Born 1980, Jeju Island, South Korea,
Lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark
EDUCATION
PhD, University of Copenhagen, Department of Art and Cultural Studies, 2021
MA, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Art Theory / Department of Media Art, 2010
MFA, University of California Los Angeles, USA, Department of Art, Interdisciplinary Studio Area, 2010
The Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, USA, 2007-08
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
esea contemporary, Halmang, Manchester, United Kingdom
Martin Asbæk Gallery, Halmang, Copenhagen, Denmark
Gallery TPW, Burial of this Order, Toronto, Canada
2023
Le Bicolore, Of Specters or Returns, Paris, France
Fotografisk Center, Jane Jin Kaisen – Currents, Copenhagen, Denmark
Ryerson Image Centre, Braiding and Mending, Toronto, Canada
Jeju April Third Peace Park, Reiterations of Dissent, Jeju Island, Korea
2022
SNF Parkway Theater, Community of Parting: Special Feature – Jane Jin Kaisen, Baltimore, USA
2021
The Pull of the Moon, duo exhibition with Guston Sondin-Kung, Art Space C, Jeju City, South Korea
Community of Parting, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, South Korea
Parallax Conjunctures, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, United States
2020
Of Specters or Returns, Gallery damdam, Korean Cultural Center, Germany
Community of Parting, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
2019
The Woman, The Orphan, and The Tiger, Seoul International New Media Festival, Korea
2015
Of Specters – or Returns, Astrid Noack’s Atelier, Copenhagen, Denmark
Of Specters – or Returns, Inter Arts Center, Sweden
Sites of Translation, Yonsei University, Underwood International College, Korea
Loving Belinda, Galleri Image, Aarhus, Denmark
2013
Reiterations of Dissent, Jeju April 3rd Peace Park, Korea
Jane Jin Kaisen – Solo Exhibition, Art Space C, Korea
Revolution is not a Bird’s Ete View …, Officin, Copenhagen, Denmark
2012
Dissident Translations, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
2011
The Woman, The Orphan, and the Tiger w. Guston Sondin-Kung, Vox Populi Gallery, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & FILM SCREENINGS
2024
The Art Gallery of New South Wales, projections #15: collective labours
Rencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
National Museum of Art, screening of “Tale of One or Many Mountains, Osaka, Japan
Lee Warschaw Gallery, Deathpower, Minnesota, USA
Palazzo Malta – Ordine di Malta, Every Island is a Mountain, 30th Anniversary Exhibition Celebrating the Korean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
UTS Gallery, A moment in Extended Crisis, Sydney, Australia
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, After the Sun/ Forecasts from the North, Buffalo, USA
Plug in ICA, A Place of Memory: Contexts of Existence, Winnipeg, Canada
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Korea Artist Prize, Korea
Hawai’I Triennial, Aloha nō, Hawaii
2023
Australian Cinémathèque, the Gallery of Modern Art, Contemporary Art X Cinema, Brisbane, Australia
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Forest of Being Time, Taipei, Taiwan
CPH:DOX, Burial of this Order, Cinema World Premiere, nominated New:Vision Award
Le Silencio Club, Paris, March 18th, Special event, Burial of This Order
Musée d’Art De Joliette, Contexts of Existence, Quebec, Canada
Tate Modern, Dislocation Blues, London, United Kingdom
Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan
Brooklyn Rail, Between Waves, New York, United States
Peabody Essex Museum, After Hope: Videos of Resistance, collaboration with Asian Art Museum, Massachusetts, USA
The Image Centre, Braiding and Mending, group exhibition, Toronto, Canada
Musée d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul, Un lieu de mémoire: Contextes d’existence
Archive Milano, Spiritual Fabulations, Italy
SAW, Negating Borders, Ottowa, Canada
Gyeongnam Art Museum (GAM), Myriad of Wishes, Korea
Living Togetherness, Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition at Honggah Museum
2022
3rd Jeju Biennale, Flowing Moon, Embracing Land
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Ceremony (Burial of an Undead World)
Arthub Film Club – Featuring Jane Jin Kaisen
Incheon Art Platform, Korean Diaspora – Ricepaper Airplane
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Checkpoint: Border View from Korea
A4 Art Museum, Chengdu, The Woman, The Orphan, and The Tiger film screening
OCAC, Taiwan, Flowing Images/Weaving Time: Jane Jin Kaisen, Posak Jodian
Korean Cultural Center, Australia, Negotiating Borders
Or Gallery, Vancouver, Unmoored, Adrift, Ashore
Frequencies of Tradition film screening, Community of Parting, Little Roxie Theatre, San Francisco, USA
2021
Korean Cultural Center, Australia, Negotiating Borders
Chennai Photo Biennale, India, Maps of Disquiet
Kadist Ghosts from Afar – An Online Video Exhibition
Jeju Museum of Art, At the Same Time
Nieuw Dakota, Netherlands, Processing Space-Times
Berliner Festspiele, Germany, The New Infinity Cinema
Incheon Art Platform, Korea, Frequencies of Tradition
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art, Taiwan, Pan Austro-Nesian
Galleri Martin Asbæk, Denmark, Summer in the City
2020
Pan Austro-Nesian, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art, Taiwan
Frequencies of Tradition, Times Art Museum, China
Negotiating Borders, Foundation Fiminco, France
Community of Parting, DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, Korea
Community of Parting, 8th Diaspora Film Festival, Korea
Our World is Burning, Palais de Tokyo, France
Born, A Woman, Suwon Museum of Art, Korea
Time Share, Performa Radical Broadcast, United States
History Has Failed Us, but No Matter, Arko Art Center, Korea
Screening of Community of Parting co-presented with GYOPO, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, United States
Precarious Life – Silence, Memory and Fictions, Onsugonggan, South Korea
2019
History Has Failed Us, But No Matter, 58th Venice Biennale Korean Pavilion, Italy
Neither black/red/yellow nor woman, Times Art Center Berlin, Germany
Screening of Tale of One or Many Mountains, DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, Korea
Zero Gravity World, SeMA Nam Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea
2018
Counter Memory & Reconstruction of Body Movement, Seoul International NewMedia Festival, Seoul Art Cinema, South Korea
10th DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, South Korea
Decolonizing Appearance, CAMP / Center for Art on Migration Politics, Copenhagen, Denmark
Film screening as part of Haegue Yang’s exhibition Voices of Dispersion, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Jeju 4.3 is Now Our History, National Museum of Contemporary Korean History, South Korea
Post Trauma: The Special Exhibition of the 70th Anniversary of the Jeju Massacre, Jeju Museum of Art, South Korea
Forged from the Collective Memory, ArtSpace C / Artspace IAa Gallery, South Korea
Forum Expanded: A Mechanism Capable of Changing itself, 68th Berlin International Film Festival
2017
Border 155, Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea
Today’s Yesterday, 1st Anren Biennale, China, Today’s Yesterday
Does Europe Exist? V2.0, ARTos Foundation, Cyprus
Tiempos Migratorios, Biennial ASAB, Columbia
The Promise and Compromise of Translation, Four Boxes Gallery, Denmark
Tourism, Jeju Biennale, Jeju Museum of Art, South Korea
Asian Diva: The Muse and the Monster, Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea
Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs, Art Center at the Jim Thompson House, Thailand
2 or 3 Tigers, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Germany
2nd Changjiang International Photography and Video Biennale, China
Nordic Delights, Finnish Museum of Photography, Finland
The Time Share Project – The Real DMZ Project: The Aarhus Edition, Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark
Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs, ParaSite, Hong Kong
Melancholia: Archipelago Journal screening of The Woman, The Orphan, and The Tiger, Enclave, United Kingdom
Rough Trade, 68 Art Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
Nordic Delights, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
Film screenings: The Woman, The Orphan, and the Tiger & Reiterations of Dissent, New York University, United States
Film screenings: The Woman, The Orphan, and The Tiger & Reiterations of Dissent, University of California San Diego, United States
House of Memories, Glasmoog, Raum Für Kunst & Diskurs, Cologne, Germany
Korea Film Archive, Feminism Video Artivist Biennale 2016, South Korea
Crossing the Line: Contemporary Art From Denmark, Critical Distance Center for Curators, Canada
Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Philippines
Vulnerability Matters Laboratory, Rauma Biennale Balticum, Finland
For More Than One Voice: performative reading with Stina Hasse, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark
ArtSpectrum, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, South Korea
Nordic Delights, Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo, Norway
The Woman, The Orphan, and The Tiger, New York University, Department of East Asian Studies, USA
2015
The Woman, The Orphan, and The Tiger, Husets Biograf, Copenhagen, Denmark
A Feminist Culture Reader, Danske Grafikeres Hus, Denmark
Interrupted Survey: Fractured Modern Mythologies, Asian Culture Center, South Korea,
Glocal Panorama, Seoul International NewMedia Festival, South Korea
Los Archivos del Cuerpo, Emerson College Huret & Spector Gallery, United States
Reiterations of Dissent, Raindance Film Centre, London, United Kingdom
Reiterations of Dissent, AAS Film Expo, Chicago, United States
Rencontres Internationales video archive, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Germany
Arkiv over Hvidme, The National Gallery of Denmark – The Royal Cast Collection, Denmark
2014
Reiterations of Dissent selected as opening film, Seoul International NewMedia Festival, South Korea
Exclusion + Possibility, Gallery Zandari, South Korea
Camelia Has Fallen: Contemporary Korean Artists Reflect on the Jeju Uprising, Sonoma County Museum of Art, United States
2013
Women Commentators, Center for contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Poland
Tell Me Her Story, Coreana Museum, South Korea
The Beginning is Always Today: Contemporary Feminist Art in Scandinavia, Sørlandet Art Museum, Norway
War Baby/Love Child, Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience & DePaul Art Museum, United States
Visualising Affect, Lewisham Arthouse, United Kingdom
Strom Festival, Kunsthaus Rheania, Germany
The Nordic Model, Malmo Art Museum, Malmö, Sweden
Dear Curator, Curate Me, Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Indonesia
War Baby / Love Child, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, United States
Korean American Film Festival New York, Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery, New York, United States
2012
7 Generous Gestures, Galleri Lars Olsen, Denmark
Women In-Between: Asian Women Artists 1984-2012, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
ENTER II, Kunsthallen Brandts, Denmark, ENTER II
Videonale13 Festival for Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
FOKUS Video Art Festival, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark
IN THE ACT, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden, IN THE ACT
ACTS, Roskilde Museum for Contemporary Art, Denmark
3 films by Jane Jin Kaisen, Øst For Paradis Cinema, Aarhus, Denmark
Videonale13 Festival for Contemporary Art, Ars Cameralis, Poland
Videonale13 Festival for Contemporary Art, Gallery of Modern Art Glasgow, Scotland
Videonale13 Festival for Contemporary Art, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany
Korean American Film Festival New York, United States
Jeju International Women’s Film Festival, South Korea
Island of Stone shown as closing film, Seoul Human Rights Film Festival, South Korea
2010
Crossing the Sea, Jeju National Museum, South Korea
MFA2010, The Wight Gallery, UCLA, United States
Infr’acton Festival International d’art Performance, Sete, France
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Japan
Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival, Taiwan
The Dialogic Imagination, IASPIS, Sweden
2009
2nd Incheon Women Artists Biennale, South Korea
EXIT09, Kunstforeningen Gl. Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark
Boarding Bridges, Kring Gallery, South Korea
Migrations, Municipal Art Gallery of Kalamata, Greece
Borders, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, New York, United States
2nd Asian Women’s Film Festival Berlin, Germany
25th International Asia Pacific Film Festival Los Angeles, United States
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Japan
2008
Breaking Out, Gana Art Gallery New York, United States
The last Book Project, Buenos Aires National Library, Argentina
2nd Deformes Biennial, Gallery Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile
Unnamable Name, Tompkin’s County Public Library, New York, United States
Privilege Walk, Lilith Performance Studio, Sweden
This is not a Koreanobela: a film trilogy, The Green Papaya Gallery, Philippines
2007
Traces in Photography, The National Museum of Photography, Denmark
Orientity Exhibition, Gallery La Centrale, Montreal, Canada
Exquisite Crisis and Encounters, New York University, United States
Visions from the Periphery, Kyunghee University Art Museum, South Korea
2006
South Korea as part of UFOlab: UFOlab Banana Power, 6th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea
Rethinking Nordic Colonialism, The Faroe Islands National Art Museum
Alternative Art Fair, Gallery Pixel, Denmark
Global Alien Television, Ssamzie Space, South Korea
International Indonesia Performance Art Event, National Gallery, Indonesia
4th DaDao Live Art Festival, 798 Art Zone, Beijing, China
International Film and Video Festival, Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong
Malmo International Film Festival, Sweden
2005
Accent, Museum for Contemporary Art Roskilde, Denmark
Skin Deep, Echo Park Film Center, United States
Bandits-Mages International Media Festival, Bourges, France
2004
AREUM Vessel, Kyoto Museum of Art, Japan
Orientity Exhibition, Kyoto Arts Center, Japan
Our adoptee, Our Alien, Keumsan Gallery & Dongsanbang Gallery, South Korea
Minority Report, Aarhus Kunstbygning, Denmark
SELECTED ARTWORKS/FILMS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS & LIBRARIES
Art Sonje Center, KR
Ny Carlsbergfondet, DK
LACMA / Asian Art Museum, USA
Kadist Foundation, USA/FR
The Danish Arts Foundation, DK
Malmö Art Museum, SE
Jeju Museum of Art, KR
Statens Museum for Kunst, DK
Seoul Museum of Art, KR
Jeju April 3rd Peace Park, KR
AWARDS
The Beckett Prize (2023)
New Carlsberg Foundation Artist Grant (2023)
3-Year Work Grant, The Danish Arts Foundation (2022)
AICA – Association of Art Critics Denmark – Art Critics Price, “Exhibition of the Year 2020”
The Danish Arts Foundation, exhibition award for the exhibition Community of Parting at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2020
Montana ENTERPRIZE,Kunsthallen Brandts, DK, 2011 (Jury: Chus Martinez, Dirk Luckow, Åsa Nacking)
AHL Foundation’s 5th Annual Juried Competition, Gana Art New York, 2008 (Jury: Robert Belind, Nathalie Angles, Heng-Gil
Han).
