AN Gyungsu

AN Gyungsu (b.1975) often focuses on forgotten places in the city. Those are places like lonely vacant lots and neglected ruins that only hold the traces of departed beings. The artist repeatedly records the 'floating landscapes' encountered in daily life on the screen. Thinking of things that pass through places and remain, and those who remember them. The Palm Tree Monument (2023) series are paintings drawn from press photos of destroyed sites around the world due to disasters. The time of trees standing starkly amidst faded debris is preserved as a perpetual monument.

AN Gyungsu was born in Busan, Korea in 1975. He received his BFA in Oriental Painting at Dankook University in 2001 and MFA in Oriental Painting at Hongik University in 2003. He has held solo exhibitions at Pibi Gallery (Seoul, Korea, 2021; 2019), Sahng-up Gallery (Seoul, Korea, 2018), Gallery Chosun (Seoul, Korea, 2016), Gallery Hyundai Window Gallery (Seoul, Korea, 2014) and more. He has participated in group exhibitions at ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL (Seoul, Korea, 2024), Incheon Art Platform (Incheon, Korea, 2023; 2017; 2012; 2011), Arko Art Center (Seoul, Korea, 2023), Total Museum of Contemporary Art (Seoul, Korea, 2020), SeMA Nanji Residency (Seoul, Korea, 2019), Seoul Museum of Art (Buk-Seoul) (Seoul, Korea, 2017), Gyeongnam Art Museum (Changwon, Korea, 2017), Sungkok Art Museum (Seoul, Korea, 2015), MMCA Residency Goyang (Goyang, Korea, 2010) and more. He was the artist-in-residence at the MMCA Residency Goyang in 2009, Gyeonggi Creation Center in 2016, and the SeMA Nanji Residency in 2019. His works are collected by various institutions such as National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul Museum of Art, Busan Museum of Art and more.