Jang Wonyoung

1982 Born in Seoul, Korea

2010 Graduated from the Printmaking Department of Chugye University for the Arts with a bachelor's degree

Currently works and lives in Seoul

SOLO EXHIBITION

2015  

In City Lights, Mercedes Benz Samsung Auto Gallery, Seoul

2014  

The Visible and the Existent, BCS Gallery, New York

2012  

In My Sight Mind Life, Westin Chosun Hotel, Seoul

2011  

There are more to something than meet the eye, LeeSeoul Gallery, Seoul

2010  

For Us, Gallery WON, Seoul

GROUP EXHIBITION

2015 

2015 Art Nova 100, Beijing
2014  

Eye of the Photograph, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea, Gwacheon

Together but Thought Differently, Korea University Museum, Seoul

Busan & Hong Kong, Meet the Friends, Busan Cinema Center, Busan

Jang Wonyoung: I look down on the city from a place high above. No touch of humanity is found in the city: only the ebb and flow of capital is visible as the economic engine turns; overwhelming scale makes things disappear; and flashing neon signs making everything in the dark seem even darker.

I look again at the cold-hearted city for a while. A myriad of lights glimmer before my eyes, growing bigger and then smaller, or sometimes moving endlessly yet I know not where they go. We think for such a long time, looking at the seemingly breathing city. By looking at the city for a while, it begins to look different. Each different small light in the enormous city is a person. Laughing and crying everyday, we become infinitely small, feel happy, and move incessantly. The lives of those living in this age and lives of those filling the space breathe in this constantly evolving space.

As I point at and see a light, it becomes me. As I point at and see two lights, they become the two of us.

A city is full of warmth harmoniously engendered by its stationary space and the numerous lives breathing within in. I look at, remember, and depict all those filling this space and living there now.