HA HYOUNG SUN
Windows are where the inside meets the outside. Looking out of the window opens you to what is on the outside as well as making you aware where you are on the inside. What is out there is not always what you see from within. Sometimes you only see what you want to see. Sometimes you see only what the window allows you to see. Windows are timeless. A scene from a window embraces the past, present and future. The experience of contemplating and meditating through the window is like a passage through a projection of memories and dreams. Knowing where I am and where I am going both physically and mentally is important to me. In the Window Series, I have documented the views of windows from places where I have been. In the darkroom, I throw grains of rice onto the light sensitive paper. By doing this, I create a photogram while the negative is exposed creating my image of the window. Korean clairvoyants throw rice to foresee the future. I throw the rice onto the photographic paper with similar intent. All of us are trying to predict what will happen in an unpredictable world. The act of throwing and tracing the rice transforms the image outside the window to a place where you pause to understand the past, be aware of the present and foresee the future. It is an attempt to be aware of being in the flow of time and space. In the process of creating my art, I begin to understand where I exist in that flow of time and space and hopefully, the viewer can understand where they exist as well.
EDUCATION
1998 Pratt Institute, M.F.A., Brooklyn, NY, USA
1996 School of Visual Arts, B.F.A., New York, NY, USA
1993 Seoul Institute of the Arts, Seoul, Korea
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Ha Hyoung Sun (Soul Art Space, Busan, Korea)
2010 Window (Dr. Park Gallery, Yangpyeong, Korea
2008 Window (Museum of Photography Seoul; Hami Foundation of Arts and Culture, Seoul, Korea)
2008 Window (Dr. Park Gallery, Yangpyeong, Korea)
1998 Through My Hand (Second Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.)
GROUP EXHIBITION
2017 Long Life/Photo (Kyungpook National University Art Museum, Daegu, Korea)
2015 Parallel Encounter (Gallery Joo Hae, Seoul, Korea)
2014 Affinity 90 (Gallery Chosun, Seoul, Korea)
2014 On the Border (Ilhyun Museum, Yangyang, Korea)
2014 Contemporary Lyrical Art from the Land of Morning Calm (The American Club, Singapore)
2012 The Unfamiliarity (Cais Gallery, Hong Kong)
2012 The Unfamiliarity (Cais Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2012 Artists of Dr. Park Gallery (Dr. Park Gallery, Yangpyeong, Korea)
2010 Irrelevant (Arario Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
2010 Open Kitchen (Da Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
2010 Two Folds of Negatives – Against Clarity (Gallery Chosun, Seoul, Korea)
2009 Art Road 77 ‘With Art, With Artist’ (Book House Art Space, Paju, Korea)
2009 Problem (Dr. Park Gallery, Yangpyeong, Korea)
2008 12th Annual Friends of Friends Photography Auction (Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
2008 Sweet Imagination (Gallery Lux, Seoul, Korea)
2008 Gaze (Gallery Grimson, Seoul, Korea)
2008 Small Works Exhibition (Gallery Grimson, Seoul, Korea)
2007 11th Annual Friends of Friends Photography Auction (Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
2007 Photography from Korea (LEE Ka-sing gallery at INDEXG, Toronto, Canada)
2007 10th Anniversary of New Works Photography Awards (Longwood Arts Gallery @ Hotos, Bronx, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
2004 Green Light (Gallery Korea, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
2004 Brooklyn Express (Sangmyung University Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2003 Douglas Dibble Memorial Art Auction (Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
2002 En Foco’s 2002 Photography Awards Exhibition (Wilmer Jennings Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
2002 Pass,Age,Now (Gallery International, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.)
2002 Absences-Curators’ Choice: Photography of Urban Alienation (Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
2002 Rick Chapman, Hyoungsun Ha, Kevin O´Connell (Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.)
2002 Moments of Clarity (Sotheby’s, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
2002 Chautauqua National 2002 (CCVA Gallery, Chautauqua, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
2002 Parallel Connections (Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.)
2002 Illuminance (Buddy Holly Center, Lubbock, TX, U.S.A.)
2001 Freedom/Aftermath (Korean Cultural Center, Washington, DC, U.S.A.)
2000 Parsons Benefit Auction (Swan Galleries, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
2000 Confluence of Cultures (Schafler Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
1999 Confluence of Cultures (Pratt Manhattan Center, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
1999 Asian American Artists Group Exhibition (Oella Mill Gallery, Ellicott City, MD, U.S.A.)
1998 New Directions ‘98, Barrett House Galleries, Poughkeepsie, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
1998 Pan Opticon (Swiss Institute Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
1997 College Art Association MFA Exhibition (Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
1995 Going Through (SVA Eastside Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
and More Than 10Group Exhibition
COLLECTION
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas
Bulbrite Collection, Moonachie, New Jersey
National Museum of Contemporary Arts Korea, Artbank, Gwachon, Korea
Woosong University, Sol Bridge, Daejon, Korea
Datz Museum of Art, Gwangju, Gyeonggido, Korea
AWARDS
2008 NYFA Fellowship in Photography, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York
2003 Eleanor Clark French Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
2003 Vision Award, First Prize, Santa Fe Center for Visual Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2002 En Foco 2002 New Works Photography Award, Bronx, New York
2002 Juror’s Award, Buddy Holly Center, Lubbock, Texas