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Optical Adventure The works by Sun Young Byun prove that painting can hold its own against interior design prove. The Korean artist playfully mixes Asian and European patterns, confusing our typical orientation and thus readying us for an optical adventure. This journey flowers out of an overflow of styles: a calendar with Pop Art… Read more
Intro Bio Exhibitions
1967 | born in Seoul, South Korea |
1986 | Seoul Art High School, Seoul, South Korea |
1991 | BFA, Hong-Ik University, Painting Department, Seoul, South Korea |
1994 | MFA, Hong-Ik University, Painting Department, Seoul, South Korea |
1996 | teaching assistant, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA |
1997 | MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA |
1997-1999 | professor, Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, Georgia, USA |
2001-2003 | instructor, Seoul Women’s University, Painting Department, Seoul, South Korea |
2001 | instructor, Hong-Ik University, Printmaking Department, Seoul, Südkorea |
2000-03 | instructor, Hong-Ik University, Painting Department, Seoul, South Korea |
2004-06 | Extraordinary Professor, Seoul Women’s University, Painting Department, Seoul, South Korea |
since 2003 | instructor, Dong-Guk University, Painting Department, Seoul, South Korea |
lives and works in Seoul, South Korea |
2007 | MONTBLANC Young Artist World Patronage Competition, Hamburg, Germany |
2006-07 | International Artists Studio Program, Changdong, South Korea |
1999 | An Open Biennial Competition Organized Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, USA |
1998 | First Coast Regional Art Competition, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA |
1997 | Juried Competition, Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, USA |
1996 | Twenty-fifth Annual Works on Paper Competition, Cash&Purchase Awards, Northwest Art Center, Minot, North Dakota, USA |
Special Jury Review Committee Selects, Detroit Focus Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, USA | |
| Annual All Media Exhibition, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, Michigan, USA |
1993 | Grand Prize at Art Competition Sponsored MBC Broadcasting Co, Seoul,South Korea |
| Special Prize at Korean Contemporary Prints Public Subscription, Seoul, South Korea |
1992 | Promotion Prize at Art Competition Sponsored MBC Broadcasting Co, Seoul, South Korea |
2008 | Alexander Ochs Galleries, Beijing, China and Berlin, Germany |
2006 | ArtPark, Seoul, South Korea |
2004 | Lee Hwa Ik Gallery, Seoul, South Korea |
2002 | Gallery HYUNDAI, Window Gallery, Seoul, South Korea |
| Gallery IHN, Seoul, South Korea |
1995 | Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA |
1993 | SaGak Gallery, Seoul, South Korea |
1992 | Batangol Gallery, Seoul, South Korea |
2008 | ART FORUM, Berlin,Germany |
Female Sensibility, Gallery ARTSIDE, Seoul, South Korea | |
2007 | Pocheon Asia Biennale 2007, Pocheon, South Korea |
| Art in philosophy, Sungkok art museum, Seoul, South Korea |
| Taipei Art Fair, Taipei, Taiwan |
| Recomposition of Masterpiece, Savina Museum, Seoul, South Korea |
2006 | Christmas wish, Sp Gallery, Seoul, South Korea |
| Hybrid trend Contemporary Art Exhibition, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea |
2005 | Magic, Art, Cho Sun Press Museum, Seoul, South Korea |
| Sink into Space, Art Factory, Heiri Kyungkido, Seoul, South Korea |
| Movement on silence, Gallery DOS, Seoul, South Korea |
2004 | Fiction, love - Ultra New Vision in Contemporary Art, MOCA, Taipei, Taiwan |
| Exploration of Light & Colors, Seoul Arts center, Seoul, South Korea |
2003 | Plastic, Art Park, Seoul, South Korea |
2002 | Contemporary Art Fair, Central City Millenium Hall, Seoul, South Korea |
1999 | 27th Bradley National Print Drawing Exhibition, Peoria, Illinois, USA |
1998 | Group Exhibition, D.M.I, Company, Michigan, USA |
1997 | Looking to the Far East, Juried Exhibition, Detroit Focus Market, Michigan, Michigan, USA |
1996 | Interdisciplinary Group Exhibition, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA |
1993 | The 19th Exhibition of Seoul Contemporary Art Festival, Seoul, South Korea |
1991 | Balcony Group Exhibition, Gallery 2000, Seoul, South Korea |
1990 | Cupid Group Exhibition, Do-ol Gallery, Seoul, South Korea |