2020-Kwanho Woo 禹寬壕

Creative experience

2019　Dot Museum Boundary of Daily
Professor of Hongik University, Korea
2018　Du art space Solo Exhibition, Chongqing, China
2018　Humanism-Poem of Earth for Human, Clayarch Gimhae Museum
2018　HOMA Asia Contemporary Ceramic Exhibition
2017　Director, Korea World Ceramic Biennale
2016 Jury，Taiwan Int’l Ceramic Biennale
2013 Chairman, Planning committee Cheongju Int’l Craft Biennale
2004~present Curator Asia Contemporary Ceramic Exhibition.
Ten times solo exhibition in Korea, Japan
2012　Jury，Mino Int’l Ceramic Triennale in Japan

10 times Solo exhibitions in Korea, Japan
200 times Inviting exhibitions in Korea, Japan, the United States, China, Europe etc.
Published 50 thesis and writing Art Publications

Project Proposal

This project aims to break down the boundaries between people and art, artist and viewer, and analog and digital. It seeks communication between art and regular people’s lives. The project works like this: someone receives one of my props as a “presents,” and then they place it somewhere and take a photo of it—just a quick shot, nothing too serious—or take a photo of it alongside other objects. After that, they “presents” the photos back to me, and I post them on social media. Finally, the photos are printed and exhibited in the museum gallery.
The main motifs in my work are human heads and tanuki. The head motif signifies human nature. As a local mascot in Shigaraki that brings good luck and wealth, tanuki (Japanese for raccoon) symbolizes human instinct. In addition, besides the meaning of " presents,"