
SEULGI KWON
When I was student, I usually use silicone in my work Silicone is a light, flexible material. that moves freely. It provides a simple and easy way for me to express my story Many artworks are based on the continuous study and experience of nature In my work, I actively express the organic movements of cells with their mysterious colours and constantly changing forms, creating texture with the materiality and transparency of silicone. I always try to express the living in my work so most of pieces have rich colours and unique shapes. My creative process begins with imagination inner visualisation and I movie those images onto the paper. I have plenty of freestyle drawings. Usually I depict my object in exuberant primary colours. The richer colours bring the drawings to life. It’s not an inanimate object any more Then I recreate the drawing as a three-dimensional structure. I was very inspired by Dong Chun Lee, a professor at Kookmin University in South Korea. I have learned a lot under his tutelage and have become an artist who tries to listen to the inner voice of the object.
∎Born April, 6, 1983, Seoul, South Korea
∎Education
2007.08~2010.08
Master of Fine Art, Metalwork and Jewelry, Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea.
2002.02~2007.02
Bachelor of Fine Art, Metalwork and Jewelry, Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea.
∎Award
2013 BKV Prize 2013 "Third Prize", Munich, Germany
2012 Cominelli Foundation 2012 Award "First Prize", Fondazione Cominelli, Italy
2011 BKV Prize 2011, Munich, Germany
2011 Preziosa Young 2011, Florence, Italy
2010 Cominelli Foundation 2010 Award, Fondazione Cominelli, Italy
2010 Excellent Achievement of M.F.A., Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea
2009 International Craft Exhibition ITAMI "Judge's Choices Prize", Hyogo, Japan
2009 TALENTE AWARD "kunststoff" Prize, Munich, Germany
2007 Graduate Metal X1, Adelaide, Australia
2004 MINI LOOKS AWARD 2nd "UNIQUE" Prize, New York, America
∎Exhibition (group)
2013 Christhmas Exhibition, Tereza Seabra - Joias de Autor, Lisbon, Portugal
2013 Objects of Status, Gallery NOEL GUYOMARCH, Montreal, Canada
2013 Power & Adornment Part II Mobilia Gallery, Massachusetts, US
2013 World Design Week in Daegu Daegu Gyeongbuk Design Center, Korea
2013 Flower of Desire- a new generation or art jewelry Gallery ARTLINK, Seoul, Korea
2013 JOYA- Contemporary Jewelry Art Fair Placa dels Angels, Barcelona, Spain
2013 BKV Prize 2013 for Young Applied Arts the Bayerischer Kunstgewerbe-Verein, Munich,
Germany
2013 VOGOZE SUMMER OBJECT VOGOZE, Seoul, Korea
2013 NEW CALEDONIA Hotel Art Fair Le Meridien Noumea, France
2013 G-Seoul Art Fair Hilton Hotel, Seoul, Korea
2013 Only one MOK SPASE, London, United Kindom
2013 Seoul International Jewelry Art Fair - the Jangsingoo HOMA Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2013 AHAF HongKong Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Hong Kong, China
2012 Memorist Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2012 ALCHEMISTS Korea Craft & Design Foundation, Seoul, Korea
2012 50 Brooch Idea Space Duru Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2012 PRIVATE LAVEL Gallery Ahwon, Seoul, Korea
2012 Cominelli Foundation 2012 Winner's Exhibition Fondazione Cominelli, Italy
2012 Flourish Kath Libbert Jewellery Gallery, Salts Mill, United Kindom
2012 Wearable Fantasy Gallery Baum, Heyli, South Korea
2012 Handwork & Design International Craft Fair, Munich, Germany
2011 Preziosa Young_contemporary jewellery
Firenze, Italy / 2012 Munich, Germany/ Hanau, Germany / Legnica, Poland
2011 SIERAAD art Fair ,amsterdam, Netherlands
2011 BKV Prize 2011 ,the Bayerischer Kunstgewerbe-Verein, Munich, Germany
2011 Containers , Duru Art Space, Seoul, Korea
2011 FOUR+FORMS , Gallery In young Bakery, Seoul, Korea
2010 each & other , Gallery KiMiart, Seoul, Korea
2010 Premio per il gioiello contemporaneo Fondazione Cominelli,
Fondazione Cominelli, Italy
2010 International Graduation Show 2010, Gallery Marzee, Netherlands
2010 Contemporary Ornament +10, Korea Craft & Design Foundation,
Seoul, Korea
2010 Object in life-color, Pusan, Korea
2008 ALCHEMISTS self-protection, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2008 Graduate Metal X1 Emerging ideas in jewelry & object, Australia
2007 ALCHEMISTS May I have your order?, Gallery 長, Seoul, Korea
2006 Graduate Exhibition Sok-Nae , NOAM Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2006 Seoul Design Fair, Seoul, Korea
2005 Gift of December, Seoul, Korea
2004 Seoul Design Fair, Seoul, Korea
∎Publication
2013 Wedding& House, Kazakhstan
2013 the JEWELRY Vol.61, Korea
2013 EXCEPTIONAL JEWELLERY, Netherlands
2013 the JEWELRY Vol.60, Korea
2013 LARK BOOKS 500 Art Necklaces, America
2013 the JEWELRY Vol.59, Korea
2012 ART AUREA , Italy
2012 G.colon, Korea
2009 LARK BOOKS 500 Plastic & Resin Jewelry, America