SELECTED CURRICULUM VITAE
SOOJIN PRAY
Ritual Media Artist
Founder & Artistic Director, SPACE MOUM
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Three-part ritual-media project; all three works completed. Vol. 1, The Tutelar Guardian of Forgotten Tales, began with an artist-led ritual and filming at Seonbawi Rock, Inwangsan Mountain, Seoul, on 1 January 2023. The source material became twelve digital relics assembled into one 10 min 45 sec single-channel moving-image work completed in 2024. Vols. 2 and 3 remain unreleased.
Site-responsive ritual performance cycle composing temporary fields of collective attention through sound, movement, breath, and place. Presented in Jeju and Seoul in 2025, and developed in 2026 as a sixteen-part cycle in an urban forest, Seoul.
Long-term embodied research into Korean body-cosmology, yangsaeng, breath, movement, qi, seasonal rhythm, and everyday ritual; developed through sustained daily practice and the artist’s research notebooks.
Moving-image series arising from MOUM: The Living Archive research, drawn from yangsaeng, the classical Korean practice of nurturing life through daily bodily care. Eight works completed in 2020 with support from Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation; the series remains open.
Four independent performance films — RED GOKKAL, MAGO GAIA, Circle of Life, and Incense Offering — exploring bodily memory, myth, ritual, death and renewal, and the relation between body and place.
Ritual performance film / moving-image work, 9 min 33 sec.
Originally filmed in 2020; Pray completely re-edited the soundtrack in 2026.
Participatory durational project in which repeated everyday movements were recorded across individual bodies and domestic spaces, later assembled as a collective moving-image and time archive with a participatory exhibition.
Media-wall moving-image work exploring the relation between digital environments and embodied perception.
Archived XR research project exploring continuity between virtual and physical space through immersive environment and spatial sound. Development discontinued.
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The Green Screen — International Video Art Festival of Tarragona, Mèdol · Centre d’Arts Contemporànies, Spain — selected, international open call section; screening 13 Nov.
LOVE–POWER–PEACE: The Future Is Now! — Selected Artist.
CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea — international group exhibition, 19 Aug–6 Sep.
Eunpyeong Culture Foundation, Seoul — site-responsive ritual performance cycle, 16 iterations, urban forest.
2025 Culture Month Celebration, Jaguri Park, Seogwipo, Jeju — official programme.
Artist’s House, Arts Council Korea, Seoul — co-planned programme.
Art Korea Lab Media Wall, Seoul — solo panoramic media-wall presentation.
10 Years After Ground, Gwangju — solo exhibition; twelve-tablet installation and three-hour durational performance.
NewImages Festival XR Market / Korea Focus, Paris.
Jeonju University X-ValueUp Space and Art Korea Lab D-Showroom, Seoul.
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Art Korea Lab, Korea Arts Management Service, Seoul.
Art Korea Lab / Korea Arts Management Service, Seoul.
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Art Korea Lab / Korea Arts Management Service.
Arts Council Korea.
Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture.
Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation.
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SASF Seocho Art Space Festival, Seoul.
House of the Dancer Series, Seoul.
Choreography and performance, Hong-eun Art Creation Center, Seoul.
Geumcheon Art Factory Opening, Seoul.
Choreography and performance, M Theatre, Seoul.
France, Poland, Russia, the United States, China, and Japan; productions included Simcheong and Ice River.
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Feature interview and review on GOYO Meditation Planet and NewImages Festival.
READ ARTICLE ↗Artist workshop for the National Dance Company of Korea, Seoul.
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Korea National University of Arts, Seoul.
Hansung University, Seoul.
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SPACE MOUM, Seoul.
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