Junyoung Ahn

artist / drawing based on pen / live in Seoul, Korea /

Description of work - Sometimes when I read a novel, I would read a author's note. Many of them talked about the motivation which makes writers who they are. When I read those calm and looking back of their own lives notes, I can see that there is desire that prove who they are and it is melted into the strong drive of life. And in the hidden side of those note, there's a memory of threat derived from unproven self. Sometimes It's overwhelming to feel the power of anxiety and insecurity between relationship. Those anxiety and insecurity make people doubt themselves and choose the wrong way to avoid threat. Like a famous Friedrich Nietzsche quote "And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.", An obsession with an incompleteness passes throughout the life and shake the ego to its very foundation.

'Parade' series is a process to make a caricature of an anxiety and 'Infected' series is based on a minute observation. My self-observation is concluded this sentence 'Look at the anxiety around you clearly'. And it is most important rule which i want to get not to feel insecure and self-conscious and to protect myself. To see oneself in an objective way...

B.F.A. Fine art, Seoul national university of science and technology

Solo Exhibition

2013 overturned cradle, ohzemidong gallery, Seoul, Korea
2007 study hard, gallery Bardaq, Seoul, Korea


Selected Group Exhibition

2014 2014 GIAF, Sejong Center for the Performing Arts, Seoul, Korea
'Artimal' , BJN Gallery, Seoul, Korea
32nd Korea Galleries Art Fair, Coex, Seoul, Korea
12 animals story, Lotte Gallery, Kwangju, Korea
drawing, gallert 4walls, Seoul, Korea
12 animals story, Lotte Gallery, Daejeon, Korea
neo inscription, Art Space H, Seoul, Korea
here and now, gallery Grimson, Seoul, Korea
2013 4th Young Artist Exhibition, gallery A-Cube, Seoul, Korea
2013 ASYAFF, culture station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
a nouveau, Seongbuk Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2013 GIAF, Sejong Center for the Performing Arts, Seoul, Korea
Young Artist Exhibition, Zoom gallery, Seoul, Korea
2012 Place of Addiction, Samchung gallery, Seoul, Korea
2011 2011 ASYAFF, HOMA, Seoul, Korea
3, The great minors of Seoul city, Unofficial Preview gallery, Seoul, Korea
2007 Ahck, Deokwon gallery, Seoul, Korea
2006 viva artist, gallery Bardaq, Seoul, Korea