Woo Jeongsu
lives and works based in Seoul, South Korea


์šฐ์ •์ˆ˜๋Š” ์œ ๋Ÿฝ ์ค‘์„ธ ์ถœํŒ๋ฌผ์˜ ์‚ฝํ™”, ์œ ๋Ÿฝ ๋ฏธ์ˆ ์‚ฌ์˜ ์ฃผ์š” ํšŒํ™”, ๋Œ€์ค‘์†Œ์„ค์ด๋‚˜ ๋งŒํ™”์˜ ์บ๋ฆญํ„ฐ ๋“ฑ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์‹œ๋Œ€์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€์™€ ์„œ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์ฐธ๊ณ ํ•˜์—ฌ, ์ด๋“ค์˜ ๋งฅ๋ฝ๊ณผ ์„œ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ•ด์ฒดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žฌ๊ตฌ์„ฑํ•˜์—ฌ, ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋‚ด๋Š” ์ž‘์—…์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•ด์™”๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ์œ ๋Ÿฝ ์ค‘์„ธ ๋ฌธํ•™๊ณผ ๋ฏธ์ˆ ์—์„œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋™์‹œ๋Œ€ ํ•˜์œ„๋ฌธํ™” ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜์ธ ๊ณ ์Šค(Goth)์— ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ์™€ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์˜ ์„ธ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๋กœ์ง€๋ฅด๋ฉฐ, ๋™์‹œ๋Œ€์ธ์˜ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ณผ ์šฐ์šธ, ์š•๋ง๊ณผ ๋„์ „, ๊ณตํฌ์™€ ์ขŒ์ ˆ, ์‹คํŒจ์™€ ์Šน๋ฆฌ ๋“ฑ์„ ์•Œ๋ ˆ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์žฌ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜์—ฌ, ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€ ์„œ์‚ฌ์˜ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์„ ํƒ๊ตฌํ•ด ์™”๋‹ค. ํŠน์œ ์˜ ๋“œ๋กœ์ž‰์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ๋ƒ‰์†Œ์ ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ์œ ๋จธ๋Ÿฌ์Šคํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์˜ค๋Š˜์˜ ์„ธ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋ ค๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. 


2010๋…„์— ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์ข…ํ•ฉํ•™๊ต ๋ฏธ์ˆ ์› ์กฐํ˜•์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ณผ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ, 2015๋…„๋„์— ๋™ ๋Œ€ํ•™์› ์ „๋ฌธ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์กธ์—…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผ์š” ๊ฐœ์ธ์ „์œผ๋กœ ใ€Š๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋งก์— ์„ธ ์•…๋งˆใ€‹(์•„ํŠธ์„ ์žฌ์„ผํ„ฐ, 2024), ใ€ŠWhere Is My Voiceใ€‹(๋‘์‚ฐ๊ฐค๋Ÿฌ๋ฆฌ ์„œ์šธ, 2020), ใ€ŠTit for Tatใ€‹(๋‘์‚ฐ๊ฐค๋Ÿฌ๋ฆฌ ๋‰ด์š•, 2020), ใ€ŠCalm the Stormใ€‹(๊ธˆํ˜ธ๋ฏธ์ˆ ๊ด€, 2018), ใ€Š์ฑ…์˜ ๋ฌด๋คใ€‹(OCI ๋ฏธ์ˆ ๊ด€, 2016) ๋“ฑ์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ใ€Š์›€์ง์ด๋Š” ๋‹ฌ, ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์„œ๋Š” ๋•…ใ€‹(์ œ์ฃผ๋น„์—”๋‚ ๋ ˆ, 2022), ใ€Š์ Š์€ ๋ชจ์ƒ‰ 2021ใ€‹(๊ตญ๋ฆฝํ˜„๋Œ€๋ฏธ์ˆ ๊ด€ ๊ณผ์ฒœ, 2021), ใ€ŠFortune Telling: ์šด๋ช…์ƒ๋‹ด์†Œใ€‹(์ผ๋ฏผ๋ฏธ์ˆ ๊ด€, 2021), ใ€Š๊ฐ•๋ฐ•²ใ€‹(์„œ์šธ์‹œ๋ฆฝ๋ฏธ์ˆ ๊ด€, 2019), ใ€Šํ˜„๋Œ€ ํšŒํ™”์˜ ๋ชจํ—˜: ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋‚˜๋Œ€๋กœ ํ˜ผ์ž์„œ ๊ฐ„๋‹คใ€‹(๊ตญ๋ฆฝํ˜„๋Œ€๋ฏธ์ˆ ๊ด€ ์ฒญ์ฃผ, 2019), ใ€Š์ƒ์ƒ๋œ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„๋“คใ€‹(๊ด‘์ฃผ๋น„์—”๋‚ ๋ ˆ, 2018)๋“ฑ ๊ตญ๋‚ด์™ธ ๋‹ค์ˆ˜์˜ ๋‹จ์ฒด์ „์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.  ๋‘์‚ฐ๋ ˆ์ง€๋˜์‹œ(๋‰ด์š•), ๊ตญ๋ฆฝํ˜„๋Œ€๋ฏธ์ˆ ๊ด€ ๊ณ ์–‘๋ ˆ์ง€๋˜์ง€(๊ณ ์–‘)์— ์ž…์ฃผํ•œ ์ด๋ ฅ์ด ์žˆ๊ณ  ๊ตญ๋ฆฝํ˜„๋Œ€๋ฏธ์ˆ ๊ด€, ๊ตญ๋ฆฝํ˜„๋Œ€๋ฏธ์ˆ ๊ด€ ์ •๋ถ€๋ฏธ์ˆ ์€ํ–‰, ์„œ์šธํŠน๋ณ„์‹œ์ฒญ ๋ฌธํ™”๋ณธ๋ถ€, ๊ธˆํ˜ธ๋ฏธ์ˆ ๊ด€, OCI๋ฏธ์ˆ ๊ด€, ๋‘์‚ฐ์•„ํŠธ์„ผํ„ฐ, ๋ฏธ๋ฉ”๋ฏธ์Šค ์•„ํŠธ ๋ฎค์ง€์—„, ๋ธ”๋ž™์Šคํ†ค๊ทธ๋ฃน(๋‰ด์š•, ์„œ์šธ)์—์„œ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์„ ์†Œ์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.


Woo Jeongsu references visual images and narratives from different eras, including illustrations from medieval publications, major works in art history, and characters from fiction and comics. Deconstructing and reconfiguring their contexts and narratives, his artwork creates new stories. He works in realms of stories and images that range from medieval European literature and art to the contemporary subculture, presenting allegorical reconstructions of the experiences of people today: anxiety and melancholy, desire and ambition, fear and frustration, failure, and victory. In the process, he has explored new possibilities in image narrative. 


Woo received his BFA and MFA from the Department of Visual Art at the Korea National University of Arts. His significant solo exhibitions include Three Devils by the Bedside (Art Sonje Center, 2024), Where Is My Voice (DOOSAN Gallery Seoul, 2020), Tit for Tat (DOOSAN Gallery New York, 2020), Calm the Storm (Kumho Museum of Art, 2018) and The Grave of Books (OCI Museum of Art, 2016). He has also been featured in numerous local and international group exhibitions, such as Flowing Moon, Embracing Land (Jeju Biennale, 2022), Young Korean Artists (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Gwacheon, 2021), Fortune Telling (Ilmin Museum of Art, 2021), Compulsion to Repeat (Seoul Museum of Art, 2019), ใ€ŠThe Adventure of Korean Painting: I will go away all by myselfใ€‹(National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Cheongju, 2019) and Imagined Borders (Gwangju Biennale, 2018).


His works are held in the collections of National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul, KR), Seoul Metropolitan Government (Seoul, KR), Kumho Museum of Art (Seoul, KR), Mimesis Art Museum (Paju, KR), OCI Museum of Art (Seoul, KR), Doosan Art Center (Seoul, KR) and  Blackstone Group (New York, US / Seoul, KR).