Exhibitions - GWON OSANG

Exhibitions

Exhibitions

《GWON OSANG: Hybrid Abstract Scene》, 2026.09.11 – 2026.11.08, SHINSEGAE GALLERY, DAEGU

Gwon Osang’s solo exhibition presents the artist’s practice, which has opened up new possibilities for contemporary Korean sculpture through the combination of volume—a classical attribute of sculpture—and photography, a contemporary medium. The exhibition focuses on the conceptual evolution of ‘Deodorant Type,’ the series that lies at the core of Gwon’s distinctive practice of photo-sculpture, while tracing the trajectory of his work as it has developed through an ongoing dialogue with major figures in the history of modern sculpture.

2026.09.11

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《Everyday Images, How They Address Us》 on View Through November 22, 2026, at Seoul National University Museum of Art

The Seoul National University Museum of Art presents a special exhibition 《Everyday Images, How They Address Us》 on view through November 22. In the mid-twentieth century, pop art actively brought images from advertising, consumer goods, comics, and mass media into the realm of art. As mass media and consumer culture continued to grow and new forms of media emerged, Korean artists likewise began to appropriate and transform images and objects from everyday life, combining them with other images to reflect the society and culture of their time.

2026.09.11

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《Passing through the Void》, 2026.06.26 – 2026.08.09, FUJIFILM Particle

Empty space often reveals more than tangible form itself. It may exist as the margin surrounding a form, a passage connecting interior and exterior, or a place where the viewer's gaze, imagination, and contemplation come to rest.

2026.06.26

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《Double Spread》, 2026.06.19 – 2026.07.18, PAGEROOM8

《Double Spread》 is an exhibition that examines the point at which the distinctly sculptural sensibilities developed by Gwon Osang (b. 1974) and Ham Seongju (b. 1990) unfold across the picture plane. The first thing the two artists have in common is that both majored in sculpture.

2026.06.19

More Exhibitions

Exhibitions

《즐거운 하루, 오늘!》, 2017, Goyang Children’s Museum, Gyeonggi-do, Korea

Installation view of《즐거운 하루, 오늘!》, 2017, Goyang Children’s Museum, Gyeonggi-do, Korea

2017

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《Maison Hermes Autumn Window》, 2017, Hermès, Shanghai, China

Installation view of《Maison Hermes Autumn Window》, 2017, Hermès, Shanghai, China

2017

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《Relief Relief》, 2016.12.16 – 2017.02.04, Space Willing N Dealing

Gwon Osang, who majored in sculpture, has built his artistic practice by exploring methods of dealing with both flatness and three-dimensionality, beginning with photographic sculptures that materialize photographic images into sculptural form and subvert the traditions of sculpture. This can be seen in his ‘Deodorant Type’ series, which he has been developing since his undergraduate years in 1998. In this body of work, he collides and rearranges the interrelated elements of weight, volume, and surface image within the sculptural medium by reconstructing images he directly photographs into three-dimensional forms.

2016.12.16

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《GWON Osang: The Sculpture》, 2016.11.07 – 2017.01.26, ARARIO Gallery Shanghai

Many people, like me, probably heard about the Korean artist Gwon Osang from his series of photograph-sculptures ‘Deodorant Type’. In regards to the series, the artist once commented about himself as an artist who “attempts to explore a kind of light-weight sculpture” which earned him a reputation in the contemporary art scene from early on in his career. This three-dimensional sculpture made from a large number of fragmented photographic images initially gives the viewer a sense of contrast between light and weight, and contradiction of interior an exterior at a first glance. These are probably the reasons why Gwon’s works so effortlessly grab the viewer’s attention. However, it becomes clear that all of this is just a beginning Gwon Osang’s commitment to explore and contemplate on the subject of ‘sculpture.’ After much observation and understanding of his journey of creation, I strongly believe that the artist, from the very beginning until now, has been working as a ‘sculptor,’ who, even from the early on, has transcended the genre of ‘sculptural art’ and moreover is constantly exploring and challenging the two imperative themes of space and time.

2016.11.05