Dongkyun Vak

Vak Dongkyun (b.1992) is an image producer based in Seoul, South Korea. His work has been displayed in numerous group exhibitions in South Korea, including at Seoul Museum of Art, the Asia Culture Center, and the Platform-L Contemporary Art Center. In March 2019, his first solo exhibition—«Universal Universe»—was presented at Archive Bomm in Seoul. In the same year, he took part in the group exhibition «Closer When Apart» in Ottawa, which was curated by Korea National University of Arts in cooperation with the Korean Cultural Centre Canada.

He studied painting for three years at Korea National University of Art in Seoul, before discovering photography during a stay abroad at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris in 2015. While he had worked with photographs previously, he had used them merely as templates for his realistic paintings. The efficiency of the camera as a medium ultimately prompted him to switch to photography «so as to be able to produce images of objects that are as objective as possible,» says Vak. He taught himself the technique. He has BFA and MFA degree in Fine Arts from Korea National University of Arts in Seoul.

Working mainly within still life, Vak observes a particularly technological o...

2021. MFA, Korea National University of Arts, Photography Art, Department of Fine Art, Seoul, KR.
2018. BFA, Korea National University of Arts, Department of Fine Art, Seoul, KR.
2016. Atelier Tosani, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, FR.

Solo Exhibitions
2019.
UU: Universal Universe, Archive Bomm, Seoul, KR.

Group Exhibitions
2021.
Pixel Generation: Photographic Studies, Hotel Anteroom Seoul(Gallery 9.5), Seoul, KR.
Korea National University of Arts MFA Degree show, Gallery 175, Seoul, KR.
2nd jgjj challenge: exhibtioin game, jungganjijeom, Seoul, KR.
2020.
Nozzle Check, B104 Gallery, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, KR.
2019.
The Scrap: Happy Together, 24 Wangsan-ro 9-gil Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, KR.
a slope, a drop, a poke, Space 413, Seoul. KR.
Flâneur(s) de Nantes, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, KR.
Open Your Storage: History, Circulation, Discourse, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, KR.
Closer When Apart, Korean Cultural Centre Canada, Ottawa, CA.
The 6th Amado Annualnale: Now in progress, Amado Art Space, Seoul, KR.
Aspheric Surface, Korea National University of Arts, Gallery B104, Seoul, KR.
ACC Youth Club, Asian Culture Center, Gwangju, KR.
Take Me Home, Platform-L Contemporary Art Center, Seoul, KR.
2018.
R.I.P. - Serene Remembrance, This Weekend Room, Seoul, KR.
PACK 2018 - TinkerBells’s Journey, Space 413, Seoul, KR.
The Material Montage, Gallery 175, Seoul, KR.
The Scrap 2018, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, K...