Eunjung Seo

Born in South Korea, now a long-term London resident, I am a member of ArtCan Artists. I studied Fine Art at Hong-Ik University, Seoul and took a post-compulsory PGCE at Institute of Education, UCL, London. I have exhibited in numerous galleries in Korea and England, including Highgate Fine Art, Museum of Modern Art, Busan, Gallery Pfo, Sutton House, Kingston Museum, the Korean Cultural Centre, Han Collection, D contemporary, London and the Mall Galleries.

I focus on portraits and try to capture the subtle emotions of the subjects and the atmosphere around them. I investigate the possibilities of figurative and abstraction in my contemporary portraits.

I’m also interested in pondering on simple, delicate plants, as a plant is a small universe in itself.

In both genres, I trail a wide brush across of some parts of my paintings and blur some figuration or smear some parts with a painting knife, like #GerhardRichter. While Richter blurs surfaces evenly, I keep some parts of paintings figurative and choose other parts to be abstracted. I like the possibilities of having control but also having some things not under control. By doing so, my intention is to represent flowing time, sway, and uncertainty. We are here now and we’ll be go...

1996 BFA (Hons) Hong-Ik University, Seoul
2011 Foundation in Art Psychotherapy, Goldsmiths, University of London
2014 Post Compulsory PGCE, UCL, Institute of Education

2024 ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
2023 Solo exhibition, ‘In Your Eyes’ D Contemporary, London
2022 Group exhibition, ‘Inspire’ , D Contemporary, London
2022 ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
2022 Group exhibition, ‘Mother’, Han Collection, London

2019 ArtCan Artists' Group Exhibition 'Elevate 02', Duff & Phelps, The Shard, London. @artcanorg

2017 Group Exhibition 'Through Their Eyes'. Kingston Museum, London

2017 Group Exhibition, 'I-Kid', Korean Cultural Centre, London

2014 Group Exhibition, 'Korea Chronicles', Korean Cultural Centre, London

2013 Group Exhibition, 'Collaboration', Korean Cultural Centre, London

2012 Group Exhibition, 'Obangsaek', Korean Cultural Centre, London

2010 Solo Exhibition, Sutton House, London

2009 Solo Exhibition, Sutton House, London

2008 Solo Exhibition, Mono Gallery, Busan

2006 Solo Exhibition, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan

2004 Solo Exhibition, Citizen's Hall, Busan

2003 Solo Exhibition, Off Broadway Gallery, London

2002 Solo Exhibition, Gallery PFO, Busan

2001 Group Exhibition, Chesky Sperk a Design,Prague

2001 Group Exhibition, Stoke Newington Arts Project, The Gallery, London

2000 Solo Exhibition, The Gallery, London

1999 Group Exhib...