Park Ki-hoon | MetaCanvas Gallery

Park Ki-hoon has been recognized at home through the Special Prize at the Korea Figurative Art Exhibition and the Gyeomjae Tomorrow’s Artist Award, and has continued an active practice. Park’s works are held by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, the National Assembly, Danwon Art Museum and the Bank of Korea, as well as by numerous collectors. Seen as photo files, Park’s works look like photographs on the theme of animals or hyperrealist paintings, but in person they are color-carved paintings that use a printmaking technique. Paint mixed with stone is layered in many coats and carved away with a carving tool, and depending on how much force the artist applies to carve through the layers of various colors, different colors unfold on the canvas. According to the depth, the color of the paint beneath is revealed and forms the shapes. Thanks to the effect of light and shade felt from the differing heights of the surface and the dramatic effect of seeing layers of many colors at once, we feel a newness not felt in conventional painting. Park places wild animals, which are gradually losing their habitats as civilization develops, in the middle of a megacity, and by titling the two opposing subjects of civilization and wildness “Coexistence,” Park sends us an environmental message.

Biography

Completed doctoral coursework in Printmaking, Department of Fine Arts, Graduate School, Hongik University
Graduated from the Department of Printmaking, Hongik University, and its graduate school

Solo exhibitions

2020 Coexistence, Itda Space, Incheon
2020 Coexistence, Gallery White One, Seoul
2020 GREEN UTOPIA, BNK Gallery Busan, Busan
2018 Coexistence, Gallery Do, Seoul
2016 Coexistence of City and Animals, Seoul Grand Park, Gwacheon, and others

Group exhibitions

2021 Joyoung Art Seoul 2021, COEX, Seoul
2021 Busan International Gallery Art Fair BAMA, BEXCO, Busan
2020 Busan International Gallery Art Fair BAMA, BEXCO, Busan
2020 ART CHRISTMAS, Art Code Gallery, Seoul
2020 Autumn Art Market, Hangaram Design Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, and others