Park Chan-kyong

Park Chan-kyong is a South Korean media artist, filmmaker, and arts critic. Park is known for his advocacy of the revival of minjung art in the 90s through both exhibition organizing and writing. With his first solo show in 1997, Park's career as a media artists working across photography, film, sculpture, and installation art took off, even as he continued to write criticism and curate shows. His multimedia works often deal with traumatic moments in Korean modern and contemporary history, the relevance of tradition in the modern age, and the shifting role of spiritual practices like shamanism in contemporary Korea.