Chan-Hyo Bae ( Korean: 배찬효; born 1975 in South Korea) is a visual artist based in London. He earned a Master of Fine Arts from

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in Fine Art Media and a Bachelor of Arts in Photography from Kyungsung University in South Korea. He is currently living and working in London.

Biography

Chan-Hyo Bae was born June 22, 1975, in Busan, South Korea. He studied Photography at Kyungsung University in South Korea. He was initially a

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but then a decision to study fine art in the UK changed everything. In September 2005 he started at

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where he was taught by John Hilliard, a world-renowned conceptual artist who uses photography. This encounter was to alter Bae's perspective and approach as he became a fine artist. Living in London for the past decade has not always been an easy experience for Bae. He has at times felt alienated and isolated; an outsider using an unfamiliar language and living in a different culture. He describes a sense of dislocation, almost disconnection. He also experienced, for the first time, racial prejudice which forced him to consider Western centric ideology that seeks to place a man like himself as ‘other’. He describes this as the Western need to “exclude and diminish differences”. This sense of ‘ outsiderness’ has become a core part of his work, as has his exploration of his own

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. He has produced a range of work using photography. His style of approach is very theatrical and staged producing large scale color prints. In his first series of work entitle
Existing in Costume
(2006-2007) there is a central subject shown in full length portrait style wearing costumes and holding objects. His next serie
Fairy Tales Project
(2008-2010) has more elaborate staged shots involving quite large props and often several characters played by actors. I
Punishment Project
(2011-2012) there is one main central figure, with glimpses of other people and characters in the frame. His latest serie
Witch Hunting Project
(2013-2016) involves larger shots, often in landscape format, but in which only one main character appears along with scenes of miraculous events. Evolving across and between all these series are common concerns and themes which give a sense of his artistic voice. Bae currently lives and primarily works in London, the UK.

Works

Culture, Prejudice and

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s are explored in the work of Korean Artis
Chan-Hyo Bae
Since moving into London for further studying from South Korea, He has expressed in his work the feelings of cultural and emotional estrangement he experienced in the UK. Several series with the titl
Existing in Costume
(2006 – 2016) saw him posing in variety of female historical western costumes, integrating himself into a history and society from which he felt excluded. Researched in meticulous detail, he created elaborate scenes of himself as a noblewoman from

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to Victoria periods. More recent work in Existing in Costume series has drawn further on the idea of placing oneself into a collective consciousness within the dimensions of nationality. He has chosen as his subject Tudor history as well as the realms of western

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: stories that have permeated our culture and become embedded into our general psyche. In his series, Jumping Into, Chan-Hyo Bae places himself at the center of paintings from the collection of the National Gallery in London by celebrated western painters, Titian,

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and Jan de Beer. He has selected paintings of

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ological subject. His historical impersonations enter the realm of the surreal, as the artist sets himself into a newly crafted animal skin patchwork painting. The paint seems to be cracking, disappearing in parts, as the artist pastes in the layers of his new composition. From the latest work, Chan-Hyo Bae had a question asking whether absolute faith and extreme beliefs are the fundamental causes leading to the hatred and detestation, rejection and oppression, and madness and violence. He is seeking answers to this question fro
Occident's Eye project
(2019-2020). Occident's Eye exposes the reality of violence represented by absolute faith. It recognises generosity and tolerance for others and the presence of communities living in ways different from humans, and asserts we need to try to live in harmony with all living things. And He challenged the limits of photography and attempted to extend the work to multi-dimensional installations and videos.

Exhibitions

Chan-Hyo Bae's work has been shown in many international exhibitions including Kunsthalle Wien in Austria; Museum of Quai Branly in France; Jewish Museum in the UK; The Museum of Fine Art in USA; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Korea; Natural History Museum in France; Russian Museum in Russia; LEEUM Samsung Museum of Art in Korea
Vestfossen Kunst Laboratorium
in Norway; Worker and Kolkhoz Woman Museum in Russia;

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in Korea
Daegu Art Museum
in Korea; The Museum of Modern Art in Azerbaijan;

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in the UK
Pohang Museum of Steel Art
in Korea; Museum of Arts and Design in USA;
Seoul Olympic Museum of Art
in Korea;

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in USA; Cite Internationale des Arts in France
GoEun Museum of Photography
in Korea; Aberystwyth Arts Centre in the UK;

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in Sweden
Baerum Kunsthall
in Norway; Santa Barbara Museum of Art in USA; Govt. College of Fine Arts Museum in India; National Museum of Singapore in Singapore; The Museum of Photography in Korea
Savina Museum of Contemporary Art
in Kore; Saatchi Gallery in the UK;

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in the UK;
Progetti Arte Contemporanea
in Italy; Chosun University Museum of Art in Korea
Wu-Min Art Center
in Korea, Fondazione Palazzo Magnani in Italy
Lithuanian National Museum of Art Vilnius
in Lithuania
Korean Cultural Center
Brussels in Belgium
Palazzo Tagliaferro Contemporary Culture Center
Andora in Italy
Busan International Photo Festival
in Korea
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
Cheongju in Korea
The State Russian Museum Exhibition Centre ROSPHOTO,
Saint-Petersburg in Russia
Deagu Photo Biennale
Deagu in Korea
Fondazione Palazzo Magnani
Reggio Emilia in Italy
Vestfossen Kunst Laboratorium
Vestfossen in Norway
Le Murate. Progetti Arte Contemoranea
Florence in Italy, etc...

Public collections

Chan-Hyo Bae's work is found in major museum collections worldwide, including * Museum of Fine Arts in Huston, USA * Deutsche Bank Art Collection in the UK * Leeum Samsung Museum of Art in Korea
Victorian and Albert Museum
London in the UK * Santa Barbara Museum of Art in USA *

Korea University Museum Korea University Museum (고려대학교박물관), commonly called The University Museum, is a history, archaeology, and art museum that is part of the Korea University in Seoul, South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (R ...

in Korea
Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium
Vestfossen in Norway * Statoil Art Collection in Norway
University of Warwick Art Collection
in the UK
Suwon Ipark Museum of Art
in Korea *

in Korea
ARARIO Museum
in Korea * Aberystwyth Arts Centre in the UK
University of Nottingham Museum
Nottingham in the UK * Art Bank National Museum in Korea *

in USA *

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in Hong Kong *

Hasselblad Foundation The Hasselblad Foundation (in full: Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation), established in 1979 at the will of Victor Hasselblad, is a fully independent, not-for-profit foundation based at Götaplatsen in Gothenburg, Sweden. The main aim of the F ...

in Sweden
Space K Museum
in Korea
Seoul National University Museum of Art
Seoul in Korea * The Museum of Photography in Korea * Ben Uri Gallery and Museum in the UK
Bærum Kunsthall
Fornebu in Norway
Clamp Art Gallery
in New york, USA
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary
Seoul in Korea

Publications

* ''A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Modern Age,'
Bloomsbury Academic
London: UK, 2023 * ''Imaging Migration in Post-War Britain_Artists of Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Taiwanese Heritage,'
Routledge
UK, 2022 * ''Queering the Subversive Stitch_Men and the Culture of Needlework,'
Bloomsbury Publishing
London: UK, 2021 * ''Occident's Eye,'' The Museum of Photography, Seoul: Korea, 2020 '' '' * ''The Routledge Companion to Media and Fairy-Tale Cultures,'' Routledge: UK, 2018 * ''Existing in Costume,'' The Museum of Photography, Seoul: Korea, 2018 * ''Contemporary Korean Photography,''

HATJE CANTZ Hatje Cantz Verlag (English: Hatje Cantz Publishing) is a German book publisher specialising in photography, art, architecture and design. It was established in 1945 by Gerd HatjeWayne State University Press: USA, 2015 * ''Contemporary Photography In Asia,'' PRESTEL; USA, 2013 * ''Fairy Tales Transformed?: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder, '' * Wayne State University Press; USA, 2013 * ''Looking in: Photographic Portraits by

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and Chan-Hyo Bae,'' Jewish Museum of Art; UK, 2013 * ''New Photography in Korea,'' Galerie Paris-Beijing; France, 2011 * ''Korean Eye; Contemporary Korean Art,''

SKIRA The festival of the Skira ( grc, Σκίρα) or Skirophoria ( grc, Σκιροφόρια) in the calendar of ancient Athens, closely associated with the Thesmophoria, marked the dissolution of the old year in May/June. Description At Athens, t ...

; UK, 2010 * ''Chaotic Harmony; Contemporary Korean Photography,'' Yale University Press: USA, 2009

References

External links

Korea Joongang Daily ''Korea JoongAng Daily'' is the English edition of the South Korean national daily newspaper ''JoongAng Ilbo''. The newspaper was first published on October 17, 2000, originally named as ''JoongAng Ilbo English Edition''. It mainly carries news a ...

; Magok's Space K Seoul transforms area into arts and culture hot spot by Moon So-Yong, September 28, 2020 # The Hindu Newspaper; Chan-Hyo Bae on using self-portraits to make sense of his immigrant experience by Sindhuri Nandhakumar February 16, 2019
London Korean Links
by Events editor 16 Feb 2019 # Sverges Television; Månlandningen fyller 50 – firas med fotoutställning, March 28, 2019 # Times of India; Chan-Hyo Bae's work is about exploring the ambiguity of the definition of belief by Purnima Sah, Mar 24, 2019 #

Hyperallergic ''Hyperallergic'' is an online arts magazine, based in Brooklyn, New York. Founded by the art critic Hrag Vartanian and his husband Veken Gueyikian in October 2009, the site describes itself as a "forum for serious, playful, and radical thinking ...

; Photographs Enliven the Public and Historic Spaces of an Indian City by Priyanka Sacheti, March 21, 2019 #

; Subverting the self-portrait by Moon So-Yong, February 24, 2019 #

Artsy Artsy, formally known as Art.sy Inc is a New York City based online art brokerage. Its main business is developing and hosting website for numerous galleries as well as selling art for them. It utilizes a search engine and database to draw conn ...

; Chan-Hyo Bae - Jumping Into, March 3, 2019 # The New York Times; 13 Artists on:Immigration by Zoe Lescaze, June 19, 2018 # Asker og Baerums Budstikke; Nå kan du se forkledde foto i Bærum Kunsthall by Eyvind Sverre Menne, February 7, 2018 #

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; The 2017 Edition of START Art Fair Comes to London With a Focus on Asian Art by Naomi Rea, September 12, 2017 # Visionarea Art Space: Sartor Resartus, September 30, 2015 #

; Rare Portrait of English Queen Anne Boleyn Identified Using Facial Recognition Software by Lorena Munoz-Alonso, February 18, 2015 # Inhalemag; site by Isahido, June 6, 2014 # Slate magazine; Cross-Dressing Throughout History to Fit In; by David Rosenberg, March 20, 2013 # Photomonitor; by katy Barron and Amber Butchart, July 9, 2013 #

Art Daily Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. There is no generally agreed definition of what ...

; Looking in: Photography Portraits by Maud Sulter and Chan-Hyo Bae, July 12, 2013 # Artribune; Crinoline, Corsetti e Parucche;by Slivia Somaschini, September 30, 2013 #Artlys; Identity And Migration Themes within Contemporary Art Explored In New Exhibition by, June 13, 2013 # Evening Standard; Looking In, Ben Uri Gallery - exhibition review, July 11, 2013 # It's Nice That; Words Liv Siddall, August 13, 2012 #

Santa Barbara Independent The ''Santa Barbara Independent'' is a news, arts, and alternative newspaper published every Thursday in Santa Barbara, California, United States. History The weekly paper was founded in November 1986, the result of a merger between ''The Santa ...

; Contemporary Korean Photography at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art by Charles Donelan, July 22, 2010 # Lenscratch; CHAN-HYO BAE: EXISTING IN COSTUME by Aline Smithson May 28, 2009
Purdy Hicks GalleryChennai Photo BiennaleMC2 Gallery
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