Park Kyung Ryul

Park Kyung Ryul(b.1979, Seoul) has been continuing her serious contemplation to approach the pure human soul inherent in the instinctive act of ‘drawing’ and ‘seeing’ through a shift in the perception of the painting medium. This methodology could easily be misunderstood as a means of painting’s sculptural expansion, but in truth, her installations are not about bringing the forms inside the paintings outside. They are more about better understanding the composite of canvas and pigments through sculptural arrangement. Park endeavors to treat every element of painting equally from an ontological dimension. Park strives not to leave any representational form on her canvases, but the viewers continue to see figures from them. Park regards the viewer’s conventional painting-viewing attitudes of continually discovering certain shapes as part of her work, inviting the audience to glimpse into the free nature of painting and its painterly essence.

Park Kyung Ryul is based in Seoul, South Korea. Park received a B.F.A and a M.F.A in Fine Arts from Hongik University, and an M.F.A from Chelsea College of Arts. Park has held solo exhibitions
at Baik Art Seoul (2024, Seoul), One and J. Gallery (2021, Seoul), DOOSAN Gallery New York
(2020, New York), DOOSAN Gallery (2020, Seoul), Baik Art Seoul (2019, Seoul), and Lungley Gallery (2018, London). Park has also participated in group exhibitions at Buk-Seoul Museum of
Art(2023, Seoul), Open Studio(2022, California), Perigee Gallery(2021, Seoul), Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art (2020, Ansan), Ilmin Museum of Art (2019, Seoul), Mine Project (2019, Hong Kong), Beijing Commune (2019, Beijing), SongEun Art Space (2018, Seoul). Park was awarded the SongEun Art Excellence Award in 2018, and also participated in 18th Street Art center Residency, DOOSAN Residency New York, SeMA Nanji Residency and MMCA Residency Goyang.