Shin Jong Sik | Watercolor painter

Watercolorist Shin Jong Sik is famous for expressing clean, transparent colors and his still life paintings express colorful, dignified and deep feeling.

Taking flowers, dishes and hemp cloth as materials, he does not compose as they are seen but recomposes with new ideas.

His excellent talent of lighting the hue reaches the vivid expression of emphasizing points of main materials according to hue and the background of his paintings are usually left blank.

Minjae Lee, 1989 | Pop Surrealism painter

Minjae Lee is a young South Korean painter and illustrator, whose work expresses a semi-disturbing inner tension that is tough to ignore, even if you feel that you’d like to. It draws you in with its powerful colors, halting imagery and clever juxtaposition of beauty, innocence and fragility with brash, loud and aggressive.
What characterizes his work overall is drama. The ethereal females that populate most of his work exude a dark, organic tension, and it seems that even the brightest marker colors do not quite manage to save them from some sort of looming peril.

Koh Sang Woo, 1978 | Color Negatives photography

Koh Sang Woo was born in Seoul and currently lives in New York. He has had numerous important international exhibitions recently, including “Media Media” at the Queens Museum New York, Pulse Miami, “Distinctively Korea” at Christie's in London, the Sungkok museum in Seoul, and as an invited artist at the 798 Beijing Biennial in China.

Joo Seok Ju [Joseokju] Impressionist Figurative painter

Joo Seok Ju, si firma Joseokju, è un pittore Coreano, che vive a Seoul da quando aveva 12 anni. 

Dipinge ad olio ed è ispirato dai principi di base adottati dai grandi impressionisti.

Sung Kim, 1940

Born in Seoul, South Korea, Sung began to exhibit his artistic talents early in childhood. Beginning in grade school, Sung entered and won various art contests by displaying his creativity and artistic imagination. He decided to pursue his passion for art and graduated with honors from Seorabol Art College in Seoul. Later he opened his own studio and worked as an illustrator for various magazines and children’s books. Sung’s artistic abilities were acknowledged when he was awarded the Grand Prize in an art competition by the Minister of Culture in South Korea and the Gold Medal prize in the art competition given by the Mayor of Seoul. He traveled throughout Europe before immigrating to the United States in 1980. For the last 20 years, Sung has worked with various fine art galleries and has produced over 400 original landscape paintings.

Kwon Kyung-yup, 1975 | Fantastic Realism painter

권경엽 - Kwon Kyung-yup - a graduate of Sejong University in Korea, begins her process by taking photographs first; this captures all the details and expressions.

She then makes a draft of the photo and paints in on canvas with oil.

Although it seems unorthodox, this technique was employed in the beginning stages of photography.

Before photography was possible to print, they were used as a research tool in developing wood engraved illustrations.

Dae Chun Kim, 1964 | European Landscapes

Dae Chun Kim's delightful use and choice of vibrant colors bring peace and a warm cozy feeling to his paintings.

European landscaping is his favorite subject, especially the Mediterranean Sea and English gardens.

Kim graduated from Hong-Ik University with a major in oil painting.

Now painting for 30 years, Kim has accumulated numerous accolades.

His work has been displayed in a countless number of exhibitions including Hyundai Art Gallery in Korea, Gallery Birmingham in London, and many more.