Heeseung Nam — Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

Oct 8

Oct 8 Heeseung Nam

Biography

Graduate School 2011 Graduated from Sungshin Women's University Graduate School of Fine Arts,
University 2007 Graduated from Sungshin Women's University, Department of Oriental Painting,
Creative Residency 2017 SVA (SCHOOL OF VISUAL ART) SUMMER RESIDENCY, New York, USA
2022 Soft Focus Space Breeding Residency, Busan, Korea

[Solo Exhibition]
2022 A difficult road can be crossed by a bridge, Oh! Jaemi-dong, Seoul
2021 Solo Exhibition (Scheduled for August 25) Gallery Dool Seoul
2019 Solo Exhibition “Thinking of the monotonous and boring early morning.” GallerySPACED9 Seoul
2014 Solo Exhibition "DRAMATIC" This is real stories to some extent. Gallery dos Seoul
2013 Solo Exhibition "DRAMATIC" It's only just begun. BMM Boutique Monaco Art Museum Seoul
2010 Solo Exhibition “CONTEMPORARY BAND” Gallery Artga Seoul

[Group Exhibition]
2022 Accumulating Snow, A faint night Gallery Dool, Seoul
2021 online exhibition People Places Things , Project Gallery V , NYC
2018 Insadong Young Artists Group Exhibition “New Thinking, New Art 2018”, Lee Seoul Gallery, Seoul
2018 PROJECT ZEBRA ART FAIR, Alternative Space (Snow), Gyeonggi-do
2014 Six Faces of Desire, Space K, Gwangju
2013 The 3rd Seoul Digital University Art Award, Sejong Center for the Performing Arts (B1), Seoul
2012 Asia Student Young Artist Art Festival (ASYAAF) Culture Station Seoul 284
2011 Yokais of the East [→←] Arrow Battle Daegu MBC Gallery M Daegu
2010 Korea Selected Artist Exhibition | Seoul Museum of Art, Gyeongbokgung, Seoul
2009 The Fifth Cultual & Arts Festival of Songzhuang China, Beijing Songzhuang
2009 Art Space MITE Selected Young Artist Contest, Art Space MITE, Gwangju
2008 Myth in Us, Total Museum of Art, Seoul
2008 Seogyeongsipsip 2008, The Battle of Taste, Gallery Sangsangmadang, Seoul

[Awards]
3rd place in 2020 GAMMA Young Artist Competition
Winner of the 2020 40th Korean Contemporary Print Competition
2013 3rd Seoul Digital University Art Award

Artist Statement

As we navigate the digital landscape of the 21st century, are we more closely aligned with our virtual personas, or our real-life selves?

_My work explores the interplay between the virtual and real domains of contemporary society, examining how they shape the complex identities of individuals in modern times.
My work, which exists as both a fluid "collage" and a "digital file," is a digital image formed by repeatedly connecting and accumulating fragments of black and white contrast.
I consider this a form of coexistence between the physical and digital worlds.
I think that for modern people living in the digital age, the desire to constantly prove their existence meanders aimlessly in the digital world and is frequently exchanged for the inner unconscious as a means of determining a person's attitude in the real world. This is what I refer to as the "law of nihilism where form precedes," and it becomes the subject of my desire to directly reach the clear essence while concealing the ambiguous identity of contemporary people who blend the virtual and real worlds in my work.

So, I pose the following questions. (The questions are about attitude.)
- “Is this real?”
- “What will happen next?”
- “What have I become?”
Whatever the answers are, we cannot help but wonder as we live in a time of transition, where digitalization is becoming a larger part of our daily lives.

Country South Korea

Website https://www.mylittleego.com/

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