• ‘(Extra) Ordinary’, Korean Cultural Centre Gallery, Sydney
• ‘Unconscious Aesthetics, Breathing Heritage: Contemporary Korean Ceramics’, The Fondation Bernardaud, Limoges
• ‘Noonbit Collection of Korean Photographer’s Works’, Ryugaheon gallery, Seoul
• ‘Unfamiliar memory, Unfamiliar time, Unfamiliar space’, Gallery Now, Seoul
• ‘Public to Private: Photography in Korean Art since 1989’, The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
• ‘Chefs-d'œuvre de la céramique coréenne’, Grand Palais, Paris
• ‘室礼 —Offerings— II’, The Terminal Kyoto, Kyoto
• ‘Vies silencieuses’, Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France
• ‘KOREA NOW’, Korea Cultural Center, Brussels, Belgium
• ‘Cheong Chul Eo Lam’, Hyundai Dept. Store Gallery H, Daegu
• 2015
• ‘People, remembered’, Art Space J, Gyeonggi
• ‘A Homage to Korean Architecture-Wisdom of the Earth’, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
• ‘simsimhada’, Doosung Paper Gallery, Seoul
• ‘In the Spirit of George Rose’. KF Gallery, Seoul
• ‘조선 백자의 혼을 담다.’Choi Sunu House, Seoul
• ‘Le Parfum dans tous les sens’, Jardins du Palais Royal, Paris
• ‘BODY’, Handok Museum of Medicine and Pharmacy, Eumseong
• ‘Invitation to Korean Dining’, Roma Verso Expo, Roma
• ‘Simple Forms: Contemplating Beauty’, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
• ‘Lies of Lies on Photography’, Total Museum, Seoul
• ‘BEYOND THE BORDERS’, Culture Station Seoul 284, Korea
• ‘OBIECTA’, Giacomo Guidi, Roma
• 2014
• ‘Kitchen’, Onyang Folk Museum, Asan, Korea
• ‘Form As Thinking - Rediscovery of Drawing’, Museum SAN, Wonju, Korea
• ‘Korean Beauty Two Kinds of Nature’, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
• ‘Dual Natures in Ceramics’, SFO Museum, San Francisco
• ‘Admiration of White Porcelain’, Seoul Museum, Seoul
• 2013
• ‘Korea-China Ceramics Art Exhibition’ Gyeonggi Ceramic Museum, Gyeonggi, Korea
• ‘ON KOREA – Beyond the Silk Road’, Taksim Republic Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
• ‘사진의 터’, Art Space J, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
• ‘Sakura’, Tanakaya Gallery, Hirosaki, Japan
• 2012
• ‘Mega Seoul 4 decades’, The Museum of Photography, Seoul, Korea
• ‘Motherhood’, Ewha Womans University Museum, Seoul, Korea
• ‘달하 노피곰 도다샤 어긔야 머리곰 비취오시라’, Ilwoo space, Seoul
• ‘FOLD lll: USELESS / Upcycling in Art + Design’, Art+Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai
• 2011
• ‘Korean Spirit ; six Photographers’, Goyang, Korea
• ‘Books & Objects’, Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul
• ‘紙花’, Kokdu museum, Seoul
• ‘Fold3’, Art+Shanghai gallery, Shaghai, China
• 2010
• ‘A Positive View’, Somerset House, London
• ‘Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography’, Santa Barbara Museum of Art
• ‘Eternal Blinking: Contemporary Art of Korea’, University of Hawaii
• Biennale International de l’Image a Luang Prabang
• 2009
• ‘The Face beyond Faces’, Sungkok Museum, Seoul
• ‘Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography’, MFAH, Houston
• ‘Met First, Yet Familiar, Korean Contemporary Photograph’, 798 Space, Beijing
• ‘Art Road 77 - with art, with artist!’, Lee & Park Gallery, Paju
• ‘The Face beyond Faces’, Dong-gang International Photo Festival 2009, Dong-gang Museum of Photography, Yeongwol
• ‘2009 Odyssey’, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
• ‘Made in Korea’, Hannover Messe 2009, Hannover
• ‘Translated Celadon: The Five Different Stories’, Haegang Ceramics Museum, Icheon
• ‘Three Photographers’, Canon Plex, Seoul
• ‘Problem’, Dr.Park Gallery, Yangpyeong-gun
• ‘Serotonin’, Gallery Now, Seoul
• ‘Valentine's Day! Art for You!’, 915 Industry Gallery, Seoul
• ‘Artists and Moon Jars’, Gallery Hyundai Gangnam, Seoul
• 2008
• ‘Gaze’, Gallery Grimson, Seoul
• ‘Back to the Roots’, Gallery Soheon, Daegu
• ‘Bohnchang Koo & Maggie Taylor’, Verve Gallery of Photography, Santa Fe
• ‘Contemporary Korean Photographs 1948-2008’, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon
• ‘Inspired Simplicity: Contemporary Art from Korea’, Seattle Art Museum
• ‘Treasures Within’, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
• ‘Emotional Scenes’, Blanca Berlín Gallery, Madrid
• ‘Today's Korean Art ’, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
• 2007
• ‘Chuseok - Korean Harvest Festival’, Gallery Talk ‘The Korean Moon Jar’, The British Museum, London
• ‘Painterly Photos’, Leehwaik Gallery, Seoul
• ‘Void in Korean Art’, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
• 2005
• ‘Stilled’, Gallery 339, Philadelphia
• 2004
• ‘Water’, FotoFest 2004, Houston
• ‘What happens between Art and Popular Culture’, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
• 2003
• ‘Facing Korea’, Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam
• ‘East of Eden’, Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, UK
• 2002
• ‘Two Korean Photographers’, Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
• ‘Korean Contemporary Photography’, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Sendai Mediatheque, Japan
• ‘Floating’, Art Center Silkeborg Bad, Denmark
• ‘Everyman: A Search for the Male Form’, Camera Work, San Francisco
• 2001
• ‘Awakening’, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
• 2000
• ‘Standing on the Threshold of Time’, Odense Foto Triennale, Denmark
• ‘Contemporary Korean Photographers’, FotoFest 2000, Houston
• ‘Moonlight Becomes You - A Thousand and One Nights of Peace on Earth’, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, New York
• 1999
• ‘Phenomena’, Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco
• ‘Fragments of Document and Memory’, 3rd Tokyo International Photo-Biennale, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
• 1998
• ‘Landscape and Man’, Ostasiatiska Museum, Stockholm
• ‘Alienation and Assimilation’, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago
• 1996
• A.O.I. Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
• ‘Art at Home’, Seomi Gallery, Seoul
• 1995
• Gwangju Museum of Modern Art, Gwangju, Korea
• Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeongju, Korea
• ‘Body or Gender’, Gallery Nun, Seoul
• 1994
• Pima Community College Art Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
• 1993
• ’The 1st Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
• 1990
• Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
• 1988
• ‘The New Wave of Photography’, Walkerhill Art Center, Seoul
• 1987
• ‘Lying Down as if Being Dead with Narrow Eyes’, Hanmadang Gallery, Seoul

수상선정

• 2024
• 15th Seoul Culture Today Cultural Awards Special Grand Prize, Korea
• 2022
• 63rd Samil Prize: Arts, Korea
• 2015
• 47th Republic of Korea Culture and Arts Award, Korea
• 2014
• Dong Gang Photography Award, Korea
• 2003
• Gangwon Documentary Prize, Korea
• 2000
• Lee Myoungdong Prize, Korea

강의

• 2010-2018
• 경일대학교 사진영상학과 교수
• 2000-15
• 건희예술재단 이사장
• 2008
• 대구사진비엔날레 아트디렉터 2008
• 2004년
• 객원 교수, Pentiment, 함부르크 여름 학교
• 1999-01
• 계원예술대학 안양캠퍼스 사진학과 교수
• 1999년
• 방문 교수, 센트럴 세인트 마틴스 예술 및 디자인 대학, 런던
• 1997
• 국제 펠로우십, 스탠리 피커 갤러리, 킹스턴 대학교, 런던
• 1992년
• 객원 교수, Pentiment, 함부르크 여름 학교
• 1986-98
• 중앙대학교 사진강사, 서울