STUDIO EMPATHY
[News]
11/2025: Awarded FRAME Awards 2025 Shortlisted & Silver, NL
10/2025: Honored GRANDS PRIX DU DESIGN Awards Grand Winner, CA
06/2025: Awarded AZ Awards 2025 Award of Merit, CA
05/2025: Awarded 2025 NYCxDESIGN Awards Honoree, US
04/2025: Honored Red Dot Design Award: Product Design 2025, DE
03/2025: Honored iF Design Award 2025, DE
12/2024: Awarded Best of Year 2024 Honoree from Interior Design Magazine, US
10/2024: The Library design featured in Dezeen, UK
EXHIBITIONS
2019 100 Architects of the Year 2019 - International Invitational Exhibition
Union internationale des architectes (UIA),
Korean Institute of Architecture (KIA), Seoul, Korea
2013 Inter. Act, Reciprocity in Media
Bric Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, US
2012 Governor’s Island Art Fair, Artist Selection
Governor’s Island, New York, US
2012 Interconnected Segment
Artgate Gallery, New York, US
2012 Hanji Metamorphosis
Space 475, New York, US
2012 Desirable Sync: Global Crisis & Design ver.1.5
Gallery Korea of Korean Cultural Service New York, New York, US
(also Exhibition Commissioning & Curating)
2011 Living in the Crisis Era, between Anxiety and Desire:
Global Crisis & Design ver.1.0
ArtGate Gallery, New York, US
(also Exhibition Commissioning & Curating)
2011 Global Young Architects, Seoul Architecture Festival (SAF)
Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul, Korea
2010 Green Design and Daily Life, Incheon International Design Fair
Songdo Convensia, Incheon, Korea
2009 Works of Emerging Korean Architects (Group Exhibition)
Seoul / New York
2006 Imagined Space, Architecture as Art by Emerging New York Architects
(Group Exhibition)
PicassoMio Gallery, Madrid and Barcelona, Spain
2000 Architecture, on the Line of Being, Group Exhibition
Ankook Gallery, Seoul, Korea
EXHIBITION REVIEWS
- Reviews in Newspaper
Kim, Jinhae. “Desired Sync, Resolve the Global Crisis”.
The Korean Times (New York, NY) 18 May. 2012: Print.
Park, Sea Mi. “Crisis needs to be Recovering the Humanity”.
The Chosunilbo (Seoul) 17 May. 2012: A24, All. Print.
Kim, So Young, “Desired Sync, 22 Artists’ Group Exhibition.”
The New York Ilbo (New York, NY) 8 Jun. 2012: Print.
Kim, Tae-rim, Seo, Ji-eun. “Art as panacea in time of worldwide crisis.”
Korea joongang Daily (Seoul) 18 Nov. 2011: All. Print.
Lee Oh, Jooeun. “Initiative Exhibition of IM, the Korean Architects Group.”
Korean Construction News (Seoul) 14 Nov. 2011. Print.
Choi, Hee Eun. “Korean Architects and Designers formed the non-profit organization IM.”
The Korean Times (New York, NY) 15 Nov. 2011. Print.
Choi, Hee Eun. “Being the Pillar of advancing into mainstream for Korean Designers.”
The Korean Times (New York, NY) 15 Nov. 2011: C. Print.
Kim, Miri. “Crisis in New York, Young Designers Design Hope”
The Chosunilbo (Seoul) 2 Nov. 2011: A24, All. Print.
Park, Sookhee. “Group Exhibition of Korean Architects and Designers in New York.”
Korea Daily (New York, NY) 31 Oct. 2011:7 . Print
- Reviews in Web
“I:M, Desired Sync, global Crisis & Design ver.1.5”.
designboom.com, Designboom. 22 May. 2012. Web.
Walter, Alexander “Currently on view in NYC: Desired Sync: Global Crisis & Design ver.1.5”.
bustler.net, bustler. 29 May. 2012. Web.
Gil, Younghwa. “Issue and Column: Designers Takes Care of the World in Hurt”.
magazine.jungle.co.kr, Design Jungle. 29 May. 2012. Web.
“Design Issue: Desired Sync, global Crisis & Design ver.1.5”.
designdb.com, DesignDB of the Korea Institute of Design Promotion (KIDP), 5 Jun. 2012. Web.
Kwan, Heesung. “Exhibition of Korean Artists in New York”.
mt.co.kr. MT, Money Today. 9 May. 2012. Web.
Park, Sea Mi. “Crisis needs to be Recovering the Humanity”.
chosun.com, The Chosunilbo. 17 May. 2012. Web.
Kim, So Young, “Desired Sync, 22 Artists’ Group Exhibition.”
newyorkilbo.com, The New York Ilbo. 8 Jun. 2012. Web.
Kim, Jinhae. “Desired Sync, Resolve the Global Crisis”.
koreatimes.com, The Korean Times. 5 May. 2012. Web.
“Exhibition of Korean Artists in New York”.
article.joinsmsn.com, The joongang Daily. 9 May. 2012. Web.
Furuto , Alison. "[global] Crisis & Design ver.1.0: Living in the Crisis Era Exhibition".
Archdaily.com, ArchDaily. 10 Nov. 2011. Web.
W., Jacqueline. “Thematic group exhibition [global] Crisis & Design”.
plusmood.com, Plusmood. 5 Nov. 2011. Web.
“[global] Crisis & Design ver.1.0 Thematic Group Exhibition”.
bustler.net, bustler.n.d. Web.
