KWON Ja Yeon

EDUCATION
1995-1998
1992-1995
1990-1992		 Ewha Woman's University, MFA in painting (Seoul, Korea)
Ewha Woman's University, BFA in painting (Seoul, Korea)
Rhode Island School of Design (Rhode Island, USA)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
2006
2002
2000		 fragments-sleeping dolls (Jinsun Gallery, Seoul)
fragments-12th avenue (Brain Factory, Seoul)
fragments-drawings (Han-jun plaza gallery, Seoul)
Looping fragments in the Loop (Alternative space LOOP, Seoul)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014

2011

2010







2000-2009





































 Concurrence (West Gallery, Phillippines)
Reload (Project Pilipinas, Phillippines)
Being on the Move (community space LITMUS, Ansan)
Last Summer (Jungmiso, Seoul)
wewasthere (Yuchenco Museum, Manila, Philippines)
Changdong Market Project (Changdong market, Seoul) 
closed circuit (Boan Inn, Seoul)
Vin Zip - vacant house (Songwon Art Center, Seoul)
Reflection - Philippines & korea Exchange exhibition (Bupyeong Art Center, Incheon)
Residency parade II (Incheon Art Platform, Incheon)
Milk & Honey (K-Art Exhibition Gallery, Seoul)
greenlovebrown  (Green&Brown Gallery, seoul))
the space WHO - archive exhibition (Brain Factory, Seoul)
Plastic Syndrome (Jinyoung Plastic Factory, Incheon)
Reflection/Refraction (Jungmiso, Seoul)
ID GIG (Jinyoung Plastic Factory, Incheon)
Into Drawing 02  (SOMA Museum, Seoul, Korea)
Archaeology of New York (Gallery Korea, Korean Cultural Service, New York, USA)
Monumental (Victory Hall, New Jersey, USA)
Chashama Open studio (New York, USA)
Pangyo Newtown International Art-Fence Design Exhibition
(Sungnam, Pangyo, Korea)
Snap to grid (Lacda, LA, USA)
Dual scenery (artcom gallery, NJ. USA)
ISCP open studio (New York, NY, USA)
Almost-Something (Flux factory, Long Island, NY, USA)
Night of thousand drawings (Artist Space, New York, USA)
“warm welcome”-archive exhibition of open studio project
(alternative space Pool, Seoul, Korea)
mi-sul-in-hoi-u charity exhibition (Duk-won gallery, Seoul, Korea)
open studio project - "Welcome to my studio" (artists’ studios, Seoul)
ISCP open studio (New York, NY)
Book Project (Soon-Chun children's library, Soon-Chun, Korea)
Yo-jin Sherei open studio (Yo-jin Sherei officetel, Seoul)
"naming" (LOOP, Seoul)
SangSang Library (stone & water, Anyang, Korea)
Chaerim (kwan-hoon, Seoul)
Pleasure Factory (Seoul Municipal Museum, Seoul)
Young-eun Museum children’s program exhibition
(Young-eun Museum, Gwang-ju, Korea)
‘Borders and Change’(Nakatsue, Japan)
Local Cup (ssamzie space)
E-suh-hoi (kwan-hoon gallery)
mu-han-gwang-myung-ssae-ssak-altong-gang-choo-jun
(Jungdok library, Seoul)
Flow of new tendencies in Korea (Korean culture and arts
foundation gallery, Seoul)
2nd Factory Art Festival (ssampyo factory, Seoul)
intellectual & emotion (Seoul Arts Center, Seoul)
Change! (Lee Jung-Hee gallery, Seoul)
3 artists, 3 poems (There's gallery, Seoul)

RESIDENCIES
2009-2010
2006

2005
2004
1997
 IASK Chnagdong (Seoul, Korea)
Rutgers Center for Innovative Prints & Paper (New Jersey, USA)
Chashama program (New York, USA)
ISCP International Studio & Curatorial Program (New York, USA)
ISCP International Studio & Curatorial Program (New York, USA)
Vermont Studio Center  (Vermont, USA)

GRANT/AWARD
2008
2006



2005
2004

 Arts Council Korea grant for <the Sapce WHO-project residency>
Rutgers Center for Innovative Prints & Paper (RCIPP) residency fellowship/grant (judge: Wendy Weitman, curator, Museum of Modern Art, New York: Greg Perry,Director,Zimmerli Art Museum:  Michael Kline, Executive Director, The International Sculpture Center)
Korean Culture & Arts Foundation grant for ISCP residency (residency program grant)
Korean Culture & Arts Foundation grant for ISCP residency (emerging artist grant)
Korean Culture & Arts Foundation grant for 'open studio project' (alternative culture grant)
Gyeonggi Culture and Arts Foundation for 'open studio project'




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