Koo Bohnchang
具本昌(クー・ボンチャン)
Koo Bohnchang currently lives and works in Seoul, Korea. He attended Yonsei University majoring in Business Administration and later obtained his doctoral degree in photography in Hamburg, Germany. He is currently the chair professor at Kyungil University, Department of Photography and Motion Picture.
Koo’s works have been exhibited in over 40 solo exhibitions including Camera Obscura, Paris, Kukje Gallery, Seoul and Kahitsukan Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia (2010) and his works are in numerous public collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Museum of Fine art, Houston; Musée Guimet, Paris; British Museum, London; Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul.
Currently he is having a major solo exhibition at the Museum of Photography, Seoul until January 11, 2020.