Lee Hyunho repeatedly observes the landscapes he encounters in his immediate surroundings. His work moves beyond simple documentation, focusing instead on how places and subjects are shaped and reassembled on the canvas. Familiar everyday scenes pass through the artist’s process of selection and arrangement, gradually forming a finished painting. Using traditional Korean painting materials and techniques, he pays close attention to describing his subjects. However, his paintings are not straightforward reproductions of what he sees. Through sustained observation, he refines and adjusts forms and spatial relationships, creating images that resemble the original landscape while remaining subtly transformed. Since being selected as an OCI Museum of Art Young Creative artist in 2013, he has continued to explore everyday landscapes through this ongoing practice.

Golden Hands Friends (GHF) is an art agency and gallery founded in 2018 by art dealer couple WooSung Lim and Sunyoung Kim, who come from backgrounds in advertising and architecture.   As an art agency, GHF curates exhibitions and bridges artists’ intellectual property (IP) with businesses, events, social initiatives, and publishing projects. We also provide collection consulting for individuals and companies, artwork rentals, and art-based archiving services.  At GHF Gallery in Gye-dong, we support artists through curated exhibitions and aim to foster a culture where art can be appreciated and collected by everyone.   Our mission is to make artwork more accessible and to contribute to a vibrant art market. We believe that through art, everyone can become good friends.  In the spirit of our name, Golden Hands—meaning “hands that save not only myself, but also those around me”—we hope the work we do lives up to what we stand for.