HONG YOUNG JOO
Even though people pursue the ideal, they live in sympathy with the reality. Since a conflict of the Real and the Ideal is inevitable, we live in the agony of choices. This conflict makes Ego and cuts it off from the outside world. The severance always prevents the ego from communicating to outside. I painted glass, nature, indoor space to depict the confined space of ego. Unlike the silent outside of glass, the inside is unstability. It is showing that the cause of alienation and instability between the real and the ideal, in fact, exists not outside but inside. The isolated ego is existence adopting to the reality with a passive attitude. This space represents the limit but also includes the infinite possibility. By placeing symbols indicating strong sill to communicate to the outside world, I tried to express my wish to recover the communicate, and moreover, to accomplish the harmony.
EDUCATION
2013 M.F.A Department of Oriental Painting, Sungshin Women’s University, Korea
2009 B.F.A Department of Oriental Painting, Sungshin Women’s University, Korea
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 In an Ideal (Gallery Si:Jac, Seoul, Korea)
2014 Take a Rest (Hotel Manu, Seoul, Korea)
2013 Space (Gallery The K, Seoul, Korea)
2013 Coexistence and… Curtain (Galley Doll, Seoul, Korea)
2012 Communication (Gallery Gana Art Space, Seoul, Korea)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 Sungshin Oriental Painting Exhibition (Insa Artcenter, Seoul)
2015 Air Box (Yonaruky, Paju, Korea)
2015 A Good Star’ Exhibition (Yonaruky, Paju, Korea)
2015 Young Revolution (Gallery Huue, Singapore)
2014 Hope Project (Art company Gig, Seoul, Korea)
2014 Sungshin Oriental Painting Exhibition (Insa Artcenter, Seoul, Korea)
2014 Art campaign Cheating Art (Seoul foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul, Korea)
2013 Art campaign Cheating Art (Seoul foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul, Korea)
2012 Korean Painting Quest Exhibition (Gallery HOSA, Daegu, Korea)
2012 Korea-China Painting Exhibition (Beihang Art Center, Beijing, China)
2012 Art Factory Project (Migock Changgo, Seocheon, Korea)
2011 Intimate Wavelength (Ujung Art Center, Seoul, Korea)
2011 50 Exhibition (Seoul National University Space 599, Seoul, Korea)
2010 The Opening of a Sungshin Women’s University (Insa Artcenter, Seoul, Korea)
2010 Four Pieces (Artspace H, Seoul, Korea)
2010 Bravo Youth (Hyundae Department Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2009 Sungshin Oriental Painting Exhibition (Hawbong Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2009 Mind and Expression (Galleria Soonsoo, Seoul, Korea)
2009 Perspective of Generations of New Shape (Youngart Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2009 Better (Sungshin Women’s University Soojung Hall, Seoul, Korea)
2009 Growth Project of Dreamers (Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul, Korea)
2009 New School (Young Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2009 Spread My Dreams (Youngart Gallery, Seoul, Korea)