----- Rena Son (Son Jin Hyung) -----

ABOUT

Son prefers “synthetic” colors. By that she means the ones found in things made of plastic laminate. 

She says she grew up surrounded by such things and has come to consider

 their visual aesthetics significant part of her personal and generational identity. 

Son folds resin into her pigments to stop them from “discoloring” in the process of painting. She uses a knife, 

a chisel, her own fingers, or any combination of these to create a three-dimensional effect on the canvas.  

She wants her viewers to be mindful, therefore, of the false,

 flattening look they are likely to get when they see photographed 

images of her paintings. She lives and works in Seongnam-Si, Korea.

EDUCATION

2006    MFA  Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015    Arete Horse: The Dream of Qilin, Gallery Gana Insa Art Center, Seoul

2014   Arete Horse Power Dialectic, Gallery Gana Insa Art Center, Seoul

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2015   Homo Equus (with Jeong Sang Yeol), Gallery aHsh, Paju

ARTSHOW BUSAN, BEXCO, Busan

           Doors Art Fair, Imperial Palace Hotel, Seoul

           Dubai World Art Fair, World Trade Center, Dubai

           Renaissance Gwanghwamun, Chosun Ilbo Art Museum, Seoul

2014   Art Basel Miami Beach Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami

Korea Women's Art Contest, Gallery La Mer, Seoul

 Dream Catcher, Space Womb Gallery, New York

 ABSTRACT FLOW, Space Womb Gallery, New York

AWARDS

2014    Special Recognition, Korea Women Artists Association

     Fifth Place, Young Artist Award, City of Seongnam