Archive
Works
Park's Land
Park's Land 31-Blonde, Veil, 2024
Muscle Memory Drawings
Muscle Memory Drawings 19019, 2019
Park's Park
Park's Park 7-1, 2009
Muscle Memory Drawings
Muscle Memory Drawings 240616, 2024
Park's Land
Park's Land 26-Pietà, Centaur, 2023
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
《Ordinary People》, 2011.08.20 – 2011.09.30, Gallery Absinthe
Gallery Absinthe will present Park Jung Hyuk’s solo exhibition 《Ordinary People》 starting Saturday, August 20. As suggested by the seven years of preparation behind 《Ordinary People》, the exhibition reflects the artist’s determined ambition to reframe the world through his own visual lens.
2011.08.20
Exhibitions
《Drowsy Floating》, 2019.12.20 – 2020.01.21, Artertain
Seven billion… perhaps more. That is the current estimate of humanity’s population. Seven billion people inhabit this Earth. But do we even wonder exactly how many there are? For now, the most immediate reality is simply that I exist, living my life in this moment. Perhaps all that my life pursues—or is already pursuing—are the easiest, most accessible ways of living. Seven billion people coexist on Earth, each carving out territories, or systems.
2019.12.20
Exhibitions
《Su! Su! Susu! SuperNormal!》, 2025.12.09 – 2026.01.15, SPACE.SUPERNORMAL
When different medium and senses come together in a single space, what kind of scene will this encounter create? SPACE.SUPERNORMAL has launched a new exhibition. This exhibition, which will mark the end of 2025, is a group exhibition of 33 artists curated by artist Sim Seung-wook.
2025.12.10
Exhibitions
《Rebellious possibility》, 2025.02.07 – 2025.03.24, Yeol Jeong Gallery
Yeoljeong Gallery will present 《Rebellious Possibility》 from February 7 to March 4, 2025. Known for constructing a distinctive visual language through diverse media and experimental approaches, Park explores the fractures and contradictions embedded in contemporary society. This exhibition introduces a new body of work that further expands his ongoing inquiries.
2025.02.05
Exhibitions
《Myth : The Beginning Story》, 2024.10.05~2025.08.31, Museum 1
Museum 1, an art museum located in Centum City, Busan, will host 《Myth: The Beginning of a Story》 from Saturday, October 5, 2024, to Sunday, August 31, 2025. The exhibition features approximately 100 works by 18 artists (or teams) from five countries, spanning a variety of genres, including painting, photography, installation, video, and media art.
2024.10.03
Activities
Activities
Discovering New Local Artists and Encouraging Creative Spirit
Many artists reside in Goyang City. However, the support programs and infrastructure for these artists are far from satisfactory. Kim Chan-dong, director of the Arko Art Center, said, “Although the art museums and performance facilities are not poor compared to other regions, considering the number and level of resident artists, the environment is definitely inadequate.”
2009.10.13
Activities
[YouTube] Park Jung Hyuk《When Ero·Gro·Nonsense Combines Nonlinearly》, (2023.05.11~05.31 Arting) Critique
Ban Ijeong's《When Ero·Gro·Nonsense Combines Nonlinearly》Crtitique
2023.05.14
Activities
2023 Drawing-Growing: From the Start of Every Artwork, Growing from Drawing!
《Drawing-Growing》 spotlights the earliest stages of artworks—the drawings, sketches, and initial ideas—and presents them as works available for purchase. Through the experience of acquiring these “starting points of artworks,” many art enthusiasts grow into collectors, while sharing in the experience of “growing through drawing.”
2023.06.10
Activities
[YouTube] Why Did a Prominent Media Artist Risk Everything on Oil Painting? The Story of Junghyuk Park, Part 2 [Gongshell] | Yoon Giwon’s Art Talk EP.145 | Korean Artist Junghyuk Park
Park Jung Hyuk: Yoon Giwon's Artist Talk (2)
2023.05.26
Activities
[YouTube] Sensibility Wrapped in Silver Foil [Yoon Giwon’s Art Talk] EP.22 | The Fluidity of Memory – Park Jung Hyuk
Driven by a crusader-like conviction, Park Jung Hyuk persistently embarks on new artistic trials, drawing us into the ever-shifting terrain of fluid memory.
2019.11.01
Writings
Criticisms
IMAGENATION – On the evolution of arts.
From the incantation as a substitute to language, symbol of divine right and royal authority, maid of architecture, the Renaissance Man Leonardo Da Vinci, independence from illusionism, the birth of photography, Andy Warhol’s factory, Nam Jun Park’s video art, Jeff Koons’ scandalism to Damien Hirst’s return to painting
2009
Criticisms
Between the Fascination of Metamorphosis and the Drift of Imagery
A single phrase, like a single photogram, must be capable of delivering a rich range of visual stimuli within an unceasing flow of motion. (…) Every verb on every page appears in the present tense, as if all events were unfolding right before our eyes. New incidents rush in, and all distance between one and the next collapses into immediacy.
2025.05.20
Criticisms
Malocclusion
1. Against a white wall, a domestic camcorder is mounted on a tripod. Through the camcorder’s small screen, we see a person training dogs. The video lightly condenses a training process that unfolded over several months.
2004
Statements
Seven Vertices
Seven Vertices is a work that was exhibited in the group show 《Faces We Want to See》 at the Lee Han-yeol Memorial Hall (October 7–November 30, 2015). The exhibition selected six individuals who had been sacrificed during the process of democratization or in popular struggles for livelihood, paired each with one of six artists, and presented their lives through each artist’s distinct mode of expression.
2015.10.07
Criticisms
Flowing Memory: An Alternative Language on Disciplined Creativity
The fluttering silver foil you are looking at is a “troublesome meta-material” completely detached from the traditional solidity of canvas or hanji. In this exhibition, Park situates these chaotic, sensorial works within the mutable conditions of an alternative space in Mullae-dong. Interpreting concealed structures of power through an uncanny sensibility, the works unsettle our habituated, disciplined mode
2019.09.20