Artist Choi Yoonjung seeks to closely examine the era in which she lives. Pop Kids is a series conceived to express the present. Contemporary society is one where media exerts greater influence than at any point in the past. In this society, we are invited to act by media before we even desire something ourselves, and we are drawn to it. In Pop Kids, eyeglasses are used as a device symbolizing the frame of our thinking shaped by media influence. What are the desire and mode of existence of modern people, whose cognitive frameworks are so profoundly influenced by media?
View biography & exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2023 POP KIDS (Gallery H, Seoul)
Believing Is Seeing (Artertein Gallery, Seoul)
Face (Hoseo University Central Library Gallery, Cheonan)
2019 Choi Yunjeong Invitational (Gallery H, Cheongju)
2018 There Being (Gallery Banditraso, Seoul)
2016 Follow ME (Banditraso Gallery, Seoul)
Pop Kids (YTN Art Square, Seoul)
2014 Into The Pinhole (A.Style, Hong Kong)
Show Me the Money (Gallery Grida, Seoul)
2013 Desire (Gail Museum of Art, Gapyeong)
Into The Pinhole (Gallery 192, Seoul)
2010 Fantasyland (Sai Art Gallery, Seoul)
Choi Yunjeong Solo Exhibition (With Space Gallery, Beijing)
2009 Moderno (Busan Art Center, Busan)
2008 Nostalgia (KEPCO Plaza Gallery, Seoul)
Group Exhibitions
2023 Kiaf (COEX, Seoul)
Galleries Art Fair (COEX, Seoul)
Hong Beom-do: Portrait of the General (Namu Art, Seoul)
Survey of Our Wellbeing (Chosun University Museum, Gwangju)
Drawing Box (Artreon Gallery, Seoul)
Yeonhui Art Fair (Artertein Gallery, Seoul)
All Drawings of the World (Artertein Gallery, Seoul)
Winter at Sogong (Sogong Space, Seoul)
Empathy 23 (Artreon Gallery, Seoul)
2023 Gwangju Able Art Fair (Kim Dae-jung Convention Center, Gwangju)
2022 19th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh 2022 (National Art Gallery, Dhaka)
I Am What I Paint (Califa Gallery, Seoul)
Desire (Artreon Gallery, Seoul)
Total Support (Total Museum of Art, Seoul)
Art Project 22 (Art Space KC, Pangyo)
Inscribed on the Thousand-Year Road, Your and My Gaze (Gyeonggi New Millennium Gallery, Suwon)
2021 Great Roots (Insa Art Center, Seoul)
All Drawings of the World (Artertein, Seoul)
Yeonhui Art Fair (Artertein, Seoul)
Women's Rights Story Through Contemporary Art: March (ArtNoid 178, Seoul / Geumjeong Arts Center Gallery, Busan / Seogu Culture Center, Incheon)
Empathy 2021 (Artreon Gallery, Seoul)
PLAS Art Show (COEX, Seoul)
Urban Break (COEX, Seoul)
2020 Visual Imagination (Seohae Museum of Art, Seosan)
All Things Prosper (Art Terminal Small Museum, Jeongseon)
Cart Museum (Art Terminal Small Museum, Jeongseon)
Super Collection (Superior Gallery, Seoul)
From Everyday (Gallery The Flow, Seoul)
Everyone's Drawing (Artertein, Seoul)
2019 WIT: What's the Issue These Days? (Chosun University Museum, Gwangju)
Neighbor Artists (Namu Art, Seoul)
Art Busan (BEXCO, Busan)
Family Garden (Yangpyeong Museum of Art, Yangpyeong)
Do The Right Thing (Jeju Sculpture Park Exhibition Hall, Jeju / National Assembly, Seoul)
2018 SCOPE MIAMI (Miami Beach, Miami)
Daegu Art Fair (Daegu Convention Center, Daegu)
Shanghai Art Fair (Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Center, Shanghai)
Art Mining (DDP, Seoul)
Korean Pop Art (Hanam Cultural Foundation, Hanam)
Do The Right Thing (Seongbuk-gu Office Gallery, Seoul)
Osan Museum of Art New Acquisitions (Osan Museum of Art, Osan)
2017 Media Ecstasy (Kyungpook National University Museum, Daegu)
Fantastic Show Show Show (Gallery Jain Zeno, Seoul)
Do The Right Thing (Glendale Library, LA)
Arari Platform - POP (Art Terminal Small Museum, Jeongseon)
Image and the Other's Eye (Seosan Culture Center, Seosan)
2016 Heritage of Our Times (Yangpyeong Museum of Art, Yangpyeong)
Oh, Lone Wolf (Woojong Museum of Art, Boseong)
2015 Seoul Affordable Art Fair (DDP, Seoul)
Art China (National Agricultural Exhibition Center, Beijing)
Run to Fancyland (The Popsy Room, Hong Kong)
Hello! Pop (Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju)
Inter-Reflection (Seosan Culture Center, Seosan)
Uncertain Paradise (Gallery Imaju, Seoul)
Art Busan (BEXCO, Busan)
Hong Kong Affordable Art Fair (HKCEC, Hong Kong)
Beyond Pop (Lotte Hotel Gallery, Seoul)
Discourse of Convergence (Sai Art Space, Seoul)
2014 Live and Let Live (Gallery Clay, Sydney)
Singapore Affordable Art Fair (F1 Pit Building, Singapore)
Kiaf 2014 (COEX, Seoul)
Art Gwangju 14 (Kim Dae-jung Convention Center, Gwangju)
Busan Art Show 2014 (BEXCO, Busan)
Asia Contemporary Art Show (Conrad Hotel, Hong Kong)
Galleries Art Fair (COEX, Seoul)
2013 Girl's Dream (Lotte Gallery, Seoul)
Meeting a Zombie on Teheran-ro (Gallery Imaju, Seoul)
Asia Contemporary Art Show (JW Marriott, Hong Kong)
Falling for Comics (Lotte Gallery, Daejeon)
As Seen (Gallery Grida, Seoul)
Black Bridge Exhibition (TV12 Gallery, Seoul)
2012 Asia Contemporary Art Show (Grand Hyatt Hotel, Hong Kong)
Real/Unreal (With Space Gallery, Beijing)
ART Plage (Lotte Gallery, Busan/Seoul)
This Is Popular Art (Sejong Center Museum, Seoul)
Real/Unreal (Sai Art Gallery, Seoul)
Can You Find Me? (Ilhyun Museum, Yangyang)
2011 Yangpyeong Museum Opening Exhibition <Magic Land, Yangpyeong> (Yangpyeong Museum of Art)
Fun + Pop: Pleasant Contemporary Art (Gwacheon Civic Center, Gwacheon)
Emerging Artists Part 3 (MK2 Art Space, Beijing)
Psychology of Desire: Speaking of Us (Gail Museum of Art, Gapyeong)
2010 Art Share (Dongduk Art Gallery, Seoul)
Flow of Korean Contemporary Art III - Pop Art (Gimhae Culture Center, Gimhae)
Departopia (Lotte Gallery, Anyang)
9th Funny Painting Funny Sculpture (Sejul Gallery, Seoul)
Hahahohoho (Shinsegae Gallery, Gwangju/Busan)
Collections
MMCA Art Bank (Gwacheon), Yangpyeong Museum of Art, Osan Museum of Art, HiteJinro (Seoul),
META Korea (Seoul), Hoseo University (Asan), AnaPass (Seoul), YK BNC (Seoul) and numerous private collections
Residency & Other Projects
2013 Collaboration with LOTTE (Seoul)
2011 Collaboration with HITE (Seoul)
2011 Liinwimi Creative Studio (C.O.L. Art Management, Beijing)