Kim Byungkwan

How do you do, all?
This is kim byungkwan from Seoul, Korea.
What I would like to express through my work is very simple.
I am trying to bring out strangeness from familiarity (visual habit).
Everything there is out there in this world, more or less, provides familiar vision.
This familiar vision can be replaced as habit. This habitual vision which every object gives us and creates comfort. However it shuts down all the other possibilities.
The habitual vision or visual habit makes us go by the routine ways. It stops us from having adventure and checking out the wonders out there.
My work is trying to destroy, tear up, and reconstruct this habitual vision so that our vision can be expended to other images.
I have strong faith in my work that my personal behaviour may lead us “strangeness within habitual vision off from the track."

[Solo Exhibition]
2026 'The Dreamer' HAPPENING SEOUL, Seoul, Korea
2024 'Redrawn Icons' Arte K, Seoul, Korea
2024 'After-Image' Gallery Grimson, Seoul, Korea
2023 'Floating portrait' Gallery Now, Seoul, Korea
2023 'Mr.Don' Salon Artertain, Seoul, Korea
2023 'Fantagy' GALLERY KIMSON, Busan, Korea
2022 'Out of frames' DGB GALLERY, Deagu, Korea
2021 'MIX SIGNAL' DGB GALLERY, Deagu, Korea
2021 'On the Stage' Artertain, Seoul, Korea
2021 'SPECTACLE' Polestarart Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2019 'Second Layer' Gallery Daon, Seoul, Korea
2019 'Black Painting' Salon Artertain, Seoul, Korea
2017 'Hysteria' Salon Artertain, Seoul, Korea
2016 'Empty Girl' PROGR, Bern, Switzerland
2015 'Behind the face' aA design museum, Seoul, Korea
2014 'Experimental Theatre' Gallery LA MER, Seoul, Korea
2012 'Drawing for version 0.0' Gallery GAHOEDONG60, Seoul, Korea
2012 'X-report', Gallery Aura, Seoul, Korea
2011 'Finalist exhibition-New Discourse Fine artist selection' Cyart Gallery, Seoul, Korea

[Group Exhibitions · Screening]
2025 'CLTRL CNTXT' CASS Contemporary, Nashville, USA
2022 'Beyond the Visible' LINA Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2022 'Switch Art Market' Paikhaeyoung Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2021 'Male of the Species' Arcadia Contemporary, NY, USA
2021 'Total...