Hyunhee Doh

abstract, surface, texture, painting, drawing, paper, hanji, pigment, graphite, marks, mark-making, wrinkle, time, green

Hyunhee Doh (b.1996) is a South Korean visual artist. She holds an MA degree in Painting from Royal College of Art in London and a BFA degree in Fine Arts from School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Hyunhee Doh works in reflection to the subjectivity of time. Her practice stands on a slow, time-based process which is a direct metaphor to an individual's most personal and timely comprehension to the living narratives. Her works pushes the border of where materialistic and pictorial narratives collapse on the same spot.

She has been in solo and group exhibitions in international locations, concentrated in Seoul, London, New York, and Chicago.

Education

2022 - 2023 MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom

2015 - 2021 BFA Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, United States

Selected Exhibitions

solo

Exploding Solitary, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea (May 2021)

Conversation with Present Moment; from an often uncertainty, Seojin Art Space, Seoul, South Korea (Jan 2021)

group

Galleries Art Fair with Everyday Monday Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (2023 Apr)

When Walls Are Bare, Gallery 46, London, United Kingdom (2023 Feb)

Abstraction II, ARC Gallery, Illinois, United States (2022 Jun)

Foundation, Korean Cultural Center of Chicago, Illinois, United States (2022 Mar)

Women Artists Exhibition, Dacia Gallery, New York, United States (2022 Feb)

24th September Competition, Alexandria Museum of Art, Louisiana, United States (Jul - Oct 2021)

Cimarron National Works on Paper Exhibition, Gardiner Gallery of Art, Oklahoma (Aug - Sep 2021)

Luscious. Tasty. Delicious, Barrett Art Center, New York, United States (Aug - Sep 2021)

The Fall of Civilization, LHUCA, Texas, United States (Aug - Sep 2021)

Abstract Only!, Hawai'i Island Art Alliance, Hawaii, United States (Aug 2021)

Concept 2021, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea (Jul - Aug 2021)

30 Under 30, Viridian Artists, New York, United States (Jul 2021)

Rites of Passage, Manifest Gallery, Ohio, United States (May - Jun 2021)

BFA 2020, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, United States (Mar 2020)

Youth 4, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea (Jan - Feb 2019)

National Exhibition, Exchange Art Exhibition Korea - Chicago, Korean Cultural Center of Chicago, Illinois, United States (Sep 2018)

Publication

> Shoutout LA (2022)

> CICA Art Now (2021)

> Concept 2021 (2021)

> Into the Clouds: New Media Art 2021 (2021)

abstract, surface, texture, painting, drawing, paper, hanji, pigment, graphite, marks, mark-making, wrinkle, time, monotone

Hyunhee Doh creates 'time pieces'. She achieves the closest metaphor to the subjectivity of time by repetitively stacking layers of wet traces on Hanji - Korean traditional paper - surface. She follows the flow of traces that Hanji wrinkles, holds and leaves, then recreates the final form that resonates with the inevitability of wet traces.

She treats Hanji not only as a surface but also as a connecting plot to her painting process. Her practice starts from creating wrinkles with Hanji. The semi-sculptural structure of wrinkles hold the shades of pigment from each layer of wetting. As the wetting repeats, the previous shades often washe off, stays, or stack up every time she adds another layer. She lets the shades lead to the narratives within the picture plane and follows it with dry material. During the slow and long process, she conveys the more timely metaphor.

The most recent interest of Hyunhee Doh is to seek for the narratives that reconnect the broken border of virtual and actual reality. This summer, she encountered the cross-meeting experience between solidity and fragility of timely context through the old objects and spaces in her family house in South Korea. Her latest works embody the perception of hers and focus on recreating the pictorial narratives that resonate with the crossover of two different traces - existing and non-existing reality.