학력

1985 함부르크 국립 조형미술대학교 사진 전공 학사
1975 연세대학교 경영학 전공 학사

경력

경일대학교 사진영상학부 교수
2000-현재 박건희문화재단 이사장 역임
2008 대구사진비엔날레 전시총감독
2004 함부르크에서 개최된 국제미술 아카데미 (Pentiment) 초청 교수
1999 계원조형예술대학 사진전공 교수 역임
1999 런던 세인트 마틴 스쿨 초청교수
1997 런던 킹스턴大, 스탠리피커 갤러리, International Fellowship
1992 함부르크에서 개최된 국제미술 아카데미 (Pentiment) 초청 교수

수상경력

2015 제47회 대한민국문화예술상 미술부문
2014 동강사진상
2003 강원다큐멘터리 작가상
2000 이명동 사진상

개인전

2023 구본창의 항해, 서울시립미술관, 서울
2018 ‘Koo Bohnchang Early Works 1970-1990 my beginnings’, Gallery Bundo, Daegu, Korea
2018 ‘Koo Bohnchang’, Changseong-dong laboratory, Seoul, Korea
2018 ‘Acqua’, Acquario Civico Milano, Milano, Italy
2018 ‘Mask’, Gallery 343, Seoul, Korea
2016 ‘花’, Shinsegae Gallery Incheon, Incheon
2016 ‘花’, Shinsegae Gallery Gwangju, Gwangju
2016 ‘White Vessels’, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
2015 ‘Porcelain Time’, Yido Gallery, Seoul
2015 ‘Koo Bohnchang’, Nanohana Gallery, Hakone
2014 ‘White On White’, Villa Flor, S-chanf, Swiss
2014 ‘Open end’ Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milano, Italy
2014 ‘Dong Gang Photography Award Exhibition <KOO Bohnchang>', Dong Gang Museum of Photography, Yeongwol
2014 ‘Koo Bohnchang Archives:18 Exhibitions’, The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
2014 ‘Jung Hai-chang: an encounter with the still life works of Koo Bon-chang’, Trunk Gallery, Seoul
2013 ‘Slow Talk’, Madrid, Spain
2013 ‘Interpretation of Surface’, Bundo Gallery, Daegu
2013 ‘The Interpretation of landscape', J - Hee Gallery, Gwangju
2013 ‘Happy memories', Ryugaheon gallery, Seoul
2011 ‘Bohnchang Koo’, Kukje gallery, Seoul
2011 ‘The Baptist’, Nuda gallery, Daejeon
2011 ‘Snow, Jeju Island’ Trunk gallery, Seoul
2010 ‘Plain Beauty: Korean White Porcelain/Photographs by Bohnchang Koo’, Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA
2010 ‘Masks’, Stone Art Museum, Duson Art Museum, Jeju
2009 ‘Vessel · Soap · Interiors’, Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris
2009 ‘Purity’, Galerie Raum mit Licht, Vienna
2009 ‘Pencil of Nature’, Gallery Bow, Ulsan
2008 ‘In the Beginning’, Trunk Gallery, Seoul
2008 ‘Coolness and Passion’, MBC Gallery M, Daegu
2007 ‘Bohnchang Koo’, Goeun Museum of Art, Busan
2007 Galerie 206, Berlin
2007 ‘Soap’, Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
2006 Hasted Hunt Gallery, New York
2006 ‘Vessel’, Kukje Gallery, Seoul
2006 ‘Koo Bohnchang’, Kahitsukan, Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyoto
2005 ‘Portraits of Time’, White Room Gallery, Los Angeles
2005 ‘La beaute endormie’, Langon, France
2004 ‘Masks’, ‘White’, Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris
2003 ‘Bohnchang Koo: Recent work’, Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York
2003 ‘Masks’, The Museum of Photography, Seoul
2003 ‘White’, ‘In the Beginning’, Picture Photo Space, Osaka
2002 ‘Fragile Tremors’, San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, curated by Carol McCusker
2002 ‘Masterworks of Contemporary Korean Photography’, Peabody Essex Museum, Messachusetts, curated by Clark Worswick
2002 ‘In the Beginning’, Shadai Gallery, Tokyo
2001 Base Gallery, Tokyo
2001 Prinz Gallery, Kyoto
2001 Samsung Rodin Gallery, Seoul
2001 Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco
2000 ‘White Series’, Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York
2000 ‘Good-Bye Paradise’, Galleri Image, Aarhus, Denmark
1999 ‘Flow’, Gallery Won, Seoul
1995 ‘In the Beginning’, Gallery Ississ, Kyoto
1995 ‘Breath’, Seomi Gallery, Seoul
1993 ‘Good-Bye Paradise’, Seomi Gallery, Seoul
1990 ‘The Sea of Thought’, Seomi Gallery, Seoul
1988 ‘Clandestine Pursuit in the Long Afternoon’, Gallery Busan, Korea
1987 ‘One Minute Monologue’, Gallery Wide, Tokyo
1987 Photo Interform, Osaka
1985 ‘Twelve Deep Sighs’, Hanmadang Gallery, Seoul
1984 Fotogenes, Hamburg
1983 Pine Hill Gallery, Seoul

단체전

2024 흙, 회전하다 (The Spinning Earth), 남원시립김병종미술관, 남원시
2018 ‘Frames after Frames: Modern Photography Movement of Korea from 1988 to 1999’, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
2018 ‘Still Life I – Still Remembering’, Art Space J, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
2018 ‘GMoMA Collection Highlights’, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
2018 ‘MEGA SEOUL 4 DECADES’, Korean Cultural Center in the Philippines, Philippines
2018 ‘Water, Embracing Life’, Gallery Hyeyum, Gwangju, Korea
2018 ‘The Portrait With(out) Artists’, Nam Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2018 ‘Blooming at the Junction’, Korean Cultural Center Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2016 ‘Getxophoto 2016’, Gexto, Spain
2016 ‘Extra Ordinary’, Korean Cultural Centre Gallery, Sydney
2016 ‘Unconscious Aesthetics, Breathing Heritage: Contemporary Korean Ceramics’, The Fondation Bernardaud, Limoges
2016 ‘Noonbit Collection of Korean Photographer’s Works’, Ryugaheon gallery, Seoul
2016 ‘Unfamiliar memory, Unfamiliar time, Unfamiliar space’, Gallery Now, Seoul
2016 ‘Public to Private: Photography in Korean Art since 1989’, The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
2016 ‘Chefs-d'œuvre de la céramique coréenne’, Grand Palais, Paris
2016 ‘室礼 —Offerings— II’, The Terminal Kyoto, Kyoto
2016 ‘Vies silencieuses’, Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris
2016 ‘KOREA NOW’, Korea Cultural Center, Brussels, Belgium
2016 ‘Cheong Chul Eo Lam’, Hyundai Dept. Store Gallery H, Daegu
2015 ‘People, remembered’, Art Space J, Gyeonggi
2015 ‘A Homage to Korean Architecture-Wisdom of the Earth’, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
2015 ‘simsimhada’, Doosung Paper Gallery, Seoul
2015 ‘In the Spirit of George Rose’. KF Gallery, Seoul
2015 ‘조선 백자의 혼을 담다.’Choi Sunu House, Seoul
2015 ‘Le Parfum dans tous les sens’, Jardins du Palais Royal, Paris
2015 ‘BODY’, Handok Museum of Medicine and Pharmacy, Eumseong
2015 ‘Invitation to Korean Dining’, Roma Verso Expo, Roma
2015 ‘Simple Forms: Contemplating Beauty’, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2015 ‘Lies of Lies on Photography’, Total Museum, Seoul
2015 ‘BEYOND THE BORDERS’, Culture Station Seoul 284, Korea
2015 ‘OBIECTA’, Giacomo Guidi, Roma
2014 ‘Kitchen’, Onyang Folk Museum, Asan, Korea
2014 ‘Form As Thinking - Rediscovery of Drawing’, Museum SAN, Wonju, Korea
2014 ‘Korean Beauty Two Kinds of Nature’, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2014 ‘Dual Natures in Ceramics’, SFO Museum, San Francisco
2014 ‘Admiration of White Porcelain’, Seoul Museum, Seoul
2013 ‘Korea-China Ceramics Art Exhibition’ Gyeonggi Ceramic Museum, Gyeonggi, Korea
2013 ‘사진의 터’, Art Space J, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
2013 ‘Sakura’, Tanakaya Gallery, Hirosaki, Japan
2012 ‘Mega Seoul 4 decades’, The Museum of Photography, Seoul, Korea
2012 ‘Motherhood’, Ewha Womans University Museum, Seoul, Korea
2012 ‘달하 노피곰 도다샤 어긔야 머리곰 비취오시라’, Ilwoo space, Seoul
2012 ‘FOLD lll: USELESS / Upcycling in Art + Design’, Art+Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai
2011 ‘Korean Spirit ; six Photographers’, Goyang, Korea
2011 ‘Books & Objects’, Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul
2011 ‘紙花’, Kokdu museum, Seoul
2011 ‘Fold3’, Art+Shanghai gallery, Shaghai, China
2010 ‘A Positive View’, Somerset House, London
2010 ‘Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography’, Santa Barbara Museum of Art
2010 ‘Eternal Blinking: Contemporary Art of Korea’, University of Hawaii
2010 Biennale International de l’Image a Luang Prabang
2009 ‘The Face beyond Faces’, Sungkok Museum, Seoul
2009 ‘Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography’, MFAH, Houston
2009 ‘Met First, Yet Familiar, Korean Contemporary Photograph’, 798 Space, Beijing
2009 ‘Art Road 77 - with art, with artist!’, Lee & Park Gallery, Paju
2009 ‘The Face beyond Faces’, Dong-gang International Photo Festival 2009, Dong-gang Museum of Photography, Yeongwol
2009 ‘2009 Odyssey’, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
2009 ‘Made in Korea’, Hannover Messe 2009, Hannover
2009 ‘Translated Celadon: The Five Different Stories’, Haegang Ceramics Museum, Icheon
2009 ‘Three Photographers’, Canon Plex, Seoul
2009 ‘Problem’, Dr.Park Gallery, Yangpyeong-gun
2009 ‘Serotonin’, Gallery Now, Seoul
2009 ‘Valentine's Day! Art for You!’, 915 Industry Gallery, Seoul
2009 ‘Artists and Moon Jars’, Gallery Hyundai Gangnam, Seoul
2008 ‘Gaze’, Gallery Grimson, Seoul
2008 ‘Back to the Roots’, Gallery Soheon, Daegu
2008 ‘Bohnchang Koo & Maggie Taylor’, Verve Gallery of Photography, Santa Fe
2008 ‘Contemporary Korean Photographs 1948-2008’, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon
2008 ‘Inspired Simplicity: Contemporary Art from Korea’, Seattle Art Museum
2008 ‘Treasures Within’, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2008 ‘Emotional Scenes’, Blanca Berlín Gallery, Madrid
2008 ‘Today's Korean Art <The World of Expression>’, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
2007 ‘Chuseok - Korean Harvest Festival’, Gallery Talk ‘The Korean Moon Jar’, The British Museum, London
2007 ‘Painterly Photos’, Leehwaik Gallery, Seoul
2007 ‘Void in Korean Art’, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
2005 ‘Stilled’, Gallery 339, Philadelphia
2004 ‘Water’, FotoFest 2004, Houston
2004 ‘What happens between Art and Popular Culture’, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
2003 ‘Facing Korea’, Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam
2003 ‘East of Eden’, Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, UK
2002 ‘Two Korean Photographers’, Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2002 ‘Korean Contemporary Photography’, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Sendai Mediatheque, Japan
2002 ‘Floating’, Art Center Silkeborg Bad, Denmark
2002 ‘Everyman: A Search for the Male Form’, Camera Work, San Francisco
2001 ‘Awakening’, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
2000 ‘Standing on the Threshold of Time’, Odense Foto Triennale, Denmark
2000 ‘Contemporary Korean Photographers’, FotoFest 2000, Houston
2000 ‘Moonlight Becomes You - A Thousand and One Nights of Peace on Earth’, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, New York
1999 ‘Phenomena’, Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco
1999 ‘Fragments of Document and Memory’, 3rd Tokyo International Photo-Biennale, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
1998 ‘Landscape and Man’, Ostasiatiska Museum, Stockholm
1998 ‘Alienation and Assimilation’, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago
1996 A.O.I. Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1996 ‘Art at Home’, Seomi Gallery, Seoul
1995 Gwangju Museum of Modern Art, Gwangju, Korea
1995 Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeongju, Korea
1995 ‘Body or Gender’, Gallery Nun, Seoul
1994 Pima Community College Art Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
1993 Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
1990 Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
1988 ‘The New Wave of Photography’, Walkerhill Art Center, Seoul
1987 ‘Lying Down as if Being Dead with Narrow Eyes’, Hanmadang Gallery, Seoul

작품소장

Museum of Fine Arts, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
Seattle Asian Art Museum, Museum of Art and Craft, Kahitsukan, Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Reykjavik Museum of Photography, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul Museum of Art, Municipal Museum of Art, Leeum, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, The Museum of Photography, The Amore Museum, Busan Museum of Art, Fondation Herzog, Shadai Gallery,
Dancing Bear/ W.M. Hunt, Newhouse Collection, Elena Ochoa Foster, The Buhl Collection
The Ock Rang Cultural Foundation, Sammlung Anne Maria Jagdfeld