Park Chan-Kyong (b.1965, Seoul) is an artist, filmmaker, and writer based in Seoul. Park received a BFA at Seoul National University and a MFA at the California Institute of the Arts. Park has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including Facing Korea: Demirrorized Zone at the De Appel in Amsterdam (2003), Parallel Life at Frankfurt Kunstverein (2005), the 5th Busan Biennale (2006), the 6th Gwangju Biennale (2006), Oberhausen International Short Film Festival (2007) and Unconquerable at Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City (2009), as well as solo exhibitions at Sszamie Space, Artsonje Center, and Atelier Hermès, all in Seoul. Park served on the editorial board of Journal BOL and as director of Alternative Space Pool. He was awarded the Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship in 2002 and the Hermès Korea Art Prize in 2004.
Organized by REDCAT Gallery Director and Curator Clara Kim and Doryun Chong, Associate Curator of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, this exhibition brings together the work of Seoul-based Korean artist Park Chan-Kyong and Tokyo/Kiev-based American artist Sean Snyder. The two artists first met in Germany in 2002, and their shared interest in North Korea and the politics of the Cold War led to this initial encounter and becomes the impetus for this two-person exhibition titled Brinkmanship. The exhibition will feature new works by Park and Snyder developed over an extended period of exchange and conversation during the preparation of this exhibition, alongside recent works that will provide a broad context for their respective practices.
Park's and Snyder's visual language operates between ...