Gallery JUNG x Context Miami 2018

[List of the Artists]

Sung Uck Kang

Hee Kyung Kim

Hyun Ok Park

Jukerman Bahk

Jung Sup Song

Heung Woo Shin

[Heung Woo Shin]

Education

BFA & MFA in Plastic Arts, University of Paris VIII, Paris, France

Solo Exhibition

2017 Kyodong Art Museum, Jeonju

2016 Hoseo University Gallery, Cheonan

2013 Gallery I IN, Busan

2012 Gallery We, Seoul

2011 haeahn Gallery, Seoul

2010 Ellen Kim Murphy Gallery, Yangpyeong

         Gallery We, Seoul

2009 Gallery Mee, Seoul

         Gallery Jung, Seoul

2006 Gallery Mee, Seoul

2004 KAIST Gallery, Seoul

1999, 2011, 2003 Depot Matignon Galerie, Paris

1999 Espas AAA, Paris

1998 Zafira Galerie, Paris

1993 Morning Calm Gallery, New York

Selected Group Exhibition & Art Fair

2017 BAMA

2013 - 2016 KIAF

2014 - 2016 Busan Artshow

2012 K-ART Exhibition, Gallery Godo

         HongKong Hotel Art Fair

2011 Art Cologne, Germany

         Albuquerque Art Fair, U.S.

         Hyatt Hotel Art Fair

2010 Korean Art Fair, New York

         Christie’s, New York

         Nogent Atelier Inaugural Exhibition, France

2009 Open Art Fair, COEX, Seoul

         Transfer Exhibition, Gallery Ho

2008 Changwon Asia Art Fair, Changwon

2006 Asian Games Celebratory Exhibition, Doha, Qataar

2005-2009 Korea Galleries Art Fair, Seoul

2005 Bastilles Contemporary Art Fair, Paris

1999 Geneva Art Fair, Switerland

         Salon de Virty, Virty, France

         Salon de Mongrouge, Montrouge, France   

Collection

Korea National Museum of Contemporary Art, Art Bank

Severance Hospital, Seoul, Korea

KAIST

Jongeundang, Seoul

Jaeseung Publication

Artworks

The motif of Shin’s work is everyone and anyone. They include a traveler with a deeply furrowed face that the artist saw one day at a market entrance; bright little boys and girls passing beside his studio; a fat souvenirshop owner the artist met by the Eiffel Tower about 10 years ago; a ridiculous figure in a film by Charles Chaplin; and his daughter playing the violin. The fragments of memories pass like a ride in an amusement park quickly or slowly. With a silicone syringe in his hand, the artist depicts those who left him painful or delightful memories, those who he has seen in a magazine or in a dream as they come to his mind. While the city he lives is often considered to be a battlefield of cutthroat survival, the artist regards it with awe and affection as a place brimming with interesting and exciting energies. Shin’s painting begins by drawing out thin silicon lines from a syringe after spreading waste newspaper on the floor. Momentous, immediate action is required to continuously draw without cutting the silicon. These sketch-like figures represented only with faces or at times with their bodies are unrestricted and lively, and then they are glued onto the canvas, adding interesting texture to the flat surface. 

Dance, 72 x 91 cm, Mixed-media, 2014

Festival of the City, 72 x 91 cm, Mixed-media, 2015

Jazz, 72 x 60 cm, Mixed-media, 2015