Park Grim
Park Grim explores contemporary narratives and identity by appropriating the forms of traditional Buddhist painting. Based on personal experiences of self-loathing and identity confusion, the artist seeks to reveal the complex structure of the self by juxtaposing social media images with religious iconography. In particular, through the persona of 'tiger', he projects an incomplete being undergoing spiritual practice, along with an ego that falters amidst the pressures of society. The work is a process of dismantling dichotomous boundaries—such as tradition and modernity, and norms and desire—and visualizing the questions that lie between them. The artist reinterprets Korean traditions, which have been marginalized in the sphere of Western-centric views, using a modern visual language by combining them with elements of mass media. This endeavor, which densely combines the representational power of painting with a contemporary consciousness on important issues, is garnering attention as a key achievement poised to expand the horizons of Korean contemporary art.
Park Grim (b.1987)
Solo Exhibitions
2024 44, THEO, Seoul
2024 GRIM PARK, A.SINGLE.PIECE, Sydney, AU
2022 虎路, Becoming a Tiger<SEOUL>, Studio Concrete, Seoul
2021 CHAM; The Masquerade, UARTSPACE, Seoul
2018 HWARANGDO (花郞徒) - a crowd of beautiful men, Bul-il Museum, Seoul
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 Secret Asian Man Presents: 언니(unni), whistle, Seoul
2026 When the Brush Moves, the World Continues, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu
2026 Spectrosynthesis Seoul, Art Sonje Center, Seoul
2025 Fragmented and Unfolding, Unoccupied Gaps, Seoul
2025 WASHINGTON TONIA, Gallery Remicon, Jeju
2025 UnHouse, Frieze House, Seoul
2025 Somewhere over the yellow sea, Jeonnam International SUMUK Biennale, Mokpo
2025 Korean Traditional Painting in Alter-age 2025, KCC Gallery MI, Tokyo
2025 Korean Traditional Painting in Alter-age 2025, KCC Osaka, Osaka
2025 Hidden Landscapes, Damyang Cultural Foundation, Damyang
2025 UNBOXING PROJECT: Message, KÖNIG TELEGRAPHENAMT, Berlin, Germany
2025 UNBOXING PROJECT: Message Preview, New Spring Project, Seoul
2025 Support SARUBIA 2025, Sarubia, Seoul
2024 It can make me, who is living well, feel like a sinner, OCI Museum of Art, Seoul
2024 World Beyond Extraordinary, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan
2023 Hymn of Seoul, BOAN1942, Seoul
2023 PANORAMA, SONGEUN, Seoul
2023 One Chair is Enough, GALERIE ERD, Seoul
2023 Flowers, THEO, Seoul
2023 Finitioni: To an end, THEO, Seoul
2022 the 22nd SONGEUN art award exhibition, SONGEUN, Seoul
2022 Korean Traditional Painting in Alter-age, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul
2022 Consensual ink painting, Haeum Museum of Art, Suwon
2022 Yes, My 로드, <LORD, LOAD, ROAD>, THEO, Seoul
2022 Dong-Eum and I-Eum, Dongduk Art Gallery, Seoul
2022 虎, Tiger, Icheon Municipal Woljeon Art Museum, Icheon
2021 BONY, Museum Head, Seoul
2021 SHAACK, Obscura, Seoul
2021 Painting 1, BEXCO, Busan
2020 SUB_TITLE, UARTSPACE, Seoul
2020 Scent of the Buddha, Dongduk Art Gallery, Seoul
2020 The masculine gender figure, Space9, Seoul
2019 Flags, Doosan Gallery, New York, USA
2018 By light By wind, bul-il Museum, Seoul
2016 ASYAFF, DDP, Seoul
2015 act, Dongguk University, Gyeongju
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