Sun K. Kwak

Sun K. Kwak brings us into new space, new light, new air, and new direction which we could never imagined.

WORK
Sun K. Kwak (b. South Korea) is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist. She creates works that are thematically connected but take on different forms and formats from performance to animation to sculpture with various materials. Her most well known series is “Space Drawing”, comprised of simple masking tape that transforms a space into a new “Pictorial Reality” where full of dynamic energy mingle and flow, creating a space of limitless wonder and possibilities.

Kwak has had site specific solo exhibitions in places such as Brooklyn Museum (New York), Queens Museum (Bulova, New York),New Art Gallery (Walsall, England), the Carleton University Art Gallery (Ottawa, Canada), the Charles B. Wang Center (Stony Brook University, New York), Gallery Skape (Seoul, Korea) . Group exhibitions include the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Korea), the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taichung, Taiwan), Asian Art Museum (San Francisco), “Works & Process” a collaborative drawing performance at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), and the 6th Gwangju Biennale (Korea).

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Permanent collection locations of her works include the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Korea), “Percent for Art” Collection of the NYC Department of Education, PS298Q, Corona, NY, Seoul City Museum of Art (Korea), Toranomon Hills Mori Tower (Tokyo, Japan), Samsung Life flagship (Gangnam, Seoul, Korea), Four Season Hotel (Orlando, Florida), CU Art Museum (University of Colorado, Boulder, CO), and The James Hotel (Soho, New York)

EDUCATION
Sun K. Kwak received her M.A. in Studio Art from New York University in 1997.

AWARDS
Sun K. Kwak is a recipient of the Pollock Krasner Grant in both 2006 and 2011. 

ARTWORK SERIES

EXHIBITIONS

Slow Art Asia 2020 at Waterfall Gallery 2020

Re Collection 2019 at Waterfall Gallery 2019

Infinite Grace at Waterfall Gallery 2018

New Book at Waterfall Gallery 2017

Re Collection 2017 at Waterfall Gallery 2017

A Sustaining Life at Waterfall Gallery 2016

ART IN PUBLIC SPACE

FILMS

Asian Art Museum
For the "Phantoms of Asia" exhibition at the Asian Art Museum (on view from May 18-September 2, 2012), Kwak creates a site-specific installation for the museum's North Court, which will not be seen again after the exhibition closes. "At the close of an exhibition," Kwak explains, "the space once again becomes blank, as the black tape of the drawings is pulled off the wall and thrown out. This process of emptying the space is a metaphor for the ephemeral nature of life and my acceptance of the emptiness of that nature. Yet the drawing lives on in viewers' memories as an imprint that leaves the space forever altered.

Brooklyn Museum March 27 - July 5, 2009
Installing Enfolding 280 Hours

Arts Avenue
Sun. K Kwak’s Solo Exhibition "125 Rolls of Winding, 48 Layers of Piling, 72 Yards of Looping", 2015

New York-based Korean artist Sun. K Kwak held her first domestic exhibition in 8 years. This exhibition features her much-acclaimed “space drawing” series, Rolling Space, which is created as a visual response on each given space using masking tape. Her pieces vitally convey the circulating energy between life and death as well as the conscious and subconscious worlds with subtle vibrations. Feast your eyes with Sun K. Kwak’s wonderful artistry.

AVAILABLE WORKS