Just as a creature in a shell can dream in its own shell, humans are instinctively looking for a point that they are home. Our true home is our mother's womb; a blessed place where everything is fulfiled. This is where our dreams could live freely.

Remembering this moment and place is an understanding of the notion of its livingness of  an entity, and it allows us to experience unbounded time and space as an entity. I think of this emotion as home. And I paint it.

I paint basic shapes, such as circles, triangles, or rectangles, to convey the primal emotion of home. The quilt pattern of my work comes from my grandmother’s patchwork quilts, which I loved to play with when I was little.

Home stays as a whole place where everything is entirely one. This is where we can dream the most, having been breathing in the smallest of places. It is very similar to the place where humans are conceived and also where the artist stands.

b. 1977, Seoul, Korea

Living and working in Seoul

Solo Exhibition

2023 ‘Station’, Gallery M, Seoul

2021 '@HOME', Hakgojae Art Center, Seoul

Group Exhibition

2024 'Regeneration’, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul (scheduled in March)

2023 'Two Persons Exhibition', Spopia gallery, Inchon

2023 ‘Nature 2023’, CICA Museum, Gimpo

2022 ‘Commencement’, Gallery M, Seoul

2022 'Two Persons Exhibition', Schengen Art Gallery, Gwangju

2022 'Summer Solstice: Luminescence', Agora Gallery, New York

Education

2011 Chelsea College of Art, London, U.K. Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art

2010 Hampstead School of Art, London, U.K. Diploma in Fine Art

2006 SOAS, University of London, London, U.K. MA in Art History and Archaeology

2003 Sangmyung University, Seoul, South Korea, BA in Fine Art