Chaeyeon Kang works in the space between image and matter, the real and the virtual. Across painting, printmaking, image transfer and biomaterials, she looks at what happens to a digital image when it passes through a physical process: layered, transferred, stained and worked by hand, it becomes a surface that recalls skin, tissue, eroded ground or an unfamiliar landscape.
Her recent work draws on medical imagery, imagined anatomies and her own experience of the body, including illness, hormonal change and recovery. She treats the body not as a fixed image but as something that shifts through cycles of discomfort, resilience, decay and renewal. Rather than separating the organic from the artificial or the physical from the digital, she lets them overlap, proposing a third surface that belongs entirely to neither. She completed an MA in Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art, London, after a BFA in Fine Art at the Korea National University of Arts, Seoul. Her work is in the collection of the Seoul Museum of Art. She is based between London and Seoul.
Works
Eight images of work from 2024 to 2026, moving from image to matter: the photographic works 21gm dance, Tera and 28 days and the oil painting The Rehearsal, then paintings made with biomaterials and resin, ending with images held inside sculptural material.
Selected records
- Education
- MA Contemporary Art Practice, Royal College of Art, London (2025); BFA Fine Art, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul (2024)
- Solo exhibitions
- 28days, Fotograf Zone, Prague (2026); Soft Temple, Komplex, Korea (2026)
- Selected group exhibitions
- Liminal Field, Loop Art Critique, Art + Research Center, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami (2026); Enchanted Matter, SustainLab RCA, London Design Festival (2026); Roar, Mall Galleries, London (2026); Future Forward, Fugue Gallery, New York (2026); HARD WATER / SOFT STONE, Duplex AIR, Lisbon (2026); After Sense, Cubitt Gallery, London (2025); Borderlines, Fitzrovia Gallery, London (2025); Microverses, Changting Gallery, Tokyo (2025); The Chamber, Caption Seoul (2024)
- Screenings and programmes
- BYOB, Arebyte Digital Art Centre, London (2026); Cohort 20, Loop Art Critique Research Program, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami (2026); FRAMELESS, Ars Electronica Festival Campus Programme, Linz (2023); Third Life Garden, Ars Electronica Garden Seoul (2020)
- Grants and awards
- KART Artistic Creation Support, Arts Council Korea (2026–27); Artistic Creation Support, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture (2026); Special Mention for Quality of Research, CREA Cantieri del Contemporaneo, Venice (2026); Shiny Foundation Artistic Creation Support (2024); Re:search Support, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture (2023); IBK Young Creator Support, second prize (2023)
- Collections
- Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul; Silpakorn University, Bangkok
- Links
- kangchaeyeon.com · Instagram @cynk.l
- Enquiries
- For enquiries about the artist and their work, please contact KVAA: woori@kvaauk.org
Current exhibition
(mean)while
A group exhibition of four Korean artists, presented by KVAA and curated by Woori Ko. Fourteen works are shown in the exhibition at St Marylebone Art Space, London. Exhibition page