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KIAF 2011
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Altarpiece, 229x213cm, acrylic on canvas, 2008
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HWANG Changha (1969~)
New York based Korean artist Changha Hwang moved to the United States in his early twenties and has shown active performances in overseas, mainly America and the Europe region. Hwang has consistently focused on creating abstract paintings comprised of unique color, geometrical structure, and three-dimensional space using basic painting medium, acrylic paint. Various colored sides and lines meet and create new space in his canvas and bring a three-dimensional visual effect in which the space are changeable according to perspective thus viewers are invited to freely explore the structures within the abstract world. Hwang’s visual interest stem from the patterns such as Islam tiles, traditional Jewish papercuts and Venetian lace makings. By the touch of the artist, such complicated images form a new pattern in his canvas and further create visual intensity by interconnecting with color and space. Hwang’s aim to create “the visceral tactility of the concept of relationship of space and time and the objecthood of the colors” in his painting is clearly revealed through simple lines and sides, experimental colors and demolition of the boundary between positive space and negative space. Therefore, each shape, color and space that are re-defined by the artist’s intuition remain to have its own uniqueness yet suggest a starting point for a new creation as they intermingle with surrounding environment. Drawing tactile illusions from visualization and creating three-dimensional space on a flat surface, his painting visually continues beyond the canvas and opens an infinite space where lines, colors, space and light and shadow repeatedly contract and expand. Changha Hwang majored in Painting and Drawing at Parsons School of Design, received exchange program scholarship to the Frank Mo Institute in Netherland and completed MFA at Hunter College in New York. Unlike the trend of contemporary art where figural representation and narrative expression are dominant , his works which pursue pure abstraction are shown in world major cities like New York, Paris, Madrid and Brussels through nine solo exhibitions and received constant attentions from art people at many prestigious art fairs he participated including FIAC, Amory Show and ARCO. At the end of 2007, Hwang was selected as one of 74 feature artists by the authoritative art magazine, ‘New American Painting’. Education 2002 MFA, Hunter College, New York, Estelle Levy Award 2001 Exchange Program Scholarship, Frank Mohr Institute, Groningen, The Netherlands 1998 BFA in Painting, Parson School of Design, New York Solo Exhibitions 2010 Benrimon Contemporary, New York, USA 2009 Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, Frace Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain Massimo Audiello, New York, USA 2008 Gallery Sun Contemporary, Seoul, Korea 2007 Galerie Baronian-francey, Brussels, Belgium 2006 Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France Massimo Audiello, New York, USA 2005 Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain Galerie Baronian-Francey, Brussels, Belgium 2004 Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France Massimo Audiello, New York, USA 2003 Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain 2002 Massimo Audiello, New York, USA Selected Group Exhibitions 2011 Gallery Seoul 11, Raum, Seoul 2010 Pulse Miami, Benrimon Contemporary, New York, USA Jamaica Center for the Arts, New York, USA 2008 Art Cologne, Gallery SUN Contemporary, Germany Art Brussels, Galerie Baronian-Francey & Galerie Anne Villepoix, Belgium The Armory Show, Baronian_Francey, USA Puerto Rican Art Fair, Marta Cervera, Puerto Rico KIAF, Gallery SUN Contemporary, Seoul, Korea Art Dubai, Gallery SUN Contemporary 2007 0708 Gallery SUN Contemporary, Seoul, Korea First Melody, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann-Dresden, Dresden, Germany Breaking the White Light 2007, curated by Scott Melbaurn and Denise Bibro, New York, USA Dialogue Pictural, Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva, Switzerland ARCO, Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain Mexico Arte Contemporaneo, Angela Hanley Gallery, Mexico The 34rt FIAC, Galerie Baronian-Francey & Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France Pulse New York, Galerie Anne De Villepoix, New York, USA Pulse Miami, Galerie Anne De Villepoix, Miami, USA La Art Fair, Baronian-Francey, New York, USA ShContemporary, Galerie Anne De Villepoix, Shanghai, China TEASE Art Fair Cologne 2007, Arme & Rebecca Michaelis, Cologne, Germany 2006 Presentational Painting III, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York, USA One of these things is not like the Other, Angela Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Art Under Glass, the Synergy of Art and Fashion, curated by Gabrielle Bryers and Macy’s, 34 Street window, Macy’s Herald Square, New York, USA The Armory Show, Marta Cervera, USA Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France The 33rd FIAC, Galerie Baronian-Francey & Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France ARCO, Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain Art Brussels, Galerie Baronian-Francey & GalerieAnne Villepoix, Belgium 2005 Frieze Art Fair, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, London, England The 32nd FIAC, Galerie Baronian-Francey & Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France ARCO, Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain Artissima, Galerie Baronian-Francey, Turin, Italy Art Brussels, Galerie Baronian-Francey, Belgium 2004 The International Exchange Exhibition, Hunter College, New York, USA Surface Tension, curated by Manon Slome, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA Art Basel Miami Beach, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France The Armory Show, Marta Cervera &Galerie Anne de Villepoix, New York, USA The 31st FIAC, Galerie Baronian-Francey & Galerie Anne Villepoix, Paris, France Artissima, Galerie Baronian-Francey, Turin, Italy Art Brussels, Galerie Baronian-Francey, Belgium 2003 Makeover Massimo Audiello, New York, USA Signs, Lines and Codes, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France City Mouse / Country Mouse, curated by David Hunt, Space 101, Brooklyn, USA 2002 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Hunter College, New York, USA 2001 Presentation, Groningen Museum of Art, The Netherlands 2000 National Juried Exhibition, Pheonix Gallery, New York, USA 1998 BFA Thesis Exhibition, Parsons Gallery, New York, USA |
