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Education
2020  Ph.D, Design Major, College of Fine Art, Seoul National University, Korea 
2012  M.F.A, Fine Art in Media, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, UK
2009  B.F.A (The First Honor Graduate), College of Art and Design, Konkuk University, Korea

Selected Solo Show
2021  Freeze, The Great Collection, Seoul
2018  Flat Matters, One and J.+1, Seoul
2016  Drifting Coordinates, Gallery DOS, Seoul
2015  Words in dissonance, Seum Art Space, Seoul

Selected Group Show·Screening·Air
2024 -Director, Kiche, Seoul-Korea
2024 Endless Jorney to Black Night, Museum Hanmi Samcheong, Seoul-Korea
2024 To Dream the Impossible Dream, The Great Collection, Seoul-Korea
2024 G.P.S Art Navigator, Gallery Purple, Namyangju-Korea
2023 Host and Ghost,The Donuimun Museum Village, Seoul-Korea
2023 The Great Comission 6th Anniversary, The Great Collection, Seoul-Korea
2023 What I Want to See, Kiche, Seoul-Korea
2023 In Time, Gallery Moiso, Seoul-Korea
2022 Tourism, SeMA Nanji Residency, Seoul-Korea
2022 DMZ Art Project-Peaceful Coexistence Zone, Imjingak, Paju-Korea
2022 Summer Love, SONGEUN, Seoul-Korea
2022 Port to the New Era, Incheon International Airport, Incheon-Korea 
2022 NANJI ACCESS with PACK: Mbps, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul-Korea
2022 Grid Island, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul-Korea
2022 The Poetic Collection, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul-Korea 
2021 21tst SONGEUN Art Award Exhibition, SONGEUN, Seoul-Korea
2021 Beyond the Reality, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul-Korea
2021 East Sea International Art Pre-Biennale, Gangwon Institute of Design Promotion,
          Donghae Art and Culture Center, Pencil Museum, Haerang Observation Bridge, Chuncheon, Donghae-Korea
2021 Public Art New Hero, Dacheongho Museum of Art, Cheongju-Korea
2020 Open Source Studio, SeMA Nanji Residency(www.opensourcestudio.net), Seoul-Korea
2020 Not Open Exhibition, SeMA Nanji Residency, Seoul-Korea
2020 Access(s), SeMA Nanji Residency, Seoul-Korea
2020 C-R-A_C-K, Eonju Round, Seoul-Korea
2019 The Best World Possible, Platform-L Contemporary Art Center, Seoul-Korea
2019 Triangular Zone, Platform-L Contemporary Art Center, Seoul-Korea
2019 The Unstable Objects , SeMA, Nam-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul-Korea
2019 SeMA's New Acquisitions ‘Multi-Access 2913’, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul-Korea
2018  Nonunifiable Heterogeneous Individuals, Gyeonggi Creation Center, Ansan-Korea
2018  Festival GCC, Gyeonggi Creation Center, Ansan-Korea
2018  The Scrap, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul-Korea
2018  + - ±, Shinhan Gallery Yeoksam, Seoul-Korea
2018  Unofficial Discourser, Gyeonggi Creation Center, Ansan-Korea
2018  The Lost world, SeMA, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul-Korea
2016  Foggy Landscape, Daecheongho Museum of Art, Cheongju-Korea
2016  Seepferdchen und Flugfische, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen-Germany
2016  Makeshop Top 10 2016, Makeshop Art Space, Paju-Korea
2015  Ex-Air: International Exchange Artists Program, MMCA Residency Goyang Gallery, Goyang-Korea
2015   Open-Studio 11: De-position,  MMCA Residency Goyang, Goyang-Korea
2015  Made in Balmoral, Made in Balmoral, Bad Ems-Germany
2015  The Art of Space+Light, Ieyoung Contemporary Art Museum, Yongin-Korea
2015  INTRO, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary art, Seoul-Korea
2015  Art Edition 2015 Hong Kong, Marco Polo Hongkong Hotel, Hongkong
2015  BELT project, Gallery Bhak, Seoul-Korea
2014  Idaero 96hours, 40-40 Daehyun-dong(previous A-Land Bld), Seoul-Korea
2014  Szczecin European Film Festival, Kino Zamek, Szczecin-Poland
2014  Video Works: Words in fragments, Culture Station Seoul 284 RTO, Seoul-Korea
2013  International Streaming Festival for Audio Visual Art, Het Nutshuis, Hague-Netherlands
2013  Traversée, Espaces des arts sans frontières, Paris-France
2013  ABOUT BOOKS, KT&G Sangsang Madang Gallery, Seoul-Korea
2013  Internationell Konst Film Utställning, Jönköpings läns museum, Jönköpings- Sweden
2012  Thinking MEDIA, Gongpyeong Gallery, Seoul-Korea
2013  Booming, Gongpyeong Gallery, Seoul-Korea
2012  Oriental Art Exhibition, Old Print Works, Birmingham-UK
2012  Slade School of Fine Art MFA/MA Degree Show 2012, Woburn Square, London-UK
2011  Slade School of Fine Art MFA/MA Interim Show 2011, Woburn Square, London-UK
2011  EXiS Experimental film and Video Festival in Seoul, Korean Film Archive KOFA, Seoul-Korea
2011  Video Art Festival Miden 2011, Amfia’s square, Kalamata-Greece
2011  ARTchSO Video Festival 2011, La Librairie Planète IO, Rennes-France
2010  ATU Project: Matching Translation:
          Francois Ozon (movie)+Achime (Music)+Ahram Kwon (Video), dot-line TV/KT&G Sangsang Madang Cinema, Seoul-Korea
2010  Media Archive Project, Arco Art Center Archive, Seoul-Korea
2010  The 11th International Exhibition Nord Art, KiC: Art in the Carlshutte, Büdelsdorf, Germany
2010  EXiS Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul, Film Forum/Arthouse MOMO, Seoul-Korea
2009  FRESH A Festival of International Video Art and Short Film, Bangkok CODE, Bangkok-Thailand
2009  Busan International Video Festival, Community Media Center/Space Bandee, Busan-Korea
2007  FRESH A Festival of International Video Art and Short Film, Bangkok CODE, Bangkok-Thailand
2007  Artist KWON AH RAM, MantraTV Pop Up Project 2006, Time Warner Cable Channel 57, New York-USA

Residency Program
2024  Gallery Purple Studio (Namyangju, Korea)
2022  SeMA Nanji Residency (Seoul, Korea)
2020  SeMA Nanji Residency (Seoul, Korea)
2018  Gyeonggi Creation Center Residency Program (Ansan, Korea)
2016  Künstlerhaus Stuttgart Residency Program (Stuttgart, Germany)
2015  Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral, International residence exchange program of MMCA Residency Goyang (Bad Ems, Germany)
2015  MMCA Residency Goyang (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art / Goyang, Korea)
2013  Espaces des arts sans frontières (Paris, France)

Awards 
2022  Grand Prize, 21tst SONGEUN Art Award Exhibition (SONGEUN, Korea)
2018  Public Art New Hero (Public Art Magazine, Korea)
2018  SeMA Emerging Artists & Curators Supporting Program (Seoul Museum of Arts, Korea)
2018  Shinhan Young Artist Festa (Shinhan Gallery Yeoksam, Korea)
2015  BELT Project, selected artist(Media Art) (KPPPA, Korea)

Stipends
2024  Art Creation Support (Art Council Korea)
2023  RE:SEARCH Program (Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Korea)
2020  Art Must Go On (Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Korea)
2016  Arts support program (Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Korea)
2016  International Residency support program (Art Council Korea)
2015  Arts support program (Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Korea)

Collection
2023  SONGEUN
2023  Seoul Museum of Art
2021  Seoul Museum of Art
2020  Seoul Metropolitan Government
2018  Seoul Museum of Art
2016  Seoul Museum of Art

Video Archive and Distribution
2010  Arco Art Center Achieve, Korea

Publication·Review
2018  Publication ‘Flat Matters’, Ahram Kwon (N.MAS, UK)
2012  Publication ‘a state’, Ahram Kwon (N.MAS, UK)




Contact:    kwonahram@hotmail.com
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