Seongmin Ahn is a Korean-American artist celebrated for her innovative reinterpretations of minhwa, the traditional Korean folk painting style. Based in New York, Ahn bridges the boundaries between tradition and modernity, Eastern and Western art, creating works that are both deeply rooted in cultural heritage and profoundly contemporary in their execution.

Ahn’s work blends traditional minhwa motifs, such as peonies, waterfalls, and mythical animals, with elements of Western culture and modern life. This dynamic juxtaposition breathes new life into traditional Korean art forms, presenting a fresh dialogue between past and present. Her unique ability to reimagine minhwa through a contemporary lens has established her as a significant figure in both Korean and international art.

Her contributions were highlighted in the 2020 Asia Week New York exhibition MINHWA & minhwa: Korean Folk Paintings in Dialogue With the Contemporary, hosted by the Korean Cultural Center New York. This exhibition juxtaposed historical minhwa pieces from the 19th and early 20th centuries with Ahn’s innovative works, showcasing how the tradition has evolved into a modern art form. Her reinterpretations explore themes of cultural identity and transformation, often pairing traditional minhwaimagery with objects and ideas drawn from Western culture and modern daily life.

Ahn’s educational background reflects her deep engagement with traditional and contemporary art. After earning her BFA and MFA in Oriental Painting from Seoul National University, she completed a second MFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art in the United States. Her dual training allows her to merge the technical precision of traditional Korean painting with the conceptual frameworks of contemporary art.

She has exhibited extensively in both Korea and the United States, holding solo exhibitions at venues such as the Delaware Contemporary Art Center (Wilmington, Delaware), Queens College Art Center (Flushing, New York), and Stony Brook University’s Charles B. Wang Center (Stony Brook, New York). Ahn is also a recipient of prestigious awards, including the Jackson Pollock-Lee Krasner Foundation Grant and the Al Foundation’s Visual Arts Competition Grand Prize.

In addition to her artistic practice, Ahn has been a dedicated educator, teaching traditional Korean painting and contemporary art at renowned institutions such as the Art Students League of New York, School of Visual Arts, Queens Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Asia Society. Her work has also been featured in prominent media outlets, including The Washington Post.

Through her vibrant and thought-provoking works, Seongmin Ahn continues to redefine minhwa for a global audience, celebrating its timeless beauty while exploring its relevance in the contemporary world.

EDUCATION

M.F.A. Multidisciplinary Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, Mount Royal Graduate School

M.F.A. Asian Traditional Painting, Seoul National University

B.F.A. Asian Traditional Painting, Seoul National University

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 Seongmin Ahn, La Caja Galeria, Tijuana, Mexico

Extra Ordinary Animals, Hello Museum, Seoul Korea

Extra Ordinary, B DAY cafe, Seoul, Korea

Innerscape, Sanji Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Itaewon Memoir, Atelier Kyma, Seoul, Korea

2023 Book, Flower and Water, Kangjin Minhwa Museum, Kangjin

Its Inside Is Bigger Than Its Outside by Seongmin Ahn, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY

Enchanted Reality, Korea Society, New York, NY

2022 Delectable Landscape, Evercore headquarter presented by CUE Foundation, New York, NY

2021 Doongsil Doodoongsil (Float, Float), Coyu Cultural Space by Kwangjuyo, Icheon, Korea

2020 MINHWA & minhwa: Korean Folk Paintings in Dialogue with the Contemporary,

Asiaweek Exhibition, Korean Cultural Center, New York

2019 Unreal Real Unreal, Gallery Stan, Seoul, Korea

2016 “Its inside is bigger than its outside”, Art Mora, NJ

2015 Interrelation, Art Mora, New York, NY

Present Present, Asian Art Works, Pusan, Korea

2014 Lucious Peony, Wong Cultural Center Gallery, Stonybrook University, Long Island, NY

2013 Sweet sometimes, Hello Museum, Seoul

Portrait of Peony, Gallery K, Seoul, Korea

Reelative Perspectives, Curated by Hyewon Yi, sponsored by AHL foundation, BBCN bank, NY

2012 Neo-Peony, Gallery Ho, New York, NY

Come and Play at my Minhwa Garden, Yegam Art Space, Flushing, NY

2011 Storytelling, Voelker Orth Museum, Flushing, NY

2009 White Square; perspective exercise, Local Project, Long Island City, NY

2006 Particles Are Also Waves, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE

2005 Mono.logue, Queens College Art Center, Flushing, New York

2004 New York Report; Seongmin Ahn, White Wall Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Weaving Pain, Kerrigan Campbell art + project, New York, NY

2003 Beyond, Project ’03, Carriage House, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY

2001 Meditation, Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD

Meditation; M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Fox Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

1998 Floating, Gallery Boda, Seoul, Korea

PUBLIC PROJECT

2022 AGAIN, window project, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York

2021 AGAIN, art on billboard with Save Art Spaces, multiple billboards located in New York metropolitan area

AGAIN, a public installation at Charles Wang Culture Center, Stony Brook University, Long Island, NY

AGAIN, installation at Dongduck Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2020 Harmonious Differences, Public mural, Flushing Queens, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, New York

Order/Reorder, Sugar Hill Museum, New York

Bisangjun_6, Korea Museum, Organized by Kangjin Minhwa Museum, Korea

2023 Blooming Resilience, Waterfall Mansion Gallery, New York, NY

Bisangjun_5, Korea museum, Organized by Kangjin Minhwa Museum, Korea

2022 Renewal of Symbols, Gladys Marcus Library, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY

Praise of Life, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul

Minhwa Story, Young World, Yeongwol County, Korea

Bottari, Chungmu Art Center, Seoul, Korea

Order/Reorder: Experiments with Collections, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY

2021 Chaekgeori, de la beaute des Livres, Centre Culturel Coreen, Paris, France

My Flower is Close and Estrange, Space C. Coreana Art & Culture Complex, Seoul

2020 Women to the Fore, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York

Asia Week New York 2020, Kang Collection, New York

2019 Grateful Fortitute; The Spirit of Korean Women, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon

New Wave 25, Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea

Asia Week New York 2019, Kang Collection, New York

Checkgori Today, Dongduck Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Winter Selection, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York

2018 Asia Week New York 2018, Kang Collection, New York

Potatoism:A Global History of Potato Art, Wang Center, Stonybrook University, Long Island, NY

Postmodernism and Aesthetics, Collide and Steer, Korean Cultural Center, AHL foundation, NY

2017 Korean Art: Now and Then, Kang Contemporary, New York

Asia Week New York 2017, Kang Collection, New York

2016 Power and Pleasure of Possessions in Korean Painted Screens, Wang Center, Stonybrook University, NY

Moonbanggu(stationery), Hello Museum, Seoul Korea

2015 Art Discovery, Chumgmoo Art Hall organized by Hello Museum, Seoul Korea

Korea Now, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY

2014 Garden, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

The lineage of Vision: Progress through Persistence, Gallery Korea, New York

Sensory Permeation, Asian Art Works, Beijing, China

Reinterpretation of Flower: Two Person Show, Samtoe Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Affordable Art Fair, with Art Flow, New York, NY

Art Show Busan, represented by gallery Ho, Busan,

Shades of Time: An Exhibition from the Archive of Korean American Artist, Korean Cultural Service

2013 Asia Hotel Art Fair, Seoul, with EN Art, Conrad Hotel, Seoul, Korea

Affordable Art Fair, with Art Flow, New York, NY

Imago Mundi, Venice Bienal Program, Foundazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy

Art Discovery, Organized by Hello Museum, Shinsegye department store evernthall, Seoul, Korea

Community Art Project, Yegam Art, Flushing, NY

Minhwa Story, Om’s gallery at Bank Asiana, Flushing, NY

Dreamer’s Juxtaposition, Gallery JS Sun at BBCN bank, NY and NJ

Take old road new way, Galley Korea, New York, NY

25/75 Silver+diamond Jubilee, Queens College Art Center, Flushing, NY

HyungSekJiGyo (connections between forms and colors), Gallery K, Seoul, Korea

2012 Mook Chi Pa, Hello Museum, Seoul, Korea

HoHoHo, Gallery Ho, New York, NY

Art Market, Yegam Art Space, Flushing, NY

Operating System, Curated by Heng-Gil Han, Gallery Ho, New York

Sense or Nonsense, Bennett gallery, Englewood, NJ 07631

Hanji Project: Hanji Metamorphses, artistic director Yu-Yeon Kim,

Various location in Chelsea, New York, NY

Haiti charity auction by Seoul Auction, Seoul, Korea

Line by Ten Artists, Riverside Gallery, Hackensack NJ

10Women artists, Gallery Chon, Flushing, NY

2011 Reinterpretation: Seongmin Ahn and Minjoo Kim, Gallery Cha, Seoul, Korea

Diary Painting and Reading Painting, Hello Museum, Seoul, Korea

New Reason, Howard county Education Hall, Baltimore, MD

Art Market, Yegam Art Space, Flushing, NY

2010 Employee Show, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

MICA in New York, Spattered Columns, New York, NY

2009 Invitation show, KORUS House, Ambassy of Korea, Washington DC

2008 Alumni Show: Seoul National University, NahRah Gallery, Fort Lee, NJ

50 Edition Project, Local Project, Long Island City, NY

2006 In Light, Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ

2005 Repeating Spaces, Art Gallery, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ

No End But Addition, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA

2004 Re.Occurrence, Taste of Art, New York, NY

Scene/Unscene, 473 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY

ArtLink @ Sotheby’s International Young Art, (traveling show) Tel Aviv, Amsterdam, Moscow

No End, But Addition, Pierro Gallery, South Orange County, NJ

Meditation in New York, 473 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY

Abstraction Identity, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NJ

Juried show, Gallery Korea, Korean Cultural Service, Embassy of the Republic of Korea, Washington D.C.

In the Face of others; NURTUREart at LMCC, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY

2003 Seasonal Litter, Broadway Gallery Annex, New York, NY

No End, But Addition, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio

Flicker, Transplant Gallery, New York, NY

Seongmin Ahn and Haejung Oh, Washington Arts Center, Arlington, VA

Space and Surface Painting, Gallery Korea, New York. NY

Shaping Wholeness, Elmhurst Hospital Center, organized by Asian American Arts Center, Elmhurst, NY

Works on Paper, Annual Juried Show, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ.

Nurturing the New, NURTUREart, New York, NY

Curators’ showcase, in showcase of Margaret Bodell, Viewing Room, New York, NY

2002 Contrary Equilibriums: 12th Annual Exhibition, The Asian American Arts Center, New York, NY

eMotion Picture, United Nations, New York, NY

2001 Academy 2001, Corner Contemporary Gallery, Washington D.C.

Masters Juried Show, Fox Gallery, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD

eMotion Picture, (traveling show) San Francisco, CA, Washington, D.C., Chicago, IL

x<16 x 13, Fox Hall, Baltimore, MD

2000 About Drawing, The Park School Gallery, Baltimore, MD

1997 Grand Art Show by Joong-Ang Daily News, Hoam Art Hall, Seoul, Korea

Show of Grand Art Competition by Art World, Kyung-In Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Exhibition of Grand Art Competition, Grand Art Hall, Moon-Hwa Broadcast Company, Seoul, Korea

20th Anniversary Show, Sun-Hwa Art School, Seoul, Korea

M.F.A. Thesis Show, Museum of Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Po-Il Exhibition, Cultural Center of S.N.U., Seoul, Korea

Exchange Show, Seoul National University & Tokyo University, Seoul, Korea

1995 New Form and Spirit, Do-Ol Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Exchange Show, Seoul University & Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2019-present Queens College, New York

Adjunct Faculty

Painting, and Drawing classes

2018 Maryland institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

Adjunct Faculty,

Drawing: Tradition and Innovation

2019 Teaching Artist in Residency, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY

Develop family workshops and train junior docents

• Lunar New Year family workshop: Korean mask making, lucky pouch paper folding with Paint

and Decoration

• Moon and Negative Space

• Moon on Hemisphere

• Sumi Ink Magnet

Develop and lead adult workshops

• Moon and Negative Space

• Asian Color Painting: Focus on Flowers

• Moon Color

Led 10 workshop from kindergarten to 4th grade at MS25 in Yonkers

2013-2019 Art Students League, New York, NY

Instructor for Studio 6 Workshop: Asian Ink Painting

Intensive workshop for one week: Taught Sumi ink painting materials and techniques to expand visual

languages and find contemporary aspect of Sumi ink painting

2008-2019 Queens Museum, Flushing, Queens, NY

Teaching Artist for Art and Literacy for New New Yorkers

Created and developed classes related to Korean traditional painting

• Ink Painting and Mixed Media on Wood Panel: Taught ink painting technique incorporating with

watercolor and wood carving on wood panel for cross-media practices

• Ink Painting Meets Printmaking: combining Ink Painting and printmaking technique to created

cross-disciplinary creation

• Poetic Korean Action Painting: using dripping, splashing, pouring and crumpling rice paper on

floor to create large scale drawing adopting art making process of Jackson Pollock

• Traditional Korean Bookmaking: creating artist book using students’ own drawing and Korean

traditional bookbinding technique

• Minhwa : Korean Folk Painting: Taught to draw Korean folk painting and apply the vocabularies

to create students’ own contemporary Minhwa painting

• Comtemporary Meaning in Sumi-ink Painting: Emphasized inherent abstract quality in Ink

Painting to make connection to contemporary art in learning Ink Painting

2014/ 2021 School of Visual Art, New York, NY

Instructor for an Ink Painting Workshop, Summer International Program

2008-2011 Creative Center for Women with Cancer, New York, NY

Educator

Created and developed Ink Painting classes for cancer survivors as a healing and meditation tool

• Asian Ink Painting ; Four Gentlemen Drawing: introduced basic material and technique of Ink

Painting emphasizing inherent meditative quality of it

• Asian Ink Painting: focused on still life

• Workshop for Resident Artists: Asian Ink Painting: one day workshop for artists who led art

classes for patients at the hospital in New York City to give them more tools to utilize

2008-2015 Korean Cultural Service, New York, NY

Educator

Created and developed classes to teach and promote Korean culture through art activity

• Korean Traditional Painting: 8 week classes of ink painting and color painting

• Minhwa ; Korean Folk Painting: 8 week classes of traditional color painting focused on Korean

folk painting from 18-19 century

• Experience Korea: one day workshops for New York public school students to introduce unique

Korean culture and living philosophy

• Summer Camp for young children: One week workshop for K-5 grades kids to give them gasp of

Korean culture

2011, 2015 Korea Society, New York, NY

Educator

• Minhwa: Korean Folk Painting Workshop: 4 week workshop for none Korean people

2010 AHL Foundation, New York, NY

Educator

• Minhwa, Korean Folk Painting:

2008-2009 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Educator for Community and Workplace program

• Learning Traditions-Asian Ink Painting

2009/11 Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ

Guest artist

• Ink painting workshop for a drawing class of Prof. Sunhee Yoon

2008 University Settlement, New York, NY

Educator

• Asian Ink Painting : focused on Four Gentlemen Drawing

1997-98 Daegu Art University, Daegu, Korea

Adjunct Professor

• Korean Art History

• Ink Painting 101

WORKSHOPS

2024 Washington University in St. Louis, Minhwa workshops for students in East Asian studies.

2023 Princeton University, Minhwa workshops for students in East Asian studies.

2022 Princeton University, Minhwa workshops for students in East Asian studies.

ARTIST TALK/PRESENTATION

2024 Jordan Schnitzel Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, ORTSOM, the School of Minhwa, Korea

2023 Hudson River Museum, conversation with John Yau, an art historian, critique and poet, Yonkers, NY

Korea Society, conversation with Eleanor Hyun, a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, York University, Toronto, Canada

2021 Korean Cultural Society of Boston, virtual artist talk moderated by Prof. Sunglim Kim

2020 Hudson River Museum, virtual artist-talk with Masha Turchinsky, director of the HRM

2019 Hudson River Museum, professional development for public school teacher, Yonkers, NY

AHL Forum, SFA Projects, New York, NY

Gallery Stan, Seoul, Korea

Hudson River Museum, Docents meeting, Yonkers, NY

2016 Fashion Institute of Technology, Beyond Boundaries Diverse Techniques by Formidable Artists, Diverse Council, New York

2014 Project AA, Seoul, Korea

lecturer for lecture series, ‘Law of Art’

2012 Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY

presented art works at the Asian Art History taught by Kyunghee Pyun

2010 Queens Library in Flushing, Lecture seriese, Flushing, NY

presented art works and led the discussion about Asian Art

2007 Parsons the New School for Design, New York, NY

guest Artist for Korean Contemporary Art Class taught by Thalia Vrachopoulos

2005 Queens College Art Center, Flushing, New York

2003 Pierro Gallery of South Orange, NJ

Washington Arts Center, Arlington, VA

Asian American Art Center at Korea Society, Panel Discussion, New York, NY

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2022 Artist Empowerment Award, $5,000 cash award and a solo show at Evercore, CUE Foundation in partnership with Evercore, New York, NY

2021 Queens Council on the Arts, $3000 grant for a new project

2020 Café Royal Foundation, $10,000 grant for community mural project

Asian American Federation, $11,000 project grant for community mural in Asian American Community

2014 Pollock-Krasner Grant, $20,000 grant to assist creating artwork, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY

2013 AHL Foundation Competition, First Prize, $3000 cash award and a group show in new york city and active promotion by the foundation, New York, NY

2003 Pollock-Krasner Grant, $15,000 grant to assist creating artwork, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY

Carriage House Space Award, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY

Juror’s Award for Artistic Excellence, Perkins Center for the Art, Moorestown, NJ

1997 Selected, Grand Art Competition by Joong-Ang Daily News, Seoul, Korea

Specially Selected, Grand Art Competition by Art World, Seoul, Korea

Specially Selected, Grand Art Competition by Moon-Hwa Broadcast Company, Seoul, Korea

PUBLICATION

2024 Kyunghee Pyun, mentioned in “Historical Narratives of Political Activism by Asian/Pacific/American Artists, 1850-2020” (chapter 1), Political Engagement of Asian/Pacific/American Artists in the Post Pandemic Era edited by Kyunghee Pyun, Wilmington: Vernon Press, forthcoming in 2024.

Soojung Hyun, "A prescription for society in Seongmin Ahn’s BEGIN AGAIN project," Political Engagement of Asian/Pacific/American Artists in the Post Pandemic Era edited by Kyunghee Pyun, Wilmington: Vernon Press, forthcoming in 2024).

2023 Richard Vine, “A Return to Wonder”, catalogue essay published for solo exhibition “Enchanted Reality”, The Korea Society publication, January 19-April 14

Seulki Oh, “Book, Flowers and Water”, catalogue essay published for solo exhibition “Book, Flowers and Water”, Kang jin Mimnhwa Museum, June 1-Augugst. 30

2022 Kyunghee Pyun, mentioned in “American Art as Cultural Hegemony: 1945–1989” (chapter 1) in American Art in Asia: Artistic Praxis and Theoretical Divergence edited by Michelle Lim and Kyunghee Pyun, New York: Routledge, 2022, p.01–16.

2020 Kyunghee Pyun, ‘Minhwa in the Context of Contemporary Art: Depicting Desire for A Better Life’, catalogue essay for the exhibition, The Scenery of Bookshelves, Horim Museum, Seoul, Korea

2019 Shinyoun Wang, mentioned in “Prayer for Life: Korean Polychrome Painting”, the catalogue essay for exhibition “Prayers for Life” published by National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea, chapter 5, P.12, 21.

2014 Andrew Weinstein, “Reading Women into the Story”, The Lineage of Vision: Progress through Persistence, edited by Kyunghee Pyun, catalogue essay for the special exhibition at Gallery Korea, Korean Cultural Service of New York, October 29–December 17, 2014, New York: Korean Cultural Service, 2014, 62p. Shinyoun Wang, mentioned in “Do You Have a Garden? You Have Such a Garden”, catalogue essay for exhibition “Garden”, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea, p. 18, 24.

Hee Sung Cho, mentioned in “Shades of Time: An Exhibition from the Archive of Korean American Artists, Part Two 1989–

2001”, edited by Kyunghee Pyun, catalogue essay for the special exhibition held at Queens Museum of Art: Partnership

Gallery in June–July 2014 and Korean Cultural Service of New York, 9 April–23 May 2014, (New York: AHL Foundation)

2013 Alise Tifentale, “Take Old Road New Way”, mentioned in catalogue essay published for Call for Artists 2013, February 20-March 29, p.08, 10.

2002 Tricia Paik, 12th Annual Exhibition essay catalog, the Asian American Arts Center and the Korea Society, published by the Asian American Arts

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2023 Jihye Moon, “Hwa by Sunyoung Moon and Book, Flower and Water by Seongmin Ahn”, Art Minhwa magazine, August

Jihye Moon, “Seongmin Ahn invited to the Hudson River Museum”, Art Minhwa magazine, June

Hosted by Philippe de Montebello, exhibition “Its Inside Is Bigger Than Its Outside” at the Hudson River Museum was

introduced in NYC-ARTS, The Complete Guide, May 18

Jonathan Goodman, “Seongmin Ahn at the Korea Society”, Whitehot Magazine, March

John Yau, ‘Traditional Korean Painting for Modern Times’, Hyperallergic, February 1

Soojung Hyun, “Two Ways to Suggest Space Within: Window and Frame”, Kwangju Art Guide, 2023.4. vol.161

Editorial team, Review & Preview: “Seongmin Ahn at Korea Society”, Art Minhwa magazine, April

2021 ”Three Billboards by Seongmin Ahn, a Minhwa Artist”, Korea Times, 2021-10-27

2020 Ji-hye Moon, ‘Folk Painting of the 21st Century’, Koreana, Winter 2020 Vol. 34. No. 4, 2020

Carlotta Mohamed, Bayside Times, Oct-16-22, 2020, New York, NY

Soojung Hyun, “Seongmin Ahn’s Minhwa: A Door That Opens For a Future”, Kwangju Art Guide, 2020.5. vol.126

2019 Miran Kang, Art Minbhwa, May, Seoul, Korea

Editorial team, “World of Minhwa, Its Inside Is Bigger That Its Outside (exhibition review)”, Art Minhwa, April

Editorial team, “Beauty of Tradition, Shown National and International”, (review), Art Minhwa, Sep. 20

2018 Anne Ewbank, The Art Show That’s All Potatoes, Atlas Obscura, April 02

2017 Editorial team, “Beyond the Physical and Spiritual Boundary”, Art Minhwa, Sep. 2017

2016. Miji Park, ‘Romantic New Yorker: Draw Minhwa”, Art Minhwa, Sep. 2016

2015 Daniel Gauss, “Peonies, Sweets and Spiritual Awakening”, Wall Street International, October 05, New York, NY

“New York Bsed Artist Seongmin Ahn at Busan”, JoongAng Daily, 08.09.2015, Busan, Korea

2013 Ahreum Kim, “Portrait of Flowers”, ELLE Korea, August

2011 Jongwon Park, “Artist Seongmin Ahn; Korean Artist in New York Series 127”, Korea Daily, May 16, New York, NY

Baeckgyun Kim, “Ahn, Seongmin and Kim, Minjoo”, Seoul Art Guide, Vol.116, August, Korea

Hyein Kim, “I am planting a seed on my canvas today”, Mom and Enfant, October, Korea

2010 Jiin Han, “Seongmin Ahn who draws a cupcake on rice paper”, Mom and I, Vol. 120, September

2006 Victoria Donohoe, “Art from Differing Points of View”, The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 6

2005 Phyllis Cohen Stevens, “Korean Atist Seongminm Ahn Explores Asian Rituals Through Mono.logue” CUNY Newswire, October 31

Irene Coughlin, “Buddhist-Inspired Korean Art”, Queens World, December 12, 2005, NY

Jinhye Kim, Korea Tims, December 2005

2004 Lori Oritz, “Quite Space in a Busy City”, NY ARTS magazine

“The Pelham Art Center Present Abstract Identity”, The Bronxville Bulletin, March

Mary Lou Cohalan, Projects’03 (catalog), Carriage House, the Islip Art Museum, Long Island, 2004

“Artist Transforms Pain into Creative Impetus”, Antiques and The Arts Weekly, February 13, 2004

2003 Dan Tranberg, “Exploring the Natural World”, The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio

Jinhye Kim, “Beyond the Boundary”, The Korea Times, June 25, 2003

Eunsook Im, “6 Korean Artists”, The Korean Central Daily, June 21, 2003

2001 Jessica Dawson, “That’s On, and Off, the Wall”, Washington Post, August 16

Glen McNatt, “Religious Influence in Artist’s Paintings”, The Sun, August 9

Mike Giuliano, “Contemplative Paintings …at the Gomez Gallery”, City Paper, Baltimore, Aug 8-15

“Korean Artist, Ahn’s Show” The Korea Times, Washington D.C. August

Mentioned in ABC 7 News, Chicago, 2001

1998 Intae Jang, Art World, Seoul, Korea, March

Unmong Park, Art Education, Mar, Seoul, Korea

The Korea Times, Seoul, Korea

DongA Ilbo; Daily News, Seoul, Korea

Kuk-Min Ilbo; Daily News, Seoul Korea

PUBLICATION AS AN AUTHOR

2015 Inner-sight of New York, 뉴욕의 속살, an essay book about art and culture in New York, published by MaeumSanchek, Korea

2009 – 2011 Columnist on Korean Daily, New York

Wrote bi-weekly about New York art scene focused on art organization, activity, and artists.

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2019 Teaching Artist in Residency, Hudson Art Museum, Yonkers, NY

2003 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Art Bank, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Government Art Bank, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Hello Museum, Seoul, Korea

Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, USA

Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA

Jordan Schnitzel Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Oregon, USA

Korean Minhwa Museum, Kangjin, Korea

KD Chem, Korea

Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey, USA

Space C, Coreana Cosmetics Museum, Seoul, Korea

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