“Breaking familiar perspectives, reading the world in a new context.
Park Jung Hyuk explores the boundaries of image, perception, and social experience.”
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, Representation of the Era》, 2022.04.08 – 2022.04.26, Artertain
Before written history, the birth of a nation was often mythologized through stories that carried the desires, hopes, and survival instincts of the era. And within these myths, transformation is always present. In essence, for a new polity to emerge, something of the old had to shift. The newly formed state then needed a narrative that could encourage its people and affirm their will to live well.
2022.04.08
Exhibitions 《When Ero·Gro·Nonsense Combines Nonlinearly》, 2023.05.11 – 2023.05.31, Arting Gallery
From the 2023 work Park’s Land 27—where the veil encircling the Virgin Mary's head meets the protruding snout of a wolf placed squarely at the center—I begin to trace the artist’s aesthetic clues. The recent series titles, announced as periodical themes, are gathered under “Park’s Land.”
2023.05.11
Statements Seven VerticesSeven 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
Statements Theater Series-3’ 54”Theater Series-3’ 54” is a work in which a third-person camera that follows the solitary, resisting gestures of a character dressed as a salaryman (symbolizing a standardized figure produced through discipline and social structures) shifts into a first-person point of view, thereby transforming the observing audience into a confrontational situation with the character and staging a condition in which
2009
Statements Ordinary People
This work, originally presented in Park Jung Hyuk’s third solo exhibition 《Ordinary People》 (August 20–September 30, 2011), consists of five sound-interlinked videos that play in random order. Each video is a dramatized montage created by splicing together scenes from more than fifty Eastern and Western films and television dramas.
2011
Texts The Temperature of the Senses
Artists create for many different reasons. Some work in order to convey a clearly defined message; others simply because they have something they want to say. Still others create because they feel a more ambiguous but equally compelling need—to draw, to make, to release something that must be let out.
2018
