Park Kwang-Jin's First Major US Solo Show Opens at Hunter Dunbar Projects
"Park Kwang-Jin: Seeker of Nature," a significant solo exhibition featuring the 93-year-old Korean artist, is being showcased by Hunter Dunbar Projects in New York from September 17 to October 24. This exhibition highlights nearly forty years of Park's work, ranging from a landscape created in 1986 to a canvas from 2025. Born in Seoul in 1935, Park splits his residence between Seoul and Jeju Island, blending traditional observation with modernist influences. He has served as a professor at Seoul National University of Education, led the Korean Fine Arts Association, and played a role in the Korean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. His recent abstract pieces seek to express Korea's natural beauty, exploring the interplay of color, rhythm, and sound, while he aspires to simplify his work further despite physical constraints.
Key facts
- "Park Kwang-Jin: Seeker of Nature" runs September 17—October 24 at Hunter Dunbar Projects in New York, the artist's first major solo presentation in the United States.
- The exhibition spans nearly four decades, from a 1986 landscape to a 2025 work.
- Park Kwang-Jin was born in Seoul in 1935 and is 93 years old, dividing his time between Seoul and Jeju Island.
- He is a founding member of the Mokwoohoe and taught at Seoul National University of Education for decades.
- He chaired the Korean Fine Arts Association and contributed to the Korean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and the Gwangju Biennale.
- His first New York exhibition was at the Korean Cultural Center in 1985.
- An encounter with Jesús Rafael Soto's art in Paris in 1994 led him to explore vertical lines alongside horizontal ones.
- He established a studio on Jeju Island in the early 1980s and later relocated there, drawn to its canola fields, reeds, and black volcanic lava.
Entities
Artists
- Park Kwang-Jin
- Jesús Rafael Soto
Institutions
- Hunter Dunbar Projects
- Mokwoohoe
- Seoul National University of Education
- Korean Fine Arts Association
- Venice Biennale
- Gwangju Biennale
- Korean Cultural Center
- Whitewall
Locations
- Seoul
- South Korea
- Jeju Island
- New York
- United States
- Paris
- France
- Venice
- Italy
- Gwangju