Moon Kyungwon (Korean: 문경원; born 1969) is a Seoul-based artist who received her Masters of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and Ph.D in Visual Communication from Yonsei University, South Korea.[1] Moon held her solo exhibition at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in 2004.[2] Her recent exhibitions include Poiesis of Collective Intelligence at Yamaguchi Center Arts and Media in 2013[3] and A Different Similarity at BOCUM Museum, Germany in 2010.[4] In 2012, Moon and a fellow artist, Jeon Joonho, participated in Documenta (13) in Kassel, Germany[5] and collectively received the 2012 Noon Award Grand Prize and 2012 Korea Artist Prize at Gwangju Biennale.[6][7] In 2013, the two artists put on a large-scale exhibition called News from Nowhere at the Sullivan Galleries inside the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC).[8] Curated by Sook-Kyung Lee[9] from Tate Modern, Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho were selected to showcase their collaborative video installation,[10]The Ways of Folding Space and Flying[11] at the Korean Pavilion for 2015 Venice Biennale.[12][13]
Moon currently works and resides in Seoul, South Korea and teaches at the College of Art and Design, Ewha Womans University[14]
