{"title":"Artists","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"ju-tae-seok","title":"Ju Tae-Seok","description":"\u003cp\u003eJu Tae Seok (b. 1954, Daegu) is a Korean painter who has spent his career pursuing figurative, hyperrealist painting at a moment when the Korean art world was dominated by abstraction and monochrome painting (Dansaekhwa). He began with a meticulously observed \"Railroad Tracks\" series, and since the 1990s his work has been noted for a departure from pure hyperrealism through the use of color-field division and subjective color — emphasizing the shadows cast on floors and walls to heighten the image, omitting unnecessary description of ground or wall, and using color contrast to add tension, so that the flatness of modernist painting and the illusionism of realist representation coexist within a single picture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe graduated from Hongik University's College of Fine Arts in 1978 and its Graduate School of Painting in 1980, and was a Visiting Researcher at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2009. He served as Professor in the Department of Painting at his alma mater from 1992 to 2019, later becoming President of the University Art Association (2011) and Director of the Hongik Museum of Contemporary Art (2017). Over his career he has held 54 solo exhibitions in Seoul, Busan, Daegu, Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai, Nagoya, Kitakyushu, and Paris, and taken part in more than 800 group and international exhibitions. His work is held in the collections of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, the Seoul Museum of Art, and numerous other Korean institutions, as well as the Blue House and the National Assembly.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beaux-Arts Gallery Seoul","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52810853712183,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"KRW","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1002\/6054\/4823\/files\/469555308_18475599919056242_2139665517455746958_n.jpg?v=1785735957"},{"product_id":"lee-heedon","title":"Lee Heedon","description":"\u003cp\u003eTurning to abstract painting through close exchanges with artists such as Cho Yong-Ik — a member of the first generation of Korean abstract artists who played a pivotal role in the birth of Korean contemporary art — and Chung Chang-Sup, a leading figure of Dansaekhwa (monochrome painting), Lee Hee-Don is regarded as one of the most accomplished artists among the \"second generation of Dansaekhwa.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLee Hee-Don is often known simply as a Dansaekhwa artist, but closer examination of his work reveals a distinct aesthetic difference. Where the Dansaekhwa movement began from a Korean sense of beauty, sentiment, and unique textural expression that Western-style monochrome painting could not contain, Lee Hee-Don's work goes further — centering on the performative nature of the act of making itself. Through the repetition of physical action and its resulting \"accumulation,\" his paintings occupy a new position of meaning: an embodied record of temporality and exploration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eParticularly notable in his work is his use of dak (the raw fiber of traditional Korean paper) and a perforation technique for which he holds a patent. Made by soaking and blending mulberry-bark paper fibers, this material leaves a distinctive matière on the surface, over which he layers Korea's traditional five cardinal colors (obangsaek) — achieving an aesthetic that is at once distinctly Korean, refined and modern.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso central to his work is the worldview of inyeonsaenggi (因緣生起, the arising of all things through interdependent causes and conditions), the root of the Yeon (因緣) series he has pursued since the 1990s. The artist hopes his paintings will be read as \"a passage of the mind that awakens us to countless coexistences.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beaux-Arts Gallery Seoul","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52810948215095,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"KRW","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1002\/6054\/4823\/files\/0Q8A7520.jpg?v=1785735958"},{"product_id":"lydia-seo","title":"Lydia Seo","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeo Sook-Yang (Lydia Seo) is a Korean painter known for a distinctive body of work built with 24K pure gold leaf, moving across painting, sculptural objects, and architectural installation. Her signature *Flow of Light* series treats light as the origin of being — an expansion of the soul and a message of blessing directed at life itself. Each piece is built up through a long process: acrylic paint is layered drop by drop, then overlaid with sheets of 24K pure gold leaf, so that the finished surface holds a condensed, luminous energy. The biblical phrase \"Let there be light\" has been a defining inspiration for the series, which she has described as an attempt to express that phrase in its purest and most intense form, using the material world's noblest substance — pure gold — to visualize the light of life and the light of hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe holds an M.F.A. in Painting from the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Hongik University, and has held 18 solo exhibitions (per a 2025 press interview; her own CV states 20) alongside extensive participation in international art fairs, including in Miami, Hong Kong, Singapore, London, and New York. Her solo exhibition *Golden: Flow of Light* was held at Beaux-Arts Gallery Cheongdam from December 2025 to January 2026, following a special exhibition of the same series at Lotte World Tower's ABOUT++ Project Lounge in August–September 2025\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beaux-Arts Gallery Seoul","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52810949591351,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"KRW","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1002\/6054\/4823\/files\/469555304_18475599922056242_110357070897894225_n.jpg?v=1785735957"},{"product_id":"shin-cheol","title":"Shin Cheol","description":"\u003cp\u003eShin Cheol is a Korean painter whose work carries the emotional residue of someone who has left a place they once loved. His paintings ask how such time is remembered by those who have moved on — certain periods of life, he suggests, remain a lifelong longing for some, and the memory of a time that held stories never fully told takes on new and varied faces as the years pass. His canvases are populated by recurring figures — flushed cheeks, a girl with an ambiguous, searching expression, and lyrical, springtime scenery — that together trace the memory of a first love never quite realized. Revisiting, at the age when lines first appear at the corners of the eyes, the purest period of his life, Shin reaches back toward a first love that can never be forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe studied in the Department of Fine Arts at Wonkwang University and completed graduate studies at Hongik University. Over a career of 53 solo exhibitions, his work has been shown at venues including the Yangpyeong County Art Museum, the Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, and Lotte Department Store Daejeon, and he has served as a judge and steering committee member for the Korea National Art Exhibition. He is also the author of two books, Nostalgia (2018) and The Age of Purity (2014). At Beaux-Arts Gallery Cheongdam, he held the solo exhibition That Was You, Spring* (그대는, 봄) in May 2023, and his work was included in the gallery's 2023 group exhibitions *Contemporary Prints 101: An Introduction to My Collection and The Remarkable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beaux-Arts Gallery Seoul","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52810951852343,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"KRW","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1002\/6054\/4823\/files\/469480051_18475599886056242_3861245666214537082_n.jpg?v=1785735957"},{"product_id":"han-man-young","title":"Han Man Young","description":"\u003cp\u003eHan Man Young (b. 1946, Seoul) is a Korean painter celebrated for a body of work built on the appropriation and juxtaposition of pre-existing images — a technique critics have described as generating a \"trans-linear\" space and time. Drawing across the whole of art and material history, he freely combines fragments as disparate as Greco-Roman antiquities, Renaissance masterpieces, the tomb murals and clay figurines of the ancient Korean kingdom of Goguryeo, Buddhist statuary, Joseon-dynasty true-view landscape and genre paintings, folk paintings, and blue-and-white porcelain, setting them alongside modern intrusions like old machine parts or smartphone components. The resulting canvases move freely between East and West, past and present, art and everyday life, creation and copy, figuration and abstraction — unsettling any single, stable sense of reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe graduated from the Department of Painting at Hongik University's College of Fine Arts in 1972 and completed a degree in Art Education at Konkuk University's Graduate School in 1983, and is Professor Emeritus at the College of Fine Arts, Sungshin Women's University. Across more than two dozen solo exhibitions since 1979 and dozens of major group shows — including the São Paulo Biennial (1981) and a survey exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris (1986) — his work has entered the collections of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, the Seoul Museum of Art, and numerous other institutions. In 2023–24, Arario Gallery Cheonan mounted Passage between the Real and the Unreal (현실과 비현실을 넘나드는 문), a career-spanning solo exhibition surveying more than fifty years of his practice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beaux-Arts Gallery Seoul","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52929509720375,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"KRW","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"kwon-sun-young","title":"Kwon Sun Young","description":"\u003cp\u003eKwon Sun Young is a Korean painter whose collage-based practice explores the emotional collisions that arise, often without clear cause, within ordinary daily life. Her guiding premise is that an individual cannot exist apart from their relationships with others, and her work sets out to visually and gently unpack the communication between the self and the outside world. Collage, for Kwon, brings reality directly into painting: cross-sections of a reality that is bluntly in contact with others become material, mixed on the surface with other images to compose the picture. Through the act of cutting, images stripped of their original knowledge and value are transferred onto the canvas and blended with other fragments, so that a piece's original meaning becomes ambiguous — sometimes losing its form entirely, sometimes combining with other images to take on new meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe holds a Ph.D. from the College of Design at Myongji University (2020), an MFA in Painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art (2010), and a degree in Painting from Hongik University's College of Fine Arts (2007), and graduated from the Department of Western Painting at Seoul Arts High School in 2003. She has taught drawing and painting at Myongji University, Hongik University, and Daegu Arts University. In 2020 she received the Excellence Award at the Namdo Culture Foundation Art Competition, and her work is held in the collections of Hoban Construction, Seoul Asan Hospital, and Shinhan Bank, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beaux-Arts Gallery Seoul","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52937568387383,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"KRW","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"noh-choong-hyun","title":"Noh Choong Hyun","description":"\u003cp\u003eNoh Choong Hyun is a Korean painter whose work takes the story of family and domestic life as its central subject. Drawing on the traditional Korean painting technique of yeobaek — the deliberate use of empty space — he renders his own home and family in vivid color and varied technique while leaving the rest of the canvas bare, so that the viewer's attention stays fixed on the work's narrative. His process begins with a heavily built-up ground: canvas stretched over a panel, then layered repeatedly with a mixture of stone powder and gesso applied with a palette knife and sanded down, before he sketches a composition centered on a house and builds it up in acrylic. To construct the stories of the house and its inhabitants, he gathers printed material and images, then works them into the painting through collage or direct rendering — a process in which disparate found images, drawn from different eras and forms, lose their sense of foreignness and become, within his work, part of a single story entirely his own. The result carries both a heightened, collage-like visual completeness and a hint of Pop Art. Over a career including 38 solo and 4 two-person exhibitions, his work has been shown at venues including the Gwangju Museum of Art, the Gyeongnam Provincial Art Museum, and a 2011 exhibition in Chennai, India, and he completed a residency at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art's Goyang studio in 2006.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beaux-Arts Gallery Seoul","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52937570156855,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"KRW","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"kim-jai-kwan","title":"Kim Jai Kwan","description":"\u003cp\u003eKim Jai Kwan (b. February 15, 1947, Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province) is a Korean painter and a leading figure in Korean geometric abstraction, who has spent over five decades exploring the underlying order and vitality of the natural universe through a visual language of squares, triangles, and grids. Rather than emotional expression, his painting is built on rational thought and logical order — an inquiry into form, structure, space, and the essential relationships, proportion, and balance that govern a picture. He was born the eldest of five sons and two daughters to Kim Gap-muk (1924–2009) and Bong Mu-yeon (1926–1979). He graduated from Hongik University's College of Fine Arts, Department of Western Painting, in 1970, completed his graduate studies in Western Painting at the same university in 1979, and later earned a Ph.D. in Fine Arts from Hongik University's graduate school (1992–96) — reportedly the first person in Korea to do so in the field of fine arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis formative influences included professors Ha Chong-hyun (whose \"Urban Planning White Paper\" series first exposed him to geometric structure), Yoo Young-kuk, and Nam Kwan during his undergraduate years, and Park Seo-bo and Lee Il during his graduate studies. He was a member of the \"Gujo\" (Structure) artist group from 1975–82, then joined the Origin painting association from 1983.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKim taught as a professor at Cheongju University from 1980 to 2012, serving three terms as Dean of the College of Arts between 1990 and 2000. In 2009 he founded the Schema Art Museum in his hometown of Cheongju. His work has evolved across several phases: an early return to geometric abstraction in the 1970s; the fusion of geometric grid structures with expressive, gestural brushwork in the late 1970s–80s (influenced by traditional Korean lattice windows and hanji paper); a shift to three-dimensional Shaped Canvas work in the 1990s; the fusion of grid-based flat surfaces with drawn cube forms from the 2000s onward; and, from 2020 to the present, a continued exploration of cube structures within the flow of the natural universe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beaux-Arts Gallery Seoul","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52937570550071,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"KRW","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"kim-san","title":"Kim San","description":"\u003cp\u003eKim San (b. 1989) is a young Korean painter from Jeju whose work paints nature as a topos — a refuge that nature offers to human beings. For the artist, nature is \"a place that always waits, and that one can always return to when exhausted\"; the recurring theme of his work, *bonhyang* (本鄕, literally \"origin home\"), is not simply a hometown but a place that gives an emotional answer to the fundamental question of human existence. Bonhyang is both the process of communing with nature that runs through Kim San's practice, and the space within which he listens to and dwells in nature's voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKim San defines the landscapes marked by human traces as \"social landscape,\" folding into them the memory of human affairs and the experience of individual lives. The white deer that recurs in his work is a symbol of longevity and pure spirituality, while the forest — rendered as gotjawal, Jeju's distinctive volcanic woodland — represents a refuge deep within the self. As the artist puts it: \"Nature has no words, but its sound is understood by our inner selves. 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He gained early recognition while still a student, receiving a Special Selection at the National Art Exhibition of Korea and the Grand Prize at the Daegu Art Exhibition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor Yoon, the apple is both a familiar motif that evokes memories of home, abundance, and happiness, and a visual medium through which he explores the form and spatial possibilities of painting. Moving beyond the conventional rectangular canvas, he constructs uniquely shaped panels that follow the contours of his compositions. Combined with a bird’s-eye perspective, these unconventional supports create the illusion that the apples might roll beyond the picture plane and into the viewer’s space. His meticulous rendering and irregularly shaped surfaces blur the boundaries between two and three dimensions, image and reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYoon’s practice extends beyond the realistic depiction of apples. 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Since then, he has been based in Paris, actively establishing his presence in the European art scene. He was named “Korean Artist of the Year” by the Korean Cultural Center in France and founded Sonamou, an association of Korean artists in France, contributing to the growing presence of Korean art in the country.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKwak’s practice is rooted in a repetitive process of building up and stripping away layers of color. Using oil paint, acrylic, and ceramic glaze, he gradually constructs richly textured surfaces, or matière, before scratching and peeling them away with a metal stylus to create lines and forms. Through this process, colors concealed beneath the surface are revealed, bringing depth and vitality to the canvas as if light were slowly emerging from darkness. 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