b. 1976
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
2003 MEd Art Education, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, KR
2000 BA Interior/Environmental Design, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, KR
Solo Exhibitions & Screenings
2022 Radical Naturalism, Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Alabama Auburn, US
Get Some Sunshine, Spitsbergen Artists Center, Svalbard, NO
2021 Plantarians, 2017–2020, LUX, London, UK
Island, LUX Online, London, UK
Indi-Visual: Ellie Kyungran Heo, EXiS: Experimental Film & Video Festival Seoul, Seoul, KR
2020 Plantarians, Galleri 54, Gothenburg, SE
Plantarians, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL
2019 Face to Face, Korean Cultural Center, São Paulo, BR
2018 Dear Cinema 4: Ellie Kyungran Heo, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, KR
2017 Mount Florida Solo Screening: Ellie Kyungran Heo, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, UK
2016 Asahi AIR Exhibition: Did You Eat Rice?, Isshi Art Space, Nagano Omachi, JP
New Discourse Artist Exhibition Award: Island, Cyart Space, Seoul, KR
Selected Group Exhibitions & Screenings
2023 The Time of a Lap, La Chartreuse, Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, FR
Future Legends, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, KR
Monographs, Asian Film Archive, Oldham Theatre, SG
Take Care, Travelling Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Plantarians: Appendix, Festival ECRÃ, Rio de Janeiro, BR
Cinema Chloroplast, Stichting WORM, Rotterdam, NL
The Garden on Your Belly, Experiments in Cinema v18.4, New Mexico, US
Not Too Sweet, London Short Film Festival, London, UK
2022 Adaptation, KELDER, London, UK
Re-connect Until Everyone Is Saf, National Museum of Korean Contemporary History, Seoul, KR
Reclaiming Taste, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL
2021 Festival Forum: ExiS, e-flux Video & Film, New York, US
Plantarians: Appendix, Ibrida Festival of Intermedia Arts, Forli, IT
Plantarians: Appendix, Bogotá Experimental Film Festival, Bogotá, CO
This is Where We Are Right Now, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, US
A Thing That Holds Something Else, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, UK
PⒶW: The One Minutes Foundation, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, DE
2020 Video Acts, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, KR
Plantarians: Appendix, Split Videoart Festival, Split, HR
A Museum for All, A Museum for Dogs, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, KR
2019 Island, Contemporary Art Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil, São Paulo, BR
More Salad, Huh?, Västerås Film Festival, Västerås, SE
More Salad, Huh?, Experimental Forum, Los Angeles, US
Every Second Counts, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK
2018 The Olympics, Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Hamburg, DE
A journey, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg, CA
Visions, Nunnery Gallery, London, UK
Janchi Guksu, OVNi Festival, Nice, FR
2017 Like Caramel, Pump House Pavilion, London, UK
Janchi Guksu, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, UK
Did You Eat Rice?, Gödöllő International Nature Film Festival, Gödöllő, HU
Video Portrait, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, KR
The Planet, Guadalajara International Film Festival, Guadalajara, MX
2016 Sense of Place, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Island, Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable, UK
POW! Thanet, Moving Image Margate, Margate, UK
2015 Colony, South London Gallery, London, UK
Haenyeo, Por Caracoles Film Festival, Seville, ES
Haenyeo, Flatpack Film Festival, Birmingham, UK
2014 Kill Your Television, Worcester City Art Gallery, Worcester, UK
2013 Calissa Rising Artists, Today Art Museum, Beijing, CN
Selected Residencies
2023 Mobility Program Residency, Echangeur22, Saint-Laurent-des-Arbres, FR
2022 Spitsbergen Residency supported by Arts Council England, Svalbard, NO
2019 Jan van Eyck Residency, Maastricht, NL
2018 Summer Lodge Residency, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK
2017 Hospitalfield Residency, Angus Arbroath, UK
2016 Asahi Artist Residency, Nagano Omachi, JP
Selected Awards/Grants
2024 IfCAR Research Grant, Institute for Contemporary Art Research, Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich, CH
2023 a-n Artist Bursary, a-n The Artists Information Company, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2022 Multidisciplinary Art Creation Support, Arts Council Korea, Seoul, KR
2021 Research Grant: Developing Your Creative Practice, Arts Council England, London, UK
2020 Arts-based Education Research Award, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul, KR
2020;2019;2017 International Arts Network Support, Arts Council Korea, Seoul, KR
2019 The Elephant Trust Grant, London, UK
2016 Public Art New Hero Award, The Monthly Public Art Magazine, Seoul, KR
New Discourse Artist Award, Excellence Award, Cyart Space, Seoul, KR
Public Collections
LUX Distribution, LUX, London, UK
National Library of Korea, Seoul, KR
BFI: British Film Institute, One Minute curated by Kerry Baldry, London, UK
British Artists’ Film and Video Study Collection at Central Saint Martins, London, UK
Close-Up Film Centre, London, UK
The One Minutes Foundation, Amsterdam, NL