Hesu Park

Biography

[Education]

-[South Korea] Sun-Hwa art middle school
-[South Korea] Sun-Hwa art high school
-[USA] [NYC] BFA Pratt Institute -Fine Art/ Drawing [Graduated with highest honours]

[Exhibition History]

(Solo Exhibition)

-[2020] HESU PARK solo exhibition| Art Web Place

(Group Exhibition)

[2016] Etteda 10th Korea x Japan Exhibition[Metamorphosis]| Korea exhibition:
Space 9 gallery

[2017] Etteda 10th Korea x Japan Exhibition[Metamorphosis]| Japan exhibition:
Ultra super gallery(Sibuya)

[2017] Munheim gallery:“Look Back”|South Korea

[2017] Seoul Modern Art show in Seoul Art Center

[2017] Passion.Connect Exhibition |Manhattan|NY

[2019] Greenpoint Gallery|Brooklyn|NY

[2019] ASYAAF2019 |South Korea

[2020] North Dakota Museum of Art|”Art In Isolation” |North Dakota | USA

[2021] BIAF special exhibition|Maru Art centerI South Korea

[2021]BIAF-Bexco/South Korea


[AWARD/ Selected History]

[2019] ART OYLMPIA (3rd International Open Art Competition)| Semi-honorable mention

[2020] Light Space Time online competition|Special recognition -9th Annual All Women Exhibition
[2020] Art Room Gallery|Honorable mention for Excellent Artwork “Open Art Exhibition”

[2020] Grey Cube Gallery|” Black and White Art Show” Honorable mention for Excellent Artwork

[2021] London Art Biennale [Selected artist]

[Collection History]

[2019] Private collection
[2019] Private collection [Enterprise]
[2021] National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art [Art Bank] | MMCA | Collection

Artist Statement

Hesu Park [1993] is an artist who works primarily with traditional drawing mediums: pen, graphite, and marker. She is interested in expressing the complexity of the inner world, and also desires to expand drawing as a primary art form in itself with various inner world related subjects.
Historically, drawing has been deemed as sub-material or even as a preparatory process of a bigger art form. For example, drawing was formerly employed to record crucial historical events or to reenact certain subjects. However, after Modernism, drawing has been expanding its realm as one of the primary art forms by its autonomy. In the contemporary art scene, it has been presenting various potential and directions that can reveal the profound beauty of drawing.
She creates her drawing with the belief that “Drawing is the art form that can manifest the beauty of visual art’s foundation, and the beauty is formed with the interaction between various lines and images.” Her maximal drawing is like an orchestra; all various kinds of visual elements are unified and create an intensified structural dynamic that can be conducted by its mediums. She limits color to accentuate the raw aesthetic of drawing and to enhance a certain amusement in the relationship between visual images by emphasizing line, form, and composition. Through experimenting with various subjects and approaches, She creates a peculiar drawing form that can highlight the beauty of drawing.
She insists, art is the most creative representation of human life; it is the act of leaving behind the most precious emotions, perspectives, facts, and opinions. She found her life values from the inner world, where numbers of complex emotions and mind elements exist like molecules. The inner world is no different from reality, but rather a place where the overall perception, emotions, and thoughts of the real world are encoded convergent forms of different images. The forms of the inner images do not exist as they are; they are distorted, assembled, exaggerated, and stretched by each other, much like the creation of the universe. She works on those unaccustomed images, which exhibit the inner world’s dynamic and peculiar atmosphere.
She believes conveying humans’ ambiguous and complicated aspects through visual images is the significant role and value of visual art. Her clear goal as a visual artist is to further expand the form of drawing in a new way by harmonizing the multifarious visual elements of the drawing like an orchestra, and the vastness of an informal and complex inner world that represents the traces of my life. Through drawing, she wants to create a meaningful moment where the audience can contemplate their own hidden world that we may have unknowingly been missing in our lives.

Country South Korea

Website https://hesupark.com