C.V.

︎한글C.V. ︎

*1970 Born in South Korea
Lives and Works in Seoul

Following RYU Biho’s first solo exhibition titled The Steel Sun in 2000, he co-organized Artistic Acts through Hacking(2001) - a ‘research group on art, society and media’ with contemporarian artists, organizers and media researchers – and Parasite-Tactical Media Networks(2004-2006), etc. and conducted research and artistic activities.

Throughout the period, he released artworks raising aesthetic questions on art and society, including Flexible Landscape(2008, 2009), Extreme Private Practice(2010), Mutual Escape(2010) and Twin Peaks(2011).

He also participated in such group exhibitions as Wrap Around the Time(Nam June Paik Art Center), The special project for the 20th anniversary of the Gwangju Biennale: "Sweet Dew - Since 1980”(The 5.18 Democracy Plaza, Gwangju), The Future is Now!(La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille) and Bad Boys, Here and Now(Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art).

He was invited to Sungkok Art Museum in 2015 for being recognized as ‘Awardee of 'Sungkok Artist of Tomorrow’ in 2013, organizing his solo exhibition - In My Sky at Twilight(2015). He participated in The International Studio Programme of Künstlerhaus Bethanien(Berlin), BilbaoArte AiR(Bilbao) and Gapado AiR(Jeju-do, South Korea).

Solo Shows & Projects

2020 Incomplete, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, South Korea
2020 An Eternal Memory, SOMA Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2019 The Milky Way of My Mind, CACHE, Beijing, China
2019 Kkwaeng Geulang Kkwaeng Kkwaeng Kkaeng, Soorim Cultural Foundation, Seoul, South Korea
2019 in between 0.013 seconds, Sehwa Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
2018 The Kkwaenggwari. The Milky Way. A Letter, Gonggansail, Seoul, South Korea
2018 An Eternal Memory, Bongsan Cultural Center, Daegu, South Korea
2018 Letter from the Netherworld, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2016 Soul-Mirror, Corner Art Space, Seoul, South Korea
2015 In My Sky at Twilight, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea
2013 Belief in Art, Art Space Jungmiso, Seoul, South Korea
2011 Twin Peaks, SeMA Nanji Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2010 Mutual Escape, Space Hamilton, Seoul, South Korea
2010 Extreme Private Practice, Kunst Doc Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2009 Flexible Landscape, Space Croft, Seoul, South Korea
2001 Somnambulance, Ilju Art House, Seoul, South Korea
2000 The Steel Sun, Boda Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

Group Shows

2026 A Thousand Feelings, Ten Thousand Expressions, Dangsan Bunker, Cheongju, South Korea
2025 Transits of Senses, White Block, Paju, South Korea
2024 Gangwon International Triennale 2024, Pyeong Chang Trout, Pyeong Chang, South Korea
2024 Far, Far Side of the World, Korean Cultural Center, Tokyo/Osaka/Hong Kong, Japan/China
2023 Close to the Boundary, Bucheon Art Bunker B39, Bucheon, South Korea
2023 For New Natural Contracts, Bucheon Art Bunker B39, Bucheon, South Korea
2023 Transparency: Sense and mind, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
2023 Back to the Future: An Exploration of Contemporaneity in Korean Contemporary Art, MMCA, Seoul, South Korea
2022 my sleep, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, South Korea
2021 Simple Thoughts: Ecology-Gender-Communism, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, South Korea
2021 [?] balance of mass and acceleration, Art Centre Art Moment, Seoul, South Korea
2020 Digital Synthetic Realism, i-Gong, Seoul, South Korea
2020 Video Acts, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
2020 Private Song I, Doosan Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2020 °Boys Do Cry, SOMA Art Space, Berlin, Germany
2020 New Discoveries of Travel, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, South Korea
2020 The Material of the Audience, Blume Museum of Contemporary Art, Paju, South Korea
2019 Korean Video Art from 1970s to 1990s, MMCA, Gwacheon, South Korea
2019 Underground Observatory; here’s the Aleph, Space22 Ikseon, Seoul, South Korea
2019 Move on Asia, Naves Matadero, Madrid, Spain
2019 Art+b=love? 'EVIDENCE OF THE UNEXPECTED', La Mole, Ancona, Italy
2019 The 3rd Image, KimChongYung Museum, Seoul, South Korea
2018 Diaoyu Fortress International New Media Art Festival 'The Migration of Media', Huatan Municipal North Park Hechuan District, Chongqing, China
2018 Facing North Korea, Asia Contemporary Art Platform NON berlin, Berlin, Germany
2018 Intimacies and Imagined Fictions: Memory, Body, Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
2018 Borders, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2018 Sleepless Namdo, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, South Korea
2018 An Eternal Memory, Gallery damdam, Berlin, Germany
2017 Beijing Film Academy International New Media Art Triennial Exhibition, Four Dimensional Space Art Museum, Beijing, China
2017 City and the People, SeMA Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
2017 4.3 misul2017, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, South Korea
2016 A Private Plaza, Wumin Art Center, Cheongju, South Korea
2016 The Nanjing International Art Festival "HISTORICODE: Scarcity and Supply", Baijia Lake Museum, Nanjing, China
2016 Seoul Photo Festival, SeMA Bukseoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
2016 The Landscape in Landscapes, The Korean Cultural Centre UK, London, England
2016 OLD & NEW, DDP(Dongdaemun Design Plaza), Seoul, South Korea
2016 MSG: flavour of politics, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, South Korea
2016 Imaginary Politics, Seoul Art Space Seogyo, Seoul, South Korea
2016 Kim Kwang-seok in my heart: wkf tkfwl?(Live well?), DDP(Dongdaemun Design Plaza), Seoul, South Korea
2016 Home Cinema, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, South Korea
2016 East Asia Moving, Phoenix Cinema and Arts Centre/Fabrica/Institute of Contemporary Arts, Leicester/Brighton/London, England
2016 Wrap Around the Time, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, South Korea
2015 Oubli, Corps-sans-mémoire, Palais de Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
2015 Muhyungeum, Jincheon Bell Museum, Jincheon, South Korea
2015 Gwangju Media Art Festival 2015, Bitgoeul Citizen Cultural Center, Gwangju, South Korea
2015 The Future is Now!, Korean Cultural Centers Budapest/La Friche Belle de Mai, Budapest/Marseille, Hungary/France
2015 New Media Art from Korea, Le Murate. Progetti Arte Contemporanea, Firenze, Italy
2015 Minima Moralia, Irkutsk Regional Art Museum after the name of V.P. Sukachov, Irkutsk, Russia
2014 The Future is Now!, MAXXI, Roma, Italy
2014 Unfinished Narrative, Korean Cultural Centre India, New Delhi, India
2014 The special project for the 20th anniversary of the Gwangju Biennale: "Sweet Dew - Since 1980", The 5.18 Democracy Plaza, Gwangju, South Korea
2014 Simultaneous Echoes, Colleccion de Arte Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2013 VIDEOLOGUE, Arko Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
2013 The Future is Now!, MMCA, Gwacheon, South Korea
2013 The Flexible Station, Culture Station 284, Seoul, South Korea
2012 dual shadow, Art Base Ddanggool, Seoul, South Korea
2012 우리[WOO:RI] : interrelationship between you, myself and us, BIO OKO Art Cinema, Prague , Czech Republic
2012 Social Art, Savina Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
2011 Korea Re-imagining the city, Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast, Australia
2011 Incheon Women Artists' Biennale, the Museum of Korean Immigration History, Incheon, South Korea
2011 What is Art Worth?, Now in Daegu 2011 Exhibition Space, Daegu, South Korea
2011 Make Lucky Fortune, Gahoe-dong 60, Seoul, South Korea
2011 Up And Comers, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
2010 The Second Order, Space Hamilton, Seoul, South Korea
2010 Lack of Electricity Ⅱ, Space CAN, Seoul, South Korea
2010 Journey of Paradise, Space Hamilton, Seoul, South Korea
2010 Est ce que la ligne a assassiné le cercle?, La Générale, Paris, France
2010 Close Encounter, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, South Korea
2010 Beyond Surface Culture, Space CAN, Seoul, South Korea
2009 Instant Breakaway, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, South Korea
2009 Variety, MMCA, Gwacheon, South Korea
2009 Bad Boys, Here and Now, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, South Korea
2009 The Cinematic_Montage, SeMA Nam-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
2009 Visible Hands, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
2009 Doors Open, Korean Cultural Service NY, New York, USA
2008 Cake House, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
2008 Cine Forum4: Digital Portfolio-6 Views, MoA, Seoul, South Korea
2008 Korea Episode 1, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, South Korea
2007 Art of Listening Screening: Visual Sound, Insa Art Space of the Arts Council Korea, Seoul, South Korea
2007 Present/Presence, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, South Korea
2007 See::Be Seen, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
2006 Parasite Services 1.0, Art Space HUE, Seoul, South Korea
2006 Made in Korea, Le Cube, Paris, France
2004 Out The Window, Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo, Japan
2004 Tactical Media Stage, Art Space HUE, Seoul, South Korea
2003 liquid space, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, South Korea
2003 Cityzooms.Bremen.2003, Theaterschiff Bremen, Bremen, Germany
2003 People who walk on water, SeMA, Seoul, South Korea
2002 Re-mediating TV, Ilju Art House, Seoul, South Korea
2002 Media City Seoul 2002 'CYBER MIND', SeMA, Seoul, South Korea
2002 Public Cell, Fish Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2001 Experimental Film, Wandering Ghost, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, S.Korea
2001 DMZ on the WEB, ~~http://www.livedmz.net~~
2000 Daejeon Media Art 2000, Daejeon Municipal Museum of Art, Daejeon, South Korea
2000 Confront each other, Dam Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2000 Magical Visual, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, South Korea
2000 Media Art 21, Sejong Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
1999 Close Friendship, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, South Korea

Screenings

2020 Opening Film at 20th Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival, Megabox Hongdae, Seoul, South Korea
2010 OFF AND FREE FILM FESTIVAL, Arthouse Momo, Seoul, South Korea
2010 CWS@Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen Art Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
2010 Seoul International New Media Festival, Media theater I-Gong, Seoul, South Korea
2009 OFF AND FREE FILM FESTIVAL, Korean Film Archive, Seoul, South Korea
2008 The independent film and video screening, space CELL, Seoul, South Korea
2003 JIFFMIND2003:Jeonju International Film Festival 2003, Jeonju, South Korea
2003 Video Culture Lounge IDLTV, Ssamzie Space Cafe SORI, Seoul, South Korea
2002 Seoul Independent Film Festival 2002, Seoul Art Cinema, Seoul, South Korea
2001 Independent Film meets a spectator, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, South Korea
2000 Independent Art Fair Invited Work, On&OFF Theater, Seoul, South Korea
1999 Independent Art Fair, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, South Korea

Residency Programmes

2023 Araon Aboard Residency, Arctic Ocean, supported by Arts Council Korea, in collaboration with Korea Polar Research Institute
2021 Gapado Artist in Residence, Jejudo, South Korea, Supported by Jeju Foundation for Arts & Culture
2019 Glenfiddich Artists in Residence, Dufftown, Scotland, Supported by William Grant and Sons
2018 Bilbao Arte Artist in Residency Program, Bilbao, Spain, Supported by Seoul Museum of Art
2017-18 The International Studio Program of Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, Supported by Arts Council Korea
2013 Baikal Nomadic Artist in Residency Program, Irkutsk, Russia, Supported by Arts Council Korea
2010-11 SeMA Nanji Artist in Residency Program, Seoul, South Korea, Supported by Seoul Museum of Art
2004-5 MMCA Artist in Residency Program Goyang, Goyang, South Korea, Supported by National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
2001 Ssamzie Art Space Artist in Residency Program, Seoul, South Korea, Supported by Ssamzie Space

Publications

RYU Biho, MELANCHOLY × ESCAPE, 2023, Ahn Graphics, Seoul, South Korea
Hanbeom Lee, RYU Biho, in between 0.013 seconds, 2019, Sehwa Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
YANG Hyosil, RYU Biho Waiting Songs: Sunlight, Wind, and Solitude, 2019, Waterain, Seoul, South Korea
Federica Bueti, RYU Biho, Letter from the Netherworld, 2018, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
RYU Biho, ARTxACTxSOCIAL, 2016, Daegu Art Factory, Daegu, South Korea
Sungkok Art Museum, In My Sky at Twillight : RYU Biho, 2015, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea
LEE Taekgwang, The Politics in the Method of Describing History: Ryubiho and His Landscape, 2013, Arko Art Center, Arts Council Korea, Seoul, South Korea
RYU Biho, Twin Peaks, presskitpress, 2012, Seoul, South Korea
RYU Biho, workroom lájka 6: Flexible Landscape, 2010, Workroom, Seoul, South Korea

Public Collections

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, South Korea
Art Bank:National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, South Korea
Government Art Bank:National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, South Korea
Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea
Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, South Korea
Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, South Korea
Sungkok Art Museum, South Korea
Seoul Metropolitan Government, South Korea

Awards

2014 Awardee of 'Sungkok Artist of Tomorrow', Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea

Education

2006 M.F.A. in Media art, Graduate School of Communication & Arts, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
1997 B.F.A. in Painting, Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea

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