Contact
ellie.kyungran@gmail.com

Education
2015     MA Fine Art, Moving Image, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2013     BA Fine Art, University of the Arts London: Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK

Solo Exhibitions / Solo Screenings
2020    (upcoming) Plantarians, Galleri 54, Göteborg, Sweden
2020    Plantarians, Exhibition Spaces, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands
2019     Face to Face, Korean Cultural Center, São Paulo, Brazil
2018     Dear Cinema 4: Ellie Kyungran Heo, MMCA: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2018     Plantarinas Series, Work-in-Progress Show, Bonington Studio, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK
2017     New Work: Plantarians, LUX Moving Image, London, UK
2017     Mount Florida Solo Screening: Ellie Kyungran Heo, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, UK
2016     Sounds That Grow the Rice, Asahi AIR Exhibition, Isshi Art Space, Nagano, Japan
2016     Talking Film: #3 Ellie Kyungran Heo, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
2016     Island, Solo Exhibition Award, Cyart Space, Seoul, Korea

Art Biennales
2019     21st Biennial Contemporary Art Sesc Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil
2016     Whitstable Biennale: Artists’ Short Film Programme, Horsebridge Arts Centre, Kent, UK

Residencies
2019-2020   Jan van Eyck Residency, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands
2018     Summer Lodge Residency, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK
2017     Hospitalfield Summer Residency, Angus, UK
2016     Asahi Artist Residency supported by Omachi City Council, Nagano, Japan
2016     Lumen Residency supported by Lumen Studio in London, Atina, Italy

Awards / Grants / Commissions
2020    Arts Council England Emergency Grant, UK
2020    Arts-based Environmental Education Research Award, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture Seoul, Korea
2020    Global Expansion of Korean Arts Grant, Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea
2019     The Elephant Trust Grant, London, UK
2019     Artist in Residence Abroad Program Grant, Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea
2019     Film Library Project Grant, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, UK
2018     a-n Artist Bursary, a-n The Artists Information Company, London, UK
2017     Artist in Residence Abroad Program Grant, Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea
2016     Public Art New Hero Award, The Monthly Public Art Magazine, Seoul, Korea
2016     New Discourse Artist Award, Excellence award, Cyart Space, Seoul, Korea
2015     Relax Digital Commission, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Trust, London, UK
2015     Dance with Hope Commission, Korea International Cooperation Agency & Mtree, Inc., Palestine
2013     Brush with Hope / Fit in Community Commission, Mtree, Inc., Mombasa, Kenya
2013     Caissa Rising Artists, Nominated Students from Art Academy, Beijing, China

Collections
Seoul Metropolitan Government (Museum), Seoul
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Trust, London
Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh
Close-Up Film Centre, London

Group Exhibitions / Group Screenings 
2020    Video Acts, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2020    Split Videoart Festival, University Gallery “Vasko Lipovac”, Split, Croatia   
2020    A Museum for All, a Museum for Dogs, MMCA: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2020    Visions 2020, Nunnery Gallery, London, UK
2020    Strangelove Time-based Media Festival, online programme due to the Covid-19 pandemic, UK
2020    One Minute Volume 10, online-screening, VisualContainerTv, Milano, Italy
2020    Open Studios, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands
2020    Experimental Edge Film & Art Festival, Tallahassee, US
2020    Sweet Dreams, screenings curated by Tatiana Istomina, Casa49, San José, Costa Rica
2019     OVNi Festival, represented by the Total Museum of Contemporary Art and The Stream, Nice, France
2019     Avant Edge Film Festival, Stage 773, Chicago, US
2019     Once Upon a Town, Storytelling Festival by Bureau Europa, Maastricht, Netherlands
2019     Västerås Film Festival, Sweden
2019     Life Screenings One Minute Film Festival, Florida, US
2019     NIGHT WATCH, Babygirl Movement Art Space, Maastricht, Netherlands
2019     Experimental Forum, The Complex Hollywood, Los Angeles, US
2019     The Screening Room, Visual Art Program, Salto TV, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2019     Musanghan Muhyuil @ Parker's piece, Space Onsu, Seoul, Korea
2019     Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg, Canada
2019    Strangelove Time-based Media Festival: Every Second Counts, The Photographers Gallery, London;
            Turner Contemporary, Margate; Fabrica, Brighton; Hop Projects CT20, Folkestone, UK
2018     Visions in the Nunnery, Saturday Special Screening, Nunnery Gallery, London, UK
2018     OVNi Festival represented by the Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Nice, France
2018     Ocean Contemporary Video Art, CineMare International Ocean Film Festival, Kiel, Germany
2018     Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany
2018     Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg, Canada
2018     Art Week Exeter: Bomb Factory Artist Film Festival, Awesome Art Space, Devon, UK
2018     One Minute Artists Moving Image Festival, Balaclafa Carn, North Wales, UK
2018     A Million Love Songs: Screenings, Korai Project Space, Nicosia, Cyprus
2017     Public Art New Hero, JCC Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2017     Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, UK
2017     This Way Up 17: One Minute Volume 9, Hull Truck, Yorkshire, UK
2017     Harvest Short Film Festival, Dorset, UK
2017     Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg, Canada
2017     Gödöllő International Nature Film Festival, Gödöllő, Hungary
2017     Curious Games, curated by aCinema, Woodland Pattern, Wisconsin, US
2017     Like caramel, LUX Moving Image Program, Pump House Pavilion, London, UK
2017     Video Portrait, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2017     Experiments in Cinema Festival v12.3, New Mexico, US
2017     Guadalajara International Film Festival, Guadalajara, Mexico
2017     Time and Space, CICA International Exhibition, CICA Museum, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
2016     Sense of Place, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2016     La Fine dell'Universo, Lumen Residency Exhibition, The Crypt Gallery, London, UK
2016     The Bomb Factory Artist Film Festival 2, The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London, UK
2016     One Minute Volume 9, Rogue Studios, Manchester, UK
2016     Lumen Residency Exhibition, Asilo Infantile Beatrice, Atina, Italy
2016     Mount Florida Screenings, Mount Florida Studio, Glasgow, UK 
2016     48 Stunden Neukölln Arts Festival: One Minute volume 9, Hi-ReS!, Berlin, Germany 
2016     C.A.R. Media Art Fair: One Minute volume 9, Contemporary Art Ruhr, Berlin, Germany 
2016     LightNight Liverpool: One Minute volume 9, Liverpool Small Cinema, Liverpool, UK
2016     Gödöllő International Nature Film Festival, Gödöllő, Hungary
2016     Mostra Internacional de Videoarte & Cinema Experimental, Lisbon, Portugal
2016     Screenings: Relax Digital Commission, CW+ Medicinema, London, UK
2016     CICA International Experimental Film and Video Exhibition, CICA Museum, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
2016     POW!Thanet, Moving Image Margate, Kent, UK
2015     TV HAS ATTACKED US ALL OUR LIVES, Odessa: TV and Radio channel, Ukraine
2015     Colony, LUX Moving Image Program, South London Gallery, London, UK
2015     Little Mountains, Embassy Tea Gallery, London, UK
2015     Show RCA, Degree Show, Moving Image Studio, London, UK
2015     Por Caracoles Film Festival, Seville, Spain 
2015     RCA Secret, Dyson Gallery & Art Dubai, London & Dubai
2015     ScreenSaver, Dyson Gallery, London, UK
2015     Flatpack Film Festival, Birmingham, UK 
2014     Experiments in Cinema Festival v9.72, New Mexico, US
2014     WIP Show, Gulbenkian Gallery, London, UK
2014     Kill Your Television, Worcester City Art Gallery, Worcester, UK
2013     S.I.T.E., Cook House Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
2013     Calissa Rising Artists Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2013     Chelsea Undergraduate Summer Show, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK

Artist Talk / Presentation / Lecturers / Symposia
2020    Presentation, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands
2019     Presentation, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands
2018     Artist Talk: Ellie Kyungran Heo, MMCA: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2017     Symposia: Personal and Professional Development, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
2017     Artist Talk: Ellie Kyungran Heo, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2017     Visiting Artist: Tutorials, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
2016     Symposia: Personal and Professional Development, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
2016     Artist Talk: Ellie Kyungran Heo, Asahi Artist Residency, Nagano, Japan
2016     Artist Talk: Selected Artists, Asahi Artist Residency, Nagano, Japan
2016     Chelsea Film Forum: Screening and Discussion, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
2015     Symposia: Personal and Professional Development, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK

Bibliography: Reviews / Journals / Publications
2020    These are the four most promising artists of the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, de Volkskrant, Netherlands
2019     Editorial: Standing in the Shadows of Plants written by Dawn Sanders, Plants People Planet, Issue 3, Lancaster, UK
2018     Dear Cinema 4 Reviews, written by Hwang Song Moon, The Literary Four Seasons 68, pages 56-65,
             The Literary Four Seasons Press, Seoul, Korea 
2018     Dear Cinema 4, pages 21-27, MMCA Press, Seoul, Korea
2018     K.NOTe: no 46, Notes Towards an Ecology of Empathy, written by Gareth Evans (Whitechapel Gallery film curator), 
             Digital publication, Total Museum Press, Seoul, Korea
2017     Public Art New Hero: Ellie Kyungran Heo, The Monthly Public Art Magazine, December, pages 47;56, Seoul, Korea
2017     Public Art New Hero, Public Art Magazine, pages 52-55, Seoul, Korea
2017     Video Portrait, Notes Towards an Ecology of Empathy in the films of Ellie Kyungran Heo, 
             written by Gareth Evans, pages 226-235, Total Museum of Contemporary Art Press, Seoul, Korea
2017     Experimental Cinema, Experiments in Cinema V12.3 (DVD), New Mexico, US
2016     La Fine dell'Universo, Lumen Studio Press, London, UK
2016     Facing the thing unseen: Ellie Kyungran Heo, Oito Times, Japan
2016     Ellie Kyungran Heo: Artist book, Asahi AIR Press, Nagano, Japan
2016     Critique Fatigue, written by Maria Walsh, Art Monthly: October 13-17, London, UK
2016     Public Art New Hero: Ellie Kyungran Heo, The Monthly Public Art Magazine, June, pages 86-89, Seoul, Korea
2016     Another View: Public Art New Hero, The Monthly Public Art Magazine, April, pages 33, Seoul, Korea
2016     Review: Island, Lee, S., Digital publication, Cyart Space, Seoul, Korea
2014     Review: Experiencing The Absolute, Harris, B., Digital publication, Art’s the World, London, UK
2014     Experimental Cinema, Experiments in Cinema V9.72: Disc 7 (DVD), New Mexico, US
2013     Exhibition for Nominated Students from Art Academy, Today Art Museum Press, page 165, Beijing, China
2013     S.I.T.E., Camberwell Press, pages 20-21, London, UK