M Heungsoon was born in Seoul in 1969 Currently IM is working between Seoul and Jeju as a visual artist and filmmaker His works deconstruct and expand the genres of visual art and film IM has been organizing and producing works in diverse forms crossing the areas of documentary film as contemporary art and public art individual and collaborative works exhibition space and theater and sites of everyday life IM started a career as an artist in 1998 and held a total of sixteen solo exhibitions His major solo exhibitions include Reincarnation MoMA PS1 2015 Things that Do Us Part MMCA Hyundai Motor Series MMCA 2017 Ghost Guide The Page Gallery 2019 Title Match IM Heungsoon vs Omer Fast Cut BukSeoul Museum of Art 2022 and Memories Showers Seas Jeju43Peace Memorial Hall 2023 IM has also been invited to a number of international exhibitions and film festivals including the Gwangju Biennale in 2002 and 2010 the Sharjah Biennale and Venice Biennale in 2015 the Taipei Biennale in 2016 and Carnegie International in 2018 As a filmmaker IM released eight feature films starting with Jeju Prayer 2012 He received the Silver Lion Award at the 2015 Venice Biennale for Factory Complex 2014 and the Audience Winner at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival for Ryeohaeng 2016 His works are in the collection of major Korean and international art museums such as the MMCA National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul Centre Pompidou in Paris LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art Stavanger Art Museum Stavanger Norway in the Sharjah Art Foundation in the United Arab Emirates
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