Gwang Hee Jeong (b. 1967) draws no distinction between calligraphy and painting. In his practice Jeong strives to achieve a true emptiness to separate from an obsession over form and object in a world of material affluence and to express nonexistent scenes and sites such as a mother’s empty heart.

Jeong’s works are created through a process of folding strips of hanji (traditional Korean paper) into rectangular forms using thin, long pieces of plywood and them assembling the paper forms side by side to construct one large canvas. Often the sheets of hanji are sourced from ancient books. resulting in works of art enfolded with concealed knowledge.

Drawing on his calligraphic and Korean painting background, Jeong often adds large brushstrokes or dots of ink to these textured canvases, blurring the boundaries between text, images and form. Through his process of emptying objects of meaning, the artist seeks to allow a freedom from perception, enabling the invisible to be revealed through the visible.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015

Escaping from the Object in Thought, DaeDam Museum, Damyang, Korea

2014

Accumulating In, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea

Everyday Life and Space of Thought, Gallery White Birch, Seoul, Korea

In the Bamboo Forest-Entering the Garden of Scholars, Lotte Gallery, Gwangju, Anyang, Korea

2012

Escaping from the Object in Thought, Okgwa Museum of Art, Okgwa, Korea

2009

Forget to Be Well Aware, Gwangju Shinsegae Gallery, Gwangju, Korea

2008

Forget to Be Well Aware, Dr. Park Gallery, Yangpyeong, Korea

2007

A Metaphor for Creation Extinction, Gana Art Space, Seoul, Korea

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017

Crisscrossing East and West, MOCA YinChuan, YinChuan China

2016

16th Ha jung-wooing Young Artists Invitation Exhibition, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea

ChangWon Sculpture Biennale, SungSan Art Hall, Changwon, Korea

Abstract Art - After Abstract Art, YangLim Museum, Gwangju, Korea

Korea-China Contemporary Art 20, GuangZhou Academy of Fine Arts Museum, GuangZhou China

2015

Metaphor of Material, Seven Way Space, Beijing, China

Korea-China-Japan Calligraphy Exchange Exhibition Questions Regarding the City

Relationships and Tea, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea

Korea Tomorrow, SungKok Museum, Seoul, Korea

Rivers, Pier-2 Art Center, KaoSiung, Taiwan

6th Beijing Biennale, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

Portfolio Archive Lounge, Savina Museum, Seoul, Korea

2014

International Contemporary Ink-Painting, Himalaya Museum of Art, Shanghai, China

2013

Contemporary Ink-Painting, SanDong Province Museum of Art, Jinan, China

2011

Ego, Non-ego and Relation, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea

2010

Regional Network Exhibition, organized by Korea Arts & Culture Council, ARCO in Seoul, Gwangju Museum of Art, Busan Museum of Art, Korea

RESIDENCIES

2015

Residency in Shanghai

Himalaya Museum of Art

Shanghai, China

2013

Residency in Beijing, Gwangju Museum of Art

Beijing Residency, Beijing, China