Saehyun Paik is New York-based abstract artist. She has several gallery and museum exhibitions. Saehyun is searching for all that the modern human experience lacks. Recently, she has been experimenting and exploring minimalism, through pattern, line, and close color relationships. Difficulty adapting to social situations in her early years caused Saehyun to learn to create dialogues and rapports through art material themselves. She now explores these ‘conversations’ by blending two or more media in each of her processes. Having former her communication style through painting repetition and learning Saehyun continues to explore people without representing them.

TENGA ONE began creating graffiti in 1992. Until around the age of 30, he was active in the streets, focusing primarily on murals and urban interventions. In his mid-thirties, he started reflecting on the contradictions he experienced through graffiti culture—the injustice, the invisibility of graffiti writers, and the complex realities they face. To express this, he began carving MDF to resemble cardboard, using it as a sculptural surface on which he painted characters inspired by Japanese animation. This method merges tactile, hand-carved forms with familiar pop-cultural imagery, creating a layered visual language.

YuSeong Choe (b.1983) is an artist who moves away from the premise that painting must interpret reality or convey a specific meaning, focusing instead on the act of painting itself. Rather than constructing a completed image, she concentrates on the sensory responses and processes that unfold on the surface. Her work begins with visual impressions captured from everyday moments and with reactions to spatial conditions on the plane. The surface is not formed according to a predetermined structure, but emerges through the accumulation and layering of elements. Color generates form and space while remaining unfixed, flowing to create emotion and rhythm. For her, painting is not a final statement but an ongoing process that continually questions the notions of completion and harmony. Through surfaces that reveal imperfection and the potential for change, she explores the possibility of painting as a state in which meaning remains open and unsettled.

Yerin Jang has expressed her inner self through girl in the painting. She has faced herself as a being who is a mixture of memories, emotions, and expectations, and has expressed the psychological opposites that exist within her as an intersection of light and darkness, truth and lies, and beauty and anxiety. The young girl who appears in the new works can be said to symbolize the human being in the beginning, a part of pure nature embracing Mother Nature's providence. As a field of constantly changing energy, the essence of nature is the coexistence of vitality and destructive power. The vitality and destructive power of nature repeatedly circulate as starting and ending points for each other, and although contradictory, they become mutual elements of coexistence rather than opposition. Her new works further expands her previous works in that it explores the duality in the larger scale and humans as a part of nature.

Hyeon-A Cho is currently working in Seoul and made her debut in 2014 with a short story series titled <Water tank> on Naver Webtoon's Rookies's short stories. The following year, she posted another short story, <Lunar New Year's Eve>, on the same platform. In 2018, she received the 2019 Today's Our Comics Award and the China Jinlong Award for Foreign Comics for her work <Your Letter>. Currently, <Your Letter> is being produced as a theatrical animation and plans are underway to publish a North American comic book version soon. While drawing advertisements and cover illustrations for young adult novels, she is preparing for her next work, <Santa Scout>.

Born in 1972 in Bangkok, Thailand, Pakpoom Silaphan is a contemporary artist whose work delves into themes of globalization, mass consumerism, and the pervasive influence of cultural icons. His practice often employs found objects, such as vintage metal advertising signs and wooden Pepsi and Coca-Cola crates, collected during his time in Thailand. These objects serve as his canvas, offering a fresh reinterpretation of Pop Art reminiscent of Warhol's *Brillo Box* installations. Silaphan's work reflects on the impact of advertising and mass consumption, weaving a narrative about the infiltration of Western imagery and ideology into his artistic journey.  

Using icons such as Warhol, Dalí, and Frida Kahlo, Silaphan collages and paints over these branded surfaces, suggesting the transformation of these artists into global brands themselves. His art bridges the cultural divide between East and West, exploring the universal language of symbols and their collective imprint on human consciousness.  

Silaphan earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Silpakorn University in Bangkok before moving to England in 2002 to study printmaking at Camberwell College of Arts and complete a Master’s in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts. His work is featured in prestigious collections, including the Hiscox Collection and Sir Paul Smith’s private collection. In 2004, he was shortlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.  

Silaphan's art has garnered attention in significant publications such as *For Which It Stands: Americana in Contemporary Art* by Carla Sakamoto (2012) and has been featured in *The Financial Times*, *The Independent*, and *Elle* magazine. His work has been described as “a sign of the times” and hailed as reflective of “the Pop artist of these times.”  

Exhibiting internationally in London, Japan, Hong Kong, New York, Singapore, and India, Silaphan continues to make his mark on the global art scene. In May 2013, he was commissioned by the Siam Center in Bangkok for a public art installation, further cementing his influence in both local and international spheres.

Ary Kurniawan is a talented acrylic painter known for his vibrant and expressive works on canvas. He began his artistic journey at SMSR (SMKN4) Padang, where he studied from 2007, and further honed his skills at the prestigious Institut Seni Indonesia (ISI Yogyakarta), graduating in 2011.

As an imaginative, reliable, and organized artist, Ary has a profound desire to transform dreams into beautiful creations. His artwork not only showcases his passion for color and form but also serves as effective visual communication that addresses challenges and encourages action. Through his paintings, Ary invites viewers to explore the emotions and stories embedded in each piece, making a meaningful connection with the audience.

Working across a range of diverse media, Tada Hengsapkul investigates the tensions between control and dissent, establishing his practice as a mode of radical resistance in itself. First reaching critical acclaim for his photographic and video works, Hengsapkul’s oeuvre has long been underscored by extensive political research. Engaging with official archives, informal discourse, and popular media, he has sharply addressed the themes of nationalism, democracy, and military control. Though grounded in political history, his works are also intimately autobiographical, often citing personal relationships and sites from his hometown in Northeast Thailand that were affected by war and authoritarian power. In recent years, Hengsapkul has pivoted towards a dynamic abstract approach, combining en-plein-air and pyrotechnic methods. Employing smoke bombs, fireworks, and gunpowder, the works allude to its materials’ centrality in global protest culture, forming provocative yet melodic imagery. Despite the variance of his chosen materials, his practices is united in their advocacy for freedom and agency. Hengsapkul’s works ultimately extend beyond their roots in Thailand and its history, maintaining universal relevance in a contemporary landscape where censorship and omission are becoming increasingly rampant.

Gabriel Orozco attended the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas between 1981 and 1984 and in 1986, moved to Madrid to continue his studies. In 1987, Orozco returned to Mexico City, where he associated with a group of other artists including Damián Ortega, Gabriel Kuri, Abraham Cruzvillegas and Dr. Lakra. This group met once a week for five years to talk about myriad artistic and cultural projects. 
Orozco has had many important solo exhibitions, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, in 2000; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C. and the Serpentine Gallery, London in 2004; the Museo Nacional Centre de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, (2005); the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2006). The Museum of Modern Art in New York organized a mid-career retrospective that toured to the Kunstmuseum Basel, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and ended at the Tate Modern, London, in May 2011.  Other important solo exhibitions include the Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2012, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo MOT, Tokyo, Japan (2015);  and the Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, in 2016. Orozco participated in the Venice Biennale in 1993, 2003, 2005 and 2017, the Whitney Biennial (1995 and 1997), as well as Documenta X (1997) and Documenta XI (2002). 
In 2019, the President of Mexico announced that Orozco would, in conjunction with the Secretariat of Culture, oversee the construction of a major new cultural center within Chapultepec Park in Mexico City. Gabriel Orozco lives and works between Tokyo, Mexico City and New York.

Mira Park (b.1982) navigates the space between consciousness and the unconscious, constructing layered compositions grounded in black. Her works depict surreal combinations of humans, animals, plants, and objects—grotesque, unstable entities that seem to move independently within the frame. These forms suggest stories, yet deliberately resist any fixed narrative. Through recurring motifs like holes, doors, and windows, she blurs the boundary between the real and the virtual, hinting at the possibility of other dimensions. Horn-like forms—recalling tentacles, branches, or hands—suggest fluid mobility and a sense of continuous dimensional shift, pulling the viewer into the unknown.

Minji Ryu recalls the emotions she experienced while observing the landscape in her daily life and investigates the manner in which gathered images are displayed in paintings. As a graduate of the Department of Fine Arts at Seoul National University of Science and Technology, she acknowledged the inevitable gap between the experience of gazing at reality and drawing it and took a moment to recognize the landscape that was shared through abstraction and conceptualization. Her paintings focus on the experience of seeing and reproduce the impression produced by substituting an object for a function consisting of light and darkness as a physical image. In this manner, the artist hopes that paintings will serve as a channel for evoking past experiences in the minds of the audience, so reviving their perspective on current life. 

Chris Ro (b.1976) is a graphic designer and artist. His work can be characterized for their kinetic, spatial, poetic and atmospheric properties. Born in Seattle, Chris went on to study architecture at the University of California at Berkeley. After working as both architect and designer he went on to study graphic design at the Rhode Island School of Design. This mixed background continues to influence his explorations that fluctuate between both two and three dimensions. He is often at home when exploring concepts in motion and space and their relationship to the more static surfaces of graphic design. He recently finished research exploring concepts in Korean space at Seoul National University.
His work has been exhibited all over the world and is part of the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Die Neue Sammlung, the Seoul National University Museum of Art, Hongik University Museum of Art, Platform-L Contemporary Art Center and the National Hangeul Museum.

08AM’s Survival Report does not approach survival as a matter of experience, but understands it as a formal and structural movement through which existence sustains itself within the world. Through lines, planes, and their arrangement, the artist explores how forms are adjusted, reconfigured, and secured for continuity, presenting the canvas not as a finished image but as a structural process for contemplating duration.
Rather than reproducing a specific narrative or evoking particular sensations, Survival Report focuses on visualizing the operational principles of the forms that existence selects in order to preserve itself. The work reveals these operations almost as a diagram, functioning as a philosophical model that invites viewers to reconsider the structures upon which their own modes of persistence are built.


 Artist MAWZ has been drawn to Disney animation films and cartoons since childhood. While studying Fine Arts at Chung-ang University, the artist created a character to represent himself and painted the world through its eyes. The artist’s artistic stage name, MAWZ, is named after the character from his early work. His birth dream of sharks and the movie <JAWS> inspired its naming. 

 

The artist's work explores surrealism and symbolism, conveying messages of reality's absurdity, personal concerns, social situations, and aspirations. His work conveys social, cultural, and personal concerns through the use of symbolic imagery, featuring poetic symbolism and animated expressions. The symbols used include envelopes, ribbons, and eagles, and their meanings can be interpreted in different ways based on the viewer's perspective. His recent work revolves around exploring the absurdity of reality and social issues. He continuously experiments with new materials and conducts thorough research on the subject's background or history to add more depth to his work. 

 

The artist’s defining characteristic is his use of Matière, which is conveyed through simple and implicit expressions with cheerful colors and thick brushstrokes of paint. Before starting any artwork, the artist meticulously documents the content or stories he intends to convey. He draws inspiration and motivation from his imagination, surroundings, and personal experiences to depict his unique perspective in his work. His recent work emphasizes background and three-dimensional elements over characters and icons from his earlier pieces, adding depth and highlighting the message. His animated style and expressions capture deep concerns across diverse subjects and allow for varied interpretations among viewers.

 

The artist is experimenting with various mediums to refine and develop his style and expressed a desire to expand into creating more three-dimensional work, in addition to his current focus on two-dimensional paintings. The artist previously collaborated with various brands, including McDonald's, Volkswagen, Cass, and SM Entertainment, to communicate with the public. MAWZ uses the process of creating art as a means to illustrate his personal exploration of the future unknown. He seeks to share his journey with the audience to spread positive energy and convey optimistic promises of life. 

Boonhlue Yangsouy has created exquisitely aesthetic and individual arts. He has participated many group and solo exhibitions. “Behavior = Identity” 2015, “Lady and Chandelier” 2017, “Love Is” 2019, “The Spirit of Six” 2019 and international stages including Art Expo Malaysia Plus 2017, Art Central Hong Kong 2019, Art Expo Malaysia 2019, Art Fair Philippines 2020, ART CENTRAL 2023 , ART CENTRAL 2024 and Art Busan 2023.


Lee Kwang Ho is a representative figure in realism paintings. He takes daily subject matters and takes the reproduction of their forms into a unique language of his own. Although realism seems like quite a laborious task and sometimes compulsive as well, through the pictorial depiction of Lee Kwang Ho, we see the reconstructed reality fabricated by his intentions. Subjects that are expressed both vigorously and dramatically expose the desires of their subconscious, and also stimulates the tactility of those that behold them. In his wetland series, he experiments with techniques like scratching and tapping on the canvas. Upon closer inspection, the depicted subjects dissolve, leaving behind a layer of paint with precise brushstrokes and meticulous knife work, which emphasizes the exploration of the fundamental question of painting - the act of painting itself.
Lee has held solo exhibitions in various venues, including Johyun Gallery, Busan; Kukje Gallery, Seoul; and Chang dong Studio Gallery, Seoul; and has participated in group exhibitions at Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul; Busan Museum of Art, Busan; Gana Art Center, Seoul; and Saatchi Gallery, London. His works are included in prestigious collections such as the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; the Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul; the Gyeonggi Museum of Art, Ansan and the Jeju Museum of Art.


Seongjoon Hong(b.1987) continuously investigates the properties of painting, particularly its mediums and materials. Through various techniques, Hong repeatedly depicts scenes layered with smooth, thin, or translucent membranes that subtly reveal the flat canvas surface and the materials composing it. His works feature delicately colored landscapes where light refracts through layered silhouettes, leaving behind only faint shadows where color and image have dissolved. In his Layers of the air series, for instance, Hong centers soap bubbles on the canvas or positions them just beyond the frame, focusing on their lightness and transparency. By zooming in on these surfaces, he distorts the landscape, allowing waves of projected light to transform his work into abstract paintings.

Hong holds both a BFA and MFA in Fine Arts from Hongik University in Seoul. He has held solo exhibitions including at SEOJUNG ART(Seoul & Busan, 2024), 68projects(Berlin, Germany, 2024), Prompt Project(Seoul, 2023), Galerie BHAK(Seoul, 2022), Pipe Gallery(Seoul, 2022) and Hakgojae Design Project Space(Seoul, 2020). He has also participated in various group shows, including at Art Space Hohwa(Seoul, 2024), Frieze No.9 Cork Street(London, UK, 2024), ThisWeekendRoom(Seoul, 2024), M5 GALLERY(Ginja, Japan, 2023), Art space Hohwa(Seoul, 2023), Galerie BHAK(Seoul, 2022), Seojung Art Center(Seoul, 2022), Koo House Museum(Yangpyeong, 2022), Ilwoo Space(Seoul, 2022), and UARTSPACE(Seoul, 2019). He was selected as a 2020 New Hero by Public Art Magazine and participated in the 68projects Residency(Berlin, Germany, 2023). His works are part of collections at the PARKSEOBO Foundation and Art Space Hohwa.

Heejoon Lee creates abstract paintings from images of the natural world. In 2012, he earned a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts and Sculpture from Hongik University, and a master's degree in Fine Art from the University of Glasgow School of Art in 2014. In this way, the artist collects, edits, and brushes the accumulated experiences and daily images obtained from travels from close surrounding to distinct locations, and incorporated them into geometric shapes. The composed instant images add the texture and time of the accumulated paint to generate a new space on the canvas. In addition to the photo collage and thick matière geometric shapes in <The Tourist> in 2020, the artist shifts his focus from minor objects to the surrounding landscape and extends the visual experience beyond abstract painting to the experience of space in which architecture and painting coexist.

Weedong Yoon (b. 1982), an artist based in Korea, explores the cyclical nature of existence through hyper-realistic paintings. His work reflects themes of growth, struggle, and transformation, often using stones and sand as metaphors for renewal and completion. In his Monologue Series, Yoon portrays the journey of a stone passing over sand—its rough, intense moments symbolizing life's challenges, while the smooth, settled sand represents the serenity of life's fruition. This series encourages viewers to reflect on their own resilience and beauty, despite external struggles, and underscores the transformative power of time.

In addition to the Monologue Series, Yoon's works featuring birds further explore themes of harmony and balance. These birds symbolize connection, transcendence, and the unseen forces that sustain the natural world. They embody the delicate equilibrium between opposing forces—East and West, abstract and concrete—and highlight the importance of quiet actions in maintaining the world’s cycles. Together, these works prompt deeper contemplation of life’s interconnected processes.

Yoon’s art is rooted in the belief that all things ultimately return to nature. His recent participation in the “Find the Nature” exhibition at Objecthood Gallery reinforces this idea, emphasizing the link between the natural world and human-made creations. With a keen eye for detail, Yoon’s paintings invite introspection, offering viewers a space to reflect on the cycles that shape both the world and our lives.

A key member of first Dada and then Surrealism in Europe in the 1910s and 1920s, Max Ernst used a variety of mediums—painting, collage, printmaking, sculpture, and various unconventional drawing methods—to give visual form to both personal memory and collective myth. By combining illusionistic technique with a cut-and-paste logic, he made the incredible believable, expressing disjunctions of the mind and shocks of societal upheavals with unsettling clarity.

I am constantly in search of people and places that bring me a sense of stability. In life, I am always confronted with certain thresholds where I long for steadiness. At those boundaries, I find myself seeking environments and situations that help me maintain a calm emotional state. Most of these are familiar to me: my family, my home, my room, and the surroundings that have held me for a long time. When I ask myself where the process of being filled and forming a sense of self first began, I cannot leave out home and family. I hold close to my heart the softness and warmth of these things, and the precious moments at home where I can express my feelings honestly. In doing so, I try to preserve a quiet emotional balance. It was only natural, then, that the act of painting and the choice of what to paint began with what was closest to me. As I step into the home and room marked by my own traces, I find myself covering over the unstable emotions I could not express outside, and recovering a sense of calm and peace. I capture in my paintings the blue wallpaper close to my body, the scattered blue clothes, the blue blankets and pillows—objects that bear the touch of my hand. Along with them, I try to hold within the painting the tactile sensations of these things against the skin, as well as the emotions of those moments: the comfort, warmth, and tenderness that arise from familiarity.

The feeling of fur brushing between my toes,
the rush of air when my father lifts the blanket high and lets it fall while I am lying down,
the snug warmth of tucking the blanket tightly around my body,
the feeling of touching the cool temperature that has settled into the pillow because of the wind outside,
the soft texture of an old blanket worn thin with holes,
a pair of socks turned inside out on the floor,
the faint sunlight slipping through the blinds,
the sunlight and brightness that reach me as I lie down,
the moon visible through the window before sleep...

I gather these emotions and sensations from my own place and wrap them together, trying to paint their atmosphere and energy. In the process of expression, the act of applying materials softly onto hanji, or tearing its surface to reveal its delicate fibres, has itself become a process through which I find emotional calm. Through the repeated gestures of laying down thick layers of paint and scraping them away, or raising the surface of the hanji, I attempt to convey indirectly a kind of fluffy, tender warmth even through the material surface itself.
Ultimately, I hope that a painting, shaped by the attitude revealed in both the subject I look at and the process of making, can become a bearer of warmth—something held close at one’s side—and that the scope of this warmth may gradually expand.

He is an artist who moves between painting and installation, visually interpreting the remnants of the city and fragments of memory. Using materials such as acrylic, resin, and recycled elements, he explores layers and transformations of texture, creating works that evoke the process of urban walls being repeatedly painted over and peeled away.

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Basquiat on Coke bottles in Coke Crate

Yayoi The Polka Dots on Coke Buttons 2021

Andy Warhol sprays on Coke crates 2021

Double Warhol on Coke Coolers 2024

Jackson Pollock drips on Coke Crates 2021

Ali guards on Double Coca-Cola Wooden Coolers, 2024

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Different Ideas are Good

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