Insane PARK

Insane PARK (b. 1980)  has long explored the realm of media and images, consistently creating works that reveal the limitations of conventional visual systems and the modes of perception we often take for granted. By analyzing and deconstructing repeatedly circulated and fixed images, he presents works that candidly expose both the essence and limitations of human cognition and thought as mediated through the act of “seeing.” Working fluidly across video, installation, painting, and photography, his practice extends beyond formal experimentation to subversively uncover the political and cultural structures that shape contemporary society. 

PARK’s recent series, Post Vandalism, continues his experiments dismantling the authority and safeguards of institutional art, through the form of fictitious documentaries created with digital technology, motion graphics, and live-streaming formats reminiscent of social media. While vandalism may be a self-contradictory and rebellious act, it is also a movement that negates existing systems and generates new perspectives and discourses. For PARK, graffiti layered onto decaying buildings and messages scattered across artworks are not simply acts of destruction, but gestures of resistance against authority and oppression. He regards acts of scribbling and defacement as processes of redefinition—disrupting existing orders and hierarchies while simultaneously infusing them with new meaning. In doing so, PARK confronts the futility, emptiness, and fragility of reality, yet refuses to remain in despair. Instead, he focuses on humor, self-contradiction, and the act of doing itself, seeking minimal fissures and sparks of articulation that art can still generate. The messages directly inscribed onto the gallery walls and works are extensions of this attitude; like graffiti on urban surfaces, his images speak from within the cracks of the system.

Insane PARK has held solo exhibitions at various institutions including ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL (Seoul, Korea, 2025; 2020; 2014; 2011), ARARIO MUSEUM DONGMUN MOTEL II (Jeju, Korea, 2019), M17 (Paju, Korea, 2017), Art Project CZ (Shanghai, China, 2015), and the Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art (Gwangju, Gyeonggi-do, Korea, 2012). He also participated in group exhibitions held at Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art (Ansan, Korea), Suwon Museum of Art (Suwon, Korea), Gyeongnam Art Museum (Changwon, Korea), NamJune Paik Art Center (Yongin, Korea), Savina Museum (Seoul, Korea), Kyonggi University Sosung Museum (Suwon, Korea), Alternative Space Loop (Seoul, Korea), Art Space Boan 1942 (Seoul, Korea), and more. He participated in a residency at Baan Noorg Collaborative Arts and Culture (Ratchaburi, Thailand) in 2024, Studio M17 (Paju, Korea) from 2016 to 2017, Akiyoshidai International Art Village (Yamaguchi, Japan) in 2016, Gyeonggi Creation Center (Ansan, Korea) from 2015 to 2016, Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art (Gwangju, Gyeonggi-do, Korea) from 2011 to 2013, and won the Grand Prize of t The 2nd ETRO Art Prize in 2013.