Taehun Kwon

Taehun Kwon is a Korean painter based in Seoul, South Korea.

Taehun Kwon is a Korean painter based in Seoul. His work begins from the desire to look beyond the visible world and to translate personal memories, emotions, and thoughts into color, line, form, and space. Rather than simply reproducing reality, he seeks to create images that reveal the unseen layers of life the memories we carry, the time we endure, and the freedom we continue to long for.

Since 2019, Kwon has explored themes such as freedom, childhood innocence, time, home, and identity. For him, freedom is not only a social or physical condition, but also the ability to claim one’s own time and move beyond the limitations of body, space, money, and circumstance. His paintings often place symbolic figures within dreamlike spaces, where reality and imagination meet.

Childhood memories are another important source of his practice. Characters inspired by his younger self, childhood stories, films, and animated worlds appear throughout his work as symbols of courage, longing, and imagination. These figures carry the feeling of a time when the future seemed limitless, when one could believe that anything was possible.

Recently, Kwon has expanded his visual language thro...

Taehun Kwon (1991~)
South Korean who based in Seoul

[Exhibitions]
Solo Exhibition
2023
Ups and downs (Polestarart gallery, Seoul)
2022
Episode 5 : Three Eyes Exhibition (Space Jane & Claire, Seoul)
Taehun Kwon Solo Exhibition (DDP Art Hall, Seoul)
2021
Freedom in the Time (Hanam Starfield, Hanam)
2020
LIVE TO PAINT, PAINT TO LIVE Exhibition (Mansion 9, Seoul)
2019
Freedom and time of dots, lines, and planes Exhibition (Seojin Art Space, Seoul)
Group Exhibition
2026
Super contact (KEPCO Gallery, Seoul) 
2025
Borrowed Shape (Hakgojae Art Center, Seoul)
Monologue Boundary (Mungrae Art Factory, Seoul)
Today's Record (Guro Cultural Foundation Gallery Guruji, Seoul)
2024
FEEDBACK : ∞ (Seoul Citizens Hall Gallery, Seoul)
BANK ART FAIR (Seoul Trade Exhibition Center, Seoul)
100 People, Small Artwork, 100 Artworks Exhibition (Beeum gallery & Gallery Aram, Seoul)
2023
YapYapYap!!! (Gallery MINJUNG, Seoul)
Beautiful Life (Aria Gallery, Daejeon)
The boundaries of possibility (Suppoment gallery, Seoul)
Inspirare+Art (AMC Gallery, Seoul)
2022
New Age Voyage (Gallery HATNAE, Daegu)
Run (Aria Gallery, Daejeon)
Gift Exhibition on a Summer Day (Beeum Gallery, Seoul)
PROSPECTIVE (Gallery Insaart, Seoul)
Artist 22 Invitation Exhibition (Space...