Jang Pa
Jang Pa continues to explore marginalized experiences and senses through the language of painting. In particular, she evokes awareness of femininity through the feminine gaze or female sexuality and visually expresses the 'feminine grotesque'. In terms of subject matter, the world of female desire is newly reconstructed by putting women's physical characteristics, which are disparaged as materialistic and lowly, at the forefront of paintings. When it comes to the method, it questions the gender-biased visual language and conceptually presents color and tactile characteristics by focusing on feminine sensibility. The artist collected art historical icons and cultural symbols dealing with the female form and developed a work that looks into the concept of misogyny, a socially problematic issue, at multiple angles. Recently, through the existence of female creative gods such as Seolmundae Halmang and Mago Halmi myths, they have refused to assume women as a single category and are seeking a new feminist identity.
Jang Pa (b.1981)
2017 M.F.A. in Painting, Graduate School of Seoul National University, Seoul
2006 B.F.A. in Painting, Double major in Aesthetics, Seoul National University, Seoul
Solo Exhibitions
2023 The Night without Eyes, Humor GarmGot, Seoul
2022 The Woman without Qualities, Gallery Kiche, Seoul
2022 Flat Hole, All Time Space, Seoul
2020 Women/Figure, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon
2018 Brutal Skins, DOOSAN Gallery Seoul, Seoul
2017 X-GURLESQUE, DOOSAN Gallery New York, New York, US
2016 Fluid Neon, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul
2015 X’LUST, Makeshop Art Space, Paju
2015 Lady-X, Gallery Zandari, Seoul
2013 The World until Yesterday, TV12 Gallery, Seoul
2011 The End of the World, OCI Museum of Art, Seoul
2009 A Secret Room of Plants, Alternative Space Hut, Seoul
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 The 23rd SongEun Art Award Exhibition, SongEun Art Space, Seoul
2023 ARKO Art Center 50th Anniversary Exhibition : Path of Contact, Arko Art Center, Seoul
2023 Maniera, DOOSAN Gallery Seoul, Seoul
2023 The Insect Woman, Geomang Creative Studio, Seoul
2023 Another Letter to Nature, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul
2022 The Raw, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon
2022 Linked, Gallery Func, Shanghai, China
2020 Tangible Error, D/P, Seoul
2019 The Utterances of the Painter, PlaceMak, Seoul
2019 Kahn Parade 2019, Post Territory Ujeongguk, Seoul
2019 The Art of Relief, 5 Percent, Seoul
2018 Matters of Women, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul
2017 Pool Rising, Art Space Pool, Seoul
2016 Degenerate Art, Art Space Pool, Seoul
2015 East Asia Feminism:FANTasia, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2015 Another O, DOOSAN Gallery, Seoul
2015 Sixth Sense, OCI Museum of Art, Seoul
2014 Spectators, DOOSAN Gallery, Seoul
2014 Today’s Salon, Common Center, Seoul
2014 Layers, Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul
2013 The Stage of Autonomous Agreement, Kunsthalle Gwangju, Gwangju
2012 Wanderers Unduped, TV12 Gallery, Seoul
2012 Cartoon World, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul
2011 Korean Tomorrow, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
2011 Emerging Artist 2011, MK2, Beijing, China
2010 Seokyonanjang : Power of Painting, KT&G Sangsangmadang, Seoul
2010 Tipping Point, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul
2010 Stage Reality, Salon de H, Seoul
2009 Seokyonanjang 2009, TV12 Gallery, Seoul
2009 Jang Pa & CHANG CHANG, TV12 Gallery, Seoul
Residency Programs
2022 SeMA NANJI Residency, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2020 Incheon Art Platform, Incheon
2019 Seoul Art Space GEUMCHEON, Seoul
2017 DOOSAN Residency, New York, US
2015 MakeShop Art Space STUDIO M17, Paju
2012 MMCA Residency Goyang, Goyang
2011 Residency at C.O.L ART Residency, Beijing, China
