Eemyun Kang
Born 1981, Pusan, Korea
Lives and works in London, UK
www.eemyun.com
- Education
2009 The Royal Academy of Arts, London, Postgraduate Diploma, Fine Art
2007 Tihany International Postgraduate Program, Tihany, Hungary
2006 The Slade School of Fine Art, London BA Honours, Fine Art
2002 Fine Art Painting and Sculpture, Ewha Woman’s University Seoul, Korea
- Awards & Scholarships
2009 Royal Academy of Arts Gold Medal
Royal Academy of Arts Dunoyer de Segonzac Award
2008 Sir Frank and Lady Short Award, Royal Academy of Arts
2006-9 Celia Walker Foundation award, Royal Academy Schools
2005 Project Award, Slade School
2004 Icarus Bursary, Slade School
2003-6 Thomas Scholarship, Slade School
2003 Project Award, Slade School The Old Student Association Trust Scholarship
2002 Friends’ Programme Hardship Scholarships, UCL Duveen Bursary, Slade School
- Solo Exhibitions
2010 Dozing River, Tina Kim Gallery, New York
- Group Exhibitions
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, Curated by Yoon Youngkyu @ KT&G, Seoul, Korea
The 60th Commemoration of the Korean War: present from past, Korean Cultural Centre, London, UK
Appropriate Modernism, Curated by Ken Pratt, Centrifugal Projects @ Trajector Art Fair, Brussels, Belgium
SeogyoSixty2010: 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
Emerging Korean Artists in the World 2009, 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 UK, London, UK
RA Schools Show 2009, London, Royal Academy Schools, London, UK
Summer Exhibition 2009, 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
ConsumeCreate, 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
2010 Ruth Salomon, a-n magazine UK 
Paul Carey Kent, magazine Saatchi online
2009 Insight magazine Issue 6, page 14-15, Art Scene
The West Muse Magazine Issue 43, March 2009, Page 12, Visual Art, Atkinson Gallery
High Fashion Magazine 4, April 2009, No. 326, Page 85-86, Paul Smith+Royal Academy
of Arts from London
ELLE Korea, January 2009, No. 195, Page 100-101, 12 Young Artists and Painters
2008 Rose, Rebecca. New Talent: Eemyun Kang. The Silver Library
Eemyun Kang, Eastern Art Report Online
- Selected Collections
Mizuho International plc London, UK
Ssamzie Space, Seoul
Ronnie Wood, UK
- Experiences
02/2009 Teaching at Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
02/2009 Teaching at The Slade School of Fine Art, London
09/2007 Attended Tihany International Postgraduate Program, Tihany, Hungary