Lives and works in Seoul, Korea
 
EDUCATION AND TEACHING
2004       
Guest Professor, Pentiment, Hamburg Summer School
1999-01 
Professor of Photography, Kaywon College of Art and Design, Seoul
1999        
Visiting Professor, Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design, London
1997        
International Fellowship, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, London
1986-98  
Photography lecturer, Chung-Ang University, Seoul
1992        
Guest Professor, Pentiment, Hamburg Summer School
1980-85  
Diploma Fachhochschule (Photography), Hamburg
1971-75  
Yonsei University (Business Administration), Seoul

AWARDS
2003        
Gangwon Documentary Prize, Korea
2000        
Lee Myoungdong Prize, Korea

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007         
Goeun Musuem of Photography, Korea
Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2006         
Kukje Gallery, Seoul       
“Koo Bohnchang” Kahitsukan, Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyoto
2005         
“Portraits of Time” White Room Gallery, LA
“La beaute endormie”  Langon, France
2004 -05 
"Masks", "White" Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris
2003        
"Bohnchang Koo: Recent work" Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York
"Masks" The Museum of Photography, Seoul
"White", "In the Beginning" Picture Photo Space, Osaka
2002       
"Fragile Tremors" San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts, U.S.A., curated by Carol McCusker
"Masterworks of Contemporary Korean Photography" Peabody Essex Museum,
U.S.A., curated by Clark Worswick
"In the Beginning" Shadai Gallery, Tokyo
2001         
Base Gallery, Tokyo
Prinz Gallery, Kyoto
Samsung Rodin Gallery, Seoul
Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco
2000        
"White Series" Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York
"Good-Bye Paradise" Galleri Image, Aarhus, Denmark
1999         
"Flow" Gallery Won, Seoul
1995        
"In the Beginning" Gallery Ississ, Kyoto
"Breath" Seomi Gallery, Seoul
1993        
"Good-Bye Paradise" Seomi Gallery, Seoul
1990        
"The Sea of Thought" Seomi Gallery, Seoul
1988        
"Clandestine Pursuit in the Long Afternoon" Gallery Busan, Korea 
1987         
"One Minute Monologue" Gallery Wide, Tokyo
Photo Interform, Osaka
1985        
"Twelve Deep Sighs" Hanmadang Gallery, Seoul
1984
Fotogenes, Hamburg
1983         
Pine Hill Gallery, Seoul

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005          
“Stilled” Gallery 339, Philadelphia, U.S.A
2004         
"Water" FotoFest 2004, Houston, U.S.A.
2003        
"Facing Korea" Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam
"East of Eden" 14 Wharf Road, London
2002        
"Two Korean Photographers" Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
"Korean Contemporary Photography" Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Sendai Mediatheque, Japan
"Floating" Art Center Silkeborg Bad, Denmark
"Everyman: A Search for the Male Form" Camera Work, San Francisco
2001        
"Awakening" Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
2000        
"Standing on the Threshold of Time" Odense Foto Triennale, Denmark
"Contemporary Korean Photographers" FotoFest 2000, Houston
1999       
"Phenomena" Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco
 "Fragments of Document and Memory" 3rd Tokyo International Photo-Biennale, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
1998         
"Landscape and Man" Ostasiatiska Museum, Stockholm     
"Alienation and Assimilation" Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago
1996          
A.O.I. Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1995         
"Art at Home" Seomi Gallery, Seoul
 Gwangju Museum of Modern Art, Gwangju, Korea
 Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeongju, Korea
 "Body or Gender" Gallery Nun, Seoul
1994         
Pima Community College Art Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
1993         
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
1990         
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
1988        
"The New Wave of Photography" Walkerhill Art Center, Seoul

COLLECTIONS
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
Municipal Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
Samsung Museum of Art, Korea
Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
The Museum of Photography, Seoul
The Amore Museum, Korea
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Henry Buhl Collection, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Museum of Art and Craft, Hamburg
Shadai Gallery, Tokyo
Kahitsukan, Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyoto
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Reykjavik Museum of Photography, Iceland

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2006      
Koo Bohnchang, The Kahitsukan, Japan
Deep Breath in Silence, Hangilsa, Seoul
Revealed Personas, Hangilsa, Seoul
Vessels for the Heart, Hangilsa, Seoul
2004    
Portraits of Time, Homi, Seoul
Bohnchang Koo: Mask, Camera Work, vol. 2, Museum of Photography, Seoul
Koo Bohnchang, Youlhwadang, Korea
Photographic Art Magazine, May, pp. 54-73
Photographic Art Magazine, October, pp. 40-47
2003     
The Photographs of Bohnchang Koo, by Diana Gaston, Art on Paper,Jan.-Feb., Vol. 7, No.4
Bohnchang Koo, Hysteric Glamour, Japan
2002      
Now, What is Photo?, Gana Art, Seoul
2001       
Art Magazine Wolgan Missool, May
Kunstforum 156, pp. 468-470
2000     
Ganjin, Tokyo Great Visual, Tokyo
FotoFest 2000, Houston, U.S.A.
1994     
Art Vivant, Contemporary Korean Artists, Sigongsa, Korea
1993     
Korean 30 Artists Now, Gana Art, pp. 44-55
Déja-Vu, Tokyo, Japan
1992     
The Sea of Thought, Hanglim, Korea
BalGeunBang (Bright Room) 1,2,3,4, Youlhwa Dang, Korea