bio
Days in three big and very different metropolitan cities — Seoul, Jakarta, Amsterdam — have stimulated Hyunsuh's observation of the remnants that numerous transitory urban encounters leave behind. As momentary they are, their traces linger for unexpected durations in one's history, living spaces, psyche, sedimenting in the obscure depths of the unconscious. However, when one starts noticing the innumerable factors that shape a person, it would not be reductionist (on the contrary, it would be maximalist) to consider a person as solely constituting of experiences that their forebears and they themselves had and all those that will be because of them, and in so far as this person exerts their influence onto the world, the world too constitutes solely of their actions, the causes and the consequences of those actions. A person is their world.
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For Hyunsuh, art then becomes the means to capture these permanent impacts within conscious appreciation. Ever since committing visual art in secondary school, Hyunsuh realized that none other than the stillness, or better put, the 'framedness' of an artwork makes explicit both the ever-moving and the irreversible characteristics of things. A brushstroke that freezes on the canvas partakes in a perpetual communication between objects, between people, between worlds.
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Hyunsuh is a hoarder — of names, books, websites, smells, specimens, rocks, canvases. Taking the adage that "art is a way of life" to heart, she may be that someone who approaches you in the park to ask you what music you were listening to, or to take a picture of you and your dog. You might also find her serving a cup of tea brewed out of a whim of the seasons.
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résumé
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Recognitions
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Exhibitions
2016
2017
2018
2018
2018
2021-22
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Miscellaneous Projects
2016
2016
2017-2018
2018
2019-2020
2019-2020
2020-2021
2020-2021
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July 7, 2022
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Scholastic Art & Writing Award Silver Key
Scholastic Art & Writing Award Honorable Mention
Interscholastic Association of Southeast Asian Schools (IASAS) Cultural Convention Art, Taipei American School
IASAS Cultural Convention Art, International School of Kuala Lumpur
IASAS Art - Director's Choice, Jakarta Intercultural School
IASAS Cultural Convention Art, International School of Manila
Scholastic Art & Writing Award Gold Key
Scholastic Art & Writing Award Silver Medal
Global Online Academy Catalyst for Change Award
Pulling Out the Roots of Food Waste Problem: Educating game theory perspective of and inspiring grassroots action against food waste through interactive and visual public web platform
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IASAS Cultural Convention Art, Taipei American School
IASAS Cultural Convention Art, International School of Kuala Lumpur
IASAS Cultural Convention Art, International School of Manila
Scholastic Art & Writing Award Ceremony
Global Online Academy Catalyst Conference (online exhibition)
"Story of Light" Solo exhibition, Focacceria Amsterdam
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Beautiful Human Movement
Student representative in organizing arts & performance event for Children's Day
Red Nose Foundation
Mural painter for new school in Cilincing
Children book publishing in Jakarta Intercultural School
Illustrator of Indonesian folk tale "Outwitting a Crocodile" to be read by children visitors
TEDxJIS Salon "The Artist Inside"
Guest speaker of "Illusion of Originality"
"Flipping the Classroom" for Logic, Information and Argumentation Course
Producer of educational videos used in Amsterdam University College curriculum
Kaon Teahouse
Co-founder of gluten-free, sugar-free, vegan teahouse in the dormitory
Gaze
Co-founder, secretary and event organizer of Amsterdam University College committee that initiates discussion upon multimedia texts that inspect mundane objects through the lenses of various disciplines
Mediamatic Research Internship
Studying and writing about the "Olfactory History of Oosterdok", "Seafoam: Queering the Aphrodisiac", "Re-cognizing the Invasive Japanese Knotweed" and more
"여백" (yeobaek; voice, space, potency)
A Ψ-Garden production of seven cycles of poetic musings, soundscapes, ikebana and incense, reflecting on the notion of 여백 – the areas left untouched in Korean, in Moychay Tea Culture Club.