b.1988. lives and works in Paju and Seoul, Korea.

Im Jaehyoung collects and paints personal, social, and historical images related to absence, exploring the meaning of disappearance and the void in relation to the methods and implications of painting. Rather than depicting what is absent directly, he adopts a methodology of wandering, tracing what remains and the circumstances surrounding it. This approach reflects his artistic attitude of remaining with questions about the world that resist resolution, without arbitrarily resolving them or reducing them to fixed conclusions.

More recently, he has been examining a wide range of images, from medieval manuscripts to contemporary press imagery, considering the relationships between contact and non-contact, presence and absence, and surface and what lies behind it. Painting’s double sense of distance and the emphatic expressiveness of printmaking simultaneously conceal and reveal forms. His paintings invite interpretation yet resist complete resolution, and through this tension explore the multilayered relationship between image and meaning.

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1988年生まれ。韓国・坡州およびソウルを拠点に活動。

不在にまつわる個人的・社会的・歴史的なイメージを収集し、それらを絵画として描くことで、消失や空白の意味を、絵画という方法とその含意との関係から探究している。彼は不在そのものを直接描くのではなく、残された痕跡や、それを取り巻く状況をたどりながら彷徨するような方法論を採用している。そこには、容易には解決しえない世界への問いを恣意的に処理したり固定的な結論へと還元したりすることなく、その問いのもとにとどまり続けようとする作家の姿勢が反映されている。

近年は、中世の写本から現代の報道写真に至るまで幅広いイメージを参照しながら、接触と非接触、存在と不在、表面とその背後にあるものとの関係について考察している。版画に由来する輪郭や濃淡の強調と、絵画における像の不確定性を重ねることで、視覚的には明瞭でありながら、意味としては容易に回収されない画面を構成している。彼の作品は、そのような可視と不可視の揺らぎのなかで、イメージと意味の関係を一つの解釈へと閉じることなく探っている。

Education

2017 MFA in Printmaking, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

2014 BFA in Painting, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Solo Exhibitions

2026 Hands and Fragments, Iseurrat Artroom, Seoul

2025 Hollowed Illuminations, Voda Gallery, Seoul

Tail, YK Presents, Seoul

2024 Blank Reading, PS Center, Seoul

Edge of the Water, Cheongju Art Studio, Cheongju

Wandering, Gallery MAF, Seoul

The Furthest Away, Sahngup Gallery, Seoul

2022 The Sea, Smoke and Shade, Incheon Art Platform G1, Incheon

2020 Tracing on Emptiness, Onsu-gonggan, Seoul

Whereabouts, Show and Tell, Seoul

2014 A Sense of Absence, Gallery DOS, Seoul

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026 Luna, Discourse on Art, Seoul

2025 Intangible Boundaries, Pipe Gallery, Seoul

2024 Paint it Black, Amado Art Space, Seoul

2022 Migration, Art Space Cargo, Incheon

Paranormal Opera, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul

Engraving on a Boat, Art Space 0, Seoul

2021 International Triennial of Contemporary Graphics in Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk State Museum, Novosibirsk

2020 About Your K, Seoul Museum of Art Storage, Seoul

Contact Circle: Printmaking x Installation, Space 9, Seoul

2019 Veiled-Layers, All Time Space, Seoul

2018 Double-sided, Gallery of Government Complex Seoul, Seoul

2014 Art Factory Project, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul

Art Fairs

2026 The Preview Seoul 2026 with ShinhanCard, SFACTORY, Seoul

2025 Untitled Art, Miami Beach, Ocean Drive and 12th Street, Miami Beach,

Swab Barcelona, Textile Pavilion, Fira de Barcelona Montjuïc, Barcelona

POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair, Tempelhof Airport, Hangar 7, Berlin

Tokyo Gendai, PACIFICO Yokohama, Yokohama

ART BUSAN, BEXCO, Busan

2021 The Preview Hannam with Shinhan Card, Blue Square NEMO Hall, Seoul

Awards and Support

2026 Selected Artist, PUBLIC ART New Hero 2026, Korea

2024 Young Artist Support, Arts Council Korea, Korea

2023 Intensive Support for Art Creation, Incheon Foundation for Arts and Culture, Incheon, Korea

2021 MEET Program, Seoul Art Space Mullae, Seoul, Korea

2020 Arts Creation Support, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul, Korea

Studio Support, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul, Korea

2019 MEET Program, Seoul Art Space Mullae, Seoul, Korea

2013 Ha Dong Chul Foundation Award, Seoul, Korea