Opening Reception Friday, December 1, 2023 from 6-9pm
Exhibition: Sunday, November 26, 2023 – Monday, December 4, 2023
Exhibition hours 12 – 6pm
Curated by Grace Yeonsook Ji
In collaboration with SIA Artist Group
Internationally well-known Korean artist Han Ho combines light and painting in his installation works. A participant in the 2015 Venice Biennale, he earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Paris 8 University and pursued a doctorate following Nam June Paik’s footsteps. Residing in Paris, New York, and Beijing, he engages in diverse artistic activities.
As a prominent media and public sculpture artist in Korea, Han Ho’s works, often centered around light, encompass painting and video. Collaborating with NASA on the 7 Million Project, he creates paintings on traditional Korean paper, puncturing holes through which he places LED bulbs, offering a healing experience through the warmth of light.
HAN Ho, an artist of light, explores various genres like painting, media painting with LED bulbs, sculpture, performance, installation, and kinetic art. His motifs revolve around eternal light, encapsulating elements of religion, world history, Korean history, self-exploration, and the humanistic base of light. The convergence of different genres produces a unique synergy across painting, media, space, installation, and video simultaneously.
Artworks related to the DMZ reveal historical wounds or ideals, providing an opportunity to experience another world. His pieces captivate with vivid intensity and sometimes offer a healing experience akin to stargazing in cosmic space. Accompanied by performances of traditional Asian music, his works express phenomena at the end of the century, using instruments like the jing, drum, and kkwenggari.
HAN Ho has received awards such as the Special Prize at the French National Montreux and selection for the Sofia International Paper Biennale Literary Promotion Fund, among others. His collections are held in prestigious institutions worldwide, including the Rockefeller Foundation, National Museum of Fine Arts (Bulgaria), Gwangju City Art Museum (Korea), and the 21st Century Sin-Gaeson Museum (Paris).
