HONG SOO YEON
Life is on a continuum Objects settled in the Soo-Yeon Hong’s works do not posess a distinctive form. Therefore, the monochrome side that fills the whole frame catches our eyes first. About the time we are immersed in the solitude emitted from the monochrome side, the delicate tremble that shakes the tranquility is captured. Although that something which cannot be labeled seems like a crystallized image because it does not have a form, it shows its afterimage at the very next minute. The contour of the image is not fixed but slides into the mysterious moment between segments. However, the working method of Soo-Yeon Hong is the opposite. Rather, it progresses with thorough calculation and intention. The calculated slope of the canvass, the transparency created by having certain amount of paint float on top of another layer and the next, and the timelines acquired through this. Through these elements, a layer is a form yet something that exists as the afterimage of the next form. This sort of structure can be recognized as an another form. However, as these layers become accumulated, the whole screen is recognized as the fluid image that slowly evolves. Even when trying to define it by segmenting it into a minimum unit, it evolves towards yet another point. Reiteration and overlap, exposure and concealment, that is, meaning is achieved by ‘layers’, not by ‘a layer.’ – Excerpt from critic by Dae-Beom Lee, Art critic
EDUCATION
1995 M.F.A Department of Fine Art, Pratt Institute, U.S.A.
1992 M.F.A Department of Fine Art, Hong-Ik University, Korea
1990 B.F.A Department of Fine Art, Hong-Ik University, Korea
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Abstract:Intrinsic (Space So, Seoul, Korea)
2018 Between forms (Song Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2016 Solo Exhibition (Gallery Bundo, Daegu, Korea)
2016 Solo Exhibition (Gallery AG, Seoul, Korea)
2015 (Gallery Royal, Seoul, Korea)
2011 (Ryu Gallery, Seoul, Koerea)
2010 (Plant Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2009 The Room-Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea)
2007 (Bundo Gallery, Daegu, Korea)
2005 (Gallery IHN, Seoul, Korea)
2003 (White Wall Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2002 (Kumho Museum, Seoul, Korea)
2001 (Posco Art Museum, Seoul, Korea)
1996 (Sunnen Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
1992 (Sonamoo Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Salon (Nook Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2018 Hommage to Posco (Posco Museum, Seoul, Korea)
2017 Dialogue (Nook Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2014 Small is Beautiful (Flowers Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
2014 Floweing Island (Nefs Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2014 Huue Opening Exhibition (Gallery Huue, Singapore)
2013 Corporeity, Sooyeon Hong & Hunchung Lee (BK Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2013 Aesthetic Categories (Wumin Art Center, Cheongju, Korea)
2013 Black Square (101 Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2013 Vessels (LWL-industriemuseum, Dortmund, Germany)
2012 Korean Eye (Saatchi Gallery, London, U.K.)
2012 Sporadic Positioning (Arario Gallery, Cheonan, Korea)
2012 Gefabe (Stiftung Zollverein, Essen, Germany)
2011 A Plesure with Dear Friends! (Posco Art Museum, Seoul, Korea)
2011 Phyomai (Bridge Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2010 Cycle & Recycle (Interalia, Seoul, Korea)
2010 21&Their Times (Kumho Museum, Seoul, Korea)
2010 Art Docking Spot (Woomyung Museum, Seoul, Korea)
2010 Image of Exchange Value (Art Space Hue, Seoul, Korea)
2009 Artist Gallery_Fleeting (Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea)
2009 Wonderful Pictures (Ilmin Museum, Seoul, Korea)
2008 To Have or To Be (Korea Foundation, Ireland; Portugal; Hong Kong)
2008 Dazed & Painted (Seomi & Tuus Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2008 Sooyeon Hong, Saeng-gon Han & Jae-hyo Lee (Gallery Indipress, Busan, Korea)
2008 Multi-Colored Sentiments (Gallery Zandari, Seoul, Korea)
2007 MoA Picks: Reminiscing the Medium- a ‘Post-’ Syndrome (Museum of Art, Seoul National Unversity, Seoul, Korea)
2007 Post Feminity with Mine (Yoo Art Space, Seoul, Korea)
2006 Sooyeon Hong & Hwan-Kwon Yi (Paik Hae Young Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2005 Blue (Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea)
2005 Korean Modernism (Kumho Museum, Seoul, Korea)
2005 Korean-Japan Interchange Exhibition (Hangaram Museum & Museum of Tokyo National University, Seoul & Tokyo)
2004 Flower Flows Flowery (Artinus Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2004 Cutting Edge (Seoul Acution House, Seoul, Korea)
2003 Sense & Sensibility (Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea)
2003 Pronto (C/O, Milan, Italy)
2003 Dreamy Hive (Space Zip, Seoul, Korea)
2003 Intro (Gallery IHN, Seoul, Korea)
2002 Surface (Chun Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2002 Picnic (Public Project-The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea)
2001 New York Academy of Art’s Annual Benefit Art Auction (New York, NY, U.S.A.)
2000 Im-Pregnancy (Fine Art Center, Seoul, Korea)
2000 White (Nikolai Fine Art, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
2000 Terra Sacrare (Puffin Room, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
1999 Surface Structure (Nikolai Fine Art, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
1999 Summer Group Show (Painting Center, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
1998 Artist for Gardens (Puck Building, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
1998 Art Exchange Show (2 Broadway, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
1997 Today’s Vision (H.Heather Edelman Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
1997 Vision 21 (Half Concert Hall, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
1996 Dialogue of Consciousness (Eighth Floor Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
1996 Small abstract artworks (450 B’way Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
1996 Human Invitational Show (Walker Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
1996 Studio (450 Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
1995 Rise & Shine (Cast Iron Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
1995 Non Logo (One Night Stand Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
1994 Inks (Manhattan Graphic Center, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
1992 Natural, Human, Art (Sonamoo Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
1992 The Presage (Gaain Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
1992 Balcony (Gallery 2000, Seoul, Korea)
1992 Hong-Ik Print Making Group (Dukwon Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
AWARDS
2013 Grant for International Exchange of Art & Culture- Art Council Korea
2009 Artist Sponsorship of Visual Arts, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
COLLECTION
The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Consulate General of The Republic of Korea in Shanghai, China
Embassy of the Republic of Kore in Netherlands, Hague, Netherlands
Embassy of the Republic of Kore in India, New Delhi, India
Kumho Museum, Seoul, Korea
Posco Center, Gwangyang, Korea
Samsung Main Building, Seoul, Korea
The Westin Chosun Hotel, Seoul, Korea
Haevichi Hotel, Jeju, Korea
Novotel Daegu City Centre, Daegu, Korea
Bobath Memorial Hospital, Bundang, Korea
Handsome Co.Ltd.,Seoul, Korea
Lotte Hotel, Ulsan, Korea
Shinsegae Co.Ltd., Seoul, Korea
Kogas Marine Co.Ltd., Incheon, Korea
Samsung Hotel, Geoje, Korea
IFC Conrad Hotel, Seoul, Korea
Wumin Art Center, Cheongju, Korea
Yonsei Museum, Seoul, Korea
Four Seasons Hotel, Seoul, Korea