ART INTERNATIONAL ZURICH 2010

Soyoung Park

The shift of names from Oriental painting to Korean painting and again to contemporary Korean painting reflects the change in traditional values. This process can be interpreted as a clash, fusion, or compromise between traditional and modern values. As a result, completely different views of form and aesthetic beauty and even new systems of appreciation have been combined, generating incongruous scenes. The vivid expression of contemporary Korean painting depends primarily on this thoroughly new tendency that cannot be interpreted from the standardized view of aesthetic beauty and rigid conventional ideas.
My work takes place in this context. Appropriating a specific image from the four gracious plants - the plum, the orchid, the chrysanthemum, and bamboo, I represents them in ink. In terms of material and subject matter, my work is quite naturally thought of as entirely traditional, but I presents another formative value that is difficult to embrace and for us to accept, if seen from the conventional view of aesthetic beauty and the traditional system of appreciation.
Despite the use of traditional materials and subject matter, I try to move far beyond the established framework and convention by capturing and expressing them with my subjective eye and in a contemporary feel.

B.F.A. in Oriental Painting, College of Fine Art, Seoul National University
M.F.A. in Oriental Painting, College of Fine Art, Seoul National University
Ph.D in Art Education, Seoul National University

Awards

• 2009
  Specially Selected. The 3rd HONGKONG Millenium Art Exhibition (JEN SPACE, Hongkong)
• 2008
  Specially Selected. The 6th Do Sol Grand Art Exhibition Fine Art, Calligraphy (Cheonan Civil Cultural Center)
  Specially Selected. The 1st Paris Arts Collection (Galerie Lafayette, Paris)

Solo Exhibitions

• 2009
  Galerie GAIA, Seoul

Group Exhibitions

• 2010
  Contemporary Korean-Japanese 100artists(Gallery Artist Space, Tokyo)
  SEOUL-TOKYO-Korean and Japan which Woman See"s (Silk Gallery, Seoul)
  The 43th Korean Painting Society Annual Exhibition (Dongduck art Gallery, Seoul)
• 2009
  Symphony of Korean Artists (CHUWA Gallery, Tokyo, Japan)
  The 42th Korean Painting Society Annual Exhibition (Gallery Chosun, Seoul)
  The Exhibition of "DAN" (Gallery Gac, Seoul)
  Korean Contemporary Art Section (Yi Hyung Art Center, Seoul)
  Bright Contemporary Art (Yi Hyung Art Center, Seoul)
• 2008
  Paris Arts Collection (Galerie Lafayette, Paris)
  Exhibition of A New Asian Jump (Silk Gallery, Seoul)
  The 62th SNU Alumni Exhibition (Museum of Art Seoul National University)
  Mind Look Minuteness-Korean Artist (Gallery SPACE PAUSE, Tokyo)
  China-Korean Women Artists Group Exhibition (Korea Cultural Center, Beijing)
  The 20th PROCLAIM (Gallery Jung, Seoul)
  The 41th Korean Painting Society Annual Exhibition (Gallery Chosun, Seoul)
  "Korean Stroke" - The Women's Association Exhibition for Korean Painting (SEJONG Center, Seoul)
  The Festival of Philosophy and Art (Gallery Jung, Seoul)
  Complimentary Exhibition of "Light of Korean Art" (Gallery Tablo, Seoul)
  Complimentary Exhibition of "Light of Korean Art" (Milano Brera Art center, Milano )
  The 29th Exhibition of International Art on Fan (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo)
• 2007
  Art Expo New York (Jacob Javits Convention Center, New York)
  Complimentary Exhibition of "Small Painting" (Lexus Gallery, Daegu)
  Dream of JANGJA - 2007 The Women's Association Exhibition for Korean Painting (Annex of Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul )
  The 40th Korean Painting Society Annual Exhibition (Gallery Chosun, Seoul)
• 2007
  Exhibition of Leading Young Artist (Galerie GAIA, Seoul)
  La Jeune Creation Coreenne-curated by Galerie GAIA (Galerie Etienne de Causans, Paris)
  GWANGHWAMOON International Art Festival in Beijing (Korea Cultural Center, Beijing)
  KyungHee University Korean Painting Spring Exhibition (Museum of Art KyungHee University, Seoul)
  Today Expression of Korean Contemporary Painting (Gallery Tablo, Seoul)
  AURA-2007 Modern Korean Art Today Tomorrow (Yi Hyung Art Center, Seoul)

Copyright: SamSim Art, Seoul / South Korea, 2010