May 2 - July 31, 2024 | How can a Korean artist—however one identifies as such—shape their own narrative in this fast changing, global environment? Educated, living, and working in both the United States and South Korea, three Korean artists ponder what home means to them by exploring the landscape surrounding them. Working in three distinctive media—sculpture, photography, and contemporary mother-of-pearl art—this group of young artists represent the international experience… Read More

January 25 - April 18, 2024 | Working in the precise and fine medium of mother of pearl - "jagae" in Korean - Jian Yoo’s iridescent art bridges historical and contemporary, nature and artificial, arts and crafts. Made of thousands of mother-of-pearl pieces layered in intricate patterns, Yoo's art respectfully acknowledges the long tradition of master craft workers while reinventing the genre with distinctively modern sensibilities.The Korea Society Gallery is… Read More

Images courtesy of the artists | September 14-December 8, 2023| Firing clay has been amongst the few mediums to have persevered through thousands of years. Three contemporary ceramic artists pursue their own exploration with clay while reshaping the tradition. Transcending the stereotype of the medium, Janny Baek, Steven Young Lee, and Sunkoo Yuh offer new perspectives shaped by cultural and social influences and reflect the shifting emphasis within the practice… Read More

Images courtesy of the artists | Two young Korean-American photographers present a series of images, a poignant portrait of a community and its habitants from the areas considered to be "Koreatown"—one in Los Angeles, one in New York. Emanuel Hahn and Janice Chung document the lives and stories in two of the most diverse neighborhoods in America, as the communities and neighborhoods themselves continue to evolve and change. It is… Read More

January 19 - April 14, 2023|Opening Reception: Thursday, January 19, 2023 5-7 PM (EST)| Artist Talk: Tuesday, March 21, 2023 6 PM (EST)| In her solo exhibition at The Korea Society, Seongmin Ahn presents a series of paintings and wall installations that fuses her insight in the relativity of perception with a deep regard for traditional Korean art, especially minhwa–folk painting. In her work, Ahn begins with traditional forms and… Read More

September 15 - December 9, 2022| Artist Talk [video release]: Tuesday, October 25, 2022 5 PM ET| In his paintings Young Min Moon depicts Jesa, a Confucian ritual for commemoration of the deceased, which was one of the earliest memories he holds while growing up in the military regime of South Korea in the 1970s and 80s. Despite the gender politics now associated with the ritual today due to its… Read More

June 9 - August 25, 2022| Opening Reception: Thursday, June 9, 2022 5-7 PM ET| Artist Talk [video release]: Tuesday, July 12, 2022 5 PM ET| Although her intricate installations are often so large that they spread over walls onto ceilings and floors, Heeseop Yoon thinks of her work as freehand drawings. All of Yoon’s works are based on real spaces with vast messes, such as basements, workshops, storage spaces,… Read More

Image courtesy of the artist March 3 - May 27, 2022| Opening Reception: Thursday, March 3, 2022 | 6-8 PM (ET)| Artist Talk [video release]: Wednesday, April 20, 2022 | 5 PM (ET)| In Wonju Seo’s hands, the aesthetics, forms, and techniques of bojagi— traditional Korean wrapping cloths—are reconfigured as abstract textile art for a global audience. Seo combines needlework, painting, photography, and other techniques to create contemplative artworks that… Read More

September 30, 2021 - January 28, 2022| Opening Reception: September 30, 2021 | 6 - 8 PM| In this group exhibition, three artists challenge and redefine the conventional idea of fiber and textile art by employing already-established techniques of weaving, embroidery, and assemblage with new materials and creating and inventing new forms. Featuring the work of Woomin Kim, Sui Park, and Jayoung Yoon. Our gallery is open only by appointment.… Read More

Image courtesy of Mina Cheon Studio (Photo by Cyrus Feldman) May 3 - September 2, 2021| The global art activist Mina Cheon draws inspiration from the partition of the Korean peninsula, exemplified by her parallel body of work created under her North Korean alter ego, Kim Il Soon, in which she enlists a range of mediums including painting, sculpture, video, installation, and performance to deconstruct and reconcile the fraught history… Read More