KANG KangHoon

 My painting that requires a great deal of time is a record about the time spent with dedication.
There remains my sensibility while enjoying the mood of the night, fatigue that surges like smell of caffeine at the dawn, and time accompained by loneliness in dark silence.
I try to express the borderline between the reality and fantasy that modern people dream of. That directly relates to the subject of our ambiguous position on the borderline between reality and ideal. The way of depicting the picture of us locked in the world of reality along with a visionary setup is quite candid realism. To me, realism is a concept of time that alerts me to the present as well as a sense pf reality that tells me where I am. It means facing harsh realities that cannot be avoided and becomes a framework deciding the limits of our thoughts. This is the power and message of realism.
May the irony made by clash of unusual things will pound the hearts of lost egos in current society. 

KANG KangHoon
Born in 1979, Jinju, Korea

EDUCATION
2007    M.F.A, Kyung Hee University, Department of Fine Art Education, Seoul, Korea
2005    B.F.A, Kyung Hee University, College of Fine Art, Seoul, Korea

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
2013    Solo Show ‘Our Mordern times’, ART HK 13, Hong Kong Convention and
             Exhibition  center, Hong Kong
2012    KANG Kanghoon Solo exhibition ‘Modern day Identity’, Park Ryu Sook
             Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2012    Solo Show ‘Modern day Identity’, ART HK 12, Park Ryu Sook Gallery,
             Hong Kong Convention and Center, Hong Kong
2009    KANG Kanghoon Solo exhibition ‘Modern Boy’, Park Ryu Sook Gallery,
             Seoul, Korea

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2014    Double sensation, GalleryRae, Busan, Korea
2013    Beyond Realism, Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeju, Korea
             Reality-Between representation and autonomy, Gyeongnam Art Museum,
             Changwon, Korea
             The Face, Superiorgallery, Seoul, Korea
             Beyond the Face, GalleryBeone, Seoul, Korea
2012    ‘Chae Yong Shin and Korean portrait art’, Jeonbuk Museum of Art,
             Wanju, Korea
2011    Korean Art Show, LA.VENUE. New York, USA
             The Seoul Art Exhibition 2011, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
             New thinking. New Possibilities. “Seeing Beyond the Seeing”, – Hyundai Motor
             Dong Daegu, Daegu, Korea
             ‘Trick eye Pictures’, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2010    Aesthetics of Humor, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
2009    “Another Everyday Life” – Past and Present of Hyperrealism Art, Seongnam
             Art Center, Seongnam, Korea
2008    Art Forum Berlin, Messe Berlin, Berlin, Germany
             “Expression of life”, Gallery Wooduk, Seoul
2005    ‘Take to the Bush’, Gallery Soop, Seoul, Korea