Ran Hwang

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About the artwork

For the Dior Exhibition, Ran Hwang created a beautiful piece in conjunction with Dior - inspired by the passing of time, the visible and the invisible, dreamed up a sculpture in full bloom. A shower of plum blossoms erupts across the Dior icon, forming delightful red and black punctuations, hammered in using a repetitive, meditative process. With its extraordinary, elusive qualities, the artist’s tableau, which features in our online retrospective of the show, reveals the infinite beauty of nature, infusing this timeless emblem with a unique and ever-renewed essence. The immersive work, with its mesmerising transparency, invites the viewer to marvel at the innate and captivating poetry of life.

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.