IM Heung-soon is an artist and filmmaker based in Seoul and Jeju Island. Starting with his early works on his working-class family, he has expanded his art world by exploring the lives of people who are marginalized in social, political, capitalist, and national contexts. His political yet emotional works are embodied through different visual mediums such as photography, installations, public art, community art, and films. He directed several feature films  such as <Jeju ...More

IM Heung-soon is an artist and filmmaker based in Seoul and Jeju Island. Starting with his early works on his working-class family, he has expanded his art world by exploring the lives of people who are marginalized in social, political, capitalist, and national contexts. His political yet emotional works are embodied through different visual mediums such as photography, installations, public art, community art, and films. He directed several feature films  such as <Jeju Prayer> (2012), Factory Complex (2014), <Ryeohaeng> (2016), <Reborn> (2017), <Exchange Diary> (2015~2018, MOMOSE Aya X IM Heung-soon), <Things that Do Us Part> (2019). His works recently have been exhibited, among others, at Sharjah Biennale (2015) and MoMA PS1, New York (2015), The National Art Center, Tokyo (2015), Tate Modern, London (2015), Lincoln Center, New York (2016), Pompidou Centre, Paris (2016), Taipei Biennale (2016), Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (2017), Busan International Film Festival (2017), the HKW, Berlin (2017), the Carnegie Int’l, Pittsburgh (2018).  In 2017, he had an exhibition ‘Things that Do Us Part – Belief · Faith · Love · Betrayal · Hatred · Fear · Ghost’, as a selected artist for MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2017. <Factory Complex> was awarded the Silver Lion at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015).
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