Hyungmin Moon majored in fine art at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and received his MA for fine art from California State University in Los Angeles, California. Moon has concentrated on various media art works often by using photographs. His works attract attention with vivid colors and keen design sense in it. The artist pursues formal completeness but, at the same time, his works indirectly express social-level ideas that go beyond simple and formative-level ideas or individual taste. In other words, Moon’s works are of modernism and aestheticism in their formative framework, but the message underneath it is rather social. Through such contradiction or co-existence between the form and content, he switches social issues with communication or signs, which are generally considered “clear”, into “unclear” and “obscure” issues. In the meantime, he puts “unclear”personal sense or experiences into the “clear” domain of sign. In Moon’s works, “specialty and universality” and “individual and society” interwind and infiltrate one another.

 

Hyungmin Moon
(Korea, b. 1970)  

Education 

1997    Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fine Arts,

2001    California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, Master of Fine Arts

Solo Exhibitions

2016    by numbers, 리안갤러리, 대구 

2015    love me two times, 헬리오아트, 서울 

2014    era of foraging, Aando Fine Art, Berlin, Germany

         by numbers, Space Cottonseed, Singapore  

2008    Dumb project: vol.01, 서미앤투스 갤러리, 서울 

2005    Lost in Supermarket, 갤러리쌈지, 서울

2004    Unknown City, 성곡미술관, 서울

2002    9 Objects, 인사미술공간, 서울 

Group Exhibitions 

2017    경계 155. 서울시립미술관, 서울 

         Normadic Traveler, Edwin's gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia 

2015    Color Study, 사비나미술관, 서울  

         거짓말의 거짓말, 토탈미술관, 서울 

         신소장작품전 세마살롱, 서울시립미술관, 서울 

2014    Well-Constructed, Aando Fine Art, Berlin, Germany  

         The Third Print, 토탈미술관, 서울  

         의미의 패턴, 아트센터 화이트 블럭, 파주

2013    Show Must Go On, Praxie Space, Singapore 

         Nivatour 2, 토탈미술관, 서울  

         Barter Center for Images of Corea Campanella, Mozart Hall, Hotal Amadeus Venice, Italy 

2012    SeMA 청년 2012-열두 개의 방을 위한 열두 개의 이벤트, 서울시립미술관, 서울 

2010    Enormous Eyes, The Guild Gallery, 뭄바이

2009    Resonance Green Korea - Climate Change in the Bosom of Culture, 토탈미술관, 서울

2007    City_Net.Asia, 서울시립미술관, 서울

2006    On Difference #2 + Middle Corea, Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany

2005    터치, Touch, 세종문화회관 광화문갤러리, 서울

2004    Wonderful Travel Agency, Borusan Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey

2003    East of eden: Forbidden Fruit in London, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England

2002    제2회 서울 국제 미디어아트 비엔날레 (미디어_시티 서울 2002), 서울시립미술관, 서울 

2001    포토/미디어 페스티발, 가나아트센터, 서울

Collections

Gyeonggido Museum of Art, Ansan, Korea

ArtBank (National Museum of Korea), Seoul, Korea

Acrovista, Seoul, Korea

Seomi & Tuus, Seoul, Korea