U-ram Choe

U-Ram Choe (최우람 1970) is an artist based in Seoul, South Korea

Choe was born in Seoul, South Korea He is a contemporary artist who works with kinetic sculpture His grandfather was a scientist who designed early automobiles, and his parents were sculptors As a child he began exploring art with clay He graduated from Chungang University in Seoul, where he earned BFA in 1992 and MFA in 1999

EDUCATION:1993 Chungang University, Seoul, M.F.A 1999 Chungang University, Seoul, B.F.A

November 2006 marked U-Ram Choes United States debut, as he opened a solo exhibition at bitforms gallery in New York City Since then he has exhibited at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville; the Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art in Dallas; the 2008 Liverpool Biennial at FACT, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool; Shanghai Biennial; Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo; NTT Intercommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo; Art Basel; Seoul Museum of Art; Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul; Metropolitan Art Museum, Busan; Galleria dArte Moderna, Bologna; Beijing Expocenter; Seoul Olympic Art Museum; Asian Art Triennial; and Manchester Art Gallery

1970 Lives and works in Seoul, Korea


SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1998 Choe U-Ram Solo Exhibition 2017, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
Choe U-Ram: [Stil laif], Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
Project Lamp Shop: Choe U-Ram Gallery HYUNDAI, Seoul, Korea
Anima, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey
U-Ram Choe Solo Show 2012, Gallery HYUNDAI, Seoul, Korea
U-Ram Choe Show, John Curtin Gallery, Perth, Australia
In Focus, Asia Society Museum, New York. USA
Kalpa, Bitforms Gallery, New York, USA
New Urban Species, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, USA
Anima Machines, SCAI The Bath House, Tokyo, Japan
U-Ram Choe, The Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas, USA
New Active Sculpture, Bitforms Gallery, New York, USA
City Energy- MAM Project004, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Ultima Mudfox, Do Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
170 Box Robot, Hello Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Civilization Host, Gallery Boda, Seoul, Korea
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 Odyssey:Navigating Nameless Seas Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Extension Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Utopias and Heterotopias The Wuzhen International Art Exhibition, The North Silk Factory, Wuzhen, China
2015 New Light-Catch Your Eye Metaphysical Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Seoul vite vite!, Lille 3000 Renaissance, Le Tripostal, Lille, France
Re:Kontemporary_Fermented Souls, Waterfall Mansion, New York, USA
2014 Signature Art prize 2014 Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
The brilliant art project 2nd - Dream Society : Xbrid,Seoul Museum, Seoul, Korea
Leeum 10th Anniversary "Beyond and Between" Leeum Samsung Museum, Seoul, Korea
Myth/History: Yuz Collection of Contemporary Art, YUZ Museum Shanghai, Shanghai, China
ThingWorld; International Triennial of New Media Art 2014 , National Art Museum of China(NAMOC),
Beijing, China
2013 Post-humanist Desire: Sexuality and Digitality in Contemporary Art Museum of Contemporary Art
Taipei, Taiwan
Site Specific Art Project: Choe-U-Ram, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Who is Alice?’, Spazio Lightbox, Venice, Italy
Era of Grand Navigation Korean Art, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
Kinesthetics: Art Imitating Life’, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, USA
Flow, Just Flow’, University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, USA
DNA (Design and Art), Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
2012 Korean Eye 2012, Saatchi Gallery, London, U.K
Re-Opening DOOSAN Gallery Seoul, Seoul, Korea
Google Zeitgeist 2012, The Grove, London, U.K
2011The Creators Project; New York 2011, DUMBO, New York, USA
Opening Exhibition, Jung-a choi gallery, Seoul, Korea
Code Name: Save Joseph Clinic Part2, Joseph Clinic, Seoul, Korea
2010 Made in Popland, the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Power House, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
Printemps Parfume, Centre des Arts dEnghien les Bains, Enghien les Bains , France
SACA-Soul of Asian Contemporary Art ,Hakgojae gallery, Seoul, Korea
i-Robot, Soma Museum, Seoul, Korea
Cybernetics , Poma Museum, Pohang, Korea
2009 Beginning of New Era, the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
The imaginary line. Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
No longer empty – Transformation, New York, USA
D-AiR Doosan Gallery, New York, USA
Eye of the pacific rim-SU:MBISORI, JMOA(Jeju Museum of art), Jeju, Korea
The Garden at 4PM Gana Art, New York, USA
2008 Made Up ; Liverpool Biennial, FACT, Liverpool, UK
1st Asian Art Triennial, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Open Space, NTT Intercommunication Center[ICC], Tokyo, Japan
2007 Sprit of Place; Genius Loci, 3th Biwako Biennale, Omi Hachiman City, Japan
Summer Show, Bitforms Gallery, New York, USA
Korean Host Country Exhibit, ARCO, Madrid, Spain
2006 6th Shanghai Biennale-Hyper Design, Shanghai, China
Seoul Forest Open Air Sculpture Symposium, Seoul Forest Park, Seoul, Korea
2005 Opening Exhibition, Bitforms Gallery Seoul, Seoul, Korea
Hardcore Machine, Art Space Hue, Seoul, Korea
Opening Exhibition, Gallery Chiwoo, Gwacheon, Korea
2004 Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art Opening Exhibition, Leeum, Seoul, Korea
Stillness & Movement, Seoul Olympic Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Busan Biennale, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Busan, Korea
Chinese International Gallery Exposition, Beijing Expocenter, Beijing, China
Offisina Asia, Galleria dArte Moderna, Bologna, Italia
The Armory Show, Pier 90 & 92, New York, USA
2003 Artist is a Magician, Gallery Artside, Seoul, Korea
Fake & Fantasy, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea
International Digital Art Exhibition, Uijeongbu Arts Center, Uijeongbu, Korea
D.U.M.B.O. art under the bridge festival, DUMBO, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Cartoon in Art, Art in Cartoon, Ewha Womens University Museum, Seoul, Korea
Prince & Princess, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
Electric Power, Kepco Plaza Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2002 Our House, Shinsa-dong House, Seoul, Korea
Football through Art, Chosun Ilbo Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Space! Unlimited possibility performance, Jayu Theater, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Planet of Insect, Seoho Art Museum, Yangsu-ri, Korea
Faery, Mongwan, Seoul, Korea
New Face 2002, Total Open-Air Museum, Jangheung, Korea
Imagination & Curiosity, Insa Art Space, Seoul, Korea
2001 Working Degree Zero Gallery Boda, Seoul, Korea
Childrens Month, Kumho Museum, Seoul, Korea
Digital Art Networking Project, Techno Mart, Seoul, Korea
Artificial Life, Busan Municipal Art Museum, Busan, Korea
Net-Plant Project, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea
2000 Sculpture Amusement Park, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
The Exhibition of Paints which make you better smart, Savina Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Expression of Period-eyes & hands, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Chungang Sculpture Society, Jongro Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Im-pregnancy, Art Gallery, The Korea Culture & Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Expression of Age, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Unexpected Visit, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
1999 Republic of Gadget, Gallery Warehouse, Ilsan, Korea
Korea Contemporary Art Trends in the 90s, Ellen Kim Murphy gallery, Seoul, Korea
Seoul Lumia of Century in Media, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Demonstration Bus, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Chungang Sculpture Society, Seonam Art Center, Seoul, Korea
99 Nine Dragon Heads, Cheongju national Museum, Cheongju, Korea
Blasphemy, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Garden of Mimesis – A Note on Life Written by Technology Artists, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
1998 98 Nine Dragon heads, Daecheongho, Cheongju, Korea
Chungang Sculpture Society, Total Open-Air Museum, Jangheung, Korea
1997 Three hundred spaces , Dam gallery, Seoul, Korea
Gwangju Aperto – The Special exhibition of 2nd Gwangju Biennale, Education & PR Hall, Gwangju, Korea
Chungang Sculpture Society, Seonam Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Sound – II, Yookyong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Awards & Residencies
2014 2014 Finalist, Signature Art Prize, Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation
Autodesk AIR program ,San Francisco U.S.A
2009 Residency at Doosan Art Center, New York
Kim se choong Sculpture Award, Young sculptor part, Kim se choong memorial work organization, Korea
Young Artist Today Award, Fine arts part, Korean government, Korea
2006 POSCO Steel Art Award, grand prize, POSCO TJ Park foundation, Korea
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