Education
2007 Department of Theater and Film Studies, Dankook University, Republic of Korea
 

Solo Exhibitions

2024
Pink Drawing: Coexistence, Gallery Sun, Seoul

2023
The Fleeting Moment of Relationships, APY(Art Project Y), Seoul
Hana Bank Invitation Exhibition, Seoul


Group Exhibitions

2025
BE GENTLE WITH US, FEZH,  Seoul

2024
Contemporary Art Exhibition of Artists from Korea, Germany, France, and the UK, APY (Art Project Y), Seoul
Shenzhen Art Fair, Shenzhen Convention, Shenzhen
Incheon Asia Art Show, Songdo Convensia, Incheon
​KIAF, Coex, Seoul
​Redefing Boundaies, APY(Art Project Y), Seoul
Here and Beyond, APY(Art Project Y), Seoul

2023
Expressions and Messages, Re:Seoul Gallery, Seoul 
Kitch On The Tap, Boutique Monaco Museum, Seoul
Incheon Asia Art Show, Songdo Convensia, Incheon
Here and Beyond, APY(Art Project Y), Seoul
What Is a Kiss to Us, APY(Art Project Y), Seoul
CANVAS & CORK, TDAHaus, Seoul
Exchange Exhibition, APY(Art Project Y), Seoul
The Fleeting Moment of Relationships, APY(Art Project Y), Seoul

2022
Sees the Day Special Exhibition, Seoul
Serendipity Exhibition, Seoul


Introduction
 
"Can conversation without face-to-face interaction warm our hearts as much as facing each other?" - Excerpt from Ha Ji-won's work notes
 
As the digital world expands through digital networks like metaverse and social media, it prompts us to contemplate how we should understand and connect with each other. The changes in human relationships have increased the convenience of communication and made it possible to form various human connections. However, there is a trend of decreased quality in human relationships due to anonymity, insecurity, and reduced face-to-face interactions. It's often easier to talk to people without seeing their faces, and things that might be difficult to say in person can be easily expressed online. The artist expresses this anonymity through figures without faces in her works.

Ha Ji-won's works focus on this aspect. With vibrant and lively colors, the works depict the spontaneity and lightness of transformed relationships, handling anonymity through figures without faces intertwined in complex ways. In the artwork, each figure has various connections, which come together to form larger relationships, indicating the possibility of more spontaneous digital human relationships. However, the figures in the artwork are depicted as excessively bound to each other, suggesting that Ha Ji-won has a positive outlook for the future and a determination to move towards better human relationships. The artist emphasizes that we all need to recognize the changing forms and methods of human relationships and prepare for them with our own efforts. She highlights the importance of human interaction through mutual values even in digital relationships.
 
In today's media-exposed generation, relationships can easily be connected or severed. However, the artist suggests that it's not enough to just acknowledge this but to go further and create and build healthy relationships (connections) in the digital world as in real life. Ha Ji-won's perspective is portrayed through the figures tightly bound to each other, demonstrating her determination to strive for better human relationships even in the digital world.