Park Wunggyu
Artist Park Wunggyu has long contemplated the absurd reality, world, and identity through the forms of insects and bugs. The artist's work shows text and images with strong Buddhist colors. Through the adoption of solemn religious images and forms, the artist blends the most sacred realms and the lowest dimensions of life. The creative journey, centered around 'ambivalence,' introduces new sensations and perceptions in the process of collision and fusion between relative values and worlds. Utilizing traditional Korean painting techniques, his works, resembling meticulous records in a biology textbook, are highly innovative. The paintings of colossal insects allude to reflections on human selfish desires and contemplation on life, implying the changes in the environmental state and the recognition of these changes as crises and endings. They also signify awareness of the crises in modern civilization and spirituality.
Park Wunggyu (b.1987)
2015 M.F.A, Division of Korean painting, Graduate school, Chugye University for the Arts
2010 B.F.A, Department of Korean painting, College of Fine Arts, Chugye University for the Arts
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Intestine for Ritual, Arario gallery, Seoul
2022 Dummy Buddha, Artspace Boan1, Seoul
2018 Black Sun, Onground2, Seoul
2017 Worm and Saint, Space Kneet, Seoul
2016 Dummy Dogma, Chungju Art Studio, Chungju
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Beings Swimming Backstroke Towards the Waterfall, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon PS333, Seoul
2023 The 23rd Songeun Art Award Exhibition, Songeun, Seoul
2023 Singing Mother Earth, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan
2023 Derby Match: Watchman and Spy, Museumhead, Seoul
2022 Korean Traditional Painting In Alter-age, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul
2022 NANJI ACCESS with PACK: Mbps, Project Gallery, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2021 Manifest Panorama, Danwon Art Museum, Ansan
2021 Transposition, Art Sonje Center, Seoul
Residency Programs
2024 SeMA Nanji Residency, Seoul
2016 Chungju Art Studio, Chungju
