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The Decades-Strong Path of Color Set Ablaze By Pacita Abad
Vogue September 17, 2023 Pio Abad reflects on the exuberant work of his aunt, the Batanes-born, world-traveling artist Pacita Abad, whose immense retrospective blazes... Learn More -
Frieze Seoul: Spotlight on South Korean Galleries and Artists
Cool Hunting September 15, 2023 More than 70,000 visitors, drawn from 36 countries, passed through the halls of this year’s inspiring second edition of Frieze... Learn More -
Mire Lee “Black Sun” New Museum / New York
Flash Art September 14, 2023 My lone star is dead — and my bespangled lute / Bears the black sun of Melancholia. — Gérard de... Learn More -
Mire Lee in New York Dystopie der Selbstauflösung
Monopol September 14, 2023 Die Künstlerin Mire Lee ist eine Meisterin des Unbehaglichen. In ihrer beklemmenden Installation im New Museum in New York huldigt... Learn More
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Searching for New Paintings
Marie Claire Korea September 12, 2023 On September 7, the Leeum Museum of Art unveiled the solo exhibition of artist Suki Seokyeong Kang, titled Willow Drum... Learn More -
9 Standout Artworks at Frieze Seoul 2023
9 Standout Artworks at Frieze Seoul 2023 September 11, 2023 Seoul, Paris and Los Angeles are the art world’s latest hot spots, with a staggering amount of new galleries opening... Learn More -
Sohl Lee's Top Picks from Frieze Seoul Viewing Room 2023
Frieze September 8, 2023 WOOK-KYUNG CHOI Untitled , 1968 Paint on paper 24.61' x 18.9' (62.5 cm x 48 cm) Presented by Tina Kim... Learn More -
“Willow Drum Oriole” Leeum Museum of Art / Seoul
Flash Art September 8, 2023 “Willow Drum Oriole” is the solo exhibition of Suki Seokyeong Kang, that inagurated this September in Seoul at the Leeum... Learn More
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5 Museum Shows to See This Fall in New York City
Testudio September 5, 2023 Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s-1970s , The Guggenheim - Sept 1 - Jan 7 Korean Experimental art... Learn More -
10 Standout Gallery Exhibitions to See during Armory Week 2023
Artsy September 4, 2023 With sculptures and textured paintings made of plaster, gesso, and varnish, Davide Balliano explores the boundaries of perception. “Event Horizon”... Learn More -
The Top 10 Exhibitions to See in September 2023
ArtReview September 4, 2023 Tania Perez Cordova: Generalization SculptureCenter, New York, 23 September – 11 December The first survey exhibition of the Mexico City–based... Learn More -
Jin Meyerson on Park Seo-Bo
ArtAsiaPacific September 1, 2023 Arriving late at the home of renowned Korean artist Park Seo-Bo after fighting Seoul’s traffic, I find him holding court... Learn More
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Pacita Abad
ArtAsiaPacific September 1, 2023 The first international retrospective of the late Pacita Abad (1946–2004), curated by Victoria Sung with Matthew Villar Miranda, was as... Learn More -
The Sorrow and Desire of Abysmal Life Machines: An Interview With Mire Lee
ArtAsiaPacific September 1, 2023 “Within depression, if my existence is on the verge of collapsing, its lack of meaning is not tragic—it appears obvious... Learn More -
Tracing Movements
ArtAsiaPacific September 1, 2023 SEP 7–DEC 31 LEEUM MUSEUM OF ART, SEOUL Suki Seokyeong Kang: Willow Drum Oriole In her new video work and... Learn More -
Channeling Her Anger, Ghada Amer Looks to the Future
The New York Times August 31, 2023 The artist Ghada Amer , whose works will be on view at Frieze Seoul next week in the booth of... Learn More
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8 Must-See Museum Shows Opening This Fall
Artsy August 30, 2023 “Suki Seokyeong Kang: Willow Drum Oriole” Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul Sep. 7–Dec. 31, 2023 This exhibition by Suki... Learn More -
Miyoung LEE’s Top Picks from Frieze Seoul Viewing Room 2023
Frieze August 30, 2023 MIRE LEE Surface with many holes: concrete nets IV , 2022 Latex, burlap jute, pigmented silicone oil, and concrete 59.7... Learn More -
Mire Lee
Sculpture August 29, 2023 Stepping off the elevator to see “Black Sun,” an exhibition of new work by Mire Lee (on view through September... Learn More -
The 100 Greatest New York City Artworks, Ranked
Artnews August 29, 2023 Pacita Abad, L.A. Liberty , 1992 Of the many representations of the Statue of Liberty throughout art history, few look... Learn More
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Kang Seok Ho’s Never-Ending Act of Slow Looking
Hyperallergic August 8, 2023 The colorful geometric print of a dress, distorted by darting; the body underneath a loose-fitting, plaid button-down obscured in the... Learn More -
See South Korean Rising Star Mire Lee’s Gutsy Debut of Squelching Kinetic Sculptures at the New Museum
Artnet August 4, 2023 The South Korean artist Mire Lee has been made a name for herself in recent years due to her penchant... Learn More -
A 350-Page Tribute to Pacita Abad’s Boundless Art
Hyperallergic August 2, 2023 What is most remarkable about the life and work of Filipina artist Pacita Abad? The expansive catalogue that accompanies the... Learn More -
Ick Art: Why a Rising Generation of Female Sculptors Is Embracing Body Horror
Cultured August 2, 2023 Imagine a meat locker or a mad scientist’s lair: that’s what the New Museum’s fourth floor looks like today. Plastic-lined... Learn More
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Kang Seok Ho: Deep is the rising sun, far is the falling one
Brooklyn Rail July 13, 2023 In a solo exhibition currently at Tina Kim Gallery, fifteen paintings by Kang Seok Ho often zoom in to a... Learn More -
We Who Are Drawn To the Repulsive
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Spiritual Journeys with Jennifer Tee
CHECK-IN July 12, 2023 Jennifer Tee is a Dutch artist with Chinese-Indonesian heritage. Central to her multifaceted practice is an interest in what she... Learn More -
Pacita Abad’s Stitching Traverses the Globe
FRIEZE July 7, 2023 I had to resist the urge, walking through Pacita Abad’s retrospective at Walker Art Center, to wrap myself in one... Learn More
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Mire Lee on the cannibalistic imagination
Artforum July 3, 2023 Mire Lee’s monuments gush, gape, weep, and macerate. Drawing inspiration from body horror, hentai, scatology, and vorarephilia, the South Korean... Learn More -
For Mire Lee, Rising Art Star, It All Comes Down to Guts
The New York Times June 23, 2023 The Korean artist’s ingenious machine sculptures, coming to the New Museum, show things that “you don’t actually want to see,”... Learn More -
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BOMB Magazine June 20, 2023 Mire Lee’s kinetic installations are noisy. They emit distinct smells. They drip and turn, resembling unwieldy bodies or disassembled body... Learn More -
Taking Liberty
Artforum June 1, 2023 The Statue of Liberty is the apex of national mythmaking, a bloated bronze symbol standing watch over New York Harbor,... Learn More
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Tania Pérez Córdova
ArtNexus June 1, 2023 Tania Pérez Córdova’s first solo exhibition in a Mexican museum, featuring works from the last ten years, was curated by... Learn More -
Artist Maia Ruth Lee on Finding Meaning in Rootlessness
The Amp May 30, 2023 For artist Maia Ruth Lee, migration has been a constant since childhood. Born in Busan, South Korea, Lee’s first experience... Learn More -
25 Pathbreaking Asian American Artists Whose Names You Need to Know
ARTnews May 27, 2023 As Asian American and Pacific Islander History Month winds down, it’s important to note how many AAPI artists, architects, collectors,... Learn More -
Pacita Abad: Dreams in color
Inquirer.net May 22, 2023 NEW YORK — I don’t remember exactly where I first met the artist Pacita Abad, whether in New York, Washington,... Learn More
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Vivid Colors Erupt At Frieze, Large-Scale Abstract And Figurative Works By Women Artists Wow
Forbes May 18, 2023 Abstraction wrangles with representation, as delicate flowers mingle with bold fruits floating on the textured canvas, guiding our eye on... Learn More -
Layered and Embellished Trapunto Paintings Exude Spirit in Pacita Abad’s First Retrospective
Colossal May 10, 2023 Having created more than 5,000 paintings in her lifetime, traveled the world, and shown in over 200 exhibitions, Pacita Abad... Learn More -
Maia Ruth Lee’s ambiguities in “The skin of the earth is seamless”
ArtAsiaPacific May 10, 2023 For those who have spent time at an airport’s baggage reclaim in a South or Southeast Asian country, Maia Ruth... Learn More -
Maia Ruth Lee Transforms the Materials of Migration
Hyperallergic May 2, 2023 The artist draws inspiration from her own migration to consider both the confinement and freedom associated with a life in... Learn More
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Kang Seok Ho
Artforum May 1, 2023 It takes chutzpah to make a huge painting of an ass in jeans, especially one about seven feet square. But... Learn More -
Coloring in the Margins: Pacita Abad
The New York Times April 25, 2023 On a wintry March day in Minneapolis, a small group gathered underground to look at monumental and hyper-colored works of... Learn More -
The fourth grant recipient is Minouk Lim
Obayashi Foundation April 20, 2023 The Obayashi Foundation has selected the Korea-based artist Minouk Lim as the forth recipient of the “Visions of the City... Learn More -
A Tension in Paint Befitting Our Times
Hyperallergic April 19, 2023 Shortly after I went to see the exhibition Maia Ruth Lee: The skin of the earth is seamless at Tina... Learn More
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First-of-its-kind retrospective of Filipino artist Pacita Abad opens at the Walker
CBS News April 14, 2023 MINNEAPOLIS -- Visitors to the Walker Art Center will soon experience a never-before seen exhibit highlighting the colorful work of... Learn More -
‘Pacita Abad’ at the Walker Celebrates a Life Lived Globally
Racket April 14, 2023 Pacita Abad hated white walls. So, for her retrospective exhibition at the Walker Art Center, the galleries have been painted:... Learn More -
Inside Maia Ruth Lee's Solo Exhibition at Tina Kim Gallery
Women's Wear Daily April 12, 2023 The morning after the opening of her solo exhibition “The skin of the earth is seamless,” Maia Ruth Lee was... Learn More -
Pacita Abad’s Art of Excess
The Wall Street Journal April 7, 2023 A peripatetic life and a more-is-more sensibility were the key ingredients in the career of textile artist Pacita Abad, whose... Learn More
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Tania Pérez Córdova at Tina Kim Gallery
New York Art Tours February 21, 2023 Titled ‘Precipitation,’ Tania Pérez Córdova’s new body of work at Tina Kim Gallery manifests a rain shower in the gallery,... Learn More -
Critics Picks
Artforum February 10, 2023 Tania Pérez Córdova Museo Tamayo Paseo de la Reforma No. 51 October 1, 2022 - February 26, 2023 “Generalización” (Generalization),... Learn More -
Tania Pérez Córdova Unveils an Artwork’s Afterlife
Frieze February 10, 2023 Empty window frames cast in bronze, a large floral ceramic vessel and a shelf lined with ice portraits in sunken... Learn More -
The World of Kibong Rhee, Who Paints Landscapes in the Mist
Living Sense February 2, 2023 Mark Tetto’s Art Space We visited the mountain studio of Kibong Rhee , an artist who paints misty landscapes to... Learn More
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Duly Noted: 5 New York Shows I Already Love This Year
Cultured January 26, 2023 There’s simply not enough time to see all the art in the world. In CULTURED’s new monthly column, Duly Noted,... Learn More -
Mire Lee
ArtAsiaPacific January 1, 2023 Mire Lee The abject—in particular the intersection of body horror and sexuality—is integral to Seoul-and-Amsterdam-based artist Mire Lee's exploration of... Learn More -
A Guide to Arts and Culture this December
ArtReview December 7, 2022 From queering Bollywood film-posters and colour-field embroidery to ‘living pictures’ and the Kochi-Muziris Biennale – our editors on what they’re... Learn More -
In Marseille, a vast retrospective celebrates the feminism of Ghada Amer
Africanews December 7, 2022 Female nudes, coloured threads;the first retrospective in France of the Egyptian-Franco-American artist Ghada Amer unfolds in three Marseilles venues. From... Learn More
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Rhee Ki-bong offers the key to open your room of art
The Korea Herald November 30, 2022 Artists reveal what they hold inside -- something deeply hidden in their minds -- through their work. From a distance,... Learn More -
Rhee Ki-bong's haunting vistas enveloped in fog question process of perception
The Korea Times November 22, 2022 Rhee Ki-bong's “Where You Stand Green-1” (2022) / Courtesy of the artist, Kukje Gallery Rhee's 50 new paintings, installations presented... Learn More -
Ghada Amer: Fighting for equal rights one stitch at a time
Art Basel November 7, 2022 ‘A Woman’s Voice Is Revolution.’ So proclaims Ghada Amer’s latest garden work, installed in September outside the Museum of Civilizations... Learn More -
One Work: Mire Lee’s “Carriers”
Art in America November 7, 2022 Many of Mire Lee’s sculptures, comprising silicone and other synthetic materials, evoke a mix of the primordial and the postindustrial.... Learn More
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7 Must-See Works to Seek Out at the ADAA Art Show, From Remedios Varo’s Surrealist Scenery to Pacita Abad’s Stunning Sun Goddess
Usa ART News November 3, 2022 The Art Show, the annual art fair (and one of the originals), hosted by the Art Dealers Association, threw open... Learn More -
Jennifer Tee “Still Shifting, Mother Field” at Secession, Vienna
Mousse Magazine October 25, 2022 How can we return to—or redefine—humanity’s place in our natural environment and the cosmos? What are the potentials for an... Learn More -
Mire Lee's Tantalizing Installations Are Charged with Death and Desire
Artsy October 14, 2022 Mire Lee creates carnivorous mechanical sculptures that evoke the vulnerability of the human body. Using clay, steel, pumps, hoses, blades,... Learn More -
8 Standout Artists at the 58th Carnegie International
Artsy September 27, 2022 MIRE LEE Mire Lee’s works can only be regarded as anti-aesthetic. There is horror and gore, but also beauty, as... Learn More
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Alone in a Dirty, Sacred Space
Hyperallergic September 27, 2022 The first time you encounter Mire Lee’s artwork your mind might race toward an unsettling observation that eludes your memory,... Learn More -
Mire Lee’s Visceral Bodies
Ocula September 21, 2022 In Conversation with Stephanie Bailey New York, 21 September 2022 Mire Lee's kinetic sculptures are defined by a visceral, body-horror... Learn More -
Painting Against the Tyranny of Flatness
Hyperallergic September 14, 2022 On March 7, 2020, I reviewed the posthumous New York debut exhibition Lee Seung Jio: Nucleus at Tina Kim Gallery... Learn More -
Mire Lee's Deep-Rooted Romanticism
Frieze September 9, 2022 by Mire Lee and Alvin Li in Features, Interview Alvin Li Before working with you, I had no idea how... Learn More
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Post-Industrial Grotesque
ArtAsiaPacific September 9, 2022 Mire Lee is an artist who frequently turns to industrial materials and machinery to mine for waste and unexpected byproducts.... Learn More -
Tina Kim Gallery Presents Mire Lee’s “Carriers”
ArtAsiaPacific September 8, 2022 For her first solo exhibition with Tina Kim Gallery, Mire Lee presents “Carriers,” on view from September 15 to October... Learn More -
The Essential Works of Lee Ufan
Art Asia Pacific August 5, 2022 “Art is poetry, criticism, and the transcendent. There are two different paths that lead to it. One is the embodiment... Learn More -
Ha Chong-Hyun, retrospective
Juliet July 28, 2022 Collateral event of La Biennale di Venezia April 23—August 24, 2022 By Marina Zorz The Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa is... Learn More
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What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now
The New York Times June 16, 2022 What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now Minouk Lim: Fossil of High Moon The marks we leave on the... Learn More -
Stories That Need to Be Told | Minouk Lim
Hyperallergic May 26, 2022 Minouk Lim, a video and multimedia artist, has had museum exhibitions throughout Asia and Europe. A decade ago, the Walker... Learn More -
Legendary Korean Artist Lee Ufan Sets Up a Dazzling New Museum for His Art in Southern France
Art News May 11, 2022 Since the late 19th-century when Impressionists, most notably Vincent van Gogh, flocked there, Arles has long fascinated artists and the... Learn More -
Mire Lee
Korea JoongAng Daily April 21, 2022 VENICE, Italy — Two female Korean artists who rebel against conventional thoughts through art, traveled to Italy to showcase their... Learn More
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The 2022 Venice Biennale Finds Hope at the End of the World
Artsy April 21, 2022 Within the exhibition, technology reminds viewers of the intensities of our bodies and the vulnerabilities of our flesh. Mire Lee... Learn More -
Mire Lee | 3 Artists to Watch at the 2022 Venice Biennale
L'OFFICIEL ART April 20, 2022 Mire Lee’s sculptural installations are often unsightly and heavily material, most often reminiscent of intestines or dissected body parts that... Learn More -
Mire Lee | The Best Art in the 2022 Venice Biennale’s Main Show
Artnews April 20, 2022 Mire Lee This is a Biennale where kink proliferates, from a Mariann Simnett installation involving S&M to a Zheng Bo... Learn More -
Mire Lee | The Milk of Dreams |Tour Cecilia Alemani’s Venice Biennale Exhibition, Coursing with Surrealist Energies and Abounding with Bodies
Artnews April 20, 2022 Mire Lee Remember this name: the Korean artist Mire Lee, who works in Amsterdam, is displaying kinetic sculptures that suggest... Learn More
