Born in 1985 in Seoul, South Korea
Lives and works in Montreal, Canada

GaHee PARK

Park’s paintings may be realized in the “naive” style that recalls painters like Henri Rousseau, but her subject matter is far from it. Often depicting romantic scenes where the idyll has turned sour, the sexual acts that seem to be transpiring in her paintings are at odds with their quaint settings, where art history’s favorite still life subjects—rotund fruit, cheeses, and bottles, appear on the verge of rolling off the surface of the table: so pitched is the surface, so hyper-stylized is her take on forced perspective. And yet, space doesn’t seem to recede in Park’s paintings. It’s cancelled out by the kind of flatness only a laboring love of texture and pattern can produce. Space comes to a halt as Park revels in woodgrain and brocade. Any indication of space comes courtesy of some framed element that seems to replicate the scene, albeit with some slight modification like a game of “Spot the Difference.” A window? A mirror? Another painting? Park revels in these ambiguities as well.

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education

2015 MFA, Painting, Hunter College, New York, NY
2012 BFA, Painting, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA

solo shows

2024
- Fun and Games, Perrotin, New York, NY (forthcoming)

2023
- Académie Conti, curated by Eric Troncy, Consortium Museum, Vosne-Romanée, France
- Eveningness, Perrotin, Tokyo, Japan 

2021
- Too Early After All, Perrotin, Paris, France

2020
- Betrayal (Sweet Blood), Perrotin, New York, NY

2019
- We Used to Be Fish, Perrotin, Seoul, South Korea

2018
- Every Day Was Yesterday, Taymour Grahne, London, UK

2017
- Kissing in the Tree, Motel, Brooklyn, NY

2016
- Butt on Face, Pioneer Works, 2nd Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2015
- No No Means Yes Yes, Marginal Utility Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

group shows

2024 
- Conversation Galante, Pilar Corrias, London, UK

2023
50 Paintings, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI 
Cruel To Be Kind / Les Plus Beaux Cauchemars, curated by Anaïs Castro and Alice Ricciardi, LivArt, Montreal
PUBLIC PRIVATE, curated by Jareh Das, Pond Society, Shanghai, China
- Volupté, Blouin Division, Montreal, Canada

2022
-Wonder Women, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA
-Beyond Idendity,​ Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA
-A Few Small Nips, Mrs., New York, NY
-Wonder Women, Jeffrey Deitch, New York, NY
-They Shut Me Up In Prose, Nassima Landau, Tel Aviv, Israel

2021
- Beyond the Looking Glass, UTA Artist Space, Beverly Hills, CA
and I will wear you in my heart of heart, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY 
Domesticated, curated by Coady Brown, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2020
- Fantasy Body, Projet Pangée, Montreal, Canada
- Animal Kingdom, Alexander Berggruen Gallery, New York, NY
Art on the Grid, Public Art Fund, New York, NY

2019
- Drinking the Reflection, curated by Elizabeth Malaska, Russo Lee, Portland, OR
- No Patience For Monuments, Perrotin, Seoul, South Korea

2018
Hot Farce, Field Projects Gallery, New York, NY
Cat Lady, Teen Party, Brooklyn, NY
- Bathers, Bass & Reiner, San Francisco, CA
Cheeky: Summer Butts, Marinaro Gallery, NY
Picnic, Calico Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2017
- How to Draw The Human Figure, Agency, Brooklyn, NY
Laurel, laurelexhibition.com, Brooklyn, NY
- Lintel, Mantel, Module, Shelf, LaMaMa Galleria, New York, NY

2016
Internal Affairs, Two person show with Doron Langberg, Ess Ef Eff, Brooklyn, NY
Sexuality, NAM Project, Milan, Italy
- Intimisms, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY 
- NSFW | Male Nudes by Female Painters, Outlet Brooklyn, NY

public collections

- Pond Society, Shanghai, China
- Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, USA
- Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, USA
- Medianoche Foundation, Granada, Spain

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

2018
- Shandaken: Stormking Artist-in-Residency

2016
- Recipient of Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowships in Painting
- C12 Emerging Artist: Special Recognition
- The Cooper Union: Summer Artist-in-Residence

  • February 13, 2023
    Financial Times — 2 PAGES

  • September 3, 2022
    Beaux Arts Magazine — 3 PAGES

  • September 1, 2022
    Transfuge — 1 PAGE

  • May 1, 2022
    ESSE — 4 PAGES

  • September 21, 2021
    Artforum — 2 PAGES

2024

GaHee PARK

February 24, 2024 - April 6, 2024

new york

130 Orchard Street

Fun and Games

2023

BALTHUS, Jean-Siméon CHARDIN, Jean-Baptiste Camille COROT, Gustave COURBET, Malù DALLA PICCOLA, Eugène DELACROIX, Jean-Philippe DELHOMME, André DERAIN, Jens FÄNGE, Théodore GÉRICAULT, Alberto GIACOMETTI, Laurent GRASSO, Antoine-Jean GROS, Francis GRUBER, Charles HASCOËT, Jean-Auguste-Dominique INGRES, Alain JACQUET, Klara KRISTALOVA, Elladj LINCY DELOUMEAUX, Aristide MAILLOL, Danielle ORCHARD, GaHee PARK, Pierre PUVIS DE CHAVANNES, CHEN Ke, maxime BIOU

July 6, 2023 - July 29, 2023

paris

8 avenue Matignon

Dans la tête de Balthus

curated by Edwart Vignot, Isotta Bosi

GaHee PARK

January 18, 2023 - February 25, 2023

tokyo

Piramide Building, 1F, 6-6-9 Roppongi, Minato-ku

Eveningness

2022

Henni ALFTAN, Trevor BAIRD, Genesis BELANGER, Chris BOGIA, GELITIN, Elizabeth GLAESSNER, Vivian GREVEN, Ivy HALDEMAN, Sharon MADANES, Nikki MALOOF, Jesse MOCKRIN, Danielle ORCHARD, GaHee PARK, Veronika PAUSOVA, Christina QUARLES, Sarah SLAPPEY, Emily Mae SMITH, Michael STAMM, Jessica STOLLER, Young-jun TAK, Robin F. WILLIAMS, Mark YANG

September 3, 2022 - September 24, 2022

paris

10 IMPASSE SAINT CLAUDE 75003 PARIS

Finger Bang

curated by Genesis Belanger & GaHee Park

2021

GaHee PARK

September 4, 2021 - September 30, 2021

paris

76 RUE DE TURENNE 75003 PARIS

Too Early After All

2020

GaHee PARK

September 12, 2020 - October 17, 2020

new york

130 Orchard Street

Betrayal (Sweet Blood)

2019

GaHee PARK

October 31, 2019 - December 28, 2019

Seoul

1F 5 Palpan-gil, Jongno-gu

We Used to Be Fish

Genesis BELANGER, Julie CURTISS, Nick DOYLE, Celia HEMPTON, Ridley HOWARD, Jessie MAKINSON, GaHee PARK, Sarah PETERS, Naudline PIERRE, Emily Mae SMITH, Jansson STEGNER, Ruby Sky STILER

April 4, 2019 - June 8, 2019

Seoul

1F 5 Palpan-gil, Jongno-gu

No Patience for Monuments

GAHEE PARK AT ACADEMIE CONTI, CONSORTIUM MUSEUM

GAHEE PARK AT ACADEMIE CONTI, CONSORTIUM MUSEUM

GaHee PARK

"DANS LA TÊTE DE BALTHUS" AT PERROTIN MATIGNON

"DANS LA TÊTE DE BALTHUS" AT PERROTIN MATIGNON

BALTHUS, Jean-Siméon CHARDIN, Jean-Baptiste Camille COROT, Gustave COURBET, Malù DALLA PICCOLA, Eugène DELACROIX, Jean-Philippe DELHOMME, André DERAIN, Jens FÄNGE, Théodore GÉRICAULT, Alberto GIACOMETTI, Laurent GRASSO, Antoine-Jean GROS, Francis GRUBER, Charles HASCOËT, Jean-Auguste-Dominique INGRES, Alain JACQUET, Klara KRISTALOVA, Elladj LINCY DELOUMEAUX, Aristide MAILLOL, Danielle ORCHARD, GaHee PARK, Pierre PUVIS DE CHAVANNES, CHEN Ke, maxime BIOU

"TOO EARLY AFTER ALL" AT PERROTIN PARIS

"TOO EARLY AFTER ALL" AT PERROTIN PARIS

GaHee PARK

"BETRAYAL (SWEET BLOOD)" AT PERROTIN NEW YORK

"BETRAYAL (SWEET BLOOD)" AT PERROTIN NEW YORK

GaHee PARK

PERROTIN

Closed for installation

Perrotin Los Angeles is closed for installation through Friday, April 5.

We look forward to welcoming you at our next exhibition, Art 2 by MSCHF. Join us at the opening on Saturday, April 6, 2024 between 3pm to 8pm! The exhibition will continue through June 1.
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