HEO Taewon

Profile

Graduated from School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA in Painting & Drawing, in 2006.
Recent 5 main activities (personal exhibitions, group exhibitions, concerts) are

- "May I plant flowers here?", solo, Seoul City Hall, Seoul, 2017

- "New Drawing Project", group, Chang Ucchin Museum of Art, Yangju, 2017

- "10th SeMA Nanji residency Review", group, SeMA Storage, Seoul, 2017

- "Micro City Lab", group, Indie art hall Gong, Seoul, 2016

- "SeMA Collection Showcase", group, Buk Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, 2016

Other activities are

- 18th Young Artists of the Year Award, Daegu Art Center, Daegu, 2015

- SeMA Emerging Artist Support and Grant, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, 2013

- Emerging Artist Grant, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul, 2011

He had solo shows including "Painting"(Gallery Factory, Seoul), "Geumcheon Communal Garden"(Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul), and participated in numerous group shows such as "Changwon Sculpture Biennale"(Changwon, 2014), "Project Daejeon 2012: Energy" Biennale(Daejeon, 2012), etc. He was resident artist at AIAV(Japan, 2014) and SeMA Nanji(Korea, 2016).

About works / performance

Untitled, 2013, acrylic on cracks of gallery floor, variable size

Untitled (one of series), 2016, inkjet print, variable size

Untitled, 2014, inkjet print, variable size

May I plant flowers here?, 2011-2017, site-specific flower planting, variable size

Garden of perfect circle, 2014-2016, Sungsimwon-specific garden making, variable size

Your pots, 2016, inkjet print, variable size

Yeomnidong Blues, 2017, blue pots from yeomnidong, blue paintings, blue photos, variable size