PARK Chan-kyong (b.1965) is an artist and a filmmaker based in Seoul. He studied painting at Seoul National University and photography at CalArts graduate school in the US. His subjects have extended from the Cold War to the traditional Korean religious culture. He had solo exhibitions at Ssamzie Art Space, Atelier Herms and PKM Gallery. His works have been exhibited in international venues, such as Gwangju Biennale in Korea, De Appel in Amsterdam, RedCat Gallery in Los Angel...More

PARK Chan-kyong (b.1965) is an artist and a filmmaker based in Seoul. He studied painting at Seoul National University and photography at CalArts graduate school in the US. His subjects have extended from the Cold War to the traditional Korean religious culture. He had solo exhibitions at Ssamzie Art Space, Atelier Herms and PKM Gallery. His works have been exhibited in international venues, such as Gwangju Biennale in Korea, De Appel in Amsterdam, RedCat Gallery in Los Angeles, Kunstverein in Frankfurt and many others. For his directing, <Flying> was selected for the competitions to the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2008. <Sindoan> was screened in the opening night of the Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul 2009. <Anyang, Paradise City> was selected for the Bright Future section of the Rotterdam Film Festival 2011. Also in 2011, he co-directed the short <Night Fishing> with his brother PARK Chan-wook, which earned the duo the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the Berlin International Film Festival. With his brother, he went on to direct <A Day Trip> in 2013 and <Bitter, Sweet, Seoul> the following year. PARK made his sophomore feature directing effort, the shaman docudrama <Manshin: Ten Thousand Spirits>, in 2013. He is currently working as a curator, art critic, painter and film director.Less