Hyun Ae Kang
Seoul, Korea, Republic of
14 Works exhibited on Kooness
Current location
California, United States
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Works by Hyun Ae Kang
Hyun Ae Kang (1959) is a famous contemporary artist, a follower of the South Korean artistic movement dansaekhwa or "monochrome painting", whose representatives were distinguished by the multi-layered texture of artistic works and the approach to creating works as a spiritual practice. Lives and works in California, USA.
Unlike its predecessors, Hyun Ae Kang moves away from monochrome, but continues to create abstract paintings, applying thick, confident strokes of paint on the canvas layer by layer, giving the surface a characteristic dansaekhwa texture.
Being a deeply religious person, Kang spends many hours in prayer before and during the creation of the painting, which is reflected in the abstractions themselves, which achieve a powerful visual effect due to such a long and persistent ecstatic experience that accompanies the work on the picture. Again and again reinterpreting sacred texts and layer by layer inscribing hieroglyphs with biblical quotations in her works, the artist achieves an amazing effect – an inexplicable sense of the presence of the sacred arises from the paintings, regardless of the faith of the viewer. Entering a state of flow, Kang pours seraphic messages from The Supreme on canvases in bright colors, trying to convey the received spiritual experience to the viewer through her works.
Hyun Ae Kang's works are in public and private collections around the world, including the Art Museum of Seoul, the Muzeo Museum and Cultural Center in Anaheim, California, and the Brea Museum and Historical Society, California. Kang's work will also be featured in an upcoming retrospective at the Muzeo Museum and Cultural Center in Anaheim in 2021. The exhibition will be the first retrospective of the artist in the United States and will feature works from the early period in South Korea, as well as her most current projects.
EDUCATION
1992 - 1993. Instructor at Han Yong Women’s College
1991. MFA Sculpture at Ewha University in Seoul, Korea
1986. BFA Sculpture at Ewha University in Seoul, Korea
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020. 2nd Generation of Korean DANSAEKHWA (BOCCARA ART Galleries and ACCADEMIA Fine Art & Auction House Monte-Carlo, Monaco)
2nd Generation of Korean DANSAEKHWA (Museo Dei Bozzetti, Italy)
2019. Distant Haptics Boccara Art (Brooklyn Gallery, NY)
2018. Boccara Art invitation Exhibition 2018 (Brooklyn, NY)
Cloud - MUZEO Museum Invitation Exhibition (12/22. 2018 - 3/11. 2019)
2017. Exhibition at Yacht Club (YCM Gallery, Monaco)
Invitation Exhibition at Center Gallery (Anaheim, USA)
2014~16. MUZEO Art Museum and Cultural Center (Anaheim, USA)
2002. Gallery 3 (Fullerton, USA)
Exhibition at Elizabeth Edwards Fine Art and Bonnie Boisits (Palm Desert, USA)
2001. Exhibition at Elizabeth Edwards Fine Art (Laguna Beach, USA)
1998. Exhibition at Cerritos Library (Cerritos, USA)
1991. Exhibition at Hyundai Gallery (Seoul, Korea)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019. Art Miami 2019
KIAF (Korea International Art Fair) 2019
Art Central Hong Kong
LA Art Show
MetPHYSICAL REBIRTH Exhibition (Boccara Art Brooklyn Gallery)
Art New York (USA) 2019
2018. Art Shanghai 2018 (Shanghai, China)
Art Miami 2018 (Miami, USA)
Art New York (USA) 2018
Art Palm Beach 2018 (Florida, USA)
2017. Exhibition at Boccara Art (Monaco)
Made in California at Brea Gallery (Brea,USA)
2002. Palm Springs International Art Fair (Palm Springs, USA)
1995. Korea Fine Art Grand Exhibition (Seoul, Korea)
SELECTED COLLECTION
Since 2018. MUZEO Museum (Anaheim, USA)
Since 2018. THE CROSS IN MY HEART at Sarang Community Church of Southern California
Since 2016. THE BREA HILLS at Brea Museum & Historical Society
Since 1993. TOGETHER at the Art Museum of Seoul
AUCTION
2019 MONACO AUCTION