Ran Hwang

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Korean artist Ran Hwang is known for creating intriguing and breathtaking wall installations. With buttons, crystals, pins, and threads as paint, she creates large-scale wall installations in a quasi-meditative process. Her use of fashion industry items to create grandiose images is a metaphor of how allure, glamour, and fashion take a turn toward beauty. Created by fashion, beauty goes beyond it and has a greater resonance: a pin by itself cannot achieve beauty, but the assemblage of thousands of it, merged with the laborious working process of the artist, results in flamboyant creations representing natural and divine. "In doing so, she implicitly suggests a difference or contrast between the two. While glamour functions as a temporal manifestation of the exterior, beauty reads as a phenomenon emanating from within."

About the artist

Ran Hwang is a contemporary New York based, South Korean artist known for her intricate and visually stunning installations. Born in 1960 in South Korea, Ran Hwang graduated with a Bachelors 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. 

Ran Hwang creates iconic artworks that embody her in-depth contemplation with the nature of cyclical life, non-visibility and the beauty of transient glamor. Her earlier career in the fashion industry and the personal memories of 9/11 attack have led her to adopt everyday materials into the delicate and dramatic works. Her installations, often created with thousands of pins, buttons, and beads, evoke a sense of meditative tranquility and intricate beauty.

She has won Gold Prize by AHL Foundation NY in 2004 and Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2015. Her works are internationally acclaimed in galleries and museums around the world.