Ken Gun Min

Ken Gun Min (b. 1976, Seoul, South Korea; lives and works in Los Angeles) studied Western painting and art history and theory at Hongik University in Seoul and received his M.F.A. from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Solo exhibitions include The Lost Paradise, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver; Sweet Discipline from Koreatown, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles; Silverlake Dog Park, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles; Wounded Man, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, K Contemporary, Denver; and Becoming Palm Tree, Gae Po Project Space, Seoul. Min's work has also been featured in group exhibitions including Strings of Desire, Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles; i know you are, but what am i? (De)Framing Identity and the Body, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City; Sparkle In, Fade Out, Torrance Art Museum, Ca.; People of the Otherworld: Ken Kiff in Dialogue, Albertz Benda, New York; Who Is Your Master?, 1969 Gallery, New York; Bozomag: Bozo Family Hoedown, M+B, Los Angeles; and 36 Paintings, Harper's East Hampton, N.Y. A Hopper Prize finalist, Min has received awards from Direktorenhaus, Berlin, and the Kellogg Foundation, New York. His work has been published by Artnet, Artsy, Hyperallergic, The Art Newspaper, Wallpaper*, and Frieze.