HIVE ART FAIR 2026

NOH Sangho

HOLY 홀리, 2026

NOH Sangho (b. 1986) has constructed a unique artistic realm centered around paintings derived from images floating in the online sphere. By collecting, replicating, and transforming the images encountered daily in the digital virtual world of the internet, he reinterprets them into analog art forms, including painting, sculpture, and video. NOH Sangho's creative process reflects the artist's contemplation on how images are consumed and created within the conditions of our time. THE GREAT CHAPBOOK (2014-) series, which NOH has consistently presented since 2014, is a collection of paintings that combine daily drawings into one scene and color them with oil paint. Working with the digital media environment as a core reference, NOH strives to respond simultaneously to the impacts of unfamiliar technologies. Beginning in 2021, he integrated 3D video production techniques into his practice and, in 2022, began to utilize results from AI image generation programs as a subject matter for his paintings. This indicates that shifts in his creative approach consistently coincide with the advent of new media technologies. Advancing beyond the conventional method of surfing the internet for images, the series HOLY (2022-) emerged from the intuitive selection of images produced by AI, drawing them onto the canvas.

NOH Sangho was born in Seoul, Korea, in 1986. He received his BFA in Printmaking at Hongik University in 2013, and MFA in Fine Arts at Seoul National University of Science & Technology in 2022. He has held solo exhibitions at various institutions such as Yukikomizutani (Tokyo, Japan, 2024), ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL (Seoul, Korea, 2024), ARARIO GALLERY SHANGHAI (Shanghai, China, 2023), ARARIO MUSEUM in SPACE (Seoul, Korea, 2018), SongEun ArtCube (Seoul, Korea, 2017), and SeMA West Warehouse (Seoul, Korea, 2016), as well as group exhibitions held at Cheonan Museum of Art (Cheonan, Korea, 2025), Mori Arts Center Gallery (Tokyo, Japan, 2025), Songeun (Seoul, Korea, 2024; 2018), Ulsan Art Museum (Ulsan, Korea, 2024), Platform-L Contemporary Art Center (Seoul, Korea, 2024), Koo House Museum (Seoul, Korea, 2024), Ilmin Museum of Art (Seoul, Korea, 2023; 2018), ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL (Seoul, Korea, 2023; 2021; 2016), Isetan The Space (Tokyo, Japan, 2022), ARARIO GALLERY CHEONAN (Cheonan, Korea, 2021), Atelier Hermès (Seoul, Korea, 2020), Daegu Art Museum (Daegu, Korea, 2019), Kumho Museum of Art (Seoul, Korea, 2017), National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Gwacheon, Korea, 2017; 2014), and more. The artist gained attention for being selected in The 24th SongEun Art Award (2024) and National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art's Young Exploration 2014 (2014). He was the artist-in-residence at the SeMA Nanji Residency (Seoul, Korea) in 2015, and also participated in an artist residency exchange program between Hungary and Korea (Budapest, Hungary) in 2016. He won the Lee Sang Wook Prize (Korean Contemporary Printmakers Association, Korea) in 2016. His works are collected by institutions such as the MMCA Government Art Bank (Korea), MMCA Art Bank (Korea), Koo House Museum (Korea), ARARIO Collection (Korea), and more.

LEE Dongwook

Pooh, 2014

LEE Dongwook (b. 1976)'s works are the most realistically grounded with everyday reality. His choice of medium or method of expression is drastically private and lean toward his personal life and taste, but his work often contains serious observations of the individual in modern society's struggle to get through a daily routine or act as a critique or accusation of reality. His cynical and distanced gaze is filtered through humor and wit, but the content is always serious, and even grave at times. Through human figures, residues, traces that are meticulously positioned amongst humanoids made of Sculpey, trophies, rock collections and other items, LEE offers a calm portrait of the eternal return - alienation, balance, division, and isolation as they arise from the indivisible relationship between humanity and its society.

LEE Dongwook was born in Daejeon, Korea, in 1976. LEE graduated from the Department of Painting of Hongik University College of Fine Arts in 2001 and obtained his master's degree from the graduate school of the same university in 2003. LEE has held solo exhibitions at various institutions such as ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL (Seoul, Korea, 2024; 2012), ARARIO MUSEUM Dongmun Motel II (Jeju, Korea, 2016), Perigee Gallery (Seoul, Korea, 2016), Gallery Charlotte Lund (Stockholm, Sweden, 2013) and Doosan Gallery (New York, US, 2012). He has also participated in group exhibitions at ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL (Seoul, Korea, 2023; 2018; 2014; 2011; 2010), Daejeon Museum of Art (Daejeon, Korea, 2021), Inside-Out Art Museum (Beijing, China, 2017), Light Box (Venice, Italia, 2013), Doosan Gallery (Seoul, Korea, 2012), Museum of Arts and Design (New York, USA, 2011), Uppsala Art Museum (Uppsala, Sweden, 2011), National Museum of Contemporary Art (Gwacheon, Korea, 2010; 2009; 2004), Saatchi Gallery (London, UK, 2009), Total Museum of Contemporary Art (Seoul, Korea, 2009) and The National Museum of Art (Osaka, Japan, 2007) etc. LEE's works are part of many significant collections such as National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul Museum of Art, Burger Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Today Art Museum and more.

AHN Jisan

Object Study in a Dark Room: Two Averted Hands 불 꺼진 방에서의 사물연구 : 외면한 두 손, 2026

AHN Jisan (b.1979) works with traditional canvas painting, a relatively marginalized medium in contemporary art. His works depict reality, but one that is strangely misaligned or distorted. The depiction of obscure images adds visual tension, and these subjects, which have slipped out from reality, project an even greater uneasiness that brings out their innate anxiety. Upon confronting his work, there is an instant sense of discomfort. The emotional tension and gloominess are amplified by accentuating the material properties and mounting thick, expressive layers of paint onto the canvas. AHN's intention to express the subject in its raw visual state brings out the absorbed emotions created and embedded within it. These improvised animalistic expressions are possible through a thorough study and modeling process. The substantiality of the objects is neither constructed nor reconstructed but is, in fact, a realization of experienced, felt, and penetrated emotions. Rather than portraying the subject of conceptual representation through obvious imagery, the artist expresses the reality and emotional experience of the subject through intuition and empathy.

AHN Jisan was born in Busan in 1979. He received his BFA in Fine Art at Korea National University of Arts in 2006 and MFA in Painting at Frank Mohr Institute, Groningen, Netherlands in 2011. He has held solo exhibitions at various institutions including ARARIO MUSEUM in SPACE (Seoul, Korea, 2024), Galerie Bart (Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2023; 2020; 2015; 2014), ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL (Seoul, Korea, 2024; 2023; 2016), Zaha Museum (Seoul, Korea, 2017), Hapjungjigu (Seoul, Korea, 2016), and more. He has participated in group exhibitions at Sehwa Museum of Art (Seoul, Korea, 2025), Hite collection (Seoul, Korea, 2024), ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL (Seoul, Korea, 2024; 2023; 2016), Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art (Ansan, Korea, 2020; 2017), National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Cheongju, Korea, 2020), Daegu Art Museum (Daegu, Korea, 2017), Jeonbuk Museum of Art (Wanju, Korea, 2016), Arko Art Center (Seoul, Korea, 2016), and more. In 2013, he was the artist-in-residence at Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten (Amsterdam, Netherlands). In 2014, AHN won the Buning Brongers Prijzen (Amsterdam, Netherlands). His works are collected by numerous institutions including National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art’s Art Bank, Seoul Museum of Art, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, ARARIO Collection.

GWON Osang

The Three Shades-Fire 세 망령들-불, 2022

GWON Osang (b. 1974) is a sculptor who has constantly questioned the identity of sculpture and tried to converge new experimental media into new form structure. His varied approach for exploring the existence of sculptures is composed of five series, Deodorant Type, The Sculpture, The Flat, New Structure, and Relief. The "deodorant type" was shaped in ‘ISO-pink(hardened Styrofoam)’ to break the notion that sculpture must be heavy, and the outer edges were covered with hundreds of photographs directly taken or collected for supporting light sculptures and expanded the sculpture while presenting new materials.

"The Sculpture" is a series that unravels the meaning of traditional sculptures that try to realize the ideal of the time in the closest proximity to reality. Considering the definition of sculpture by using bronze, a traditional material of sculpture, to bring the high-value consumers, the ideal of the 21st century such as Lamborghini and Bugatti, close to the actual shape but makes the surface treatment which has not been refined, unlike the traditional method. "New Structure" is a series of works that have been expanded to three dimensions by adding Alexander Calder's Stabile concept to the "Flat" series. The series, which mainly occupies spaces with aluminum structures, adds to the characteristics of existing image acquisition and placement, and questions the relationship between sculpture and space through the perspective of the artist who travels between 2D and 3D. The latest series, "Relief," is a new method of traditional carving, by building the two-dimensional plane in three dimensions, after realizing the exclusive image collection and arrangement on a flat, original version.

GWON Osang graduated from the Department of Sculpture of Hongik University College of Fine Arts in 2000 and obtained his master's degree from the graduate school of the same university in 2004. He has held solo and collaborative exhibitions at Lotte Avenuel Art Hall (Seoul, Korea, 2023), Ilmin Museum of Art (Seoul, Korea, 2022), Suwon Museum of Art (Suwon, Korea, 2022), ARARIO GALLERY (Seoul, Korea; Shanghai, China, 2016), among others. His solo exhibitions have been showcased worldwide at venues such as Hermès (Sydney, Australia, 2016), Waterfall Gallery (New York, US, 2016), Okinawa Contemporary Art Center (Okinawa, Japan, 2015), Joyce Paris (Paris, France, 2014), HADA Contemporary (London, UK, 2013), Manchester Art Gallery (Manchester, UK, 2008). Group exhibitions showcasing his works have been held at Arko Art Center (Seoul, Korea, 2025), ARARIO GALLERY (Seoul, Korea, 2024; 2023; 2018; 2014; 2011; 2010), Gyeongnam Art Museum (Changwon, Korea, 2023), V&A Museum (London, UK, 2023), The Shop House (Hong Kong, 2022), Seoul National University Museum of Art (Seoul, Korea, 2021), Daelim Museum (Seoul, Korea, 2020), Pohang Museum of Steel Art (Pohang, Korea, 2020), Lotte Museum (Seoul, Korea, 2019), National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul, Korea, 2015), Singapore Art Museum (Singapore, 2014), Saatchi Gallery (London, UK, 2010), Burger Collection (Berlin, Germany, 2009), Bologna Museum of Modern Art (Bologna, Italy, 2004), and FOAM (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2003). In addition, GWON has collaborated with various brands such as Jaguar, BMW, Wooyoungmi, Hermès and Riot Games to bring contemporary art closer to the public. His works are part of the collections at institutions including the Victoria and Albert Museum, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul Museum of Art, Busan Museum of Art, and Leeum Museum of Art in Korea.

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NOH Sangho

LEE Dongwook

AHN Jisan

GWON Osang

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