An internationally acclaimed artist with a presence in many prestigious collections around the world, Ran Hwang distorts and refreshes common perception by turning the ordinary into aesthetic masterpieces. Using buttons, beads, pins and threads, she creates mammoth installations that depict a myriad of socially and emotionally relevant subjects. Hammering each pin in by hand, the artist regards her technique as meditative, simultaneously leading to impeccable detailing as part of her canvas of wooden board. A complex coalescence of colour and layered texturing, Hwang combines not only the perspective of the grand scale versus the ordinary, but also the visual illusions of a whole image versus its defining components. These stunning visuals when seen alongside the emotional and meaningful displays of her subjects, leaves her work thought provoking and engrossing in the encompassment of perceptual fluidity; constantly inciting the viewer to look deeper and read between every hand crafted line.
Ran Hwang graduated with a Bachelor in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and subsequently went on to attain her Masters Degree in Fine Arts at the Graduate School of Arts Chung-Ang University in Seoul, Korea. This Korean-born artist currently resides and practices her craft in New York, and is best-known for creating intricate, large-scale wall installations with exquisite materials from the fashion industry such as beads, buttons, pins and thread. A multiple award winner, Ran Hwang has completed many residencies and her works have been exhibited across the globe, including Korea, Switzerland, USA and France, and collected by distinguished hotels, museums and companies.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
2017 Asian Civilizations Museum, Singapore
Leila Heller Gallery, New York
2015 UNESCO Paris Headquarters, Paris
MASS MoCA - Hunter Center Mezzanine, MA
International Museum of Art and Science
(IMAS), Cardenas Gallery, Texas, USA
2014 Third Floor-Hermès Singapore, Singapore
Leila Heller Gallery, New York
Asian Art Works, 798 Beijing, China
2012 Leila Heller Gallery, New York
2010 Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2009 Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2008 ACAF (Asian Contemporary Art Fair), Pier 92, Special
Exhibition, New York
2007 2X13 Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2006 Hass Gallery, Bloomsburg University, PA, USA
2005 Open Studio, Vermont Studio Art Center, Jonson Vermont, U.S.A
2004 Hutchins Gallery, Long Island University, NewYork
2002 Hudson River Gallery, New York
Yee Mook Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2001 Hudson River Gallery, New York
2000 Artsnal Gallery, Paris
1999 Hudson River Gallery, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Then and Now: Contemporary Asian Art, Hermitage Museum
& Gardens, Norfolk, VA
2018 Infinite Blue, Brooklyn Museum, New York
Art in the Workplace, Yonsei
University Dental Hospital
POSTMODERNISM AND AESTHETICS: COLLIDE
OR STEER, Korea Cultural Center, New York
Paper Moon, Museum of
Contemporary Art of Crete, Greece
PASSION. CONTINUED, Asia Week New York
Special Exhibition, Korean Cultural Center of New York,
New York
2017 Infinite Blue, Brooklyn Museum, New York
Mykonos Biennale, Trans Allegoria
2016 Art & Life, Art Space Ben, Seoul
AHL Foundation 13th Annual Benefit Gala, New
York
Material Girls, Contemporary Calgary,
Alberta, Canada
Pinned Stitched and Glitzed, Asian Art
Works, Beijing, China
Viewing The Past Thru Modern Eyes, Kang
Collection, New York, USA
Lady Dior As Seen By, House of Dior, Seoul,
South Korea; World Tour exhibition
Material Girls, Doris McCarthy Gallery,
Ontario, Canada
Water, KANEKO, NE, USA
2015 AHL Foundation 12th Annual Benefit Gala, New York
Regeneration, Opera Gallery Paris, Paris,
France
Pinned Stitched and Glitzed, Anya and Andrew
Shiva Art Gallery, New York
Summer Show, Leila Heller Gallery, New York
Accidental Encounter, Buk Seoul Museum of
Art, Seoul, South Korea
Diverse Works: Director’s Choice, 1997-2015,
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Arts in Spring, Guangzhou Library,
Guangzhou, China
Material Girls, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina,
Saskatchewan, Canada
2014 Asian Collection, Asian Art Works, Beijing, China
The Lineage of Vision, Korean Cultural
Service, New York
AHL Foundation 11th Annual Benefit Gala, New
York
MASS MoCA 15th Anniversary Benefit, New York
Art International Istanbul (Leila Heller
Gallery), Istanbul, Turkey
Mix & Match, Artspace Ben, Seoul, Korea
Annual Watermill Summer Benefit Auction, The
Watermill Center, Water Mill, New York
The Archives of Korean-American Artists,
Queens Museum of Art, New York
The Fabergè Big Egg Hunt, New York
The Armory Show, Leila Heller Gallery, New
York
2013 Abu Dhabi Art, Kashya Hildebrand gallery, Abu Dhabi
Korea International Art Fair-Vip Lounge, AAW
Beijing, Korea
Paths to Peace, Hammond Museum Guild Hall
Gallery, New York
Living Room, Asian Art Works, Busan, Korea
Summer Group Show, Leila Heller Gallery, New
York, USA
Freedom: Just another word
for…,Kidspace@ Mass Moca, North Adams, MA
Transparencies: Contemporary Art and A
History of Glass, Des Moines Art Center
2012 Media Variegations, Asian Art Works, 798 Beijing, China
L'Asie en Vogue Exhibition, Pagoda Paris
Gallery, France
Peekskill Project V, HVCCA-Hudson Valley
Center for Contemporary Art, NY
Conference of Birds, CYNTHIA-REEVES
Projects, Mana Contemporary, New Jersey
FIFTH ANNUAL QUEENS ART EXPRESS, Jamaica
Center for Arts Learning, NY
VIP Art Fair 2.0, Leila Heller Gallery, NY
2011 Aha Moment!, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Art Center, Seoul,
Korea
AHL FoundationAnnual Auction, Lehmann Maupin
Gallery, New York
Sofia International Paper Art Biennale 2011,
Sofia, Bulgaria
Finding Flow, Jeju Museum of Contemporary
Art, Jeju Island, Korea
2010 Foundation, Gala Auction, Arario Gallery, New York
B.I.E.N.N.A.L.E + ONE, Kwang-ju, Korea
Fokus Lodz Biennale 2010, Lodz, Poland
2009 Kaleidoscope, Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
Beginning of New Era, National Museum of
Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Triple of Light, mnav (Museo Nacional de
Artes Visuales), Uruguay
2008 KIAF (Korean International Art Fair), COEX, 2x13 Gallery,
Seoul, Korea
Facial of Art- 20 Years Anniversary
exhibition, Seoul Art Center Museum, Seoul, Korea
2007 Incarnation, Hammond Museum, New York
Drawing the Line - Against Domestic
Violence-Auction, The Metropolitan Pavilion,
Woman in Love, Tenri Gallery, New York
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