Contact & CV

Darae Baek (b. Ulsan, South Korea)
Lives and works in UK and South Korea
daraebaek@gmail.com
@daraebaek

Darae Baek is a video installation artist based in South Korea and the UK. Baek graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2016 and finished her Master of Fine Art at the Glasgow School of Art in 2019. Baek has participated in film festivals and exhibitions both nationally and internationally in the UK, Sweden, Spain, Iceland, Japan and Thailand among others, including presenting The Unsettled Dust at the Asian Film Festival.

Featuring herself as the protagonist of her films, Baek’s practice explores the possibility of recalling familiar fragrances and memories from unfamiliar places. In a moment of past reverberation, an unfamiliar ‘new place’ could be absorbed by nostalgia. Enlightened by these experiences, Baek’s film practice is an attempt to investigate her position in a foreign environment in relation to her personal memories.

Education
2017 ~ 2019 MFA at Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
2013 ~ 2016 BA (Hons) in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, London, UK

Exhibitions
Solo
<‘Language makes me an uncertain person’>, Alchemy Film & Arts, Hawick, UK
<Déjà-vu>, Alternative Space Noon, Suwon, Korea
<Existence or Reflection>, Studio Kura, Itoshima, Japan

Group
2020
<BLISTER CITY>, UNIST, Ulsan, South Korea
<SENSE12>, Jangsaengpo Goraero 131, Ulsan, Korea
<돈을 벌지 않는 사람들:People who don't make money>, SeMA Storage, Seoul, Korea
<Playing Hide and Seek with Myself>, Keep in Touch Seoul, Korea
<Down the melting pot> , Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, Korea
<Down the rabbit hole>, The Dead Poets, Seoul, Korea

2019
<Seoul International Film Festival>, I Art Seoul, Seoul, Korea
<Artsdepot open 2019>, Apthorp Gallery, London, UK
<GSA MFA Degree show>, the Glue Factory, Glasgow, Scotland
<EMAP: Ewha Media Art Presentation>,EWHA WOMANS UNIVERSITY, Seoul, South Korea
<Citizen M>, CitizenM Hotels, Glasgow, Scotland
<MFA WIP Screening 2>, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, UK
<The Other Side of the Moon>,Oxo Tower Wharf , London, UK
<CLASH vol.1>, South Block, Glasgow, UK
<The Unsettled Dust: Asian Short Film Festival>, George Town Festival 2019, Penang Island, Malaysia, VT Artsalon, Taipei, Taiwan and Asian Culture Station , Chiang Mai, Thailand

2018
<The Unsettled Dust: Asian Short Film Festival>, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, UK
<+5 at ESPACIO PINEA Gallery>, Rota, Spain
<PROVISIONAL ARRIVALS>, Project space, Glasgow, UK
<Art & Nature>, ARNA residency, Harlösa, Sweden
<Sala del Mercado de La Merced>, Rota, Spain
<HATE: INTERNATIONAL FIM FESTIVAL>, Konkuk University Glocal Campus, Chungju, Korea
<I.nside>, The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow, UK
<Meshes Presents: ExP>, Genesis Cinema, London, UK
<2018 Voices of Korean Contemporary Artists: Butterfly Effect>, Oxo Tower Wharf, London, UK
<No Safe Haven>, The Pipe Factory, Glasgow, UK
<MFA Interim Show 2018>, Reid Gallery, Glasgow, UK

2017
<The Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition>, York Art Gallery, York,UK
<Cherry Blossom Festival>, Sakurai-Jinja(櫻井神社), Itoshima, Japan

2016
<BA Fine Arts Degree Show>, Central Saint Martins, London, UK
<XHIBIT>,The UAL showroom, London, UK

2015
<Remember Nature>, CSM, London, UK
<Rót>, Ketilhúsið,Akureyri, Iceland
<Mid-Summer Night> ,Listhus Gallery,Ólafsfjörður, Iceland
<BEST BEFORE>, 5th Base Gallery, London, UK
<Performing the Unconscious>,The Freud Museum, London, UK
<Freshfield Group Exhibition>, Blueberry Bar, London, UK
<Outsider Art Exhibition>, Candid Arts, London, UK

Art residencies
Jangsaengpo Art Stay, Ulsan, South Korea, 2020
UNIST Science Walden Art & Science, Ulsan, South Korea, 2020
ARNA, Harlösa, Sweden, 2018
PINEA-LINEA DE COSTA, Rota, Spain, 2018
Studio Kura, Itoshima, Japan, 2017
Listhus,Ólafsfjörður, Iceland,2015

Published
The interview with WomenCinemakers’s Special Edition 2018
Aesthetica Art Prize Anthology 2017: 100 Contemporary Artist

Awards
Longlisted, Aesthetica Art Prize 2017
XHIBIT 2016, UAL