CV:   엘리 허경란 / Ellie Kyungran Heo (since 2013)
Contact
ellie.kyungran@gmail.com
Solo Exhibitions and Solo Screenings
2024    Utopia Garden, Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival(nemaf2024), Seoul, Korea
2024    
Did You Eat Rice?, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK
2022    
Radical Naturalism, Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn, Alabama, USA
2022    Get Some Sunshine, ​​​​​​​Spitsbergen Artists Center, Svalbard, Norway
2021     
Plantarians (2017-2020), LUX Moving Image, London, UK
2021    
Ellie Kyungran Heo: Island, Online Exhibition, LUX Moving Image, London, UK 
2021     
Indi-Visual: Ellie Kyungran Heo, EXiS: Experimental Film & Video Festival Seoul, Seoul, Korea  
2020    
Plantarians, Gallery 54, Gothenburg, 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
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: Did You Eat Rice?, Asahi AIR Exhibition, Isshi Art Space, Nagano, Japan
2016     Island, Solo Exhibition Award, Cyart Space, Seoul, Korea
Art Biennales
2019     21st Contemporary Art Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil
2016     Whitstable Biennale: Artists’ Short Film Programme, Horsebridge Arts Centre, Kent, UK
Residencies
2023    Mobility Program Residency, Echangeur22, Saint Laurent des Arbres, France
2022    Spitsbergen Residency supported by Arts Council England, Spitsbergen Artists Center, Svalbard, Norway
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
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
Awards, Grants and Commissions
2024    IfCAR Research Grant, Institute for Contemporary Art Research, Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich, Switzerland
2023    a-n Artist Bursary, Research Grant, a-n The Artists Information Company, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

2022    Multidisciplinary Art Creation Support, Research Grant, Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea
2021     Developing Your Creative Practice, Research Grant, Arts Council England, UK
2021     Recording COVID-19 through Art Commission, Production Grant, Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea
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, Research Grant, a-n The Artists Information Company, Newcastle upon Tyne, 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 Studen
ts from Art Academy, Beijing, China
Collections
LUX Moving Image, London, UK
National Library of Korea, Seoul, Korea
Seoul Metropolitan Government: Museum Department, Seoul, Korea
BFI: British Film Institute,
One Minute curated by Kerry Baldry, London, UK
British Artists’ Film and Video Study Collection at Central Saint Martins,
One Minute curated by Kerry Baldry, London, UK
The One Minutes Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Trust, London, UK
Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, UK
Close-Up Film Centre, London, UK
Group Exhibitions and Group Screenings
2024    FOODWAYS, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, Canada
2024    ARCTIC GARDEN, Nordic Docs, Fredrikstad, Norway
2024    EMOTIONAL ECOLOGIES, WNDX Festival of Moving Image, Winnipeg, Canada
2024    Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria
2024    One Minute Volume Nine & Ten, Close-Up Cinema, London, UK
2024    Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul (EXiS), Seoul, Korea
2024    You Cannot Elaborate the Dark Thickness of Night As They Can, DOOSAN Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2024    Re–Fest, CultureHub, online broadcast by La MaMa (New York) and the Seoul Institute of the Arts (Seoul)
2024    Melting Walls, murmurcontemporary, Montreux, Switzerland
2024    Tempo/Poem of Site, THE STREAM Screening, SPACE ÆFTER, Seoul, Korea
2023    Future Legends, Act Festival, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
2023    MonographsAsian Film Archive, Oldham Theatre, Singapore
2023    The Time of a Lap, La Chartreuse, Villeneuve les Avignon, France
2023    Take Care, Travelling Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2023    One Minute, Gallery Wolf & Galentz, Berlin, Germany
2023    Festival ECRÃ: Experimental Film and Contemporary Art Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2023    Cinema Chloroplast, Stichting WORM, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2023    Experiments in Cinema v18.4, Guild Cinema, New Mexico, USA
2023    London Short Film Festival, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
2022    Re-connect Until Everyone Is Safe, National Museum of Korean Contemporary History, Seoul, Korea
2022    Korean Shorts, Cromarty Cinema, Cromarty, UK
2022    Adaptation, KELDER, London, UK
2022    Food Art Film Festival: Reclaiming Taste, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands
2022    come and go, Performative group show, flat deux: artist-run space by Philomene Hoel, London, UK
2022    Recording COVID-19 through Art, Arts Council Korea Online, Seoul, Korea
2022    Bogotrax Festival, Cineautopsia, Bogotá, Colombia
2022    One Minute Volume 10, 303 Projects, Suffolk, UK
2021     Festival Forum: EXiS, e-flux Video & Film, online screening, New York, USA
2021     PⒶW, Reykjavík International Film Festival, Reykjavík, Iceland
2021     One Minute Volume 10, Contemporary Art Ruhr, Essen, Germany
2021     Ibrida Festival of Intermedia Arts, Forli, Italy
2021     Simultan Festival, Timisoara, Romania
2021     Bogotá Experimental Film Festival, Bogotá, Colombia
2021     Islands, online screening curated by Slow Film Festival, UK
2021     This Is Where We Are Right Now, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, California, USA
2021     PⒶW, represented by The One Minutes Foundation, 67th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany
2021     Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Selected for the exhibition programme, UK
2021     Wonderful Days for All, New Collection Exhibition, Seoul Metropolitan Government, Seoul, Korea
2021     PⒶW, The One Minutes Foundation, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam / Museum Hilversum / Remise, Amsterdam /
             Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2020    Video Acts, The Stream & 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, VisualContainerTv, Milano, Italy
2020    Open Studios, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands
2020    Experimental Edge Film & Art Festival, Tallahassee, USA
2020    Sweet Dreams, 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, USA
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, USA
2019     NIGHT WATCH, Babygirl Movement Art Space, Maastricht, Netherlands
2019     Experimental Forum, The Complex Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA
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, Nunnery Gallery, London, UK
2018     OVNi Festival represented by the Total Museum of Contemporary Art and The Stream, 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, USA
2017     Like caramel, LUX Moving Image Program, Pump House Pavilion, London, UK
2017     Video Portrait, The Stream & Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2017     Experiments in Cinema Festival v12.3, New Mexico, USA
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, Royal College of Art, 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, USA
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
Talks, Lectures, Presentations and Symposiums
2024    Co-programming Workshop: Whoosh to Wish, ADDSEA, Besançon, France
2024    Co-curating Workshop: 
Sharing & Caring, Why & How?, Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich, Switzerland
2023    Team-teaching:
Art & Research, Inter-viewing as artistic practice and conversation with the more-than-human, MA Fine Art, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland
2023    Conference: The Agency of Plants in the Literature and the Arts of the French- and English-Speaking Worlds (19th c. – 21st c.), LARCA, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
2023    Colloquium: Concoction, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland
2023    Colloquium: Sensing Beyond, or: How to Interview a Stone, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland
2022    Artist Talk: Radical Naturalism, Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn, USA
2022    Screening and Q & A: Did You Eat Rice?, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands 
2022    Visiting Artist: Tutorials, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
2021     Artist Talk: Ellie Kyungran Heo, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
2021     A Plant/Human Encounter, lecture & Performance, LUX Moving Image, UK
2021     Artist Talk: This Is Where We Are Right Now, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, California, USA
2020    Presentation: Ellie Kyungran Heo, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands
2019     Presentation: Ellie Kyungran Heo, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands
2018     Artist Talk: Ellie Kyungran Heo, MMCA: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2018     Presentation: Plantarinas, Bonington Studio, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK
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     Talking Film: #3 Ellie Kyungran Heo, Chelsea Film Forum, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
2015     Symposia: Personal and Professional Development, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
Bibliography: Reviews, Articles and Publications
2021     Walsh, M., ‘Tender Eating and (At)tending in the films of Ellie Kyungran Heo’ / Korean Translation by Jaeyong Park, New Artist Focus, LUX Moving Image, London, UK
2020     Leeuwen, A., 'VISUAL ARTS "Now" and "together", that's what connects these makers: Four studios worth a visit during the Open Studios of the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, de Volkskrant (Dutch daily newspaper), 6 March, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2019     Sanders, D., 'Standing in the Shadows of Plants', Plants People Planet, vol 1(3), pages 130-138, Lancaster, UK
2018     Hwang, S., 'Dear Cinema', The Literary Four Seasons, vol 68, pages 56-65, Seoul, Korea
2018     Dear Cinema 4, pages 21-27, MMCA Press, Seoul, Korea
2018     Evans, G., 'Notes Towards an Ecology of Empathy', K.NOTe, vol 46, Total Museum Press, Seoul, Korea
2017     'Public Art New Hero: Ellie Kyungran Heo', Public Art Magazine, December, pages 47;56, Seoul, Korea
2017     Public Art New Hero, Public Art Magazine Press, pages 52-55, Seoul, Korea
2017     Evans, G., 'Notes Towards an Ecology of Empathy in the films of Ellie Kyungran Heo', Video Portrait, pages 226-235, Total Museum Press, Seoul, Korea
2017     Experimental Cinema, Experiments in Cinema V12.3 (DVD), New Mexico, USA
2016     La Fine dell'Universo, Lumen Studio Press, London, UK
2016     'Facing the thing unseen: Ellie Kyungran Heo', Oito Times, 12 December, Nagano, Japan
2016     Ellie Kyungran Heo: Artist book, Asahi AIR Press, Nagano, Japan
2016     Walsh, M., 'Critique Fatigue', Art Monthly, October, pages 13-17, London, UK
2016     'Public Art New Hero: Ellie Kyungran Heo', Public Art Magazine, June, pages 86-89, Seoul, Korea
2016     'Another View: Public Art New Hero', Public Art Magazine, April, page 33, Seoul, Korea
2016     Lee, S., 'Island', Digital publication, Cyart Space, Seoul, Korea
2014     Harris, B., 'Experiencing the Absolute', Digital publication, Art’s the World, London, UK
2014     Experimental Cinema, Experiments in Cinema V9.72 (DVD), New Mexico, USA
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
Selected Online References
Utopia Garden, Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival(nemaf2024), Seoul, Korea, 2024
https://www.nemaf.net/shop_contents/myboard_list.htm?myboard_code=screen2024&category_idx=134781
Did You Eat Rice?, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK, 2024
https://jhg.art/events/ellie-kyungran-heo-did-you-eat-rice/
Plantarians (2017-2020), Solo Exhibition, LUX Moving Image, London, UK, 2021
https://lux.org.uk/event/ellie-kyungran-heo-plantarians
Festival Forum: EXiS, e-flux Video & Film, New York, USA, 2021
https://www.e-flux.com/video/428235/plantarians/
Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands, 2019-2020
https://www.janvaneyck.nl/calendar/plantarians
21st Biennial Contemporary Art Sesc Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil, 2019-2020 https://site.videobrasil.org.br/en/acervo/artistas/artista/2221816
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz7Q6Rv4Txo
Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Digital publication, Seoul, South Korea, 2018
https://issuu.com/k.note/docs/knote_no46
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Public Art New Hero, The Monthly Public Art Magazine, Seoul, South Korea, 2016
https://artinpost.co.kr/product/artist/1102/