Education

2006 Auckland University of Technology, Bachelor of Fashion Design
2021 Hongik University, Graduate School of Fine Arts, M.F.A. in Sculpture
2024 Hongik University, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Ph.D. in Sculpture

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Exhibition History

2024 10 Korea Art Fair
2024 05 "See Saw," Invitational Exhibition, Yangpyeong County Museum of Art
2023 12 "What Does KISS Mean to Us?" Polapo Art Gallery
2023 07 "Container Art Lab," Yangpyeong County Museum of Art
2023 05 Yeonhui Art Fair, CMGG Gallery
2023 05 "Hello Happiness!" Gallery Café Bini
2023 01 "Qualification (Yes-No) – The Table of the Host," Gallery Binkan, Euljiro
2022 08 ASYAF (Asian Students and Young Artists Festival), Hidden Artist, Sculpture Section, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
2022 06 Binkan Art Fair, LAYER57
2021 10 "START ART FAIR," by Saatchi Gallery
2021 05 "So We Went to the Warehouse," Group Exhibition (Curated and Exhibited), Daelim Warehouse Gallery
2020 10 "The Parallel," Group Exhibition, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center
2020 05 "Traces of Landscapes Composed and Repeated," INTERLAB & Korea Copyright Commission
2020 05 "THE ART POWER 2020," Selected Young Artist, Yangpyeong County Museum of Art
2020 04 Solo Exhibition: "THE UNBIRTHDAY PARTY," Selected Artist, Container Art Lab, Yangpyeong County Museum of Art
2019 12 "Parallell," Group Exhibition, Pyeongtaek Lake Art Hall
2019 10 Hongik Creative New Way Art & Design Fair, Complex Cultural Art Space Mudaryuk
2019 08 ASYAF (Asian Students and Young Artists Festival), Hidden Artist, Sculpture Section, DDP
2019 04 Campus Art Fair, Gallery Godo Booth, Hyundai Gallery

 

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Artist Statement

My food sculptures are a feast of hospitality for artistic mourning. Although we encounter loss and pain in our daily lives, melancholics remain trapped in a space of repressed mourning. They are either guests invited to this banquet table or the hosts who welcome me, a fellow melancholic. I listen to their stories in the guise of a clown—not the figure of a difficult acrobat, but an absurd, clumsy clown who makes mistakes, engages in silly acts, and laughs, eats, and drinks with them.

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Seated at the table, we partake in a feast of mourning. We celebrate the living and honor the experience of loss as beings who remain alive. The act of mourning through celebratory play lifts the melancholic from the depths of a dark sea, guiding them toward a new gravity. This daily celebration creates a gravitational field of gratitude, counteracting the force that pulls them downward and instead drawing them toward the light. The hospitality that continuously moves toward the light allows melancholics to experience the joy of Homo Ludens—the playful human.

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-Excerpt from the Artist’s Note-