Artist
SUN WOO
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Sun Woo, born in 1994 in Seoul, South Korea, now lives and works in Seoul. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from Columbia University in 2017. As an immigrant to Canada and a digital native, the artist interweaves migrating experiences across geographical and cultural boundaries to explore the concept of belonging within the real and virtual space, addressing the collective memory of folklore and mythology. Moving beyond realistic inference, Sun Woo fabricates extreme perils and animated mechanical objects in her paintings and sculptures, wittily wielding together themes of dream, pain, and symbiosis while investigating the gradually disintegrating physical body in the age of hyperconnectivity. Through smell, temperature, and humidity provoked by her photorealist approach, these sensory perceptions activate a shared familiarity and intimacy, both at present and from afar, within the disassociated bodily contexts. Sun Woo’s works relentlessly insert heightened perceptual nuances to propose a possibility which summons and amalgamates the dislocated senses across time and within the corporeality created by the artist, evoking visceral feelings that turn the suffering of one’s immurement to the spectacle of disembodiment subjectivities. Recent solo exhibitions include: Swamps and Ashes, Make Room, Los Angeles, 2023. Recent group exhibitions include: Cities in the Room, Seoul Museum of Art, 2023; Materi-delia, Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan, 2023; Wetting Your Whistles, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, 2023; Second Life, Lyles & King, New York, 2023; Myths of Our Time, Thaddaeus Ropac, Seoul, 2023. Sun Woo is the recipient of Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture in 2023 and Art Change Up from the Arts Council Korea and Ministry of Culture in 2021. Her works are in the collections of The Perimeter, London and Museu Inimá da Paula, Belo Horizonte.
Sun Woo, Shivers, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 200 × 340 × 4 cm, 133 7/8 × 78 3/4 × 1 5/8 in
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Solo and two person exhibitions
2025 Solo exhibition, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, CN (forthcoming) 2024 Portals, Gallery Vacancy at Frieze London, UK 2023 Swamps and Ashes, Make Room, Los Angeles, US 2022 Invisible Sensations, Carl Kostyál, London, UK 2021 A Castle Made of Sand, ATM Gallery NYC, New York, US 2021 You Have a New Memory, Woaw Gallery, Hong Kong, CN 2021 Superior Mirage, with Hyun Bhin Kwon, Cylinder, Seoul, KR 2020 Wishing Well, FAS (Foundwill Art Society), Seoul, KR Group exhibitions 2025 Floating World: Bed, Bath, Bus, Sehwa Museum of Art, Seoul, KR 2024 Alien, curated by Yesiyu Zhao, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, US 2024 Nova Libertatia, The Orange Garden at Forum Studios, Rome, IT 2023 Cities in the Room, curated by Nowk Choe, SeMA Bunker, Seoul Museum of Art, KR 2023 Materi-delia, curated by Taehyun Kwon, Ulsan Art Museum (UAM), Ulsan, KR 2023 Wetting Your Whistles, curated by Severin Dünser, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, KR 2023 Second Life, with Ben Gould and Taha Heydari, Lyles & King, New York, US 2023 Myths of Our Time, with Heemin Chung and Zadie Xa, Thaddaeus Ropac, Seoul, KR 2022 Memory of Rib, curated by Jeppe Ugelvig, N/A, Seoul, KR 2022 Taxonomies of Imagination, curated by Andrew Sendor, Make Room, Los Angeles, US 2022 Through a Glass, Darkly, Carl Kostyál, Milan, IT 2022 XY, Rundgænger by Schierke Seinecke, Frankfurt, DE 2021 Sunset Valley Village, curated by Joori Lee, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, KR 2021 Women in Paris, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, FR 2021 Halfway Through, Fragment, Moscow, RU 2020 Home Alone, ATM Gallery NYC, New York, US 2020 untact, curated by Jin Meyerson and Andy St. Louis, P21, Seoul, KR 2020 Room Service, with Gallery Chosun, SOLO SHOW: ON, Seoul, KR 2020 The New (Sur)Realism, Fragment, Moscow, RU 2020 EDEN, curated by Linda Mognato, Harlesden High Street, London, UK 2018 Painters by Painters, curated by Jaemin Hwang, 2/W (Weekend), Seoul, KR 2017 Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, US Collections Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody, New York, US Museu Inimá da Paula, Belo Horizonte, BR The Perimeter, London, UK |