Jino Park

They say to sleep is none other than to experience a mini-death. 

Each day we fall asleep and die, each day we wake up and revive. A dream is a mini-life within the mini-death of sleep that we experience daily. To dream is to attempt to live; We are often startled by a dream and awake. We thus revive. I've endeavored to depict the vividness of this moment when familiar things appear unfamiliar. I describe this flow of memory with drawing, video and other media. 

"The story is a deep and large device that function transcends the generation and the language, and I would like to believe that power," wrote Haruki Murakami.  I too believe in the power of storytelling. Narrative is an ideal form in which to imbue the 'flow of memory,' and it is the material I use to make art. Like a growing tree, a narrative sprouts new branches, which grow in all directions. My work is an experimentation in making a multi-layered narrative structure. This structure organically combines patterned modular stories; and those stories are about things that grow, live, die and disappear.

2000 - 2001 ENSAD Diploma (2003) from Ecole National Superieure DArts Decoratifs, Paris, France1997 - 2000 DNAP Diploma from Ecole National Superieure DArts Paris-Cergy, Pointoise, France1989 - 1995 Bachelor of Fine Arts from Hongik University, Seoul, Korea1992 - 1996 Apprentice of mime under the direction of Jin-kyu YOU,

Solo Exhibitions
2010. 3.3 - 3.17 'Dharma Tree' at Gallery PIG Seoul Korea
2009. 4.6 - 4.20 'The Labyrinth' - 'The picks of the year' award of solo exhibition at Munhwailbo Gallery Seoul Korea
2008. 6.6 - 6.19 'Icarus under the moon' at Art space HUT Seoul Korea
2007. 4 'Avignon - le structure du temps' at Geonhi Gallery Seoul Korea

Group Exhibitions
2010. 12. 4 - 2011. 1. 22 Art and the Environment Exhibition at Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen, MI, USA
2010. 10. 23 - 11. 20 New Directions 2010 26th Annual National Juried Contemporary Art Exhibition Juried by Nat Trotman, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York, NYat Barrett Art Center Galleries, 55 Noxon St. Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
2010. 10. 4 - 11. 24 The Big Light Show at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village CO USA
2010. 10. 01 Arts in the Air Project of Bread Board on PECO’s Clown Lights Tower, Philadelphia PA USA
2010. 6. 3 - 8.15 Wow! Funny Pop at Gyungnam Art Museum Changwon Korea
2010. 4. 10 - 4. 25 The Fantastic garden at 2010 Changwon Asian Art Festival Changwon Korea
2008. 9 'Wave of blue' at Whanki Museum Seoul Korea
2008. 5.31 6.8 'Project Hongjechun - Dream collector' at Kunstdoc Gallery ...