GAHEE PARK
Born in 1985 in Seoul, South Korea
Lives and works in Montreal, Canada
contacter
Park’s paintings may be realized in the “naive” style that recalls painters like Henri Rousseau, but her subject matter is far from it. Often depicting romantic scenes where the idyll has turned sour, the sexual acts that seem to be transpiring in her paintings are at odds with their quaint settings, where art history’s favorite still life subjects—rotund fruit, cheeses, and bottles, appear on the verge of rolling off the surface of the table: so pitched is the surface, so hyper-stylized is her take on forced perspective. And yet, space doesn’t seem to recede in Park’s paintings. It’s cancelled out by the kind of flatness only a laboring love of texture and pattern can produce. Space comes to a halt as Park revels in woodgrain and brocade. Any indication of space comes courtesy of some framed element that seems to replicate the scene, albeit with some slight modification like a game of “Spot the Difference.” A window? A mirror? Another painting? Park revels in these ambiguities as well.
Born in 1985 in Seoul, South Korea
Lives and works in Montreal, Canada
education
2015 MFA, Painting, Hunter College, New York, NY, USA
2012 BFA, Painting, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
solo shows
2025
- Not Quite Tomorrow, Perrotin, Paris, France
2024
- Fun and Games, Perrotin, New York, NY, USA
2023
- Académie Conti, curated by Eric Troncy, Consortium Museum, Vosne-Romanée, France
- Eveningness, Perrotin, Tokyo, Japan
2021
- Too Early After All, Perrotin, Paris, France
2020
- Betrayal (Sweet Blood), Perrotin, New York, NY, USA
2019
- We Used to Be Fish, Perrotin, Seoul, South Korea
2018
- Every Day Was Yesterday, Taymour Grahne, London, UK
2017
- Kissing in the Tree, Motel, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2016
- Butt on Face, Pioneer Works, 2nd Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2015
- No No Means Yes Yes, Marginal Utility Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA
group shows
2025
- Her Dark Materials, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA, USA (forthcoming)
- Erotic City, Eric Firestone Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- From the Collection, Nassima Landau, Tel Aviv, Isreal
2024
- The Imaginary Made Real, Berry Campbell, New York, NY, USA
- Conversation Galante, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
2023
- 50 Paintings, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, USA
- Cruel To Be Kind / Les Plus Beaux Cauchemars, curated by Anaïs Castro and Alice Ricciardi, LivArt, Montreal, Canada
- PUBLIC PRIVATE, curated by Jareh Das, Pond Society, Shanghai, China
- Volupté, Blouin Division, Montreal, Canada
2022
- Wonder Women, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Beyond Idendity, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA, USA
- A Few Small Nips, Mrs., New York, NY, USA
- Wonder Women, Jeffrey Deitch, New York, NY, USA
- They Shut Me Up In Prose, Nassima Landau, Tel Aviv, Israel
2021
- Beyond the Looking Glass, UTA Artist Space, Beverly Hills, CA, USA
- and I will wear you in my heart of heart, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY, USA
- Domesticated, curated by Coady Brown, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
2020
- Fantasy Body, Projet Pangée, Montreal, Canada
- Animal Kingdom, Alexander Berggruen Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- Art on the Grid, Public Art Fund, New York, NY, USA
2019
- Drinking the Reflection, curated by Elizabeth Malaska, Russo Lee, Portland, OR, USA
- No Patience For Monuments, Perrotin, Seoul, South Korea
2018
- Hot Farce, Field Projects Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- Cat Lady, Teen Party, Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Bathers, Bass & Reiner, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Cheeky: Summer Butts, Marinaro Gallery, NY, USA
- Picnic, Calico Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2017
- How to Draw The Human Figure, Agency, Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Laurel, laurelexhibition.com, Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Lintel, Mantel, Module, Shelf, LaMaMa Galleria, New York, NY, USA
2016
- Internal Affairs, Two person show with Doron Langberg, Ess Ef Eff, Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Sexuality, NAM Project, Milan, Italy
- Intimisms, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- NSFW | Male Nudes by Female Painters, Outlet Brooklyn, NY, USA
public collections
- Pond Society, Shanghai, China
- Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, USA
- Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, USA
- Medianoche Foundation, Granada, Spain
awards
2018
- Shandaken: Stormking Artist-in-Residency
2016
- Recipient of Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowships in Painting
- C12 Emerging Artist: Special Recognition
- The Cooper Union: Summer Artist-in-Residence
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