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Sungju Ham

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Sungju Ham

Born 1990, Anseong, Korea

2018 M.F.A., Fine Arts, Inha University, Incheon, Korea

2023 M.F.A., Inha University, Incheon, Korea

 

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibition
2025

KERNEL PANIC, THEO, Seoul, Korea
2023

Rigger, THEO, Seoul, Korea
2022

Torn picture, Topological Space, Seoul, Korea
2021

We’re no stranger to love, Boan1942, Seoul, Korea

Group Show
2025
FLICKER, Shinhan Gallery, Seoul, Korea
flint and steal, Seoul National University College of Fine Arts Woosuk Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Animal Triste, Alltimespace, Seoul, Korea
Brief Encounter, WWNN, Seoul, Korea

Concept

Sungju Ham’s realism goes beyond the literal meaning of realism (the accurate representation of things as they are) and exists in a world beyond the screen. From the popular culture and video games of the 1990s to today’s visual media, Ham’s practice focuses on the transformations and newly perceived meanings that images undergo when mediated through the artist’s hand. The flat images of liquid crystal screens gain a tactile, three-dimensional vitality in his paintings. Through this process, the same scene may reach viewers with altered meanings, or invite them to imagine what might happen next.

Just as realism has historically been practiced in various ways—whether to reproduce the act of seeing or to expose the absurdities inherent in contemporary society—Ham presents a new methodology of realism imbued with contemporaneity. He is recognized as one of the new generation of artists leading figurative painting in Korea.

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