January 19 - April 14, 2023|
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 19, 2023 5-7 PM (EST)|
Artist Talk: Tuesday, March 21, 2023 6 PM (EST)|

In her solo exhibition at The Korea Society, Seongmin Ahn presents a series of paintings and wall installations that fuses her insight in the relativity of perception with a deep regard for traditional Korean art, especially minhwa–folk painting. In her work, Ahn begins with traditional forms and themes, which she then extends into multi-disciplinary and multi-media practices by adopting science, technology, and multiple cognitive models.

For Ahn, whose work reads as equally playful and earnest, bringing light to a dark room at the touch of a finger is a wondrously apt metaphor for the role of art in our lives. —Richard Vine, a senior editor at Art in America

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ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Seongmin Ahn holds an MFA in Asian traditional painting from Seoul National University and another MFA in mixed media from the Maryland Institute College of Art. As an active participant in the contemporary art scene in New York and East Asia, she has exhibited work at such major venues as the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, and the Charles Wang Center at Stony Brook University. She has received a number of funding awards, including two Pollock Krasner Foundation grants, AHL foundation artist grant and Café Royal Cultural Foundation grant. Her work has been reviewed in The Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, The Baltimore Sun, The Plain Dealer and others. Her work has been acquired by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Korea, Princeton University Art Museum, and Hudson River Museum.

Image courtesy of the artist