CHA Hyeonwook

CHA Hyeonwook (b. 1987) uses ink, a traditional technique of East Asian painting, to express everyday landscapes and the emotional, abstract landscapes of the inner mind. In particular, mountains and rivers fully drawn in ink and the cosmic images laid out as their background reveal the artist's curiosity about the world and thoughts about light and darkness, capturing landscapes that seem to leap out from a specific world. These transcendent landscapes, where natural forms like wind, mountains, and water move dynamically as if alive, lead the viewer to contemplate the existence of humans, trivial in the vast world. At the same time, the artist, seemingly fully embodying the texture and characteristics of materials like ink, continues to evolve the uniqueness of these materials, projecting the primal sense of nature onto the viewers of his work.

 

CHA Hyeonwook (b. 1987) has an academic background that includes a Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture at the Korea National University of Arts in 2019 and a Bachelor's degree in Korean Painting from the College of Art at Kyungpook National University in 2012. His main solo exhibitions include A Little More (The Necessaries, Seoul, Korea, 2022), Night Blooming Flowers (Daegu Art Center, Daegu, Korea, 2018) and Works from Reminiscence (Cheongju Art Studio, Cheongju, Korea, 2015). CHA has participated in a number of group exhibitions such as Our Lives, Our Moments (Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea, 2022). CHA Has also participated in group exhibitions such as Middle of Nowhere (Gachang Art Studio, Daegu, Korea. 2018), Drawing After Dreaming (Zaha Art Museum, Seoul, Korea, 2018), Expression of Landscape (Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea, 2017), Vibrant Aura (POSCO gallery, Pohang, Korea, 2016), Document the Traces of 10 Years, the Future of the 10 Years (Cheongju Art Studio, Cheongju, Korea, 2016). CHA has artist residency experiences at Gachang Art Studio from 2012-2013 and Cheongju Art Studio from 2014-2015, and has received the Young Artist of the Year, Daegu Art Center, Daegu, Korea in 2018, and The 4th Gwangju Hwaru Artist Awards, Gwangju Bank, Gwangju, Korea, in 2020. CHA’s works are in collections in museums and institutions such as National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art/Art Bank, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu Art Center and Seoul National University Museum of Art, in Korea.