“Breaking familiar perspectives, reading the world in a new context.
Park Jung Hyuk explores the boundaries of image, perception, and social experience.”
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 《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 《When Ero·Gro·Nonsense Combines Nonlinearly》, 2023.05.11 – 2023.05.31, Arting Gallery
From the 2023 work Park’s Land 27—where the veil encircling the Virgin Mary's head meets the protruding snout of a wolf placed squarely at the center—I begin to trace the artist’s aesthetic clues. The recent series titles, announced as periodical themes, are gathered under “Park’s Land.”
2023.05.11
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
Statements Seven VerticesSeven Vertices is a work that was exhibited in the group show 《Faces We Want to See》 at the Lee Han-yeol Memorial Hall (October 7–November 30, 2015). The exhibition selected six individuals who had been sacrificed during the process of democratization or in popular struggles for livelihood, paired each with one of six artists, and presented their lives through each artist’s distinct mode of expression.
2015.10.07
Criticisms Artistic World
Park Jung Hyuk explores multiple layers of visual art through various media, including painting, installation, and video. His work closely examines the structure, meaning, and affective power of images. His paintings recombine fragments of images extracted from mass media, strategically disrupting the viewer’s habitual sensory framework. Visual elements appro
2025
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
Texts Reading a Painting #1 – Park Jung Hyuk’s Territory Shaped through Mytheme
Milan Kundera, in 『Testaments Betrayed』, cites Rabelais’ book 『Gargantua and Pantagruel』 and writes that the novel is, fundamentally, a territory where moral judgment is suspended. He adds that this suspension itself constitutes the novel’s morality — a morality that stands in opposition to
2023.05.19
