Oh Sekyung
Oh Sekyung directs metaphors of the ironic moments of everyday life, social problems, and the absurdity of events into dramatic situations. This is done effectively through the use of distinctive pictorial devices such as fire, light and smoke. Having employed a high school girl as a model for a long time, he reproduces the bizarre sense of the daily life we experience through a strange combination involving amusement parks, alleys, and beaches. Anxiety, fear, and certain absurd situations are repeated. High school girls experience difficult reality, going beyond our general perception. Some characters are in groups, others appear alone. Perhaps they got lost in an unfamiliar city. The people in the artist's paintings are high school girls which also at the same time metaphorize an average woman or human beings in search for their own identity. The direction of strange spaces and environments that resemble the artist's reality but are never the same creates a unique worldview. In the artist's work, the socialization process of the adolescent is expressed as an experience of wandering around a world of horror and mystery.
Oh Sekyung (b.1985)
2017 M.F.A. in Oriental painting, Sejong University, Seoul
2011 B.F.A. in Painting Dept, Sejong University, Seoul
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Guard me from my ugres, 777gallery, Yangju
2019 That season of life, Former Office Building of Gyeongseong Textile Company, Seoul
2018 There was a reason for it, Artspace hue, Paju
2016 "Achromatic Centricity: Grey Temperature", OCI Museum of Art, Seoul
2014 Life, reluctant to be deceived, Gallery DOS. Seoul
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 Tomorrow's artist, Gyeomjae Jeongseon Art museum, seoul
2021 Homage to Van Gogh:letter, Gallery AG, Seoul
2021 Prairie Land, Gimpo Art Center, Gimpo
2021 city map, Seoul Government Buildings Management Office Gallery, seoul
2021 YYA, Chang Ucchin Museum of Art, Yangju
2020 Art Gyeonggi×Artroad, GyeongGi Cultural Foundation, Gyeonggi-do
2020 Dream and paradox, AG gallery, Seoul
2019 Check out, 777 Gallery, Yangju City Art Studio, Yangju
2019 Check in, 777 Gallery, Yangju City Art Studio, Yangju
2018 Merry-go-round, Incheon Shinsegae Gallery, Incheon
2017 Endless Night, Dacheongho Museum of Art, Cheongju
2017 A dilly-dally reality, Artspacehue, Paju
2016 GREY-REAL, Art Sapce kapo/Art Hall Gong, Kanazawa
2016 Stage Clear, ondo architects, Seoul
2016 Dreams and Life, Yangpyeong Art Museum, Yangpyeong
2016 Hybrid_New perspective, The Cheong-ju Art Studio, Cheongju
2016 A TRUE PAINTING[ATP], Art Hall Gong[Work Band Gong], Seoul
2016 MM, Space 1984, Seoul
2015 lifestyle related disease, Gallery AG, Seoul
2015 Art Wing, Seoul Citizens Hall, Seoul
2014 IMAGO, Summer Art Show, Art Hall Gong[Work Band Gong], Seoul
Residency Programs
2021~ Art Studio ‘Place’, 3th
2019-2020 Yangju City Art Studio, 777 Residency 4th
2018-2018 OCI 1211 Art Resident, 3th
2016-2017 Cheong-ju Art Studio, 10th
