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CHOE U-RAM b. 1970, Seoul, Korea Lives and works in Seoul
EDUCATION
1999 MFA, Chungang University, Seoul, Korea 1993 BFA, Chungang University, Seoul, Korea
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Choe U-Ram:[Stil laif], National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2016 Choe U-Ram:[Stil laif], Daegu Art Museum, Daegu
2013 Project Lamp Shop, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul Anima, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey
2012 Gallery Hyundai, Seoul John Curtin Gallery, Perth, Australia
2011 In Focus, Asia Society Museum, New York
2010 Kalpa, Bitforms Gallery, New Yor New Urban Species, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville
2008 Anima Machines, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo
2007 The Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas
2006 New Active Sculpture, Bitforms Gallery, New York City Energy - MAM Project004, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2002 Ultima Mudfox, Do Art, Seoul
2001 170 Box Robot, Hello Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1998 Civilization Host, Gallery Boda, Seoul, Korea
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Chapter One From the Collection, Amore Pacific Museum of Art (APMA), Seoul
2018 BOTANICA, Busan Museum of Art, Busan 2050 A Brief History of the Future, Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung BIO, Daejeon Biennale, Daejeon of Art Museum, Daejeon
2017 Trace of Time, Jeju Kim Tschang-Yeul Museum of Art, Jeju
2016 Odyssey:Navigating Nameless Seas, Singapore Art Museum Extension, Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia Utopias and Heterotopias, The Wuzhen International Art Exhibition, The North Silk Factory, Wuzhen, China
2015 New Light-Catch Your Eye, Metaphysical Art Gallery, Taipei Seoul vite vite!, Lille 3000 'Renaissance, Le Tripostal, Lille, France Re:Kontemporary_Fermented Souls, Waterfall Mansion, New York
2014 Signature Art Prize, Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore The Brilliant Art Project - Dream Society : Xbrid, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul Leeum 10th Anniversary "Beyond and Between," Leeum Samsung Museum, Seoul Myth/History: Yuz Collection of Contemporary Art, YUZ Museum Shanghai, Shanghai, China ThingWorld; International Triennial of New Media Art , National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Beijing
2013 Post-humanist Desire: Sexuality and Digitality in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei Site Specific Art Project: Choe-U-Ram, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul Who is Alice?, Spazio Lightbox, Venice, Italy Era of Grand Navigation Korean Art, Busan Museum of Art, Busan Kinesthetics: Art Imitating Life, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York Flow, Just Flow, University of Richmond Museum, Richmond DNA (Design and Art), Daegu Art Museum, Daegu
2012 Korean Eye 2012, Saatchi Gallery, London Re-Opening Doosan Gallery Seoul, Seoul Google Zeitgeist 2012, The Grove, London
2011 The Creators Project; New York 2011, Dumbo Brooklyn, New York Opening Exhibition, Jung-a Choi Gallery, Seoul Code Name: Save Joseph Clinic Part2, Joseph Clinic, Seoul
2010 Made in Popland, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon Power House, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul Printemps Parfume, Centre des Arts d'Enghien les Bains, Enghien les Bains , France SACA-Soul of Asian Contemporary Art, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul i-Robot, Soma Museum, Seoul Cybernetics , POMA Museum, Pohang
2009 Beginning of New Era, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul The Imaginary Line, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul No longer empty – Transformation, New York D-AiR Doosan Gallery, New York Eye of the Pacific Rim - SU:MBISORI, Jeju Museum of art, Jeju The Garden at 4PM, Gana Art, New York
2008 Made Up Liverpool Biennial, FACT, Liverpool 1st Asian Art Triennial, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Open Space, NTT Intercommunication Center, Tokyo
2007 Sprit of Place; Genius Loci, 3th Biwako Biennale, Omi Hachiman City, Japan Summer Show, Bitforms Gallery, New York
Korean Host Country Exhibit, ARCO, Madrid
2006 6th Shanghai Biennale-Hyper Design, Shanghai Seoul Forest Open Air Sculpture Symposium, Seoul Forest Park, Seoul
2005 Opening Exhibition, Bitforms Gallery Seoul Hardcore Machine, Art Space Hue, Seoul Opening Exhibition, Gallery Chiwoo, Gwacheon
2004 Leeum Inaugural Exhibition, Leeum Samsung Museum, Seoul Stillness & Movement, Seoul Olympic Art Museum, Seoul Busan Biennale, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Busan Officina Asia, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna
2003 Artist is a Magician, Gallery Artside, Seoul Fake & Fantasy, Art Center Nabi, Seoul International Digital Art Exhibition, Uijeongbu Arts Center, Uijeongbu D.U.M.B.O. art under the bridge festival, Dumbo Brooklyn, New York, USA Cartoon in Art, Art in Cartoon, Ewha Women's University Museum, Seoul Prince & Princess, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul Electric Power, KEPCO Plaza Gallery, Seoul
2002 Our House, Sinsa-dong House, Seoul Football through Art, Chosun Ilbo Art Museum, Seoul Space! Unlimited Possibility Performance, Jayu Theater, Seoul Art Center, Seoul Planet of Insect, Seoho Art Museum, Yangsu-ri Faery, Mongwan, Seoul New Face 2002, Total Open-Air Museum, Jangheung Imagination & Curiosity, Insa Art Space, Seoul
2001 Working Degree Zero, Gallery Boda, Seoul Children's Month, Kumho Museum, Seoul Digital Art Networking Project, Techno Mart, Seoul Artificial Life, Busan Municipal Art Museum, Busan Net-Plant Project, Art Center Nabi, Seoul
2000 Sculpture Amusement Park, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul The Exhibition of Paints which make you better smart, Savina Gallery, Seoul Expression of Period-eyes & hands, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Chungang Sculpture Society, Jongro Gallery, Seoul Im-pregnancy, Art Gallery, The Korea Culture & Art Museum, Seoul Expression of Age, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Art Center, Seoul Unexpected Visit, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul
1999 Republic of Gadget, Gallery Warehouse, Ilsan Korea Contemporary Art Trends in the 90's, Ellen Kim Murphy gallery, Seoul Seoul Lumia of Century in Media, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul Demonstration Bus, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul Chungang Sculpture Society, Seonam Art Center, Seoul 99 Nine Dragon Heads, Cheongju national Museum, Cheongju Blasphemy, Total Museum of Contemporary Art', Seoul Garden of Mimesis – A Note on Life Written by Technology Artists', Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul
1998 98 Nine Dragon heads, Daecheongho, Cheongju Chungang Sculpture Society, Total Open-Air Museum, Jangheung
1997 Three hundred spaces, Dam gallery, Seoul Gwangju Aperto – Special Exhibition of the 2nd Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju Chungang Sculpture Society, Seonam Art Center, Seoul Sound – II, Yookyong Gallery, Seoul
SELECTED AWARDS
2014 2014 Finalist, Signature Art Prize, Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation 2009 Kim Se Choong Sculpture Award, Young Sculptor Sector, Korea Young Artist Today Award, Fine Arts Division, Korea Ministry of Culture
SELECTED RESIDENCIES
2014 Autodesk AIR program, San Francisco U.S.A 2009 Residency at Doosan Art Center, New York
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea Daegu Art Museum The Newark Museum of Art Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art Seoul Museum of Art SOMA Art Museum Amorepacific Museum of Art POSCO Art Museum Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation