Yoon Sangha 윤상하
Korea ｜ 1995
[Solo Exhibitions]
2023 Thought bubble of vanishing dreams (Gallery combinworks/Seoul/Korea)
2022 Every Day Christmas (Gallery Hoza/Mokpo/Korea)
2021 Sporekid: 19p-27p (Gallery MEME/Seoul/Korea)
2020 Gray city (Gallery Hoza/Mokpo/Korea)
2019 A collapsed playground (Gallery Marron, Seoul/Korea)
[Selected Group Exhibitions]
2024 Hetero phony adecade of song(G.MAP/Gwangju/Korea)
2024 Well Cold Group exhibition (Moosey/Islington/London)
2023 Method of expression (EZ gallery/sanghi/China)
2023 Congratulation (Middleman gallery/Busan/Korea)
2022 Pictures (Shinsegae Gallery/Gwangju/Korea)
2022 Lost Topophilia (Sansussari/Gwangju/Korea)
2022 PACK 2022 (PlATFORM-L/Seoul/Korea)
2022 Urban Break 2022 (COEX HALL B/Seoul/Korea)
2021 Gwangju Media Art Festival (A.C.C/ Gwangju/Korea)
2021 The future is not to predict, but to imagine (Suchang Youth Mansion/Daegu/Korea)
2021 A relative drift machine (Memory Factory 1945/Sunchun/Korea)
2020 13th Gwangju Biennale Exhibition, Exhibition Report (Space ppong/Gwangju/Korea)
2020 Magical Reality Matrix (Haedong Art & Culture Platform/Damyang/Korea)
2019 MZ Cheetah Delle: youth communicates (Gallery Reche/Gwangju/Korea)
[Award & Selection]
2020 Artist Award, Chosun University Museum, Gwangju/Korea
[Residency]
2019 Gwangju Museum of Art Young Artist Center/Korea
[Main Collection]
- Gwangju Museum of Art/Korea
-Chosun University Museum/Korea
- Seoul Museum of Art /Korea
[Art Fair]
2024 ART BUSAN (BEXCO/BUSAN/KOREA)
2024 BAMA BUSAN (BEXCO/BUSAN/KOREA)
2024 DIAF (EXCO/DEAGU/KOREA)
2024 ARBAN BREA(BEXCO/BUSAN/KOREA)
2024 ART GWANJU(CONBENTION CENTER/GWANGJU/KOREA)
2022 ARBAN BREAK(COEX/SEOUL/KOREA)
2021 SEOUL ART SHOW (COEX/SEOUL/KOREA)
2019 ARTPIUS(SHANHI/CHINA
[2024 Artist Statement]
The world of consciousness polluted by reality is full of ridiculousness and bizarreness, unpredictability and illusion. In that full space, I explore hidden resting places like the shadow of consciousness. Countless images ranging from loneliness to happiness are all imperfect, remembered in inexplicable scenes or moments of life, in short moments that appear and disappear distinctly. I want my pieces to exist in things that cannot be described in clear words and can only be expressed with images. Attempts to find balance within them often turn to fairy tales, storytelling, fictional worlds, and unfiltered imagination. The desires and fantasies of reality investigate intimately and introspectively between darkness and humor. These opposing terms, such as suffering and rest, dream and waking, boredom and pleasure, are in fact closely connected. My canvases, which play with the boundaries of meaning given to words, are messy and chaotic tapestries of consciousness and playful spaces that at the same time satirize the world obsessed with delusion and fiction. This imagination is exposed as similar yet different themes, such as the world escaped from a rigid society without adults & the events in the imagination of a boy, dreamlike realities, and playgrounds & parties. Most of my works are created in an uncertain process between imagination and reality, such as the contradictions that everyone has, fleeting memories or associations, and images that strangely slip in between humor and tragedy. Inside and outside the canvases that embroider the process, the unspecified beings, who are crowded but hidden in the world that seems about to collapse, are still struggling to protect the wick of an unpredictable explosion, waiting for an eruption and liberation.
[Painting Caption]
1. <my room 402>, 39x54cm, pencil on paper, 2024
2. <where is my old castle?>, 39x54cm, pencil on paper, 2024
3. <Is it over there?>, 39x54cm, pencil on paper, 2024
4. <where is my old castle>, 45.5x53cm, oil pastel, acrylic on canvas, 2023
5. <My hero is dead>, 97x97cm, oil, acrylic on canvas, 2024
6. <where is my old castle>, 53.5x45.5cm, oil pastel, acrylic on canvas, 2023
7. <namad child>, 61x61cm_oil pastel, acrylic on canvas, 2023
8. <where is my old castle>, 40x32cm, oil pastel, acrylic on canvas, 2023
9. <where is my old castle>, 16x23cm, pencil on paper, 2024
10. <artist desk>, 35x25cm, pencil on paper, 2024
11. <artist desk>, 29.7x42cm, pencil on paper, 2024
