Man Chul OH

MAN CHUL OH

Contemporary Artist | Ceramic Painter

Born 1963, Gokseong, Jeonnam, Korea

EDUCATION

BFA in Oriental Painting, College of Fine Arts, Hongik University, Korea

MFA in Ceramic Arts, Dankook University, Korea

MFA in Art & Antique Appraisement, Kyonggi University, Korea

ARTISTIC PRACTICE

Man Chul Oh is a Korean contemporary artist working at the intersection of painting and ceramic art. His practice focuses on porcelain, pigments, glaze, and high-temperature firing.

His signature 1330°C Painting series reinterprets the Korean Moon Jar and traditional ceramic aesthetics through a contemporary pictorial language, using the transformative effects of high-temperature firing as an essential part of the artistic process.

CURRENT STUDIO PRACTICE

Jingdezhen, China | 2016–Present

Currently working in Jingdezhen, China, developing new ceramic paintings and continuing research into porcelain, pigments, glaze, and high-temperature firing.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 Gallery We’R in Lotte department

2023 Art Plus Gallery, San Jose, USA

2023 Han Collection , London, England

2022 The 60th Anniversary Special Exhibition of Korea-Saudi Arabia ,Saud

Arabia

2022 Gum Bo Sung Art Center, Seoul, Korea

2021 The Special Exhibition at the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in

San Francisco, USA

2021 The Korean Cultural Center in Shanghai, China

2021 Han Jun Art Center, Seoul, Korea

2020 Art Plus Gallery, San Jose. USA

2019 Tong-In Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2019 Gallery Arisoo, Seoul, Korea

2019 L\'IMF Gallery, Paris, France

2018 Club Mow CC, Hongchun, Korea

2018 Art Plus Lynn Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2018 Han Coiiection Gallery,. United Kindom

2017 MANIF, Seoul Art center, Seoul, Korea

2917 Han Collection Gallery, United Kingdom.

2017 Coex, Seoul. Korea

2016 Arat Center, Seoul. Korea

2016 Tong-In Auction Gallery, Seoul

2015 SaeKyoung University Museum, Seoul, Korea

Selected Group Exhibitions: More than 230 exhibitions in Korea and internationally.

SELECTED ART FAIRS

2026 ART SG, Singapore

2025 LA Art Show, Los Angeles, USA

2024 Art Market San Francisco, San Francisco, USA

2023 Art Market San Francisco, San Francisco, USA

2022 Art on Paper, New York, USA

2021 Art on Paper, New York, USA

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, UK

National Museum of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Consulate General of the Republic of Korea, San Francisco, USA

Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, USA

Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the Republic of Korea

Seoul National University Hospital, Korea

Asan Medical Center, Korea

Hanil Cement, Korea

Heesung Chemical, Korea

Selected corporate and institutional collections in Korea and abroad

ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Lecturer, Hongik University, Korea

Lecturer, Seowon University, Korea

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Ceramic Painting · Porcelain · Pigment & Glaze · High-Temperature Firing · Oriental Painting · Korean Ceramic Aesthetics · Contemporary Ceramic Art · Art Appraisement

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.