HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander

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Checkpoint, 2023, exhibition view, DMZ, Paju, KR



fire with fire behind bars, 2023, Natural lacquer on hemp cloth, 32 x 25 x 1.5 in (81 x 64 x 4 cm)



Checkpoint, 2023, exhibition view, DMZ, Paju, KR



Under the Tongue, 2023, Charcoal, found cigarette butts, 13.7 x 19.6 x 17.3 in (35 x 50 x 44 cm)



To Die of Too Much, 2023, LG Styler from 2016 (Steam closet), custom printed apron, natural lacquer on hanji, newspapers, rubber mat, 17.7 x 23.2 x 72.8 in (45 x 59 x 185 cm)



Checkpoint, 2023, exhibition view, DMZ, Paju, KR



Crushed as Rust (Sewer), 2023, Natural lacquer (ottchil) with structural colour pigment, pounded aluminum, aluminum frame, 12 x 12 x 1.5 in (30 x 30 x 4 cm)



Le Désespoir, 2022, Pigmented natural lacquer with found urban detritus on plywood with solid wood edging, 81.5 x 72 x 0.75 in (207 x 182.9 x 1.9 cm)



Off-Duty Ballerina #1, 2022, Pigmented natural lacquer on salvaged plywood, 15 x 7.5 x 0.25 in (38.1 x 19.1 x 0.6 cm)



I U Dirt, 2022, Natural lacquer with pigments and structural colour, mother of pearl on salvaged plywood, 22 x 22 x 1 in (55.9 x 55.9 x 2.5 cm)



Every Day Had a Day in Its Way, 2019, Public Volumes, Small Arms Inspection building, Mississauga, CA 



Every Day Had a Day in Its Way, 2019, Public Volumes, Small Arms Inspection building, Mississauga, CA



Every Day Had a Day in Its Way, 2019, Public Volumes, Small Arms Inspection building, Mississauga, CA



Every Day Had a Day in Its Way, 2019, Public Volumtes, Small Arms Inspection building, Mississauga, CA



Every Day Had a Day in Its Way, 2019, Public Volumes, Small Arms Inspection building. Mississauga, CA



Every Day Had a Day in Its Way, 2019, Public Volumes, Small Arms Inspection building, Mississauga, CA



For Other Fears, 2019, Lacquer, glutinous rice powder, textiles, ash powder, 40 x 16 in (101.6 x 40.6 cm)



Scab Brick with Excavator Inlay, 2019, Lacquer, glutinous rice powder, textiles, ash powder, shell inlays, steel, printed matter, business cards, 12 x 10 x 22 in (30.5 x 25.4 x 55.9 cm)



HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander
b. Daegu, KR & Vancouver, CA
Live and work in Halifax, CA

Solo Exhibitions as HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander
2024    in it, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA
2020    Peering in the flushing, Trilobite et le Pneu, Montreal, CA
2019    maximum suffering along the way, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA
2019    Public Volumes, Small Arms Inspection Building, Mississauga, CA

HaeAhn Woo Kwon Solo Exhibitions
2021    Bathroom Classroom, in collaboration with Isabelle Pauwels, Amy Lam, Kirby Chen Mages, and IBanJiHa                           (SoYoon Kim), Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA
2018    Get Around to How, Erin Stump Projects, Toronto, CA
2014    What You See is What You Make, Samuso: Space for Contemporary Art, Seoul, KR
2010    Thank You for Shopping With Us, Seoha Gallery, Seoul, KR
2009    Put Your Foot Down+Take Your Shoes Of, the Cooper Union, New York, US

Paul Kajander Solo Exhibitions
2022    Iso Kokko, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA
2017    Blink Shock Blood Shot, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA
2014    All Beneath the Moon Decays (with Allyson Vieira), Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, CA
2013    Stock’s Room, Project Broom Gallery, Seoul, KR

Select Group Exhibitions
2024    Negotiating Borders, SAW, Korean Cultural Centre, Ottawa, CA (HPKK)
2024    DMZ Exhibition: Checkpoint, Paju, KR (HPKK)
2023    A forged spider’s web, (curated by Anne Low), Unit 17, Vancouver, CA (HPKK)
2022    Water Works, (curated by Danielle Wu), International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, USA (HWK)
2022    Trip Like I Do, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA (HWK) (HPKK)
2022    A Rhythm, Not a Plot, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Toronto, CA (HPKK)
2021    BLOOMDOOMROOM, the Plumb, Toronto, CA (HWK)
2019     Art Toronto public program, Toronto, CA (HWK)
2019    Barely Fair, Julius Caesar, Chicago, US (HWK)
2019    Gallery Galerie Galería, Jack Barrett Gallery, New York, US (HPKK)
2018    Lojong Exercises, Kikospace, Toronto, CA (HPKK)
2018    Soft Refraction, Xpace, Toronto, CA (HWK)
2018    Contribution to Courage! Near Infra Red, Rinomina Gallery, Paris, FR (HWK)
2018    The World According to Generalized Axiom of Revealed Preference, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA (HWK)
2018    Wild Inside, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto, CA (HWK)
2018    Matters in the End, Support Gallery, London, CA (HWK)
2018    Casualize, 10 Carden, Guelph, CA (HWK)
2017    Accident of Being Together, Boarding House Gallery, Guelph, CA (HWK)
2017    Yes Frills, Erin Stump Projects, Toronto, CA (HWK)
2017    What Can the Object Do?, The Hand, New York (HWK)
2017    Dust is Dancing, Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario (PK)
2017    Dust is Dancing, Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre, Kingston (PK)
2016    Prattle Combat, Boarding House Gallery, Guelph (HWK)
2016    Pleasure Faire, (organized by Brian Mann), Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, US (HWK)(PK)
2016    Contribution to Rican/Struction, Agustina Ferreyra Gallery, San Juan, PR (HWK)
2015    The Transfiguration of the Commonplace, Sempio Space, Icheon-si, KR (HWK)
2015    Untitled (But Unnamed), New Media Society, Vancouver, CA (PK)
2015    All The Instruments Agree, The Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, US (PK)
2015    Through A Window: Visual Art & SFU 1965-2015, Audain Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, CA (PK)
2014    Bruce Says, Okin Theater, Seoul, KR (HWK)
2014    Universal Studios, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, KR (PK)
2013    Turn Inside Out, Next Door Gallery, Seoul, KR (HWK)
2013    What Cannot Be is What, Banner Project, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, KR (PK)
2013    Dimensions Variable, Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art, Int’l Residency Exhibition, Seoul, KR (PK)
2013    The Real DMZ Project, Cheorwon-gun & Art Sonje Center, Seoul, KR (PK)
2013    Stock’s Room, Project Broom Gallery, Seoul, KR (PK)
2011    Rehearsal Research, Western Front, Vancouver, CA (PK)
2011    Ron Tran: It knows not what it is, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, CA (PK)
2010    Slow Flow, HanByukOne Gallery, Seoul, KR (HWK)
2010    Sunday is the New Saturday, Every Letter In the Alphabet, Vancouver, CA (PK)
2010    Funny Business, Gallery Atsui, Vancouver, CA (PK)
2009    Black Hole is Also Supernova, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, CA (PK)
2009    Rotating Show, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, US (HWK)
2009    To Make a Cake May Take Years To Bake, Bushwick Open Studio, New York, US (HWK)
2008    Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler, Western Front, Vancouver, CA (PK)
2008    The Silence of Infinite Space, Glendale College Art Gallery, Los Angeles, US (PK)
2007    Sendai Contemporary Art Network: Light and City, Shiogama, JP (PK)
2007    Green, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA (PK)
2006    Since Before and After, SFU School for the Contemporary Arts, Vancouver, CA (PK)
2006    Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me!, Belkin Satellite, Vancouver, CA (PK)
2005    Anxiety of Influence: New Wight Biennial, UCLA, Los Angeles, US (PK)

Press
2022    Meeka Walsh, “Art Toronto | Editor’s Picks Day 2,” Border Crossings (HPKK)
2022    Jacob Korczynski, “Bathroom Classroom — HaeAhn Woo Kwon with Isabelle Pauwels ...,” C Magazine           (HWK)
2019    Jenine Marsh, “HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander,” Canadian Art (HPKK)
2019    Ben Shannon, “Interview: HaeAhn Paul Kwon Kajander,” résidence (HPKK)
2019    Laura Demers, “Makeshift privacy and pissing bodies: in conversation with HaeAhn Kwon,” Public Parking (HWK)
2017    Linnea West, “Phone Tag: Interview with HaeAhn Kwon,” Linnea West (HWK)
2014    Caoimhe Morgan-Feir, “Top 3 of 2014: Time Travels,” Canadian Art (PK)
2014    Limb Jae-un, “Canadian Artist residing in Seoul, Paul Kajander,” Korea Net (PK)
2014    Caoimhe Morgan-Feir, “All Beneath the Moon Decays,” Frieze Magazine (PK)
2014    Britt Gallpen, “All Beneath the Moon Decays,” Drain Magazine (PK)
2014    Fran Schechter, “It’s Greek to Them,” Toronto Now (PK)
2014    Lee Woo-young, “Korea seen through eyes of foreign artists,” The Korea Herald (PK)
2014    Lee Sun-Min, “Art exhibit portrays Korea through foreign eyes,” Korea JoongAng Daily (PK)
2013    Shelley DeWees, “Paul Kajander and the DMZ Project,” Groove Magazine (PK)
2013    Maria Lind, “Can a show about the real world be too close to the real world?” Art Review (PK)
2013    Lee Sun-Min, “Exhibition paints new picture of life on the line,” Korea JoongAng Daily (PK)
2013    Woo-young Lee, “Art questions what DMZ means to Koreans,” The Korea Herald (PK)
2013    Ines Min, “Examining the Real DMZ Through Art,” Blouin Art Info (PK)
2011    Allison Collins, “Three Unfinished Actions at Western Front,” Art Slant (PK)
2009    Vanessa Kwan, “Black Hole is Also Supernova,” Richmond Art Gallery (PK)
2007    Aya Takada, “Spectacle in Video,” Sendai Contemporary Art Network (PK)
2005    Vishal Jugdeo, “Live and Loud,” UCLA New Wight Biennial

HaeAhn Woo Kwon (HWK)
Paul Kajander (PK)
Hae Ahn Woo Kwon Kajander (HPKK)