
Eemyun Kang
b. 1981, Busan, Korea, live and work in Milan, Italy
- EDUCATION
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2012 Doctor of Fine Art (DFA), The School of Arts and Digital Industries, UEL, London
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2009 Postgraduate Diploma (MA) in Fine Art, The Royal Academy of Arts, London
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2006 BA Honors in Fine Art The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London
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2002 Fine Art Painting and Sculpture, Ewha Woman’s University Seoul, Korea
- SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2019 This Way is Made by Walking, Trish Clark Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
- 2019 Luna e corda, Consolato Generale della Repubblica di Corea, Milan, Italy
- 2014 Project Space: Eemyun Kang, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
- 2013 Fungalland and the Stranded Mother Whale, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, USA
- 2012 Fungalland and the Stranded Mother Whale, Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Norway
- 2010 Dozing River, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, USA
- SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2020 Chang-E4 , Eemyun Kang /Alessandro Roma, Casa Testori, Novate Milanese, Italy
- 2018 Saluta i tuoi amici Verde, Studio Porpora, Milan, Italy
- 2015 Sleepers in Venice, Pallazzo Storico, Venice, Italy
- 2014 RE:VISION, Trish Clark Gallery, Auckland, NZ
- 2012 Eemyun Kang / Kyung Jeon, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Art On Your Wall, artclub 1563, Seoul, Korea
The Sounds of the Muse, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea
Map the Korea 4482, Barge House, South Bank, London, UK
As Small as a World and Large as Alone, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
Muse London, Korean Cultural Centre, London, UK
- 2011 Done Paint Done, The Drawers, London, UK
Karmic Abstraction, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
Advent of Abstraction, Art Space Loo, Seoul, Korea
- 2010 The Mountain Where Whales Once Lived, Union, London, UK
Bibliothèque: A Library of Folding and Unfolding, @ KT&G, Seoul, Korea
Present from past, Korean Cultural Centre, London, UK
Appropriate Modernism, Centrifugal Projects, Brussels, Belgium
The Imaginary Archive-The gaze of 120 展, Gallery Sangsangmadang, Seoul, Korea
GIVEITANAME, Vegas Gallery, London, UK
- 2009 Cold Cell, Union at the Old Police Station, London, UK
U•S•B, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Art Centre, Korea
Code of Being, Gallery WITHSPACE, Beijing, China
Crossfields: Young Korean Artists in London, Korean Cultural Centre, London, UK
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London, UK
Traveling Light, Venice Biennale 2009, London, UK; Venice, Italy
Eemyun Kang & Ben Pritchard, Cafe Gallery at Royal Academy of Art, London, UK
Mindscape of the 21st Century, Andrew James Art, Shanghai, China
The M.A.& Other Postgraduate Art Show, Atkinson Gallery, Somerset, UK
- 2008 4482, Korean Contemporary, OXO, Barge House, London, UK
The 38th Parallel, G-spot Showroom, London, UK
Consume Create, Henley Exhibition Centre, Henly-on- Thames, UK
Lock on, Splitter, Reinickendorfer Str.97, Berlin, Germany
Premiums 2008, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Good Morning, Mr. Nam Jun PAIK, Korean Cultural Centre, London, UK
- 2007 What Can a Desert Island Do?, Seventeen Gallery, London UK
Influx, Nolia’s Gallery, London, UK
- 2006 Landscapades: The war on terra?, Undermilkwood Gallery, London, UK
Gussing Exhibition, Gussing, Finsbury Square, London, UK
Painting Music, Sweet ECA, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK
- 2004 Art@work, Aylesbury House, London, UK
Anywhere Out of the World, Platform Saab Showroom, London, UK
Artskool Paris London Project, Galerie Gauche (Ecole National Superieure des
Beaux-Art), Paris, France
- 2003 Collaborate Drawings, Pearson Gallery (UCL), London, UK
Hibernation, UCL Main Quadrangle, London, UK
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
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2013 Korean Art, The Power of Now, Page 128-129, Thames & Hudson, London
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2012 Eemyun Kang (cat.), Trondheim Kustmuseum, Norway Eemyun Kang (cat.), Kukje
Gallery, Seoul
The Art of Your Wall (cat.), Page1-6, Suum, Seoul As small as the world and large as alone
(cat.) Page 24-27, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul
Map The Korea (cat.) Page 84-85, Sasapari 4482, London
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2011 Karmic Abstraction (cat.) Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia
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2010 Eemyun Kang: Dozing River (cat.), Tina Kim Gallery, New York
Frieze Year Book 2010-2011
Ruth Salomon, a-n magazine, UK
Paul Carey Kent, magazine Saatchi online
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2009 USB (cat.) Seoul Arts Center, Seoul. , Page 46-51 Art Scene Insight magazine Issue 6,
Page 14-15, Visual Art, Atkinson Gallery The West Muse Magazine Issue 43, March 2009,
Page 12,
Paul Smith. Royal Academy of Arts from London High Fashion Magazine 4, April 2009, No.
326, Page 85- 86,
12 Young Artists and Painters. ELLE Korea, January 2009, No. 195, Page 100-101,
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2008 Rose, Rebecca. New Talent: Eemyun Kang. The Silver Library

Eemyun Kang, Eastern Art Report Online 
Good Morning Mr. Nam Jun PAIK (cat.) Page 54-55, Korean Cultural Centre, UK
- SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
- Hana Bank, Seoul, Korea
- Trondheim Kunst Museum, Norway
- Mizuho International plc London, UK
- The Korean Embassy in London, UK
- AWARDS, HONOURS, SCHOLARSHIPS, COMMISSIONS & APPOINTMENTS
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2009 Gold Medal, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK Dunoyer de Segonzac Award,
Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
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2008 Sir Frank and Lady Short Award, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
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2006-9 Celia Walker Foundation award, Royal Academy Schools, London, UK
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2005 Project Award, Slade School of Art, London, UK
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2004 Icarus Bursary, Slade School of Art, London, UK