Ku Ja-Young
Ku Ja-Young
Seoul, b. 1969
Seoul, b. 1969
Ku, Ja-Young(1969) studied B.F.A and M.F.A Painting at Seoul National University and received MFA, New Forms at Pratt Institute in NY, USA. The artist has worked as a visiting artist at Brigham Young University in Utah in 2001, Afterward being at Art Omi International Artist’s Residency in Omi, New York in 2001, by establishing himself as an international artist. Ku was invited to numerous solo exhibitions and group exhibitions at prominent art museums and galleries in the world, including Witworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England; Arts Center Nabi, Korea; Carrillo Gil Museum, Mexico City, Mexico and Krakow Triennial Print Exhibition, Krakow, Poland.
2020
MFA, New Forms, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY; Certificate of Excellence for Outstanding Merit
1994
MFA, Painting, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
1992
BFA, Painting, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Education
2017
Fulbright OLF, NOVA Manassas, Manassas
2013
Konkuk University (KU) Best Teacher Award, Konkuk University, Seoul
1991
Excellence Prize – Exhibition of the Korean Contemporary Prints, Total Gallery, Seoul
Award
2025
<Round and Round>, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea
2022
<Autumn, Winter/Spring Summer>, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea
2021
<Encounter A>, Gallery Nomad, Yeosu, Korea
Solo Exhibition
2024
<The First Here, and the Last on the Earth>, Culturetank T1, Seoul, Korea
2024
<Gallery Simon 30th Anniversary Simon’s Friends>, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea
2022
<Departure from Mundane, Discovery of Taste>, SeMA Bunker, Seoul, Korea
Group Exhibition
2008
<KIAF 2008>, COEX, Seoul
Art Fair