Archive
Works
Muscle Memory Drawings
Muscle Memory Drawings 230513, 2023
Park's Land
Park's Land 1-Zeus and Io, 2022
Park's Memory
Park's Memory 2, 2018
Muscle Memory Drawings
Muscle Memory Drawings 230607, 2023
Muscle Memory Drawings
Muscle Memory Drawings 241104, 2024
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
《Su! Su! Susu! SuperNormal!》, 2025.12.09 – 2026.01.15, SPACE.SUPERNORMAL
When different medium and senses come together in a single space, what kind of scene will this encounter create? SPACE.SUPERNORMAL has launched a new exhibition. This exhibition, which will mark the end of 2025, is a group exhibition of 33 artists curated by artist Sim Seung-wook.
2025.12.10
Exhibitions
《Myth : The Beginning Story》, 2024.10.05~2025.08.31, Museum 1
Museum 1, an art museum located in Centum City, Busan, will host 《Myth: The Beginning of a Story》 from Saturday, October 5, 2024, to Sunday, August 31, 2025. The exhibition features approximately 100 works by 18 artists (or teams) from five countries, spanning a variety of genres, including painting, photography, installation, video, and media art.
2024.10.03
Exhibitions
《Ordinary People》, 2011.08.20 – 2011.09.30, Gallery Absinthe
Gallery Absinthe will present Park Jung Hyuk’s solo exhibition 《Ordinary People》 starting Saturday, August 20. As suggested by the seven years of preparation behind 《Ordinary People》, the exhibition reflects the artist’s determined ambition to reframe the world through his own visual lens.
2011.08.20
Exhibitions
《Drowsy Floating》, 2019.12.20 – 2020.01.21, Artertain
Seven billion… perhaps more. That is the current estimate of humanity’s population. Seven billion people inhabit this Earth. But do we even wonder exactly how many there are? For now, the most immediate reality is simply that I exist, living my life in this moment. Perhaps all that my life pursues—or is already pursuing—are the easiest, most accessible ways of living. Seven billion people coexist on Earth, each carving out territories, or systems.
2019.12.20
Exhibitions
《Rebellious possibility》, 2025.02.07 – 2025.03.24, Yeol Jeong Gallery
Yeoljeong Gallery will present 《Rebellious Possibility》 from February 7 to March 4, 2025. Known for constructing a distinctive visual language through diverse media and experimental approaches, Park explores the fractures and contradictions embedded in contemporary society. This exhibition introduces a new body of work that further expands his ongoing inquiries.
2025.02.05
Activities
Activities
[YouTube] Why Did a Prominent Media Artist Risk Everything on Oil Painting? The Story of Junghyuk Park, Part 2 [Gongshell] | Yoon Giwon’s Art Talk EP.145 | Korean Artist Junghyuk Park
Park Jung Hyuk: Yoon Giwon's Artist Talk (2)
2023.05.26
Activities
Discovering New Local Artists and Encouraging Creative Spirit
Many artists reside in Goyang City. However, the support programs and infrastructure for these artists are far from satisfactory. Kim Chan-dong, director of the Arko Art Center, said, “Although the art museums and performance facilities are not poor compared to other regions, considering the number and level of resident artists, the environment is definitely inadequate.”
2009.10.13
Activities
[YouTube] Park Jung Hyuk《When Ero·Gro·Nonsense Combines Nonlinearly》, (2023.05.11~05.31 Arting) Critique
Ban Ijeong's《When Ero·Gro·Nonsense Combines Nonlinearly》Crtitique
2023.05.14
Activities
KMDC (Korea Mix Dog Contest) Project
This performance was presented in November 2004 at the 5th Gwangju Biennale, inside Exhibition Hall 5, and was documented throughout the exhibition period through video and photography. For this project, the artist created a fictional organization called KMDC (Korea Mix Dog Club) and carried it out in collaboration with two animal-welfare groups — 〈Areum-Pum〉 and 〈Bodumi〉, who work
2004.11.30
Activities
Park Jung Hyuk Presents His Works at “ARTBUY”
Through a wide range of series and media, Park Jung Hyuk questions the fixed assumptions, habits of thought, and structural contradictions embedded in contemporary society. People often say that we see only as much as we know—but more precisely, we can see no more than what we already know. Viewers who interpret a work solely through familiar, internalized frameworks inevitably encounter the limits of their own vision. With bold and incisive approaches, Park aims to pose new questions about our era and its conditions, seeking to step outside the narrow role that society often imposes on artists.
2022.11.11
Writings
Statements
Theater Series-3’ 54”
Theater Series-3’ 54” is a work in which a third-person camera that follows the solitary, resisting gestures of a character dressed as a salaryman (symbolizing a standardized figure produced through discipline and social structures) shifts into a first-person point of view, thereby transforming the observing audience into a confrontational situation with the character and staging a condition in which
2009
Criticisms
IMAGENATION – On the evolution of arts.
From the incantation as a substitute to language, symbol of divine right and royal authority, maid of architecture, the Renaissance Man Leonardo Da Vinci, independence from illusionism, the birth of photography, Andy Warhol’s factory, Nam Jun Park’s video art, Jeff Koons’ scandalism to Damien Hirst’s return to painting
2009
Criticisms
A Protest against Silent Inaction
Martin Niemöller, a theologian and Lutheran pastor during World War II, was initially a conservative and rather passive observer of the Nazis. What finally broke his silence and caused him to protest against Hitler was the Nazi persecution of the Christian Church. Niemöller later confessed his deep regrets about not speaking up and thus allowing countless victims to perish in the hands of the Nazis.
2011.08.20
Statements
Ordinary People
This work, originally presented in Park Jung Hyuk’s third solo exhibition 《Ordinary People》 (August 20–September 30, 2011), consists of five sound-interlinked videos that play in random order. Each video is a dramatized montage created by splicing together scenes from more than fifty Eastern and Western films and television dramas.
2011
Criticisms
Rebellious Possibility_Transformation, Searching for Origins and the Process of Deconstruction
Park Jung Hyuk has long focused on how humans sense and perceive the world surrounding them — how they are governed by it — and how they reproduce it. As the artist himself states that his work is “a questioning of taken-for-granted logic, stereotypes, structural problems, and contradictions,”
April, 2025