Gallery 1

Portfolio 2020 — 2024

Painting as a
form of thinking.

About

Between material
and meaning.

Born in Seoul, 1993. Currently based between Seoul and Berlin. My practice centers on the materiality of paint — its weight, its resistance, the way it holds and refuses time. Each work begins with an accumulation of layers that are then selectively revealed or concealed.

I am interested in the threshold between representation and abstraction, and in how paint can hold emotional and physical residues simultaneously. The studio is a place of sustained attention, of slow looking.

Studied Fine Arts at Seoul National University (BFA, 2016) and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (MFA, 2019). Recipient of the Korea Arts Foundation Grant (2021, 2023).

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12+

Solo Exhibitions

5yr

Active Practice

Artist at work
Artist portrait

Works

Selected Works

Origin Ground

1998

Oil on canvas

130 × 162 cm

Stillness No. 1

1999

Oil on linen

100 × 80 cm

Before Light

2000

Acrylic on canvas

90 × 120 cm

Residue I

2006

Oil on canvas

150 × 180 cm

Passage

2008

Oil and wax on canvas

120 × 160 cm

Empty Field

2010

Acrylic on linen

100 × 100 cm

Between Layers

2014

Oil on canvas

130 × 162 cm

Fragments

2016

Mixed media on canvas

80 × 120 cm

Soft Structure

2018

Acrylic on canvas

100 × 130 cm

Fragmented Silence

2020

Oil on canvas

130 × 162 cm

Between the Lines

2021

Acrylic on linen

100 × 100 cm

Residue

2022

Oil on canvas

120 × 120 cm

meet

2025

Acrylic on canvas

90 × 70 cm

morning meditation

2025

Acrylic on canvas

165 × 150 cm

hinter der Bühne

2025

Acrylic on canvas

160 × 125 cm

Pray

2025

Acrylic on canvas

70 × 82 cm

closed

2025

Acrylic on canvas

60 × 60 cm

ego

2024

Acrylic on canvas

140 × 90 cm

the death of an artist

2024

Acrylic on canvas

165 × 150 cm

refugee

2025

Acrylic on canvas

100 × 70 cm

meditation — madonna and child

2024

Acrylic on canvas

32 × 25 cm

refugee in germany

2024

Acrylic on canvas

50 × 40 cm

Aufbau

2026

Acrylic on canvas

70 × 70 cm

Aufbau

2026

Acrylic on canvas

155 × 125 cm

Kirmes

2025

Acrylic on canvas

53 × 53 cm × 3

Adaptation

2025

Acrylic on canvas

150 × 100 cm

An Artist's Death in Montmartre

2025

Acrylic on canvas

120 × 80 cm

coloring — adopt

2025

Acrylic on canvas

60 × 60 cm

Five Loaves Two Fishes

2026

Acrylic on canvas

105 × 70 cm

to come back home in triumph

2026

Acrylic on canvas

190 × 155 cm

recognition

2026

Acrylic on canvas

135 × 100 cm

Kirmes

2025

Acrylic on canvas

70 × 50 cm

In Transit

2022

Acrylic on paper

60 × 90 cm

Trace No. 3

2023

Ink on paper

50 × 70 cm

Borderline

2024

Graphite and gouache on paper

70 × 100 cm

Archive

Exhibition History

2020 — 2024

Solo ExhibitionCollective Silence
Gallery SOMA, Seoul
Group ExhibitionMateriality and Void
Space One, Busan
ResidencyResidency Program
Gyeonggi Creation Center
Solo ExhibitionSurface / Depth
Art Space Pool, Seoul
Group ExhibitionYoung Korean Artists
LACMA, Los Angeles
Group ExhibitionAbstraction Now
Tate Modern, London
Solo ExhibitionIn Between
Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul
Group ExhibitionAsia Emerging Artists
M+ Museum, Hong Kong
ResidencyInternational Residency
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
Solo ExhibitionFirst Light
Alternative Space Loop, Seoul
Group ExhibitionNew Voices
Arario Gallery, Seoul
Two-Person ExhibitionThreshold
Project Space SARUBIA, Seoul
Group ExhibitionGraduating Exhibition
Seoul National University Museum of Art

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Studio

Seoul, South Korea

Representation

Gallery SOMA, Seoul

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