Noh Suntag

* 1971 in Seoul, South Korea lives in Geonggi-do, South Korea

NOH Suntag’s work is created in North and South Korea. With a background in photography, political science, and painting, Noh Suntag documents the intensification of political ideologies in both states, social ambivalences, sociopolitical exceptionalism, and military conflict situations in modern Korea. His works have been shown at the Württembergischer Kunstverein (Stuttgart), Palau de La Virreina (Barcelona), and Total Museum of Contemporary Art (Seoul), and may more, and are included in collections such as the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea; Seoul Museum of Art; Daelim Contemporary Art Museum; The Museum of Photography Seoul; Coreana Museum of Art; Peace Museum; Korea, May 18 Memorial Foundation; Art Bank Korea, and F.C. Gundlach Collection Germany. In 2012, he received the Dong Gang Photography Award. „Since my school days, I have been sick of hearing about the North Korean Evil, so I have been curious to know who they are. As time went by and I grew older, I became more curious about knowing our true self, constantly trying to destroy the North Korean Evil. If so, is South Korean the angel of justice? I have been collecting the scenery of function and malfunction derived from the division of the Korean peninsula. I have been captured it with my camera and picked it up with my hands, and yet, I ended up thinking for a long time, wondering the meaning of what I have been gathered.“ (Noh Suntag)