| Koryo studio (formerly known as Pyongyang Art Studio) is the first Western art gallery to commission and sell work by artists of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), or North Korea. Founded in 1993 to display a collection of DPRK film posters, we opened our first gallery nine years later at the Red House in Beijing, China. Our goal has always been to commission, produce and sell high-quality works while facilitating cross-cultural openness and exchange. We have shown our collections with international public and private organisations and have published books on photography (Welcome to Pyongyang, 2002) and art (Art of the DPRK, 2008)
In 2004, we held our first international exhibition at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Bangkok, which featured linocuts, and we continue to work alongside selected North Korean artists to raise their international profile. Our most significant achievement to date has been co-curating the 2009 Asia Pacific Triennial at the Queensland Art Gallery |
