Republic of Korea

Hyun Ae Kang

HyunAe Kang was born in 1959 in South Chungcheong Province, Korea. Despite the rapid
 industrialization South Korea underwent in the 60s and 70s, the rural farming village that Kang spent her
 childhood in remained largely untouched by modernization, and she grew up with a deep appreciation of
the natural beauty of the mountains and the seas that would become a through line for her art.
 Kang moved to Seoul in 1981 where she received both her BFA and MFA in sculpture from the
 prestigious Ewha Womans University.

 Kang’s career as an artist began in the early 1990s. Her first solo exhibition was in 1991 at the
 Gallery Hyundai in Seoul, the oldest and most revered contemporary art gallery in South Korea. Her
 sculptures were also included in a 1993 exhibition at the Art Museum of Soul in 1993 and the 1995 Korea 
Fine Art Grand Exhibition. 

The dominant theme of the works from this early period is the tension between geometric
 modernism and organic abstraction. Kang explorers the interplay between the theoretical and the natural
through elements of sculpture. Pure geometric shapes, such as the sphere or cube, unfurl into amorphous
forms whose irregularity evokes a sense of the primordial. 

Kang immigrated to the United States in 1993, leaving behind her rapidly ascendant career in the
Korean art world in order to expand her horizons. Despite having no prior connections to American 
galleries or museums, Kang was able to establish herself as a rising artist in Southern California. 

And most recently, Kang had her first career retrospective 
titled “Dialogues with the Sacred” at the Muzeo Museum and Cultural Center in Anaheim, California. The exhibition is the first retrospective for the artist in the United States and showcases works from her early career in South Korea as well as her most current projects. The exhibition, which spans the entire 5000 square feet of the museum space, includes works of sculpture, painting, and ceramics.

Hyun Ae Kang

Winter Fall Trilogy

BOCCARA ART Galleries

$120,000