Artist Statement

I have long addressed the logic, fixed notions, and structural contradictions that we take for granted in our society, working across video, installation, painting, and various other media. Among these diverse practices, my painting works have undergone three major phases of transformation.
 
The first painting series began with ‘Park’s Park’. Here, I appropriated and recombined the flood of images circulating in contemporary life—film, television, magazines, advertisements—to construct entirely new narratives.
 
By detaching these capitalist images from their original functions and reassigning them to unfamiliar contexts, I aimed to redirect their purpose and generate new meanings. In doing so, the images reveal the hidden implications embedded within social structures and interpersonal relations.
 
Although it is often said that viewers “see as much as they know,” the true intention of this first series was to push the audience into a situation where they see only what they know—precisely because their knowledge confines their perception.


The second phase, the ‘Park’s Memory’ series, consists of oil paintings executed on silver PET film with a treated surface. I consider painting a space where all possibilities can unfold. Yet as soon as a flat work is completed, the canvas—so solid and object-like—seems to bring its life to an abrupt end. While searching for a more pliable, responsive material, I turned to silver PET film. It was a material I remembered from my childhood, when my mother used it at her pharmacy to wrap medicine. PET film is used to protect things that are precious; it is light, highly sensitive to change, and capable of reflecting subtle shifts—qualities that led to its adoption in the series.


The third phase, ‘Park’s Land’, revolves around the idea of metamorphosis. When beginning this series, I wanted to explore the notion of “possibility,” which led me naturally to the theme of “transformation”. The works incorporate mythological metamorphoses, cinematic transformations, and the potential shifts I perceive in the subjects around me. While transformation is commonly understood as a change from point A to point B, the metamorphosis in this series refers to something different: the latent possibilities within the process of “becoming,” and the shifting roles that emerge depending on circumstance.
 
The structural disassembly of figures within the compositions, the brushstrokes that seem to blur or distort, and the frequent layering of images all derive from characteristics explored in the earlier series—namely, the realism of ‘Park’s Park’ and the bleeding, reactive surface of ‘Park’s Memory.’ Together, they converge in a new visual language that carries the traces of both.

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- Solo Exhibitions

2025 《Rebellious possibility》, Yeol Jeong Gallery, Seoul
2024 《When Ero·Gro·Nonsense Combines Nonlinearly – Episode 1》, Museum1, Busan
2023 《When Ero·Gro·Nonsense Combines Nonlinearly》, Arting Gallery, Seoul
2022 《Myth, Representation of the Era》, Artertain, Seoul
2019 《Drowsy Floating》, Artertain, Seoul
2019 《Flowing Memory》, Alternative Art Space Ipo, Seoul
2018 《Temperature of Sensation – Park’s Memory》, Dorothy Salon, Seoul
2011 《Ordinary People》, Gallery Absinthe, Seoul
2009 《Discovery Beyond Novelty》, Goyang Cultural Foundation Ulimnuri Museum, Goyang (Gyeonggi-do)
2004 《Resupination》, Insa Art Space, Korea Culture & Arts Foundation, Seoul
 


- Group Exhibitions

2024 《Myth: The Beginning Story》, Museum1, Busan
2024 《Bubble Plus》, Art Bien, Seoul
2024 《Drawing Box – The Second Box》, Artreon, Seoul
2023 《ART Ground London》, Saatchi Gallery, London
2022 《Three Years》, Arting Gallery, Seoul
2022 《45th Anniversary of Sun Gallery》, Sun Gallery, Seoul
2022 《10 to the N Power – Season 3》, Ten to the N, Seoul
2021 《10 to the N Power – Season 2》, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul
2021 《Maze: Aesthetics of Painting》, One Edition Art Space, Seoul
2021 《On & Off》, Lotte Gallery, Seoul·Busan
2021 《The Moment of ㄱ》, Chosun Ilbo 100th Anniversary Special Exhibition, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
2020 《Collection for All》, Seoul Museum of Art Seosomun Annex, Seoul
2016 《Playart: Reading Art through Games》, Suwon iPark Museum of Art, Suwon
2015 《Faces I Want to See》, Lee Han-yeol Memorial Hall, Seoul
2013 《No Comment》, Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul
2012 《Root of Imagination》, Gallery Absinthe, Seoul
2012 《Jung-Hyuk Park & Chae-Kang Jun Two-Person Exhibition – Zeitgeist》, Salon de H, Seoul
2010 《Collage of Memories》, Soka Gallery, Beijing
2010 《Lacking Subject》, Interalia Art Company, Seoul
2010 《Bain Numerique – Printemps Parfum》, Centre des Arts d’Enghien les Bains, Paris
2009 《Media-Archive Project》, Arko Art Center, Seoul
2009 《Busan International Multi-Art Show》, Busan Cultural Center, Busan
2009 《Brats – Here and Now》, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan
2009 《Korean Eye Moon Generation》, Saatchi Gallery, London
2009 《Jung-Hyuk Park, Yongbaek Lee, Hoon Cho – IMAGENATION》, Opening Exhibition, Salon de H, Seoul
2008 《Blue Dot Asia》, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
2004 《Media City Seoul》, Section Library Archive, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2004 《In Club》, The 5th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju
2003 《Digital Salon》, Art Space Hue, Seoul
2003 《Jeonju International Film Festival (JiFF) – MIND Section》, Jeonju
2002 《Cross Talk》, Art Center, Korea Culture & Arts Foundation, Seoul
2001 《Incheon Contemporary Art Festival》, Incheon Arts Center, Incheon
2001 《EMAF (Ewha Media Art Festival)》, Ewha Womans University, Seoul
2001 《Networking Project》, Art Center, Korea Culture & Arts Foundation, Seoul·London·Taipei
2000 《Factory Art Festival – Blind Love (l’amour aveugle)》, Sempio HQ, Seoul
2000 《Daejeon International Media Art Exhibition》, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon
2000 《Analogue》, Art Center, Korea Culture & Arts Foundation, Seoul
2000 《Media Art 21》, Sejong Center, Seoul
2000 《Media Virus》, KEPCO Plaza Gallery, Seoul
 


- Collections

· The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) Art Bank, Seoul, Korea
· Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), Seoul, Korea
· Numerous other Prominent institutions, Galleries, and Private collections, both in Korea and abroad.