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, Korea
2000 BA Interior/Environmental Design, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
Selected Solo Exhibitions & Screenings
2022 Radical Naturalism, Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Alabama Auburn, USA
Get Some Sunshine, Spitsbergen Artists Center, Svalbard, Norway
2021 Plantarians, 2017–2020, LUX, London, UK
Island, LUX Online, London, UK
Indi-Visual: Ellie Kyungran Heo, EXiS: Experimental Film & Video Festival Seoul, Seoul, Korea
2020 Plantarians, Galleri 54, Gothenburg, Sweden
Plantarians, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands
2019 Face to Face, Korean Cultural Center, São Paulo, Brazil
2018 Dear Cinema 4: Ellie Kyungran Heo, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
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, Japan
New Discourse Artist Exhibition Award: Island, Cyart Space, Seoul, Korea
Selected Group Exhibitions & Screenings
2023 The Time of a Lap, La Chartreuse, Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, France
Future Legends, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
Monographs, Asian Film Archive, Oldham Theatre, Singapore
Take Care, Travelling Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Plantarians: Appendix, Festival ECRÃ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Cinema Chloroplast, Stichting WORM, Rotterdam, Netherlands
The Garden on Your Belly, Experiments in Cinema v18.4, New Mexico, USA
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, Korea
Reclaiming Taste, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands
2021 Festival Forum: ExiS, e-flux Video & Film, New York, USA
Plantarians: Appendix, Ibrida Festival of Intermedia Arts, Forli, Italy
Plantarians: Appendix, Bogotá Experimental Film Festival, Bogotá, Colombia
This is Where We Are Right Now, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, USA
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, Germany
2020 Video Acts, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Plantarians: Appendix, Split Videoart Festival, Split, Croatia
A Museum for All, A Museum for Dogs, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2019 Island, Contemporary Art Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil
More Salad, Huh?, Västerås Film Festival, Västerås, Sweden
More Salad, Huh?, Experimental Forum, Los Angeles, USA
Every Second Counts, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK
2018 The Olympics, Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany
A journey, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg, Canada
Visions, Nunnery Gallery, London, UK
Janchi Guksu, OVNi Festival, Nice, France
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, Hungary
Video Portrait, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
The Planet, Guadalajara International Film Festival, Guadalajara, Mexico
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, Spain
Haenyeo, Flatpack Film Festival, Birmingham, UK
2014 Kill Your Television> Worcester City Art Gallery, Worcester, UK
2013 Calissa Rising Artists> Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Selected Residencies
2023 Mobility Program Residency, Echangeur22, Saint-Laurent-des-Arbres, France
2022 Spitsbergen Residency supported by Arts Council England, Svalbard, Norway
2019 Jan van Eyck Residency, Maastricht, Netherlands
2018 Summer Lodge Residency, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK
2017 Hospitalfield Residency, Angus Arbroath, UK
2016 Asahi Artist Residency, Nagano Omachi, Japan
Selected Awards/Grants
2024 IfCAR Research Grant, Institute for Contemporary Art Research, Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich, Switzerland
2023 a-n Artist Bursary, a-n The Artists Information Company, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2022 Multidisciplinary Art Creation Support, Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea
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, Korea
2020;2019;2017 International Arts Network Support, Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea
2019 The Elephant Trust Grant, London, UK
2016 Public Art New Hero Award, The Monthly Public Art Magazine, Seoul, Korea
New Discourse Artist Award, Excellence Award, Cyart Space, Seoul, Korea
Selected Collections
LUX Distribution, LUX, London, UK
National Library of Korea, 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, London, UK
Close-Up Film Centre, London, UK
The One Minutes Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands