Jineui Heo

About the image of self found from the gaze toward the world and others.
I am working on artworks that can allow others to glimpse the process of exploring myself. I am drawing people, but they are overlapped with the image of a forest. From a specific moment, I met the real me at the woods I walked through. However, you may have questions about the relationship between the people in the paintings with a forest or the artist (me) because the people in my pictures are the people I faced in my life and their images. However, the people I drew were the ones who had the moments to put myself into them. Sometimes, I draw when I met him/her, or sometimes I draw an image in a photo. However, all of them were the objects that I could share my unique feelings I got from certain facial expressions and atmospheres. Thus, for me, they were not just others, but another me who reflected my inner self.
And, I am overlapping the moments with the feelings I felt in the forest. The appearance of a person drawn with a forest in the background can be both a feeling of the forest and a feeling about the person. So I did not differ significantly between the brush touching methods for drawing the forest, the background, and the person's face. When drawin...

Solo exhibition

2022 Mirage (Maru Art Center, Seoul)
2022 Heo Jin eui (Figment Gallery, Seoul)
2020 Ego Forest (Syart Document, Seoul)
2019 Looking at (Daon Gallery, Seoul)
2017 Moon is a dream of the sun (Nut Gallery, Seoul)
2014 Jineui Exhibition (feel shop, suddenly open the warehouse door, Seoul)

Group exhibition

2022 03 Prospective (Gallery Insa Art, Seoul)
2021 07 Heal the world (OCI Museum of Art, Seoul)
2016 October Autumn Salon Exhibition (France Paris Grand Palais)