Sun Woo (b. 1994)
Currently lives and works in Seoul, South Korea
Alternating
between canvas and digital screen, Sun Woo explores the force of popular
culture in our lives and the ways in which today’s commodity
products and digital images are consumed and transformed to bear meaning and
“spirit” of their own beyond mere practicality. In examining how these silent
entities embody and speak about the contemporary psyche—desires, anxieties, and
deficiencies of our society—Sun Woo borrows from found images circulating on
the net and digital conventions of computer programs like Photoshop. Through
her assemblage of contemporary iconography, Sun Woo paints a fantastical
landscape of modern life, defined by eerie spatial compositions that collapse
fact and fiction.
Education
2017
B.A. in Visual Arts, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY, USA
Solo Exhibitions
2021
2020
(Upcoming)
Wishing Well: 위싱웰, Foundwill Art Society (FAS), Seoul, South Korea
Group Exhibitions
2020
2019
2018
2017
untact, P21, Seoul, South Korea (curated by Andy St. Louis and Jin Meyerson)
SOLO SHOW: ON, Gallery Chosun, Seoul, South Korea
The New (Sur)Realism, Fragment Gallery, Moscow, Russia
EDEN, Harlesden High Street, London, UK (curated by Linda Michelle Mognato)
D Project Space, Seoul, South Korea
Painters by Painters, 2/W (Weekend), Seoul, South Korea (curated by Hwang Jaemin)
Emerging Artists Exhibition, 36th Korea Galleries Art Fair, Coex Seoul, South Korea (represented by The Columns Gallery)
Undergraduate Thesis Exhibition, Leroy Neiman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Publications
2021
2020
2018
Interview with Lee Doyeon, YCK Magazine. Digital. http://www.yck.kr/html/contents/magazine01_view?page=undefined&idx=5668&mode=lastest&scroll=1606
Archive 02, Archive 00 by Saint Maison. Digital and print. https://www.saintmaison.world/blogs/archive-00/archive-02
Interview with Rina Watanabe, Saint Maison. Digital. https://www.saintmaison.world/blogs/artist/interview-with-sun-woo
Painters by Painters. Interview by Hwang Jaemin. 2/W (Weekend), South Korea. July: 168-173. Digital
“Showcase: Like a Virgin Series.” Your Wave is Coming. Text by Cho SeoHyung. CA Books, Issue 239,
South Korea. June: 32-33. Paper
Back Cover, Maps Magazine, Issue 119, South Korea. April. Paper
Commissions
2019Puma Korea, Seoul, South Korea. Digital paintings
2017
B.A. in Visual Arts, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY, USA
2021
2020
(Upcoming)
Wishing Well: 위싱웰, Foundwill Art Society (FAS), Seoul, South Korea
2020
2019
2018
2017
2019
2018
2017
untact, P21, Seoul, South Korea (curated by Andy St. Louis and Jin Meyerson)
SOLO SHOW: ON, Gallery Chosun, Seoul, South Korea
The New (Sur)Realism, Fragment Gallery, Moscow, Russia
EDEN, Harlesden High Street, London, UK (curated by Linda Michelle Mognato)
D Project Space, Seoul, South Korea
Painters by Painters, 2/W (Weekend), Seoul, South Korea (curated by Hwang Jaemin)
Emerging Artists Exhibition, 36th Korea Galleries Art Fair, Coex Seoul, South Korea (represented by The Columns Gallery)
Undergraduate Thesis Exhibition, Leroy Neiman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
SOLO SHOW: ON, Gallery Chosun, Seoul, South Korea
The New (Sur)Realism, Fragment Gallery, Moscow, Russia
EDEN, Harlesden High Street, London, UK (curated by Linda Michelle Mognato)
D Project Space, Seoul, South Korea
Painters by Painters, 2/W (Weekend), Seoul, South Korea (curated by Hwang Jaemin)
Emerging Artists Exhibition, 36th Korea Galleries Art Fair, Coex Seoul, South Korea (represented by The Columns Gallery)
Undergraduate Thesis Exhibition, Leroy Neiman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2021
2020
2018
2020
2018
Interview with Lee Doyeon, YCK Magazine. Digital. http://www.yck.kr/html/contents/magazine01_view?page=undefined&idx=5668&mode=lastest&scroll=1606
Archive 02, Archive 00 by Saint Maison. Digital and print. https://www.saintmaison.world/blogs/archive-00/archive-02
Interview with Rina Watanabe, Saint Maison. Digital. https://www.saintmaison.world/blogs/artist/interview-with-sun-woo
Painters by Painters. Interview by Hwang Jaemin. 2/W (Weekend), South Korea. July: 168-173. Digital
“Showcase: Like a Virgin Series.” Your Wave is Coming. Text by Cho SeoHyung. CA Books, Issue 239, South Korea. June: 32-33. Paper
Back Cover, Maps Magazine, Issue 119, South Korea. April. Paper
Archive 02, Archive 00 by Saint Maison. Digital and print. https://www.saintmaison.world/blogs/archive-00/archive-02
Interview with Rina Watanabe, Saint Maison. Digital. https://www.saintmaison.world/blogs/artist/interview-with-sun-woo
Painters by Painters. Interview by Hwang Jaemin. 2/W (Weekend), South Korea. July: 168-173. Digital
“Showcase: Like a Virgin Series.” Your Wave is Coming. Text by Cho SeoHyung. CA Books, Issue 239, South Korea. June: 32-33. Paper
Back Cover, Maps Magazine, Issue 119, South Korea. April. Paper
2019
Puma Korea, Seoul, South Korea. Digital paintings
