Park Young Sook

WORKS

Biography

1941 Born in Korea
1963 BA of History, Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul, Korea
1966 Began to exhibit photography
1986 MFA of Photography and Design, Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul, Korea
1992 Marked as feminism activist to become a member of 'Women Art Research Association', a feminist group affiliated with 'Minjung Art'

Prize

2020 Lee Joong Sub Art Prize, Seoul, Korea

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022 The Return of the Witch. Arario Museum Tapdong Cinema 5F, Jeju, Korea
2021 32nd Lee Joong Sub Art Prize, Park Youngsook. Chosun Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2020 Tears of a Shadow. ARARIO GALLERY Samcheong, Seoul, Korea
2017 Could not have left behind. The Museum of Photography, Seoul, Korea
2016 Mad Women –The Utterance. ARARIO GALLERY Cheonan, Cheonan, Korea
2009 Cry Crack Crazy. Goeun Museum of Photography, Busan, Korea
2006 Mad Women Project, Sookmyung Women's University "Light Gallery". Seoul, Korea
2005 Mad Women Project. Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
2004 Mad Women Project. The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka, Japan
1982 Nostalgia. Pine-hill Photo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1981 Portraiture of 36 Friends. Gonggansarng Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1975 75 UN Women's Year Photo Exhibition -Equality. Development, Peace. Central Information Service, Seoul, Korea

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 Female Portraits. The Korea Foundation for Women Re-opening Exhibition, The Korea Foundation for Women Building, Women Fund, Seoul, Korea
A Direction of Sense. The Korean Women Photographers Association Exhibition, Kim Youngsub Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Walpurgis Night: The Witches from Korea. Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
So-Called Normal Family. Suwon Museum of Art, Suwon, Korea
2022 Mourning: In the Wake of Loss. Jeonnam Museum of Art, Gwangyang, Korea
2021 The Matriarchy: Women, Utopia and Narrative. Daechumoo Fine Art, Kangneng, Korea
5518(mile). 8880(km). Coventry Korea Day Festival Art Exhibition, Coventry University, U.K
2021 Seoul Photo Festival: Women Photo Festival. SeMA Buk Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2020 Piercer. SeMA, Seoul, Korea
A Larger Mind. Ewha Women's University, Seoul, Korea
Dancing Queen. ARARIO GALLERY Cheonan, Cheonan, Korea
2019 Re-classification: The night leads to the night. Suwon I-Park Museum of Art, Suwon, Korea
Na Na Land: It’s My World. Savina Museum of Contemporary Art Seoul, Korea
2018 Not allowed to ban. Suwon I-Park Museum of Art, Suwon, Korea
Soft Power. Cheongju Museum of Art, Cheongju, Korea
Frames after Frames: Modern Photography Movement of Korea from 1988 to 1999. Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
2017 Crack. National Museum of Modern and Contemporary art, Gwacheon, Korea
Joyful Journal. Seohak-dong Sajingwan, Jeonju, Korea
2016 Public to Private: Photography in Korean Art since 1989. National Museum of Modern and Contemporary art, Seoul, Korea
2015 Feminists Artist Festival. Jeonbuk Museum of Art, JeonJu, Korea
2014 Solidarity Between Generation. ARC Gallery, Chicago, USA
Through The Eyes of the Mother, Women Caucus for Art, Korean/American Feminist. Chicago KCCOC, USA
2012 Game X Art: War of Bartz Revolution. Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
2011 PLATFORM ARTISTS -2011 Incheon Art Platform Artist -in-Residence Program. Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, Korea
2010 Working Mamma Mia-For Women All Places Are Work Places. Women's History Exhibition Hall, Seoul, Korea
2009 New Digital Age. Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Russia
2008 Sister(Eonni) is Back. Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
In Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relationship between Korea and Thailand, Daily Life in Korea. The Queen's Gallery, Thailand
2006 Woman. Work. Art-Portrayal of Woman at Work in Korean Art. Ewha Woman’s University Museum, Seoul, Korea
2005 Frankfurt Book Fair 2005: The Battle of Visions. Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Frankfurt, Germany
2004 Heyri Festival – Place / Space. Heyri, Paju, Korea
Borderline Cases - Women On The Borderlines. ART Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2003 National human rights commission of Korea NUN-BAKKE-NADA (which connotes a meaning of "being socially excluded"). Dukwoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Six photographers Six Codes. Work, Money, Power, the City, Sex, New Technology. Sungkok Museum, Seoul, Korea
2002 Bodyscape. Rodin Gallery, Seoul, Korea
The 2nd Women's Art Festival. East Asian Women and Her Stories. Women's Community Center, Seoul, Korea
Pause 止. Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
2001 Women and Time, Women and Space. Alternative Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
The Spirit of May. The Lost. Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
1999 Seoul Photographs. The Photograph Look at Us. Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Women's Art Festival, Patjis on Parade, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea
1998 Visual Extension of Photographic Image. Reality and Fantasy. National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea

Selected Colections

National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
Seoul Museum of Art, Korea.
Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Korea
Gwangju Museum of Art, Korea
Cheongju Museum of Art, Korea
Sungkok Museum, Korea
Hanmi Photo Museum, Seoul, Korea
National Human Rights Commission of Korea, Korea
Research Institute of Asian Sookmyung Women's University, Korea
Ewha Women's University Museum, Korea
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