Bona Park

Born in Seoul, Korea

Currently lives and works in Seoul

Education

2006-2008 MFA Art practice, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK

2001-2004 BA Fine art, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, Korea

1996-2000 BA English literature and BA Mass communication, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea

Selected solo shows & projects

2019 Black Holes Have No Hair, Gallery Choson, Seoul, Korea

2019 Re-enactments, Cartel Space, Bangkok, Thailand

2015 Kotakina Blue, Sindoh Art Space, Seoul, Korea

2013 Friends, Gallery Choson, Seoul, Korea

2011 FREE Flight, Platform Place 629, Seoul, Korea

2011 X Reverse, Pingpong Art Space , Taipei, Taiwan

2009 X2, The Room _ project space in Total Museum, Seoul, Korea

2005 Ya project 01 - Park, Bona, gallery Ga, Seoul, Korea

Selected group shows & projects

2022 Delivery in Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Cheongju,Korea

2022 A Season of Meditation, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea

2022 Past, Present, Future, SongEun Artspace, Seoul, Korea

2022 SEMA Learning Station: Shift, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2021 Shadow Cast, Scape Public Art 2021, Christchurch, New Zealand

2021 Rising-Rain: Amsa public art project, Amsa-dong Prehistoric Site Museum, Seoul, Korea

2021 IGMO: Ignorant Mobility, igmo.app, Seoul, Korea

2021 Monitor 3.1, The Physics Room, Aotearoa, New Zealand

2020 A Museum for All, a Museum for dogs, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul, Korea

2020 Sound Museum, D Museum, Seoul, Korea

2019 Animating Loop, Space Gongwon, Seoul, Korea

2019 The Sea Will Not Sink, Ansan Arts Center & Boan 1942, Seoul, Korea

2019 Asia, Australia, and Pacific, Fundación Centro Cultural Palacio La Moneda (CCPLM), Santiago, Chile

2018 Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia

2018 A Power Play, SongEun Artspace, Seoul, Korea

2018 The Dialectic of the Stars: Extinction Dancefloor, Platform_L, Seoul, Korea

2017 8 Works, Collections of the Artists, Audio Visual Pavilion, Seoul, Korea

2017 Score, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea

2016 Body Matters, Soma Museum, Seoul, Korea

2016 APAP5, Anyang Public Art Project, Anyang, Korea

2016 The 8th Climate -What Does Art Do, Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju, Korea

2015 SongEun Art Award exhibition, SongEun Artspace, Seoul, Korea

2015 You Speak/ I Dance, Doris Mccarthy gallery, UTSC, Toronto, Canada

2015 XIXO, Redchurch taproom, London, UK

2015 Mentalist, Delfina Foundation, London, UK

2015 Repeat/ Rehearse, Delfina Foundation, London, UK

2014 Artspectrum 2014, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2013 Kissing Complexity, Aleph Project, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

2013 Twilight Project, Cheng Da Bookstore, Tainan, Taiwan

2013 Learning Machine, opening performance, Nam Jun Paik Museum, Korea

2012 Image and Text - Ut Pictura Poesis, One and J. Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2012 The 2012 New Museum Triennial, 'The Ungovernables', New Museum, New York, USA

2011 From Blank Pages, Art Space Pool, Seoul, Korea

2011 EMAF (Ewha Media Art Festival) 2011, Ewha Women's University, Seoul, Korea

2011 Live Ammo, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Taipei, Taiwan

2010 Island - Gyeonggi Creation Center local collaboration project, Gyeonggi Creation Center, Ahnsan, Korea

2010 Conceal from Your Eyes, Centro Cultural Bastero, Andoain, Spain

2010 Cooperation, not Corporation, ITS-Z1, International Test Site, Ritopek, Serbia

2010 Residency Parade, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, Korea

2010 Out of Line, space Hamilton, Seoul, Korea

2010 Novel 01: in search of Junhon Lee, gallery Takeout Drawing, Seoul, Korea

2009 Flexible Aura, Brain Factory, Seoul, Korea

2009 Unidee in Progress,Cittadellarte -Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy

2009 Jamais-Vu, H.Forman & Son event hall, London, UK - 2009 Hackney Wicked Festival

2008 Visual Vocabulary : between image and word, the Gallery in Willesden Green Library, London, UK

2007 The Shifted State, Bear Space, London, UK

2005 15 Villages Stories in Gwangju, the City Hall, Gwangju, Korea

2005 Let's Go to Venice Biennale, gallery 175, Seoul, Korea

Collaboration projects - Michelangelo Pistoletto Band

2013 APAP, Anyang, Korea

2012 19 mins Performance Relay, Seoul Art Space Seogyo, Seoul, Korea

2012 Play Time, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea

2012 Where the Wild Things Are, The Paintbrush Factory, Cluj, Romania

2012 Asynchronous Lifeworld, Juming Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

2012 Aeroflot (Аэрофлот) project, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, Korea

2012 Michelangelo Pistoletto Band @ Dunedin, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand

2012 Michelangelo Pistoletto Band @ Auckland, St. Paul gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2012 Michelangelo Pistoletto Band @ Wellington, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

2011 Michelangelo Pistoletto Band @ Incheon, Korea (collaborated with Eunji Cho), Space Beam, Seoul, Korea

2010 123 Band Performance (collaborated with Eunji Cho), Concrete Island opening by Okin Collective,gallery Takeout Drawing, Seoul, Korea

2010 ReaEstateBoxEmptySeongamIsland123(collaborated with Eunji Cho), Seongam Island, Ahnsan, Korea

Collaboration projects

2011 Ellery Queen: The Finishing Stroke (collaborated with Roisin Byrne) Space O'newall, Seoul, Korea

Awards & residencies

2016 Sema Nanji residency, Seoul, Korea

2015 15th SongEun Art prize, SongEun Art Foundation, Seoul, Korea

2015 Performance as process, Delfina Foundation, London, UK

2013 3rd SINAP (SINDOH artist supporting program), Seoul, Korea

2013 Twilight Project, Tainan, Taiwan

2011-2012 Seoul Art Space _Geumcheon, Seoul, Korea (as Michelangelo Pistoletto Band with with Eunji Cho)

2011 Collaboration Project with Eunji Cho selected and supported by Space Beam, Incheon, Korea

2011 Pingpong Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan

2010 -2011 Studio 683, Korean National University of Arts, Seoul, Korea

2010 Artist Residency, Gyeonggi Creation Center, Ahnsan, Korea

2009 Artist Residency, Cittadellarte- Fondazione Pistoletto, (UNESCO-Aschberg Grant), Biella, Italy

2006 New Face Artist for 2006 awarded by the monthly magazine, 'Art in Culture', Korea

Publications & articles

2017 Score, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea

2016 APAP5, Anyang Foundation for Culture and Art, Anyang, Korea

2016 The 8th Climate -What Does Art Do, Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju, Korea

2016 Body Matters, Soma Museum, Seoul, Korea

2016 Sema Nanji residency, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2015 15th SongEun Art prize, SongEun Art Foundation, Seoul, Korea

2014 Art Spectrum 2014, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2012 Showpaper #133, New York, USA

2012 2011-2012 Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, Korea

2011 Ellery Queen: The Finishing Stroke, Space O'newall, Seoul, Korea

2011 Free Flight, Bona Park, Press Kit Press, Seoul, Korea

2010 Island, Gyeonggi Creation Center local collaboration project, Gyeonggi Creation Center, Ahnsan, Korea

2010 Novel 01 : Footnotes Without Text , Roundabout, Seoul, Korea

2009 Flexible Aura, Brain Factory, Seoul, Korea

2009 Unidee 2009, Cittadellarte-Foundazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy

2009 Bona Park, X,XX,X2, The Room (The project space in Total Museum), Seoul , Korea