Education
Chugye University for the Arts
Graduated from the Department of Western Painting, Sungshin  University


2023 In the Garden (The Forest Art Gallery, Seoul)
2022 Strolling in the Garden (Bukhangang Gallery, Yangpyeong)
2021  In the Garden (The Forest Art Gallery, Seoul)
2020  In the Garden (Yangpyeong County Art Museum, Yangpyeong)
2020  In the Garden (Marron Gallery, Seoul)
2020  In the Garden (UD Gallery, Seoul)
2019  In the Garden (Gallery Cafe Rubens, Seoul)
2019  In the Garden (Gallery Cafe Jilsiru, Seoul)
2011  In the Garden (Art Space Hyeon, Seoul)
2009  In the Garden (Gallery Young, Seoul)
2002  In the Garden (Alternative Space Pool, Seoul)

I work on recalling events, incidents, landscapes, or memories that occur around us. I think people live their entire
lives with memories or recollections. Images that symbolize such memories or recollections are closely related to
 our daily lives and are small things that we can recall in our daily lives. I expressed places I wanted to go or places
 you wanted to go with simple symbols, and I recalled places I traveled to, characters in movies, and past events
 that were touching, and expressed the wishes or hopes that were embedded in our lives with each color. In the
 limited daily life of the pandemic era, we yearn for freedom, and freedom comes as a precious thing. Our small
 but valuable daily life cannot be exchanged for anything. Various symbols appear, such as chickens, pigs, cats
, women doing yoga, people running, waterfalls, the Eiffel Tower, the Opera House, Gwanghwamun Square hot air
 balloons, the Statue of Liberty, airplanes, Yuna Kim, missiles, baseball players, movie characters, General Yi Sun-sin,
 and rainbows. The method of visualizing the symbols that come to mind at each moment is to draw by squeezing
 red paint after sketching. Although I cannot draw precise shapes like drawing with a brush, pencil, or charcoal, I
 enjoy expressing them in imprecise shapes. The flexible lines of the drawing are even free.
The color red psychologically affects passion and vitality, and in China, it also means good fortune. It is also the
 color with the longest wavelength among visible light, and it has the effect of obtaining a clear contrast when
 juxtaposed with other colors. In India, henna is used to draw dye on people's skin during weddings or festivals to
 ward off bad luck and pray for blessings. At this time, the act of drawing a picture by putting the dye in a plastic
 bag instead of a brush inspired me.
Once the overall shape is complete, I apply the base coat again and paint it with various colors. Once the coloring
 is finished, I use a chisel to cut the paint to reveal the red lines. The result of this process has a unique texture
 and gorgeous color surface in terms of formativeness. If the previous work involved combining small dots from
 toothpicks to create shapes and drawing with a focus on description, the work in progress can be seen as a result
 of the characteristics of the two types of work mixed together. This work is a process of transforming dots into
 lines on top of gorgeous colors, and the work was created in a sculptural way by cutting paint to reveal it rather
 than drawing it.
Longing for new paintings is something that all artists aspire to do. Aspirations always change and change in a
better direction. These days, I am working on the harmony of colors and lines, but as time goes by, I will discover
 and try to find something else I have never tried before, like an explorer.
When I look at the nameless wild flowers blooming in the stream, I think of vitality and beauty. I think of the image
of exercising while thinking of a healthy life and the waterfall of Jangsaengdo, which wishes for longevity, in one
 picture, and think of “rest” under the waterfall. I want to talk about a journey to find the meaning of life like
 “Hidden Picture,” a story where day and night, the sun and the moon come together, and the past, present, and
 future coexist, dreaming of a leisurely life that is not tied to anything, and where pictures come to mind. I want to
 talk about a journey to find the meaning of life like “Find the Hidden Picture.” I hope that I can recharge and start
 anew on the waning moon in my garden full of things in the world. The waning moon, which symbolizes dawn,
 rises at dawn and disappears at the same time as the sun rises. I hope that I can start my day with a wish on the
 waning moon before it disappears. Today, too, I look at the world as if I were walking through a garden full of life.


Collections
2021 Thought-Yuyujajeok (Yangpyeong County Art Museum)
Thought-Yuyujajeok (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Art Bank)
2019 Thought (Heo An-gwa)
2013 Echo (Yangpyeong County Art Museum)
Awards/Selections
2019 Gyeonggi Art Award (Gyeonggi Arts Center)
2003 Song Eun Art Grand Prize Exhibition (Gongpyeong Art Center)
1997 Special Selection, National Art Exhibition of the Republic of Korea (Seoul Museum of Art)