Suki Seokyeong Kang's practice traverses painting sculpture installation as well as video
and performance to explore the interplay between the individual and the collective. By
developing an artistic vocabulary that draws from the rich heritage of Korean painting poetry
and dance Kang's oeuvre examines the durability of traditions and expands their significance
to contemporary art. The catalogue accompanying her solo exhibition Willow Drum Oriole at
Leeum Museum of Art proposes to read Kang's practice through a range of varying discourses
such as the status of traditional Korean painting in contemporary art feminism and the
narratives of the Western avant-garde. Taking the artist's foundational painting practice as a
point of departure the catalogue features a new body of work and charts the development of
Kang's artistic language. Based in Seoul SUKI SEOKYEONG KANG (*1977) studied Painting at Ewha
Womans University in Seoul and at London's Royal College of Art. In 2018 Kang won the Baloise
Art Prize at Art Basel. She has had solo exhibitions at Buk-Seoul Museum of Art (2019-2020)
MUDAM Luxembourg (2018) ICA Philadelphia (2018) and her works have been featured in group
exhibitions at MCA Chicago (2021) the Venice Biennale (2019) the Shanghai Biennale (2018)
the Gwangju Biennale (2018) and the Liverpool Biennial (2018).
