Education
1971 - Born in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province Painting Department at Youngnam University Yeungnam University Graduate School of Western Painting
Career
an individual match 2023 2023 Senior Artist of the Year, Daegu Culture and Arts Center, Daegu 2022 How To Endure Despair, Rice Field Gallery, Heyri On the 2022 Ruins, Bona Gallery (Daegu) 2019 Paintings, HEIMA 2016 Forest of Mourning, Gallery Bundo (Daegu) 2013 Miscellent: Memory and Presence, Lian Gallery, Seoul 2011 Light 2011: Ha Jung-woong Youth Artist Invitation Exhibition, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju 2009 Painting Mir Gallery, Pohang 2008 ONE CUT Lian Gallery, Daegu 2006 R/Reduction Ssamzie Market Gallery, Daegu 2005 Fish, Shirts & Death, space129 2005 Blue Vison, A dormitory gallery in Daegu. Daegu 1998 Yeungnam University, Daegu a team event 2022 One More Pink, cmgg lounge 2022 No More Pink, cmgg lounge 2021 ART369, Platform L, Seoul 2021 Oh Bang Color, Oh Oh Theater, Daegu paint the old moon in 2020. Gowol Lee Jang-hee's 120th Anniversary Exhibition, Kkotari Cafe, Daegu 2018 VISION, Eoul Art Center Gallery Geumho, Daegu 2018 Variations of Daily Life Abstract Thought, Galleria Santon City, Cheonan 2017 Every Breath You Take, Suchang Youth Mansion, Daegu 2017 12 people's room, POSCO Gallery, Pohang 2017 Today's Art-The Way of Survival, Daegu Culture and Arts Center, Daegu 2016 Export 2, KOTRAIKP, Seoul 2016 ART LAB, Shinsegae Department Store Main Building Art Wall Gallery, Seoul 2015 Space Conversion-Artist Festa, Daegu Art Power Plant, Daegu 2015 Fly to me, Daegu Art Power Plant, Daegu 2014 Super Romantics, Daegu Art Power Plant, Daegu 2012 the power, Han Ki-sook Gallery, Daegu 2011 Looking back 2010, Lian Gallery, Changwon 2010 my story, gallery silla 2010 art-road 77, art factory, Heyri 2009 Youth Art Project, Garden of Desire, KT&G Annex, Daegu 2008 Love Love, Gallery Ssamji, Seoul 2008 Hidden Eyes, Gallery Ssamji, Seoul 2007 Made in Daegu, Bongsan Cultural Center, Daegu 2007 From Nothing, Culture and Arts Center, Daegu 2005 Cutting edge-Seoul Auction Space, Seoul 2004 "Summer Exhibition", Daegu Disabled Welfare Center, Daegu 2004 "The Island", Sampyo Space, Icheon, Gyeonggi-do 2004 "Shinjin Godfather" Total Art Exhibition, Apgujeong-dong Hyundai Department Store Sky Park, Seoul 2003 "Standing at the Crossroads of Farewell", Yeungnam University's College of Plastic Studies Exhibition Hall, Gyeongsan 2003 “open space open mind", space 129, 2003 "Fin", space 129, Daegu 2003 "New Frontier", Culture and Arts Center, Daegu 2002 Youth Biennale "A Thousand Private Trees" Special Exhibition, Culture and Arts Center, Daegu 2001 "Psyche", Construction Gallery, Daegu 2000 “The New New Generation", Silla and Daegu
Awards career
Awards and Residencies 2014 Daegu Arts Power Plant Residency Program 3rd Stage 2011 Light 2011, Ha Jung-woong Young Artist Award (Gwangju City Museum of Art) a collection of works National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Art Bank Daegu Museum of Art Shinsegae Group private collection
Artist Ryu Hyun-wook shows a gradual and diverse pictorial language in which the breathing of life "living" leads to "drawing." The metaphorical code of paint's real qualities, images in the mind, abstracts the mind's problems with stories and personal narratives that reflect life while spraying and scratching, and this transformation can be understood as a work of emptying oneself and replacing sadness. The writer's personal life experiences and events are the drivers that changed into each series. This is accompanied by a change in attitude toward life and a change in aesthetics. Along with the current "slit" series, the four series are self-referencedly interlocked and simultaneously represented in the present form, each of which is as follows. 1. Days (2001–2009): a faceless human image that expresses a sense of absence and death, namely, ansich and Eros. This is a drawing of what is seen and what is beyond what is seen, as 'remember/testify'. 2. Layers' (2010-2014): Experimented on the story structure by overlapping image expressions by airbrush drawing and brush painting, and reveals the structure of a hard-boiled world in paintings by overlapping storytelling about daily life and life. 3. "The Forest of Mourning" (2015-2022): Abstracts mourning and karma under the theme of "forest" sprinkled by cremation of the deceased sister. Abstracts narratives and minds with ritual characters that comfort individual memories and souls. The combination of uneven shapes and lines as a metaphor for the narrative appears, and a storytelling technique that transforms from one figure or stroke into surrounding actions is shown. 4. "slit" (2023–present): The main visual element of the picture is "slit," which means a long cut or line-line, and converts metaphors for "wave and particulate" of quantum mechanics and "color and ball" of semi-field heart into a multilayer structure.