Park Sung Tae

Biography

Park Sung-Tae graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts from the Graduate School of Seoul National University with a major in Oriental Painting in 1993. Since then, he has gone on to win many prestigious awards and have also exhibited extensively in Korea including the Ilmin Museum of Art and has recently started exhibiting internationally.
 

These days, gallery exhibitions are installations of works created in artist's studios. In the case of Park Sung-Tae, however, one could say that the process takes on more importance than the work itself. Of course, the installation implies this process, which is why the concept of "process art" has appeared in performance art, land art, and conceptual art. Park innovates again, however, by boldly challenging not only exhibition methodology, but the installation object itself. His installation begins with the problem of respect for life in a world where it will soon be possible for scientific technology to clone a human being. In Park's work, shapes of people made from aluminum mesh are both real and suggestive of the virtual, of the cloned being. Through their projected shadows, they reveal an existence in space that is real and unreal. The artist's work, however, doesn't project this precarious and tragic view by looking at the future as a dystopia triggered by modern science. That Park Sung-Tae would try to "draw space" with light in spite of his difficult subject is proof of his hope for a future bathed not in darkness, but in brightness.

Solo Exhibitions

2008: PYO Gallery, Beijing, China

2006: IFA Gallery Invitation, Shanghai, China

2005: Macao Taipa Houses-Museum, Maco, China

   Seoul Auction Space, Seoul, Korea

2003: Krokin Gallery, Russia

   Art Forum New Gate, Seoul, Korea

2002: Gong Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2001: PYO Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1998: Iimin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

1996: Moin Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1993: To Art Space, Seoul, Korea

Collection:

National Museum of Contemporary Art (Kyunggi-do, Korea)
Seoul Municipal Museum of Art (Seoul, Korea) 
Seoul National University Museum (Seoul, Korea)
Asem Tower, Oak Wood Lobby (Seoul, Korea)
Seoul National University College of Music (Seoul, Korea)
Korea UNESCO Culture Centre 11F (Seoul, Korea)
Samsung Home Plus (Seoul, Korea)
Om Heung-Do Museum (Kangwon, Korea)
Suwon World Cup Stadium (Suwon, Korea)
Chungju City Hall (Chungju, Korea) 

Awards:

1994: Excellence Prize, MBC Grand Art Exhibition, Organized by MBC Broadcasting Corporation (Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea) 

1993: Excellence Prize, MBC Grand Art Exhibition, Organized by MBC Broadcasting Corporation (Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea) 

1989: The 12th Joong-Ang Art Exhibition, Organized by Joog-Ang Daily News (Hoam Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea) 

1988: The 11th Joong-Ang Art Exhibition, Organized by Joog-Ang Daily News (Hoam Art Gallery,Seoul)