Huh Jeong-Won

Huh Jeong-Won

As Marcel Duchamp once said, “Art is a path that guides us toward regions where time and space do not dominate.” In that sense, I wonder if my work, too, is something that continues to flow—almost as if gently caressing its way—toward an unknown space-time of my own making.

Exhibitions

Exhibitions

《A 'Painterly' Approach to 'Drawing'》, 2018.09.28~2018.10.09, Kumho Museum of Art

“Painterly (繪畵的),” as articulated by the art historian Heinrich Wölfflin, designates a mode distinct from the linear, in which contours are emphasized and forms are rendered in a sculptural manner; rather than presenting clear distinctions and outlines,

2018.09.28

Exhibitions

《2018 Local Artist Ⅰ_#01 Artist Huh Jeong-Won》, 2018.04.25~2018.05.12, GANGNEUNG ARTS CENTER

The 2018 Local Artist Exhibition is conceived as a relay project aimed at encouraging the creative motivation of regional artists while providing a platform for exhibition opportunities. Three female artists from the region were selected, beginning with Huh Jeong-Won, followed by Choi Je-Heon in September, and concluding with Choi Yun-Hee.

2018.04.25

Exhibitions

《Among the Forest of Winds》, 2014.10.08~2014.10.14, Jajaknamu (Birch Tree) Museum of Art

Hoengseong’s Museum Jajaknamusoup (Director: Won Jong-Ho) is drawing attention for presenting its first installation art exhibition in 11 years since its opening.

2015.03.31

Exhibitions

《Like caresses in the wind》, 2014.10.08~2014.10.14, Gallery Grimson

I become a cook while preparing breakfast in the morning. When a Facebook friend makes a political remark, I become a patriot worrying about the country. When I see an animal that has been killed on the road while driving, I become a veterinarian. When I see golden fields by the roadside, I reach out into the air with my hand and gently stroke them, becoming a farmer. When I encounter someone filled with anger, I become the one who absorbs that anger. My thoughts never remain in one place; more than a dozen times a day they drift without a center, carried by the wind from one direction to another.

2014.10.08

Activities

Activities

Jeongwon Huh x Gangneung-Wonju National University, Participation in the 2024 Cultural Olympics Exhibition Program: The Fabulous Stories to Save the Green Planet

The 4th Winter Youth Olympic Games began with the vision of “sports as a source of joy and growth, a peaceful future through coexistence and harmony.” It aims to uphold the values of the Olympics through sports and provide “culture and education programs” that allow participants to experience

2024

Activities

Huh Jeong-Won’s "A dream turned into water bubbles" and disappeared Selected for the Collection of Gangneung Museum of Art

The artist pursues what she defines as “formative-psychological sketching”, which aims to move beyond the objective depiction of natural scenery and instead materialize subjective, immaterial, and invisible realms.

2016

Activities

Huh Jeong-Won and Pianist Jung Yerim Receive Park Junyong Young Arts and Culture Award

The ‘4th Park Junyong Young Arts and Culture Award and Gangneung Future Talent Scholarship Award’ ceremony was held at Gangneung City Hall on the 26th. On this occasion, the Gangneung Cultural Foundation presented certificates to artist Heo Jungwon (visual arts/exhibition category) and pianist Jung Yerim (performing arts category), who were selected as the recipients of the ‘4th Park Junyong Young Arts and Culture Award.’

2013.12.27

Writings

Criticisms

Artistic World

Huh Jeong-Won’s practice begins with movement (移動) as a fundamental condition of everyday life. Within repeated acts of movement, the moments of disappearance and emergence, along with their associated sensations and affects, are accumulated in the artist’s body; this accumulated body, in turn, becomes a pictorial field. In this context, the body functions not merely as a medium of representation, but as a sensory repository and generative ground in which memory (記憶) and consciousness (意識) are stratified.

2025

Texts

Ontological Inquiry through Abstraction and Stratification

In the course of a life defined by movement (移動), repeatedly encountering disappearance and emergence, the artist’s body—having accumulated and retained the records and emotions of those moments—has itself become a canvas. Rather than being adept at reviving and expressing such sensations through deliberate gestures, it is a body that has become capricious, filled with indistinct images, and bound to an unknowable spatio-temporality.

2014.11

Statements

Artist's Note

I became a cook while preparing breakfast. When a Facebook friend makes a political remark, I become a patriot worried about the country. When I see an animal that has been killed by a car on the road, I become a veterinarian. When I see the golden fields beside the road, I become a farmer, gently stroking them in the air with my hand.

2014