BANG HAI JA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026 — Bang Hai Ja: Sowing Light Across Heaven and Earth, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Cheongju, Korea
2026 — Printemps Asiatique, Galerie Françoise Livinec, Paris, France
2025 — Lumière sacrée, Galerie Françoise Livinec, Paris, France
2022 — Vers un nouveau monde…, Korean Cultural Center, Paris, France
2019 — Et la matière devint lumière, Musée Cernuschi, Paris, France
2018 — Chant de Lumière, Korean Cultural Centre, Ottawa, Canada
2017 — Bang Hai Ja, Galerie Guillaume, Paris, France
2015 — Bang Hai Ja, Galerie Guillaume, Paris, France
2013 — Bang Hai Ja, Galerie Guillaume, Paris, France
2011 — Bang Hai Ja, Galerie Guillaume, Paris, France
2007 — Souffle de Lumière, Whanki Museum, Seoul, Korea
2007 — Souffle de Lumière, Galerie BS, Tokyo, Japan
2003 — Lumière et Souffle, Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
2002 — Peintres du XXe siècle en Corée, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
1997 — Galerie Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
1997 — Galerie Enrico Navarra, New York, USA
1991 — Espace Miró, UNESCO, Paris, France
1988 — Galerie Florence Houston-Brown, Paris, France
1976-2005 — Galerie Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
1968 — Galerie Florence Houston-Brown, Paris, France
1967 — Galerie Florence Houston-Brown, Paris, France — First Solo Exhibition in France
1961 — National Library of Korea, Seoul, Korea — First Solo Exhibition

Selected Group Exhibitions & International Exhibitions

2026 — Bang Hai Ja: Sowing Light Across Heaven and Earth, MMCA Collection & International Works, Cheongju, Korea
2024 — Korean Abstract Art, international exhibitions and institutional presentations
2022 — Korean Art from the 1950s to the Present, Musée Cernuschi / Korean-French cultural programs, France
2019 — Et la matière devint lumière, Musée Cernuschi, Paris, France
2018 — Art Busan, BEXCO, Busan, Korea
2018 — Chant de Lumière, Korean Cultural Centre, Ottawa, Canada
2014 — International exhibitions in France, Korea, Europe and Asia
2008 — Le monde de l’expression, peinture d’aujourd’hui, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
2008 — Le chant des signes, Musée Chintreuil, Pont-de-Vaux, France
2008 — Peinture abstraite en Corée — 50 ans, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2008 — Les peintres coréens d’outre-mer II – Paris, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
2002 — Peintres du XXe siècle en Corée, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
1997 — Galerie Enrico Navarra, New York, USA
1991 — Espace Miró, UNESCO, Paris, France
1980s–2000s — Numerous international group exhibitions in France, Korea, the United States, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland and other countries

Major International & Institutional Projects

2018-2022 — Chartres Cathedral, France — Selected through an international competition to create four contemporary stained-glass windows for the cathedral’s chapter house / Saint-Piat Chapel.
2019 — Musée Cernuschi, Paris, France — Et la matière devint lumière, a major institutional presentation tracing her artistic and spiritual development around the concept of light.
2018 — Korean Cultural Centre, Ottawa, Canada — Chant de Lumière, solo exhibition presenting approximately 40 works.
2011 — UNESCO / Espace Miró, Paris, France — Exhibition presentation.
2007 — Whanki Museum, Seoul, Korea — Souffle de Lumière.
2007 — Galerie BS, Tokyo, Japan — Souffle de Lumière.

Selected Museum Collections

Works by Bang Hai Ja are held in major public and institutional collections, including the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Korea, and the Musée Cernuschi, Paris, as well as other public and private collections in Korea and France. (Korea.net)

My work explores the relationship between tradition and technology, the tangible and the intangible, and the physical world and the digital realm.

At the center of my artistic practice is an ongoing reflection on the Korean Moon Jar—a form that embodies simplicity, balance, imperfection, and the quiet beauty of emptiness. I reinterpret this traditional vessel through contemporary materials, digital technology, and new media, allowing its symbolic meaning to evolve within a rapidly changing technological environment.

Through works such as AI Moon Jar and 1330° AI Tunneling, I investigate how artificial intelligence and digital technology can create new ways of perceiving space, memory, identity, and existence. The idea of “tunneling” represents a passage between different dimensions of experience: between the physical and virtual, the past and the future, and human consciousness and artificial intelligence.

My practice does not seek to simply combine traditional Korean aesthetics with new technology. Rather, I explore how these seemingly different worlds can communicate with one another and generate new forms of artistic experience.

The Moon Jar becomes more than an object. It becomes a metaphor for existence itself—an open, imperfect, and continuously evolving space. Through sculpture, installation, video, performance, and AI-based media, I invite viewers to enter this space and contemplate the changing boundaries between nature, humanity, technology, and consciousness.

My work ultimately asks a simple but fundamental question:

As technology changes the way we experience the world, what remains essentially human?

Man Chul OH is a contemporary artist whose practice explores the evolving relationship between traditional Korean aesthetics, contemporary art, and emerging technologies.

Working across sculpture, installation, video, performance, and digital media, Oh investigates themes of existence, memory, space, perception, and the relationship between humans and technology. His artistic language is particularly rooted in the symbolic and philosophical qualities of the Korean Moon Jar, which he reinterprets through contemporary materials and digital technologies.

In works including Moon Jar, AI Moon Jar, Signature 1330°, and 1330° AI Tunneling, Oh creates dialogues between the physical and virtual worlds. His practice examines how traditional forms and cultural memory can be transformed through artificial intelligence, digital media, and new forms of spatial experience.

Oh’s work has been presented through exhibitions, art fairs, performances, and multimedia projects in Korea and internationally. His practice continues to expand the boundaries between traditional Korean aesthetics and contemporary technological culture, inviting audiences to reconsider the relationship between humanity, nature, technology, and consciousness.

Through his interdisciplinary approach, Man Chul OH seeks to create an artistic language that connects the past with the future and the tangible world with emerging digital realities.