HYUNSEON KANG
CONTACT
isseon@gmail.com
@kanghyunseon
NEWS2026 Upcoming solo exhibition in Seoul.
2025 Participating in The KOPRI RV Araon Residency Program, supported by the Arts Council Korea, collaborating with scientists on new Arctic-based works.
About Hyunseon Kang is a Seoul-based contemporary artist whose practice traverses the boundaries between reality and the virtual, human and non-human.
Through video, VR, painting, sound, print, and game engines, she explores how perception and emotion are constructed within the architectures of digital space.
Her works often stage encounters between the psychological and the architectural, revealing the fragile thresholds where memory, desire, and technology intersect.
Central to Kang’s recent practice is Lucy, an AI-driven avatar modeled after the artist’s own data.
Lucy speaks in a neutral tone—neither human nor machine—reflecting on how emotions emerge at the edge of artificial consciousness.
In 2025, Kang joined The KOPRI–RV Araon Residency Program, embarking on an Arctic research voyage to create Future History, a work that reflects on ecological memory and post-human narratives amid the melting polar landscape.
강현선은 서울을 기반으로 활동하는 현대미술 작가이다. 작가의 비디오와 뉴미디어 설치물들은 건축적 공간과 심리적 공간을 만드는 시선의 구성에 대해 질문한다. 그녀는 회화, 영상, 사운드, 프린트, 게임, 등의 매체를 통해 특유의 유머러스하며 고독한 감정을 표현하고 있다. 디지털 매체가 자아와 욕망에 끼치는 영향은 작업 속에서 섬뜩한 가상공간, 희미한 오브제, 무표정한 디지털 캐릭터들로 나타나고 있다. VR과 게임엔진으로 구현되어 만들어진 가상공간은 현실을 탈출하는 해방의 장소이며, 현실에서 벗어난 자아를 상상하는 욕망의 세계가 된다.
작가는 인공지능 아바타 ‘루시(Lucy)’를 통해 기술이 자아와 욕망, 기억을 어떻게 재구성하는지를 탐색한다. 루시는 인간의 목소리와 기계의 언어 사이를 오가며, 감정 없는 존재로서 인간의 감정이 투사되는 지점을 드러낸다. 또한 섬세한 유머와 고요한 긴장을 동시에 품으며, 현실을 탈주하려는 욕망이 만들어내는 낯선 해방의 공간을 구축한다.
CV
Solo Show2023 Merged Layers, Sueno339, Seoul
2022 Post-Me, Art Sonje Center, Seoul
2017 Estranged City:SEOUL, Studio Concrete, Seoul
2014 Apart-scape, KAIST Research & Art Gallery, Seoul
2013 Dual City, Gong Art Space, Seoul
2012 Museum Pixelation, 63 Sky Art Museum, Seoul
2012 Hidden Passage, Motor Gallery, Lisbon
2008 Eyes, Unveiled, Miel, Seoul
2008 Unwrap, Brain Factory, Seoul
2007 Equilibrium Point, Gallery Hyundai Window, Seoul
2006 Realistic Distortion, Milarte Gallery, Milan
2006 Gallery, SADI Window Gallery, Seoul
Selected Group Show2025 Beneath the Breath, TINC, Seoul
2024 Interface of the Abyss, Below Grand, New York
2023 The Flâneur Beyond the Window, Mimesis Art Museum, Paju
2022 Framing Spaces, einBuch.haus, Berlin
2021 Durational, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai
2021 Visible, Invisible, Mimesis Art Museum, Paju
2021 Black so sensed, Blume Museum of Contemporary Art, Paju
2020 Your Floorplan, thefloorplan.net
2020 Media Scening, Jaein Falls, Yeoncheon
2020 Blind Spot, A.Round, Busan
2019 Humanity, Gwangju Design Biennale, Gwangju
2019 Extraño Plano Vacío, Galeria Han-ul, Madrid
2018 Where Are You Taking Us To, Art Space One
, Seoul
2017 Urban Ritornello, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul
2017 Meta-scape, Wooyang Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyoungju
2017 Dream.Above.Site, Art Sueno339, Seoul
2016 Art Around, Space Willing and Dealing, Seoul
2015 Urban Sonogram, aA Design Museum, Seoul
2014 Love Up, 63 Sky Art Museum, Seoul
2013 Happy Nation, Yangpyeong Art Museum, Yangpyeong
2012 Black Out, Seoul National University, Seoul
2010 Organic Distortion, Jeongsoyoung Gallery, Seoul
2009 Illusion, Parkyeosook Gallery, Seoul
2009 The Irony, Kimi Art, Seoul
2009 Intermix, Gana Art Space, Seoul
2008 Creative Mind, Savina Museum, Seoul
2007 Show Show Show, Seoul Arts Centre, Seoul
2007 It’s Hotel, Seoul Arts Centre, Seoul
2007 PARASPACE:de-site, Gallery Andante, Seoul
2007 Young Artist with SJ SJ, Yoo Art Space, Seoul
2005 17x17, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
2005 Sweet Talk, Museum of New Art in Michigan, Michigan
2005 The 27th JoongAng Fine Arts Prize, Seoul Arts Centre, Seoul
2004 En Route, Dream Gallery, Seoul
2003 Xhibit '03, The Arts Gallery, London
2003 Touch & Go, Space 44, London
Grants
2023 — Convergence Technology Creative Grant, Arts Council Korea (ARKO)
2022 — Idea Planning & Implementation Grant, Arts Council Korea (ARKO)
2008 — Emerging Artist Grant, Arts Council Korea (ARKO)
Talks & Presentation
2024 — “Multi-Subject Expression Using Artificial Intelligence”, The Society of Western Art History & Institute of Cultural Heritage, Seoul
2024 — “AI and Artistic Practice”, Hongik University, Seoul
2023 — “The Adventure of Lucy”, ARTCAFFE (Panel: Raffaella Gallo)
2023 — “Pixel-Body Image”, Kookmin University, Seoul
2017 — Artist Talk, Common Rhythm, Common Body, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul
2012 — “Reality and Time in the Still Image”, Institute of Art Research, Seoul National University
(Additional lectures and artist talks at Seoul National University, Space Willing N Dealing, and other institutions.)
Awards2005 27TH JOONGANG FINE ARTS PRIZE, The Second Prize Winner
2003 EXHIBIT'03, SELECTED ARTIST, London, U.K
Residency2025 The KOPRI RV Araon Residency Program, supported by the Arts Council Korea (ARKO)
Education
Seoul National University, Doctors of Fine Arts
Middlesex University, MA in Sonic Arts with Merit
University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins College of Art, MA Fine Art
Seoul National University, BA Fine Art
Last Updated 24.10.31 Recent Works
Untitled no.2(Pingo) / Untitled no.1(Ice Wall)
2025
Acrylic on canvas, each 53x45cm
TINC (Seoul)
Unknown Mariner2023, Interactive VR experience (Meta Quest 2), colour, sound with real-time AI-generated dialogue and voice (ChatGPT integration, Unity), approx. 11 min 30 sec
Sueno339 (Seoul)
Unknown Mariner
- Trailer2023, Interactive VR experience (Meta Quest 2), colour, sound with real-time AI-generated dialogue and voice (ChatGPT integration, Unity), approx. 11 min 30 sec
Sueno339 (Seoul)
Tracing Endeavour
2023
Single-channel video, colour, sound, 23 minutes 13 seconds
Sueno339 (Seoul)
from the series Josephinia Imperatricis
2023,
Inkjet print on paper, series of 8 works, each 35 × 29 cm
Sueno339 (Seoul)
from the series Sophora Tetraptera
2023,
Inkjet print on paper, series of 8 works, each 35 × 29 cm
Sueno339 (Seoul)
A Sleeping Monument
2022 (re-edited version),
Originally produced in 2020
Unity-based interactive 3D application (tablet), variable duration
Below Grand (New York)
Garden of Reason
- Trailer
2022
Single-channel video, colour, sound, 3 minutes 23 seconds
Art Sonje (Seoul)
Garden of Reason (VR)
2022
Interactive VR experience (Meta Quest 2), colour, sound with recorded and AI-generated narration, approx. 7 minutes
Art Sonje (Seoul)
Adventure of Lucy
- Trailer
2022 (re-edited version),
Originally produced in 2019
Live simulation programmed in Unity, single-channel projection, colour, sound, variable duration
Art Sonje Center (Seoul)
The Passing
- Trailer
2021
Two-channel video, colour, sound, 5 minutes, looped
Mimesis Art Museum (Paju)
The Legend of Jaein Falls
- Trailer
2020
Site-specific media façade projection on waterfall cliff, colour, sound, 3 minutes 30 seconds
Jaein Falls (Yeoncheon)
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