Suki Seokyeong Kang

Suki Seokyeong Kang (b. 1977, Seoul, Korea) is a multidisciplinary artist focused on painting, performance, installation and video. Interested in creating a visual language of balance and harmony, Kang situates her work in the space between the abstract and the representational, as well as the organic and the geometric, in order to create a visual representation of the human condition. Kang also draws heavily upon archaic verse, particularly poems and ideographs, in order that “the work is carefully structured with a concern for how each individual can move forward with history, worries, and anxieties that are situated in the vertical time of their existence. The work is metaphorical—as an artist, I am working through the dilemma of existing in a society where history and the present coexist.”

With an interest in the wisdom offered by history, the artist studies her own cultural tradition—including aesthetics, philosophies and ideologies—in order to look through the timeline between tradition and the contemporary in diverse ways.

Kang now lives and works in Seoul, and recently participated in the 2019 Venice Biennale and Art Basel Unlimited, was awarded Art Basel’s Baloise Art Prize in 2018, and the 13th SongEun Art Award in 2013. Select solo exhibitions include her 2018 show Jeong 井 at the Tina Kim Gallery in New York, and Black Mat Oriole at the ICA in Philadelphia. Also noteworthy is her participation at the 2018 Shanghai and Liverpool Biennials. Her work is held in the collections of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, the Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, the Seoul Museum of Art, Korea, as well as that of the National Art Bank, Seoul.

Submitted by Tina Kim Gallery