Sanghee Ahn

Sanghee Ahn was born in Seoul, Korea and grew up across different places around the world - Europe, America, Africa and Southeast Asia. This multicultural background led her to develop her own uniquely rich visual archive reflecting the wide diversity of cultural worlds and natural sceneries. Similar to the automatism of Surrealism in the figurative portrayals, she plays with chance arrangement of the symbolic and cultural weights. The geometric wave pattern which is in contrast to the diagrammatic aesthetics of the figurative arena symbolizes the initially pure state of perception - before the entrance of any meanings and values. Using expandable units that can stretch forever and grids that do not assign any order or hierarchy, her pure abstract composition or element is like a total deletion of any visual algorithm which usually runs through the reproduced images in the digital and printed commercial and political world.
Being an internationally active artist, Sanghee Ahn has not only been prolific in Korea but has also had shows in many cities such as New York, Los Angeles, London, Berlin, Hong Kong, Sydney, Melbourne, Singapore, and Manila. Her art has been exhibited at and collected by various private and public national ...

BFA, University of Oxford, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford, UK

*Selected Solo Shows*
2023. Sweets and Clouds, Gallery Tom, Seongnam
2022. Sanghee Ahn Solo, AP Gallery, Seoul
2022. Ripples of Little Things, CICA Museum, Gimpo
2020. Forms and Dreams, Artspace LOO, Seoul
2019. Byeolbit Museum at Starbucks DT, Gwacheon
2019. Sweet Dreams, Gallery IS, Seoul
2018. A Piece of Happiness, Lotte Art Studio, Lotte Department Store Ilsan
2018. Places and Arrangements, Spero Gallery Incheon
2017. Color Series, Spero Gallery, Incheon
2008. Other Places, Other Cities, Gallery Jinsun, Seoul

*Selected Group Exhibitions*
2022 감상일상, Gimpo Art Village Art Center, Gimpo
2022 The Collection, 3/8~13, The Hyundai Seoul, Seoul
2022 KIAF, COEX, Seoul
2021 Temperature of Love, Seokpajeong Seoul Museum, Seoul
2021 Sweet Winter, Seoho Museum, Namyangju
2021 Two-Person Show, GS Gallery Sisheon, Seoul
2019
- Love is You(Two-person show), Jinsan Gallery, Seoul
- Christmas, H Contemporary, Bundang
2018
- Seoul Modern Art Show, Seoul Arts Center, Hangaram Museum, Seoul
- Seoulism - Globalization of Seoul Contemporary Art, Korean Cultural Center LA, LA
- 2018 Art Gyeonggi , Avenue France, Pangyo and 9 other locations
- New Thinking New Art, LeeSeoul Gallery, Seoul
- Morak Morak, Gal...