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South Korea, 1962 Artist Biography Works Next Kim Hobong South Korea, 1962 BIOGRAPHY Kim Ho Bong is a South Korean artist based in the United States, celebrated for his evocative paintings and digital works that explore themes of humanity, urban life, and identity. Born in Seoul in 1962, Kim earned his BFA and MFA in Western Painting from Hongik University before pursuing further studies in Studio Art at New York University. His art is a profound reflection of the contradictions and complexities of modern urban existence, particularly in New York City, where he currently resides. Kim’s works often depict the bustling crowds of New York, a metropolis he views as a symbol of capitalism and selfish human desire. Through oil paintings and digital media, he examines the paradox of material abundance juxtaposed with a profound loss of humanity. As Kim observes, “We live in an abundance of material civilization, but on the contrary, we are losing a lot due to a lack of humanity.” His works serve as a mirror to the city’s contradictions, exploring how the richness of diversity and opportunity is counterbalanced by alienation and existential emptiness. Kim draws inspiration from Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot , seeing it as a metaphor for humanity’s endless quest for meaning. Like the play’s protagonists, he views people as navigating the futility of this search, clinging to vague hopes or waiting for a savior. This philosophical undertone imbues his art with a reflective depth, encouraging viewers to contemplate their own lives and desires. His recent series, Others , focuses on the fleeting moments and impressions of life as an outsider in a vast and complex city. In this series, Kim portrays diverse crowds and everyday urban scenes, capturing the tension between light and dark, creation and destruction, order and chaos. These works are an exploration of self through the lens of the anonymous masses, reflecting his experiences as both an artist and a migrant in a city of contrasts. Kim Ho Bong’s works have been exhibited in South Korea, the United States, Brazil, Germany, and Italy. His exhibitions highlight his ability to merge traditional painting techniques with contemporary themes and digital processes. In addition to his artistic practice, Kim is dedicated to art education, running workshops and programs at his New Jersey studio, Artcomcenter. Through his vivid depictions of urban life, Kim Ho Bong invites audiences to confront the paradoxes of modernity, offering a profound commentary on the richness and emptiness of life in a globalized, material-driven society. Education 1995~96 New York University Graduate School, New York 1991~92 HONG-IK Graduate School, Seoul 1981~84 HONG-IK University, Fine Arts, Seoul Award 1993 Award of Special at MBC Broad casting ArtGrand Prize Competition,Center of Art, Seoul 1992 Award of Excellence at JUNG-ANG News paperArt Grand Prize Competition, Hoam gallery, Seoul 1992 Award at The Korea Art Grand Prize CompetitionNational Museum of Modern Art, Seoul 1991 Award at JUNG-ANG News paper Art Grand Prize Competition, Hoam gallery,Seoul 1990 Award at The Korea Art Grand Prize Competition,National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul 1990 Award at JUNG-ANG News paper Art Grand Prize Competition, Hoam gallery, Seoul 1990 Award at Dong-A News paper Art Grand Prize CompetitionNational Museum of Modern Art, Seoul 1989 Award of special at JUNG-ANG News paper Art Grand Prize,Hoam gallery, Seoul Solo exhibition 2024 14th Other, Artfield Gallery , Seoul, Korea 2024 13th "Unfamiliar time Unfamiliar space ", Gala art center, New York 2023 12th "New York Rhapsody" Gallery Kwang Hwa Moon, Seoul, Korea 2023 11th "New York Rhapsody " Gallery H, Seoul, Korea 2022 10th "New York Rhapsody in the Box", ACC gallery,NJ, USA 2020 9th “New York, New York, The lack of ~”, Kcc gallery, NJ 2019 8th 4W43 gallery, New York, N.Y. 2018 7th Space Sun + ,Seoul 2017 6th Riverside gallery, NJ 2011 5th Gallery Bennett, NJ, USA 2007 4th Gallery Bennett NJ, USA 1997 3rd Washington square east gallery, New York 1991 2nd Now gallery, Seoul 1989 1st Soo gallery, Seoul Collaboration exhibition 1st "voiceless" Noho gallery, 1998, New York 2nd " voiceless" studioventicinque, 1999, Millano, Italy Art Fair 2023 KIAF SEOUL, Coex Hall, Seoul, Korea Mizuma & Kips Gallery, New York 2023 Plas Art Show,2023 Coax Hall, Seoul Korea, Art & Company, Seoul 2021 L.A. Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA 2013 Affordable art fair, Chelsea, NY Selected Group exhibition 2024 Arrivals/Departures – East80West, Bergen Gallery, Bergen community college, NJ USA 2023~4 청담동생전, Gallery Doo, Seoul, Korea 2022 York Mang (욕망), 김호봉(Hobong Kim), 최윤정(Yun jung Choi) 김남주(Namjoo Kim) 3인전, artleon, Seoul Korea 2022 'Different Perspectives: MeeWha Alana Lee, Hobong Kim, Kidong Kwon', 3인전, Pariskohfinearts gallery,NJ 2021 "WE RISE 20 Years After 9/11 ", One art space, New York, NY 2021 JCAST, Mora Museum, Jersey City, NJ 2021 KCC Pandemic Through Art Open Call Award Exhibition, Kcc gallery, Tenafly, NJ 2021 “THE RIGHT TO SILENCE”, Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery Online show,John Jay College, New York, NY 2020~21 “공감 2020”, gallery ArtLeon, Seoul, Korea 2020 “ 42nd Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Monmouth Museum, Main gallery, N.J. 2020 Serendipity,& Golden show online, Townley gallery, NY, NY. 2019 NJ SEOUL "new art from the korean diaspora" Gallery Bergen, NJ 2016 Seoul - New York Project, Riverside gallery, NJ 2015 ARTMORA gallery, NY,NY 2015 “Stories” KCC gallery, NJ 2013 LUMINOSITY, Radianceart gallery, west hollywood, CA 2012 "sense or non sense" Gallery Bennett, NJ 2007~2008 Winter 0708, Art Gate gallery New York,NY 2007 AWCA member show Art center Northern NJ, New Milford, NJ 2006 AWCA member show Bellski Museum Closter,NJ 2005 AWCA member show Fair Lawn Library, Fair Lawn, NJ fall art show ACC gallery,Fort Lee, NJ holiday show ACC gallery,Fort Lee, NJ 2003 spring show Parker gallery Fort Lee, NJ 2000 self & other , Gallery Korea, New York 1999 "New Millennium Show” Lindenberg gallery, New York 1998 "on threshold", Generous & Miracles gallery, New York 1997 Group Show, reggio gallery, New York 1997 This Media,NYU Cantor Media Center, New York 1993-92 "ORIGIN", Fine arts Center, Kwanhoon gallery, Seoul 1992 The Seoul Method Exhibition, Fine Art Center 1992-89 The Seoul contemporary Art Festival, Fine arts Center 1992-88 "Mass-9", Fine arts Center, Seoul 1991 Development and Extention of Contemporary Fine arts,Kum-Ho gallery, Kwang-Joo 1990-92 "THE PHASE" Kwanhoon gallery, Seoul 1988-85 Hong-Ik Print Making group exhibition, Fine arts Center, Seoul 1990 "Dong-E 4333" Hyun-Dae gallery, Seoul1989 One Twelfth Exhibition, Kwanhoon gallery, Seoul 1989 Korea Contemporary of 30 Artists Exhibition, Berlin Germany 1989 Contemporary Art by 10 Artists, Cheongnam gallery, Seoul 1988 Contemporary Print Combined Exhibition,Hyun-Dae gallery, Seoul 1987 A time Expression 15 Artists Exhibition, Batanggol gallery, Seoul 1985 Frontier Art Festival, Seok gallery, Seoul 1985 BAHIA Papelarte Exhibition, Bahia, Brazil Selected Public Collections SAMSUNG ,Seoul Korea Korean community Center, New Jersey, U.S.A. Published 2024 cove image on the book, ABCs of Immigration, Asian Heritage Committee, Bergen Community College, NJ Thesis 1992 “A study on Egon Schiele's erotic paintings” Hong Ik Univ. Seoul, Korea WORKS

Aug 9 - 18, 2024 Intro Installation Views Artwork Next C1 New York Unbound Playground Aug 9 - 18, 2024 KANA (Part 2) - Anikoon / Sun You / Yong Eun Kwon / Taekyung Suh / Hongbin Kim / Soo Park INTRO The 2024 KANA Summer Exhibition, a collaboration between KANA and Gallery Chang, will take place from July 30 to August 18. The exhibition is divided into two parts: Part 1: Binary Equilibrium and Part 2: Unbound Playground. Through this summer project, KANA aims to introduce artists with Korean roots in New York to a broader audience and create a platform for sharing inspiration and communication. Part 2 ’Unbound Playground‘ presents the works of 6 artists who use their unique visual languages and playful expressions to depict experiences, memories, and emotions. These pieces, characterized by whimsical perspectives, vibrant colors, and diverse materials, visually reconstruct personal moments from everyday life. ©KANA INSTALLATION VIEWS ARTWORK

Apr 20 - May 24, 2025 Intro Installation Views Artwork Next C4 Seoul Where Past and Future are Gathered Apr 20 - May 24, 2025 Shane Guffogg INTRO SHANE GUFFOGG: WHERE PAST AND FUTURE ARE GATHERED GALLERY CHANG, SOEUL, SOUTH KOREA Gallery Chang in Seoul, South Korea, presents Shane Guffogg: “Where Past and Future are Gathered” a solo exhibition featuring Guffogg’s Still Point paintings, a body of work deeply engaged with themes of time, transcendence, and the ephemeral nature of existence. While this marks the artist’s first exhibition in South Korea, the fundamental principles of his work—his balance of time, space, and form—are inherently aligned with the aesthetics of Korean art. Guffogg’s paintings serve as confessions of time, transforming unseen forces into tangible marks. His brushstrokes trace energies that mysteriously move into our world, capturing the presence in layers of light and movement. The viewer, as a receiver, is invited to witness these ephemeral forces through an immediate sensory (visual) experience. A key inspiration for Guffogg’s Still Point series is T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets – a meditation on time, impermanence, and spiritual awakening. Each painting draws its title from stanzas of this poem, where the passage of time is examined through the elements—air, earth, water, and fire. Guffogg’s work does not illustrate Eliot’s poetry but rather embodies a visual language akin to calligraphy, where color and movement become expressive gestures of form and emotion. Through thousands of layered brushstrokes, his compositions unfold like wordless poems. The exhibition’s largest painting, “At the Still Point of the Turning World – The Surface Glittered out of the Heart of Light”, echoes Eliot’s meditation on time as both linear and cyclical, a concept deeply rooted in Korean philosophy. Korean art embraces impermanence and the importance of the present moment. Guffogg’s paintings, with their shifting luminosity and depth, reflect this philosophical understanding, existing between presence and absence, solidity and fluidity, stillness and motion. Guffogg’s process is a meditation in itself—he paints daily, working 8 to 10 hours in solitude, surrounded by nature at his ranch. Written in charcoal on the walls of his studio are stanzas from the poem, which Guffogg internalizes over long periods of time, until colors are sensorially connected to the words. Then the title informs the painting. His paintings emerge as moments in time that are seemingly without time as they are visually moving while still, revealing traces of his meditations through color and form. Another significant piece, “At the Still Point of the Turning World – Into the Rose Garden”, is a multi-colored variation of reds, purples, and ribbons of white. The title references Eliot’s symbolic garden—a place of purity, transformation, and the passage of time. In Korean culture, gardens similarly serve as spaces of contemplation, where nature becomes both a teacher and a metaphor. Rather than depicting these themes directly, Guffogg creates an abstract experience where color, line, and movement evoke transformation. Guffogg’s technique involves no preliminary sketches, and no assistants—only the repetition of intuitive movement. Each painting is made up of thousands of brushstrokes of glazes mixed with oil paint, creating an extraordinary depth that appears to suspend time itself. This meticulous process aligns with his belief that each brushstroke is a summoning of memory, a mark that bears witness to the unseen forces of existence. His synesthesia, the ability to perceive color as sound, further deepens this interplay. His paintings become silent symphonies, their tonalities resonating internally with the viewer. Guffogg’s use of color is never jarring; instead, his complementary hues create a sense of balance, inviting introspection rather than demanding interpretation. His works do not depict existential crises—they pose questions, seeking revelations of beauty and the unknown. In Guffogg’s work, color is not merely pigment—it is a presence, vibrating beyond the visual into something sensorial, emotional, and spiritual. His mastery of light and shadow recalls the Old Masters, yet he reinterprets their techniques for the contemporary world. At a time of constant acceleration, Guffogg’s paintings offer a rare moment of pause—a space for contemplation and transcendence. His work is deeply connected to art history, influenced by Kandinsky, Monet, and Turner, yet distinctly his own. Though this marks Guffogg’s first exhibition in Korea, it is not an introduction but a reconnection. His paintings, infused with rhythm, light, and emotion, align with the artistic and philosophical traditions of Korean thought. They invite us to engage with the essence of life itself—a dance of being—a luminous stillness within the turning world. By. Victoria Chapman INSTALLATION VIEWS ARTWORK