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New Artists

Exhibitions 《Web of P》, 2022.12.06 – 2022.12.15, The Reference 《Web of P》 takes as its point of departure the image of Penelope from Greek mythology. The concept of "The web of Penelope" refers, in contemporary terms, to the endless tasks we perform incessantly without completion.
2022.12.05
Articles [Critique] What if – Jihyoung Han Solo Exhibition 《Them So Good》 (BYFOUNDRY, 2023) What if I could live as a different being for a few hours? What if I were multiplied or disappeared? What if I lived in a world where only women exist? What if furs grew suddenly all over my body and horns appeared on my head? What if either I or you transformed into a half-human, half-animal creature? What if I became one of them or fell in love with them?
2023.11.10

Emerging Artists

Articles Artist Seong Joon Hong: On the Layers of Painting Seong Joon Hong (b. 1987) has pursued a sustained inquiry into the layers of painting—its overlapping strata—and the fundamental questions they raise. Through a process of building up multiple layers, the artist engages with the essential structure of painting itself, while also internalizing these strata as sedimentations of memory and time, or evoking synesthetic illusions that merge sight and touch. In doing so, Hong reveals the expansive possibilities inherent in the medium of painting.
2026.02.16
Exhibitions “Dear Alexa” on View Through July 26, 2026, at Art Archives Seoul Museum of Art Seoul Museum of Art presents a special exhibition 《Dear Alexa》 on view through July 26, at Art Archive Seoul Museum of Art.
2026.04.07

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions “Rehearsing Transformation” on View Through June 7, 2026, at Incheon Art Platform Incheon Art Platform presents a special exhibition 《Rehearsing Transformation》 on view through June 7. Rehearsing Transformation is an exhibition centered on contemporary sculpture that explores changes in the body, material, and modes of creation and production under the theme of “transformation.” Here, “transformation” refers not to a finished result, but to the process through which forms are made and continually shift into other states.
2026.04.07

Late Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Critique] The Contemporaneity of Dongyanghwa (Eastern Painting) ― An Essay on Kim Jipyeong’s Work Painting is a slow medium. But it wasn’t slow to begin with. It has simply maintained its own steady rhythm and pace. What has truly accelerated is the dizzying speed of modern civilization, driven by the relentless progress of technology and industry. These developments have swiftly transformed
2025
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Pre-Established Artists

Articles [Critique] The Rusty Reality of the World: Painting as a Struggle Against Contemporariness Some people might wonder why we should rethink works by Jaeho Jung at this point. Is it because Jung has documented what has happened in our cities since modernization? Or is it because he has pursued Korean traditional painting which struggles to survive in contemporary art? Neither
2018
Articles [Critique] World of the Other Side - Sunny Kim,《Echo》 A girl stands at a precipice. She stands straight, looking at the landscape beneath her feet. At the edge of a cliff, the landscape is made impossible to enter. In Precipice (2021), the girl beckons us to enter the landscape in her place, as if saying it is our turn. Like in much of Sunny Kim’s work, the girl is wearing a uniform. School
2024

Established Artists

Exhibitions 《MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2019: Park Chan-kyong – Gathering》, 2019.10.26 – 2020.02.23, MMCA, Seoul Park Chan-kyong is born in Seoul (1965) and has lived in the city. He had majored in Painting at the College of Fine Arts but after graduation, he has mainly written about art and curated exhibitions. His first solo exhibition in 1997
2019.10.25
Exhibitions 《In Focus: Taek-Sang Kim》, 2022.12.15 - 2023.01.08, Lehmann Maupin Lehmann Maupin presents a focused presentation of Kim Taek Sang’s work in the gallery’s Palm Beach location, in conjunction with a solo presentation of Helen Pashgian’s work. In recent years, Kim Taek Sang has gained recognition for his extensive exploration of color and its relation to nature, and for developing a unique process of painting, which challenges the traditional notion of two-dimensional painting.
2022.12.13