NEW YORK, NY.- Thaddaeus Ropac has welcomed Heemin Chung to the gallery and will represent her globally. Born in South Korea, Heemin Chung currently lives and works in Seoul. Her work was first exhibited with the gallery in gallery’s Seoul space earlier this year in the group exhibition Myths of Our Time. Her first solo exhibition with Thaddaeus Ropac will take place in London in November 2024.

Through our gallery in Seoul it has been wonderful to establish relationships with the Korean artistic community, and Heemin Chung is an artist who stood out to us with her individual visual language of ethereal abstraction. Exploring how digital images can metamorphose in painting and sculpture in intricate and exquisite ways, her work investigates the role of technology in society and how it has shaped contemporary approaches to art. We can't wait to show her work in our other galleries. — Thaddaeus Ropac

Heemin Chung investigates the material potential of digital images as she translates them into the mediums of painting and sculpture. She reimagines art-historical genres, including the landscape and still life, through poetic visual metaphor, engaging with experimental techniques to explore the function of texture and volume in her work.

The crucial interest of Heemin Chung’s work lies in the material intervention between the image and painting, rather than the subject of the online image. — Wonseok Koh, former chief curator, Seoul Museum of Art

Heemin Chung was awarded the DOOSAN Arts Award in 2022, and this autumn DOOSAN Art Center will present a solo exhibition of her work in Seoul, on view from 13 September to 21 October 2023. Her paintings and sculptures are housed in significant institutional collections, including the Seoul Museum of Art; Art Bank, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; and Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul.