Biografie
Ellie Kyungran Heo is an artist who explores socio-ecological solidarity, conflict and coexistence through time-based media and inter-/transdisciplinary research. Heo studied Fine Art at the University of the Arts London: Chelsea College of Arts (2010-2013) and Moving Image at the Royal College of Art (2013-2015) in London. Heo’s film works are distributed by LUX: lux.org.uk/artist/ellie-kyungran-heo.
Publikationen / Diskografie / Ausstellungen / Werke
Selected exhibitions and screenings:
- Utopia Garden, Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival, Seoul, Korea (2024)
- Did You Eat Rice?, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK (2024)
- ACC Act Festival, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea (2023)
- The Time of a Lap, La Chartreuse, Villeneuve les Avignon, France (2023)
- Radical Naturalism, Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn, Alabama, USA (2022)
- Plantarians, LUX Moving Image, London, UK (2021)
- A Museum for All, a Museum for Dogs, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea (2020)
- Plantarians series, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands (2020)
- Island, 21st Contemporary Art Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil (2019)
- Dear Cinema, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea (2018)
- Video Portrait, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea (2017)
- Sense of Place, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2016)
Residencies:
Résidence Artistique L'échangeur22 (2023, France), Spitsbergen Artists Center (2022, Norway), Jan van Eyck Academie (2019-2020, Netherlands), Nottingham Trent University (2018, UK), Hospitalfield (2017, UK), Asahi AIR Art Center (2016, Japan)
Grants and Awards:
IfCAR Research Grant (2024, Switzerland), a-n Artist Bursary (2023; 2018, UK), Research and Exhibition Grants from Arts Council Korea (2022; 2020; 2019; 2017, ROK), Arts Council England Research Grants (2021; 2020, UK), Arts-based Environmental Education Research Award (2020, ROK), The Elephant Trust Grant (2019, UK), Public Art New Hero Award (2016, ROK), New Discourse Artist Award (2016, ROK)