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SOLO award 2015

Winner: Kyung Hwa Shon

2015 winner Kyung Hwa Shon's SOLO exhibition was presented in Art Projects at the London Art Fair in January 2016. She also received prize money of £1000.
Download press release here.

The Selection Panel 2015 were:
Danielle Arnaud (Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art); Fedja Klikovac (Handel Street Projects); Sarah Monk (Director London Art Fair); Amba Sayal-Bennett (winner 2014 SOLO Award); Panel chair: Chiara Williams (WW Contemporary Art)

WW is delighted to have widened the audience for Kyung Hwa Shon's work. We were successful in placing Kyung Hwa's beautiful engraved mirror piece 'The Trace of Stillman' into a private collection, as well as initiating many new and exciting career opportunities for the artist. Kyung Hwa continues to exhibit widely, please visit her website for developments.

Concurrent with her show at the London Art Fair, she was also winner of the Alternative Space Loop Art Prize and was exhibiting in her solo show 'The surface of the city and the depth of the psyche,' at Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, Korea, She was also a Finalist for UK/RAINE Art Prize, Saatchi Gallery & Firtash Foundation, UK.

For more information about the SOLO Award and how to apply, please visit the SOLO award home page.

Press coverage for Kyung Hwa Shon at London Art Fair

Art Attack / India Irving:
ArtAttack Interviews Korean artist, Kyung Hwa Shon
"After being drawn in by her work at the London Art Fair back in January, ArtAttack had the chance to speak with Korean artist, Kyung Hwa Shon, about her work, inspirations and advice for young artists just starting out."
Read full interview here: https://artattackapp.wordpress.com/2016/02/08/artattack-interview-kyung-hwa-shon-london-art-fair)

Art Report / Sarah Barlondo:
The Faces of Art Projects At London Art Fair 2016
"Kyung Hwa Shon, winner of the prestigious SOLO Award, and WW Contemporary Art Gallery ran the show. The artist is presenting two of her new works: The City of Fragments and The Trace of Stillman. Shon’s work is more than just visual. Her psychological and meticulous exploration of the relationship between the city and the imagination confronts the evolution of a character in a novel, Paul Auster’s “City of Glass.” Brilliant in every way, the Korean artist was a Starr Scholar at the Royal Academy of Arts in London and currently studying for a PhD in Painting at the Royal College of Art. “I left this [blank] space [in The City of Fragment] so the viewers could imagine and write their own story with my work, like a reader would do in a novel with the characters,” Shon said. Until 2015, the SOLO Award had only been open to British artists—Shon, although Korean, qualified being a UK-based artist. Now, starting in 2016, the SOLO Award is calling all international artists working in any medium and offering a £2000 and a solo exhibition."
Read full review here: http://artreport.com/the-faces-of-art-projects-at-london-art-fair-2016)

More about the 2015 SOLO Award

The winner, 4 highly commended artists and 11 shortlisted artists were chosen from over 2500 images and multimedia works, from around 500 artists. A small selection of images by the shortlisted artists can be found below. Please note, these are representative images, sometimes of video or performance work. For more information, please visit the individual artists' websites.