Cheolwoong Sim

Cheol Woong Shim is a pioneering Korean first-generation video/media artist who has been active since the mid-1990s. Since encountering digital media and video at the advent of multimedia in the late 80s, he has been working in fields such as 3D animation, video, multimedia, video projection installations, digital imaging, and web art. His works that reflect the recent historical changes in South Korea against a backdrop of Korean phoneme images are metaphors for contemporary historical perception. Fundamental to Shim's work is a visual understanding of cultural identity and the exploration of individual self-identity, with an underlying current of aesthetic inquiry into the possibilities of new media.

Cheol Woong Shim founded the Seoul Media Study Group in 1996 and played a significant role in the launch of the Korean Association for Video and Image in 1998. He served as the president of the association from 2000 to 2004 and has dedicated 29 years to educating and nurturing artists at the university level.

Leading numerous exhibitions and academic activities, He has contributed to laying the groundwork and advancing the field of media art in Korea. He has presented his work in over twenty solo exhibitions and numerous prestigious group exhibitions domestically and internationally. His works are part of collections in institutions such as the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul Museum of Art, and Yeosu City Museum of Art.