Tae Park | Winter Rain in Venice

Tae Park, Korean painter, was born in South Korea and grew up in Kyoung Ju City.

Park holds a BFA in Painting from Sungshin Woman’s University in Seoul Korea and a MFA in Fine Art from Academy of Art University.

Tae Park is an award winning fine artist with over several years of professional exhibiting experience.

Park was a First Place Winner at the Portrait Society of America’s International Competition.

Jungsuk Lee | Romantic illustrator

Jungsuk Lee 이정석 is a South Korean illustrator, who makes work under the name Endmion1.

Graduated in Business Administration from Chungju National University.

Jungsuk Lee's dreamlike artwork creates beautifully atmospheric compositions that are highlighted with emotionally engaging cityscapes, starry nights and wistful figures.

Park Im Gyu 박임규 | Watercolor painter

Park Im Gyu (Korean: 박임규) is an South Korean Artist who is renowned for his delicate brushstrokes and precise character descriptions through pencil and watercolor.

Park Im Gyu was born in Hamyang County, a county in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.

Currently lives and works in Ulsan Metropolitan City.

Jung Sook Hyun, 1961 | Watercolor painter

Artist Jung Sook Hyun with a Graduate Masters in Fine Art in Korea, has exhibited her paintings all over the world.

Jung Sook Hyun has been Artist since her high school year and she's been very active in the area with her exhibitions.

She currently lives and works in Fullerton, California.

Jung Sook Hyun captures snapshot of the California countryside with her delicate Watercolor and Oil Paintings.

Coniglio 꼬닐리오 | A Girl and her Pet Rabbit | Whimsical Illustrator

Coniglio (en. Rabbit) is the pseudonym of a Korean artist who has lived in Italy for four years.

With a background in graphic design, Coniglio creates whimsical illustrations for children's books.

After graduating from the University in Korea, she left for Italy to participate in an internship program.

Coniglio, fascinated by the atmosphere that Italy conveyed to her, boarded the plane without having learned Italian well.

She currently lives in Milan and is majoring in visual design at the National Academy of Fine Arts (Accademia di Belle Arti).

WanJin Gim, 1981 | Abstract painter

Seoul-based artist WanJin Gim illustrates the form and gesture of the human body using complex hatched layers of color and dramatic lighting.

He starts his career under the nickname "Willeys".

In 2016 he begins sharing his artworks with SNS. His passion for drawing manifests itself from a young age.

After graduating from the Animation Department he realizes that animation is not capturing him and chooses to work as a freelance filmmaker.

Jonathan Ahn, 1977 | Figurative / Cityscape painter

Korean-born American painter🎨 Jonathan Jungsuk Ahn was born in Seoul, South Korea and immediately displayed talent in fine arts.

At age seven Jon moved to the Boston area, where he began studying under and studied under Mrs. Angell-Rickenbacker for over a decade until Jon left for Paris, France.

Jon continued studying art in Paris within the hallow Parisien Museums.

During this time, Jon produced a substantial body of work all the while studying the works of Old Masters.

After several years of traveling the world, Jon settled in San Francisco where he has received his MFA at the Academy of Art University.

Jungho Lee | Surrealist Illustrator

The Korean artist Jungho Lee is based in Seoul where he creates surreal illustrations for books and is also in the process of working on his own picture book.

Many of his recent pieces incorporate actual books as a wide variety of visual metaphors from the wings of a plane to pools of stars.

Jungho Lee was recently named the overall professional winner of the "World Illustration Awards 2016".

Lee Kang-Bin, 1991 | Coffee art

South Korean barista Lee Kang-bin is taking coffee art to the next level, creating miniature imitations of famous paintings on foamy cups of java at his central Seoul cafe.

With meticulous strokes of tiny brushes and spoons, Lee, 26, recreates the likes of Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night" and Edvard Munch's "The Scream" using thick cream stained with food coloring atop a cup of coffee.

The result of the painstaking 15-minute process is a 10,000 won ($8.71) cup of cold coffee that has won Lee thousands of fans at his cafe and online.

Seung Mo Park, 1969 | Wire Sculptor

South Korean artist Seung Mo Park 성 명 박 승 모 (朴勝模) creates gorgeous sculptures from tightly wrapped aluminium wire over fibreglass forms.

Park gained a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Dong A University in Busan, South Korea’s second largest city after Seoul.

Making up Park’s ‘Human’ series, the figures display painstaking attention to detail, from the bone structure and curves of the human bodies, to the delicate strands of hair and the folds and wrinkles of draped clothing.

Chin H. Shin | Impressionist Cityscape painter

Korean-born American painter Chin H. Shin has a Master of Art Degree from Long Island University. His past affiliation includes, Oil painters of America, American Society of Marine Artist, Portrait Society of America, member of Huntington Art Council, a judge for Bold Brush International Art Competition and teaches art classes by request.

Pablo Neruda | Love, how many roads.. | Amore, quanta strada..

Amore, quante strade per giungere a un bacio,
che solitudine errante fino alla tua compagnia!
I treni continuano a rotolare soli con la pioggia.
A Taltal ancora non albeggia la primavera.

Ma tu ed io, amor mio, siamo uniti,
uniti dai vestiti alle radici,
uniti d'autunno, d'acqua, di fianchi,
fino ad essere solo tu, sol io uniti.

Love, how many roads to obtain a kiss,

what lonely wanderings before finding you!

Trains now trundle through the rain without me.

Spring has yet to come to Taltal.

But you and I, my love, are together,

together from our clothes to our bones,

together in Autumn, in our water, at our hips,

until it's just you together, me together.

Sung Sam Park, 1949

Korean painter Sung Sam Park was born in Soeul, Korea where he began painting at the age of twelve. His talent and teaching abilities were quickly recognized and by the age of thirteen, while still a junior high school student, Park taught painting at the local high school.
Early on, Park attracted the attention of prominent artists and heads of state. Byen Si-Jin, former university president of Jo-Joo Island, was his private art teacher and mentor. The former president of South Korea, Yoon Bo-Sun, personally awarded him many First Places in the national competitions of the Mok-Woo Art Society. Park is still the youngest person ever to have competed in these competitions.

Cha Soo Griffith | Cityscape painter

Korean painter Soo Cha Griffith lives in Knoxville, but her artist's spirit lives in the picturesque villages and gardens of Italy and France. Griffith paints and sketches a wide variety of subjects, but her favorites are old-world towns, streets, coastal areas, open meadows, flower gardens and people. Her favorite place to paint, she said, is around Lake Como in northern Italy, Griffith said.

Shin Jong Sik | Watercolor painter

Watercolorist Shin Jong Sik is famous for expressing clean, transparent colors and his still life paintings express colorful, dignified and deep feeling.

Taking flowers, dishes and hemp cloth as materials, he does not compose as they are seen but recomposes with new ideas.

His excellent talent of lighting the hue reaches the vivid expression of emphasizing points of main materials according to hue and the background of his paintings are usually left blank.

Minjae Lee, 1989 | Pop Surrealism painter

Minjae Lee is a young South Korean painter and illustrator, whose work expresses a semi-disturbing inner tension that is tough to ignore, even if you feel that you’d like to. It draws you in with its powerful colors, halting imagery and clever juxtaposition of beauty, innocence and fragility with brash, loud and aggressive.
What characterizes his work overall is drama. The ethereal females that populate most of his work exude a dark, organic tension, and it seems that even the brightest marker colors do not quite manage to save them from some sort of looming peril.

Koh Sang Woo, 1978 | Color Negatives photography

Koh Sang Woo was born in Seoul and currently lives in New York. He has had numerous important international exhibitions recently, including “Media Media” at the Queens Museum New York, Pulse Miami, “Distinctively Korea” at Christie's in London, the Sungkok museum in Seoul, and as an invited artist at the 798 Beijing Biennial in China.

Joo Seok Ju [Joseokju] Impressionist Figurative painter

Joo Seok Ju, si firma Joseokju, è un pittore Coreano, che vive a Seoul da quando aveva 12 anni. 

Dipinge ad olio ed è ispirato dai principi di base adottati dai grandi impressionisti.

Sung Kim, 1940

Born in Seoul, South Korea, Sung began to exhibit his artistic talents early in childhood. Beginning in grade school, Sung entered and won various art contests by displaying his creativity and artistic imagination. He decided to pursue his passion for art and graduated with honors from Seorabol Art College in Seoul. Later he opened his own studio and worked as an illustrator for various magazines and children’s books. Sung’s artistic abilities were acknowledged when he was awarded the Grand Prize in an art competition by the Minister of Culture in South Korea and the Gold Medal prize in the art competition given by the Mayor of Seoul. He traveled throughout Europe before immigrating to the United States in 1980. For the last 20 years, Sung has worked with various fine art galleries and has produced over 400 original landscape paintings.

Kwon Kyung-yup, 1975 | Fantastic Realism painter

권경엽 - Kwon Kyung-yup - a graduate of Sejong University in Korea, begins her process by taking photographs first; this captures all the details and expressions.

She then makes a draft of the photo and paints in on canvas with oil.

Although it seems unorthodox, this technique was employed in the beginning stages of photography.

Before photography was possible to print, they were used as a research tool in developing wood engraved illustrations.