Ri, Eung-woo
 
Solo Exhibition
1994-2011 7times Solo Exhibition(Korea, Japan)

International Exhibitions
2010 Inviteted Kreis im Wald“ Forest Project 37°”(Nurnberg, Germany)
-Invited Abiko Open Air Art Exhibition (Abiko, Japan)
2009 Participated“ Sandarbh Artists Workshop”(Rajasthan India)
2008 The 3rd Geumgang Nature Art Biennale(Gongju, Korea)
2007 Invited a workshop from Moscow State Univ. of Printing Arts(Sushiniba, Russia)
2006 The 2nd Geumgang Nature Art Biennale(Gongju Korea)
2005 Invited“ Floating Land”Key Note Speaker(Noosa Australia)
2004 The 1st Geumgang Nature Art Biennale(Gongju Korea)
2002-2003 Int’l Nature Art project Exhibition(Gongju, Suwon Korea)
2003 Organized Environment exhibition“ Necessity & Unnecessity”(Seoul Korea)
2002 Int’l Environment Art exhibition(Seoul Art Center Korea)
2001 Int’l Art Exhibition-Environment & Ecology(Tokyo Japan)
2000 Yokohama Open-Air Art Exhibition “Kyo-So-Gaku”(Yokohama Japan)
1999 Int’l Performance Festival“ AsiatopiaⅡ”(Bangkok Thailand)
1997 Invited 49th Japanese Independence(Tokyo Japan)
1996 Invited Exhibition from Grozka gallery“ Works from Nature”(Lublin Poland)
- Int’l Art Festival EVENTA③“Mankind”(Upsala Sweden)
1994 Samukawa Open-Air Art Exhibition(Samukawa Japan)
1992 Int’l Nature Art Symposium“ Hier und Da”(Schuberg Germany)
-“Nature Using Paper”(Hamburg Germany)
1991 Int’l Nature Art Symposium“ Nature, Environment, Humanbing Through Art”(Goingju Korea)
1990 Commemoration of the Opening the Nature Art House “Free Method”(Gongju Korea)
1989 YATOO aus Korea“ from inside to the outside, from outside to the inside”(Hamburg Germany)

Present
Chairman of YATOO
A board member of Geumgang Nature Art Biennale

Email: eungwoo@hanmail.net

  I was born in a remote place, called Wangchon, near Gongju. In this area there was a small village called Jungdonggol which lies between Keum Riverand the stream of Wangchon. Just like most country children, full of curiosity at the time, I knew everything about what kind of life forms were living in the mountains, fields, rivers andstreams from their births to deaths or sprouting to bearing fruits. It was the same in old times as now that information is important. A child with more information than anybody else on the natural environments around them tends to be the leader of his peers. You should know, for example, in which stream you can catch crawfish and at what time of year, you should pick up marsh snails only at sunset, what fish hide themselves in which cracks of which rocks and in what direction they swim away, when the cherries ripen to the best flavor, when to pick wild grapes and fruits of the hardy kiwi berry, in which valley you can find hazelnuts most easily, and things like that.

 The games that country children can enjoy with nature are not limited to these pursuits.We even played a treasure-hunt game in the water. We would choose a pebble of a unique color, which was confirmed by everybody, and someone then hid it in the water before the rest of us jumped into the water to seek it. When I look back, I miss the cleanand transparent color of the water so much. When we used to enjoy those creative games, the days seemed to fly past so quickly. I spent most of my childhood playing by the riversides, in the mountains, and in the fields. While growing up, I learned a lot about the natural environment around me. These childhood experiences became a treasure for my work today.