Hanji Park

biography

Hanji Park is a contemporary Korean artist based in South Korea, working primarily in mixed media and conceptual abstraction. She is best known for her textured, architectural compositions that explore the relationship between built environments, memory, and nature.

Her practice involves drawing, layering, tearing, and reconstructing visual surfaces, creating dense visual fields that feel both constructed and deconstructed. Through this process, she explores the fragility of material existence and the tension between permanence and erosion.

Working with themes of home, structure, and natural emergence, Hanjipark often builds and then disrupts architectural forms, allowing hidden organic elements to reappear beneath layers of intervention.

artist statement

I paint houses built on mountains.
The densely clustered houses along the slopes are not merely landscapes, but traces of lived experience, stories of endurance and existence.

After filling the canvas with countless houses, I scrape and peel away layers of paint to reveal the form of the mountain beneath. This process reflects the intertwined relationship between nature and humanity, while also tracing the trajectory of human desire.

My work began in Busan.
Walking through hillside neighborhoods shaped by displaced communities, I encountered houses built on graves and steep terrain. These were not simply shelters, but spaces holding the density of time and the resilience of life.

Today, however, we build houses on mountains for different reasons.
We climb higher in pursuit of more. As I paint structures rising endlessly upward, I find myself questioning where this desire ultimately leads. The mountain becomes a site where these questions emerge, and the night becomes a space of reflection and search. I attempt to draw my own boundaries so that desire does not transform into excess.

I do not perceive time as something that simply passes.
For me, time accumulates, like houses layered upon a mountain.

If the mountain represents a mass of accumulated time, then the houses resting upon it are fragments of memory. By gathering these fragments, I connect past and present, my story and the stories of others. Through this process, I attempt to visualize time.

Even now, time continues to build quietly and steadily.
And upon it, I place another painting.

I layer time, stack houses, and reveal desire.

I paint “Crazy Flowers.”

After long winters spent in a semi-basement studio, I vividly remember stepping into the intense brightness of spring. That overwhelming shift in light and sensation triggered a release within me. The condensed energy of isolation erupted outward, marking the beginning of the Crazy Flowers series.

The flower is myself.

Like a bloom breaking through resistance, I release suppressed desire and instinct directly onto the canvas. I work without preliminary sketches, engaging the surface instinctively. Holding acrylic paint in my hands, I allow lines to follow impulse rather than plan. I scrape, tear, layer, and redraw. Rough gestures and vivid colors unfold freely.

In these works, desire transforms into vitality.

While the mountain series reflects accumulated time and structural tension, Crazy Flowers expresses immediacy and emotional release. The flowers are unruly and instinctive, at times excessive, yet they affirm life force.

Beginning my artistic path later than many, I found strength in the resilience of flowers—their ability to bloom regardless of season became a driving force in my practice.

I hope these “crazy flowers” awaken something in the viewer:
a trace of suppressed longing,
a sensation of being fully alive.

Solo Exhibitions

2025 — The Vitality of Time’s Branches, One Gallery, Cheongju
2025 — Mickey Mouse, I Present You Flowers, Wonju Cultural Foundation, Wonju
2023 — Crazy Flower, One Gallery, Wonju
2023 — Together, Higher and Farther, PFS Gallery, Seoul
2022–2023 — A House Built on the Mountain 2, E-Land Cultural Foundation, Seoul
2022 — A House Built on the Mountain, GS Tower Yeoksam, Seoul
2022 — A House Built on the Mountain, Eulsukdo Cultural Center, Busan

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026 — Nature Breathes, We Sing, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Seoul

2025 — Yeongwon Art Fair, 0°C Gallery, Seoul
2025 — Good Day (Curated Exhibition), Seoul Northern Hospital Gallery, Seoul
2025 — My Daily Life (Two-Person Exhibition), Bichae Art Museum, Seoul
2025 — To Take One’s Place (Two-Person Exhibition), Ecorock Gallery, Seoul
2025 — Eulsa Year Exhibition, Ecorock Gallery, Seoul
2025 — The Grand Art Fair, Sindajin Lab Architecture Office, Chuncheon
2025 — Uprising Festa, SETEC Hall 3, Seoul
2025 — Eco Art Fair, Gangwon Design Promotion Agency, Chuncheon
2025 — Inspire Art Fair, SETEC Hall 3, Seoul
2025 — SETEC Bank Art Fair, Bichae Art Museum, Seoul
2025 — Youth Art Market Art Fair, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
2025 — Breeze Art Fair, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
2025 — Busan International Gallery Art Fair (BAMA), BEXCO, Busan

2024 — Year-End Small Works Exhibition, Bichae Art Museum, Seoul
2024 — NEW TURN (Residency Final Exhibition), Wonju Cultural Foundation, Wonju
2024 — Come and Play, Artsup, Namsangol Cultural Center
2024 — Gallery Together, Guti Gallery, Seoul
2024 — ARBRES (Three-Person Exhibition), Den Art Gallery, Incheon
2024 — Childlike, Gallery Kangho, Seoul
2024 — Two-Person Exhibition, Seongsu-dong Gallery, Seoul
2024 — Waves of Memory, Namu Art, Seoul
2024 — 2024 Art Market, Gallery 71, Seoul
2024 — Guguism, Gugu Gallery (Mokdong), Seoul
2024 — Guguism, Gugu Gallery (Insadong), Seoul
2024 — 2024 Fresh, Guti Gallery, Seoul
2024 — United Project Art, United Gallery, Seoul
2024 — Singapore Bank Art Fair, Bichae Art Museum, Singapore
2024 — Youth Art Market Art Fair, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
2024 — Breeze Art Fair, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
2024 — Art Rock Festival, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul

2023 — Spectrum of Grey Particles, Wonju Cultural Foundation
2023 — Five Rooms (Residency Final Exhibition), Wonju Cultural Foundation
2023 — Code Blue Exhibition Archive, Wonju Cultural Foundation
2023 — October, Jeunedemarcel, Pangyo
2023 — Artists’ Picnic, Midam Hall, Wonju
2023 — Neighboring Artist, Wonju Cultural Foundation, Wonju
2023 — Homecoming Commemorative Exhibition, State Preceptor Jigwang Stupa, Wonju
2023 — Jeongamsa, Hwaibudong Exhibition Series, Jeongseon & Seoul
2023 — Art Fair Play, DDP Art Hall A3, Seoul
2023 — Suncheon Art Fair, Suncheon
2023 — Breeze Art Fair, Nodeulseom, Seoul
2023 — Seoul International Art Expo, Seoul

Selected Art Fairs & Earlier Exhibitions

2022 — Small Paintings, Big Happiness, Heesoo Gallery, Seoul
2022 — Art Ground Hongdae, Seoul
2022 — Window of the Time, E-Land Gallery Heyri, Paju
2022 — Invited Curated Exhibition, Busan
2022 — Group Exhibition, Migi Gallery, Seoul
2022 — Meet-up 2, Space Do, Euljiro, Seoul
2022 — Meet-up, Collabo House Dosan, Seoul
2022 — Good Gallery Busan Group Exhibition
2022 — Good Gallery Gangnam Opening Exhibition, Seoul
2022 — Eulsukdo Cultural Center Group Exhibition, Busan
2022 — Selected Artists Exhibition, Heesoo Gallery, Seoul
2022 — The Library (Public Gallery), Seoul
2022 — Collabo House After Exhibition, Seoul
2022 — Yeomi Apgujeong Restaurant Exhibition, Seoul
2022 — Jijihyang PAIR, Gallery Hwi, Paju
2022 — Breeze Art Fair, Seoul Arts Center
2022 — NET PAIR, The Hyundai Seoul
2022 — K-Art Fair, Seoul
2022 — Ulsan Art Fair (Open Call), Ulsan
2022 — Busan Hotel Art Fair, Busan
2022 — Busan Design Week, Busan
2022 — Hoho Festival, Collabo House Dosan, Seoul

2021 — Meet-up, Collabo House, Seoul
2021 — Emerging Artists Exhibition 2, Good Gallery, Seoul
2021 — Under 39, Shinsegae, Busan
2021 — Parade, Marine Gallery, Busan
2021 — Emerging Artists Exhibition, Good Gallery, Seoul
2021 — Waiting, Hwamyeong Train Station, Busan
2021 — Autumn Art Market, Seoul Arts Center
2021 — Gosijo Exhibition, Manse Gallery, Busan
2021 — Rhythmic Exhibition, Um Gallery, Busan
2021 — You_niverse, Manse Gallery, Busan
2021 — My Favorite Things 2, Hwamyeong Train Station, Busan
2021 — My Favorite Things, Agami Café, Busan
2021 — Youth Art Market, Seoul Arts Center

collection

View Hanji Park's available artworks here