Seungho Jang

« For me, painting is a space where I can be free from a world full of absurdity and oppression, and it's also a deep place. »

For Seungho Jang, painting is a way to remain human in a world that demands uniformity. Working in South Korea — a highly competitive and controlling environment — he uses abstraction to defend the depth of inner life against forces that reduce existence to efficiency.

His gestures are not decorative; they are traces of resistance. Tension, rupture, and renewal appear in layered surfaces where emotion refuses to be silenced. The canvas becomes a rare space where pressure and vulnerability can coexist without distortion.

Nature in his work stands as a counter-order — fluid, resilient, and free from imposed structure. Through fragmentation and reconstruction, Jang shows how life reorganizes itself even under collapse.

His paintings confront a fundamental question:
How can we preserve the complexity of being in a world intent on flattening it?
They insist that resistance begins with acknowledging one’s own presence.

2024 MFA Painting, College of Fine Arts, Hongik University
2018 BFA Painting, College of Fine Arts, Chosun University

Solo Exhibitions

2021 Improvised Narratives, Read a moment's emotion and breathing (ADM Gallery – Seoul, South Korea)
2018 Art Life Scenery (Lotus Gallery - Gwangju, South Korea)

Group Exhibitions




2024 Isn't that too subjective? (N2 art space - Seoul, South Korea)
2023 Keep Abstract (Po Kim&Sylvia Art Museum - Gwangju, South Korea)
2023 Gwanghwamun International Art Festival (Sejong Museum - Seoul, South Korea)
2022 Switzerland-Korea Invitational Exhibition (Seoul Cyber University)
2018 2Th New Artist Planning Exhibition (Gallery COSO – Seoul, South Korea)

Prizes and Awards

2018 Chosun University Artist Award, Chosun University College Of Fine Arts, Gwangju, South Korea
2016 26Th Bae Dong-Shin Eodeung Art Festival, Emerging Artist Award, Gwangju, South Korea

Permanent Collections

2018 Gwangju Museum Of Art, Gwangju, South Korea
2017 Chosun National University, Gwangju, South Korea

Residencies

2022 Adm Gallery Art Studio, Seoul, South Korea