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Yongsun Suh

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Birth

1951, Seoul

Genre

Painting, Sculpture

Homepage

www.suhyongsun.com 

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May All Be Here Now - Suh Yongsun_curated by Kim Doyeon
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Yongsun Suh
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Artist Suh Yongsun stands out in the field of historical painting, a genre that has been unprosperous in contemporary Korean art. He has been involved in a vast range of realms such as mythology, history, urban aspects, and politics while creating a large body of self-portraits that depict him looking straight ahead with an intense stare suggestive of a strong sense of identity. His persistent exploration of his own position and origin has expanded into an observation of urban scenes and the quotidian lives of others via his concerns with Korean mythology and history. His cardinal works include a series that addresses the life history of King Danjong of Joseon who ascended the throne at the age of 12 but whose life was tragically ended by his uncle and a series of urban scenes dealing with his observations of contemporary people while traveling to numerous cities such as Seoul, Beijing, New York, and Berlin.In addition, he has shone an interest in stories that take place in a wide array of space-time in pieces and projects such as Mago(2009), a serialized work featuring Mago, a cosmogonic goddess in Korean creation myths who was believed to be the creator of the heavens and earth, Children(2014), a series capturing the faces of the victims of the Sewol ferry disaster, and the Cheolam Project, an art project that breathes a new life into an abandoned coal mine area and its local residents. This exhibition consists of his self portraits and scenes of Masan that Suh observed while staying and working at the Masan Fruit and Vegetable Market Residency as its first resident artist. The peculiar thing is that the dates on which he executed his work are recorded chronologically on all of the canvases. The work dates are not references to the completion of his painting but records of scenes, highlighting the act of painting itself. He used to commit himself to facing the canvas after observing his objects. As such, his brushwork does not assume a supporting role for the completion of his work. Each brush stroke has a freestanding encounter with the canvas and was not made to represent an event. For this reason representation is not the goal of his painting. The artist leaves traces arising from a collision of an object with the flat surface of a canvas as well as remnants of his very private, intuitive encounter with the object. Viewers then follow and chase such traces as if investigating the scene of the event. To Suh, painting is not only the realm of possibility, but a currently living story. His work The Man Who Paints (2016) featuring the artist himself as he paints his self-portrait demonstrates his self-awareness through his own individual act of painting. Suh’s art style is particularly meaningful in that he displays a special interest in those who have been gradually marginalized through his constant act of painting, almost as if he is keeping a diary. As it is unlikely that he will cease to explore himself in the future, we will one day view the world from a perspective that will be inspired by another reality he raises on his canvas.

학력사항

정보테이블
1982 Seoul National University, M.F.A in Painting, Seoul, Korea
1979 Seoul National University, B.F.A in Painting, Seoul, Korea


Solo Exhibitions

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2016 Suh Yongsun in Masan, Masan Fruit and Vegetable Maket, Masan, Korea
2015 Self-Portrait, Gallery Imazoo, Seoul, Korea
SUH Yongsun, Utopia's Delay: the Painter and the Metropolis, Kumho Art Center, Hakgojae gallery, Seoul, Korea
2014 Broken Color, Art Center KU, Daejeon, Korea
Suh Yongsun, LEE EUGEAN Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Suh Yongsun's Heterotopia : the forteiture of myth, Chosun Ilbo Museum, Seoul, Korea
Embodied and Embeded Things_Self Portraits and Scenes, Fukuzumi Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Historical Imagination_The King Danjong Stories by Suh Yongsun, Art Center WhiteBlock, Paju, Korea
Suh Yongsun, DAAD, Bonn, Germany
2013 Suh Yongsun, Kips Gallery, New York, United States
Suh Yongsun, Koreanishes Kulturzentrum, Berlin, Germany
Memory, Representation · Suh Yongsun / 6. 25, Korea university Museum, Seoul, Korea
Moving, Unmoving, Gallery Imazoo, Seoul, Korea
2012 Suh Yongsun's Landscape, Dongsanbang Gallery, Lee C Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Territory, Kips Gallery, New York, United States
2011 Suh Yongsun's Mt. Giri, Lee C Gallery, Seoul, Korea
The Man who Paints, Shin Hwa Gallery, Hongkong, China
Suh Yongsun, Son Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Suh Yongsun, RMIT School of Art Gallery, Melbourne, Austrailia
Touch, Fukuzumi Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Gaze of Politics, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea


Group Exhibitions

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2016 South Korean Art : Examining Life Through Social Realities, American University Museum, Washington, United States
April the Eternal Vayage, Gyunggi Art Museum, Ansan, Korea
Tongil !, Seoul Arts Center Calligraphy Museum, Seoul, Korea
Cultural Conversations, Korean Art Center Sydney, Sydney, Austrailia
2015 Rediscovery of Baekje Dynasty-reported by contemporary art, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, wonjugun, Korea
Symphony of lives_The special planning exhibition for the 1200th anniversary of Mount Koya’s founding, Kongobuji, KAISO1200th Gallery, Wakayama, Japan
Spring Scenery, Muan Seungwoo Oh Museum of Art, Muangun, Korea
2014 A Form as thingking-Rediscovery of Drawing, Museum San, Wonjugun, Korea
CHOE CHIWON : PUNGNYU, Seoul Arts Center Calligraphy Museum, Seoul, Korea
ARS ACTIVA 2014_Arts & Their Communities, Gangneung Museum of Art, Kangeng, Korea
What makes the wind away... For Personal or Socio-Historic Paintings, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
2013 Myth and Legend, Goyang Aram Nuri Arts Center, Goyang, Korea
The 3rd IPAP, Sea of Peace, Inchon Art Platform, Incheon, Korea
The 60th anniversary of the Korean wararmistice agreement- Remembrance of things past, OCI Museum, Seoul, Korea
Figures panorama, Jeonbuk Province Art Museum, Wanju, Korea
2012 Landscape of South and North Korea, Goyang Aram Nuri Arts Center, Goyang, Korea
Through your eyes, Korean Art Center Sydney, Sydney, Austrailia
The Power of Art-People, The Tumen Art Center, Jilin, China
Architype, Daegue Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
Korean Painting Now, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan


Awards

정보테이블
2014 The 26th Lee Joog Sub Art Prize Award, Josun Media
2009 Artist of the Year 2009, Suh Yongsun, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea


Collections

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National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Ko, Gwacheon, Korea
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
Daegu Museum of Art, Daegu, Korea
Korea Unisversity Museum, Seoul, Korea
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Seoul National University Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
National Defense Graduate School, Seoul, Korea
Gumho Museum, Seoul, Korea
Moran Museum of Art, Namyangju, Korea
Monash University, Melbourne, Austrailia
Yanpyung Museum, Yangpyeong, Korea
OCI Museum, Seoul, Korea
WooGuanJoong Musuem Gallery, Singapore, Singapore
Bluehill Department Store, Seongnam, Korea
Dongsuh literature company, Seoul, Korea
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