Park MinJoon朴民俊
Park MinJoon was born in Seoul, Korea in 1971 and received his MFA from Hongik University in 2006, followed by postgraduate studies at Tokyo National University of the Arts in 2007.
Park is an artist who constructs unique fictional worlds through reinterpretations of classical paintings. His works, which are distinctive for their sense of theatrical fantasy, are philosophical variations on themes such as life and death, hope and failure, and dreams and reality. Even as he seeks out the potential and essential nature of Western painting techniques, Park seems to usher us towards a place where new mythologies are created by intermingling them with human figures defamiliarized through an East Asian sensibility.
The modes of artistic expression deployed towards this end are multilayered, and encompass literature, painting, and sculpture. As a novelist, Park has published Rapport Circus (2018) and Two Flags (2020), and has expanded the scope of the world of his work by reconstructing characters and scenes from these novels in the form of paintings and sculptures.
