B I O G R A P H Y
Education
Studied Sculpture at Hongik University (Bachelor of Fine Art)
Studied Sculpture at Graduate School of Hongik University (Master of Fine Art) Studied Sculpture at Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara, Italy
Studied Sculpture at Graduate School of Hongik University (Ph.D)
Doctorate Dissertation: <Study on the Narrative in Sculpture of Late 20th Century>
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Summing Up (Gyoha Art Center, Paju)
2022 Song of redemption (Seosomun Holy Land History Museum, Seoul)
2020 Solo Exhibition (Pyeonggang Gallery, Pyeongchang)
2019 Solo Exhibition (Nonbat Gallery, Heyri PaJu)
2011 Solo Exhibition (Baum Gallery. Seoul)
2009 Solo Exhibition (Ho Gallery. Seoul)
2008 Solo Exhibition (Gallery Jeongmiso. Seoul)
2006 Solo Exhibition (Insa Gallery. Seoul)
2000 Solo Exhibition Korea Art Association Art Creation Room
Open-Studio “Sang-il Oh” (Ganghwa Creative Studio. GangHwa Island)
1999 Solo Exhibition (Arts Promotion Center. Seoul)
1997 Solo Exhibition (Orsay Gallery, Incheon)
1997 Solo Exhibition «Beautiful Dinosaurs» «My Classic Exhibition» (Seoul Arts Center. Seoul) 1996 Solo Exhibition (Geumsan Gallery. Seoul)
1992 Solo Exhibition (Moin Gallery. Seoul)
1990 Solo Exhibition (Dongsung Museum of Art. Seoul)
1988 Solo Exhibition (Gallery Hyundai. Seoul)
Selected Group Exhibitions
1994 “Asia Sculpture Exhibition” commemorating the Hiroshima Asian Games (Fukuyama Mu- seum of Art, Japan)
1992 Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art)
1991 TRA FIUME E MARE (between river and sea) (Bocca di Magra, Italia)
(“now” Italian foreign artists today) (Perugia, Italia)
1991 “PRESENZA” GLI ARTISTI STRANIERI OGGI IN ITALIA
1990 Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art)
Selected Public Collections
2020 And they didn’t hug. (Seosomun Holy Land History Museum. Seoul)
2008 The Spirit of Bard (Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul)
1995 Barammaji, Night Journey (Fukuyama Art Museum, Japan)
1990 Naked Body and Consciousness (Yonsei University, Seoul)

Sang-Il Oh was born in Jinnampo-si, refuging from North Korea during the Korean War and arrived in Busan by U.S troopship. After moving to Jeju, Geojae, and Jinhae, he settled down in Incheon spending his childhood. From the first solo exhibition in Gallery Hyundai, he has been constantly active as an artist by joining various group exhibitions in the U.S, China and Japan.
As an artist and educator, he has been committed to figurative sculpture and installation about the human body. His earlier work is in academic boundary based on faithful depict of real figures, which was flown to the subject matter of human hardship, anguish, isolation, greed, death, irony, and absurdity in the middle stage. Through massive and melting down human figure, we can peep into his deep concern about human existence. By different media of video and installation expanded from sculpture, he challenges a new aesthetic experiment.