Hei Myung Hyun

Though my work has evolved through many different phases, a consistency exists. I have always found rejuvenation and renewal in nature and the landscape. Daily inspiration flows from the sight of a single flower to the majestic mountains and shores that surround me. Nature as God provided to us is the source of my joy in life. The works comprise my testimony to God. My amazement at his creation renews itself with the approach of each new season, with every new blossom and seed.

Equally inspirational to my work is my background. Born and raised in Korea, I began my formal art training in Seoul but completed it in the United States. Being uprooted from one’s homeland to be replanted on foreign soil does not equate a total loss or gain either way. It is a matter of taking and abandoning some choices. Bridging and integrating the gap between two such vastly different cultures has challenged and enriched me as an artist. In the ocean between the two societies I have found a wide and deep source of visions. By making art that incorporates the East and West, I have found immense fulfillment through the process of making art that truly reflects my unique experience as a person and an artist.

This push and pull between cultures manife...

1971 MFA, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Connecticut

1966–69 The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1965 BFA, College of Fine Arts, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2015
Ancestral Garden, Thomas Paul Fine Art, Los Angeles, California

2013
Thomas Paul Fine Art, Los Angeles, California

2011 Thomas Paul Fine Art, Los Angeles, California
2008 AndrewShire Gallery, Singapore
Yarger/Strauss Contemporary Fine Art, Beverly Hills, Callifornia
2005 Timothy Yarger Fine Art, Beverly Hills, California
LMAN Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2004 Sunam Gallery, Pusan, Korea
2003 LA Artcore at the Union Center, Los Angeles, California
2001 Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2000 Gensler, Santa Monica, California
L.A. Artcore Center, Los Angeles, California
1999 Artcore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles, California
Yemac Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1998 John ‘N Joe Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1996 Arario Gallery, Cheon-An, Korea
1995 John ‘n Joe Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1994 Saemteo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1992 LACA Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1991 Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
1990 Simmonson Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1989 Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
1987 Simmonson Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1983 Creative Art Center, Burbank, California
1981 Sun Arts Gallery, Seoul, Kor...