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" The perfected form of the sciences
​must be poetical ".




​​Novalis, letter to Schlegel, 1798




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❉ Butterfly on the Sun

Changwon Biennale
Seongsan Art Hall
Changwon
​South Korea, 2022
Butterfly on the Sun, 2022, Window mounted printed plastic (UV-resistant),
1800 x 1400 cm (Installation view: Seoungsan Art Hall)

❉ Noctis Labyrinthus
CITYA
Curated by Janet Fong
Koo Ming Kown Exhibition Gallery
Hong Kong, 2021
Noctis Labyrinthus (Labyrinth of the Night), 2021. Fictional plans for Martian city based on the structure of the human ribosome.
3D milled foam model of a valley system made using NASA data, with 3D printed Martian habitats.
❉ Perpetual Motion
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Yi Tai Sculpture and Installation Projects
Curated by André Chan
Art Central Hong Kong, 2021
​                      Perpetual Motion (Grid cell carpet map with suspended MTDNA Haplogroups of the World), 2021 
                 Custom made carpet, wood, UV-printed disks, lead, wire​, 350 x 350 x 800 cm

❉ Bird call full moon

Ashiya Schule Gallery
​Ashiya, Japan, 2020
Picture
Bird Call Full Moon, 2009,  ​Ink and watercolour on paper, 44.5 x 42 cm

❉ Creators in Lab

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​Art & Science Residency Program
​Asia Culture Centre
Gwangju, South Korea, 2019

Still Life, 2019,  printed roller blinds, aluminium rigging, lighting, cables, framed ink and watercolour painting on paper,
​240 x 600 x 600 cm (Installation view: Asia Culture Centre, Gwangju) Photo: Sarah Kim


❉​ Exile - Alternative Directions

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Artist Residency Project
​Chusa Memorial Museum
Jeju Island, South Korea, 2019​
Picture
The Roots of the Orchid, 2019, Ink pencil and water-colour on paper, 111.2 x 78.9 cm
Picture
Tear glands, tear ducts, tear drops, 2019,  Ink pencil and water-colour on paper, 111.2 x 78.9 cm

​❉ Portraits of Thought​
     思考の肖像

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​Art & Science Residency, iCeMS Laboratories
Kyoto University Centre for Advanced Studies
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Solo Exhibition
The Kyoto University Museum, 2018-19​​

​❉ The Cosmic Garden

Group Exhibition Curated by Jeff Gleich
​Orticolario, ​Villa Erba
Lake Como, Italy, 2018

❉ Circle

The Trinity Gallery
Seoul, 2018

​❉ The Shape of Information
     情報の形

​​COHJU Contemporary Art
Kyoto, 2017

❉ Surface series

Volta Basel
with COHJU Contemporary Art
2017

​❉ 13 love poems and
    a song of despair 

Sakyukan
​Niigata, 2016
Picture
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❉ Wabi Sabi Shima:
     Of the aesthetics of perfection
     and chaos in the Japanese archipelago

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Organised by Fondation Thalie
www.fondationthalie.org/en/
​Espace H18
Brussels, 2015
Picture
​Study for a fake moon (Lunar Earth-side geology), 2015, Ink and watercolour on paper, 111 x 79 cm

❉ Out of Africa:
     Under a full moon, with dead-ends,
     signal fire and old smoke

Doctoral examination exhibition
Kyoto City University of Arts
​2014

❉ Dividing Line - Connecting Line
     分かつ線ーつなぐ線  

Zuiun-an Project Space
​Kyoto, 2013-14

❉ Pattern Recognition
     パターン認識   

COHJU Contemporary Art
Kyoto, 2014
Picture
Two Large Waves (Temple roof diagrams with two point interference patterns and debris), 2013-2017, Ink and watercolour on paper, 148 x 180 cm

❉ May Dialogues:
     1st Annual Collectors' Contemporary Collaboration

Group exhibition curated by 
​Chang Tsong-Zung (Johnson Chang)
Hong Kong Arts Centre, ​2014
Picture
Parallel temples with circle steps, 2011, Ink on Paper, 116 x 147.5cm

❉ Art Futures 2011

Art Basel - Hong Kong
with ​ Man&Eve Gallery
​2011

❉ ¡ Que Esfuerzo ! 

MC Gallery
Seoul, 2011

❉ The Diamond Anvil

Daniel Cooney Fine Art
New York, 2010

❉ Art Futures 2010

​Art Basel - Hong Kong
with Man&Eve Gallery
2010

❉ The World of Red Dust
     红楼梦 / Dream of the red chamber

International Artist Solo Show Project
C.I.G.E.
Beijing, 2009

❉ Dark Ages

Man&Eve Gallery
London, ​2008

❉ Suspensions 
     부유 (浮遊) ​

Gallery NV
Seoul, 2008

❉ Different Similarities, Similar Differences
     相違の類似性  類似の相違性 

Sfera
Kyoto, 2008

❉ The Louder the Sun Blooms

Daniel Cooney Fine Art 
New York, 2007

❉ Miniature Worlds

Miniature Worlds
Jerwood Space
​London 2006

❉ The Topology of Being

Daniel Cooney Fine Art
New York, 2006
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