Hyejin Min
Hyejin Min explores the ways in which color becomes memory and light becomes structure. Her paintings begin with lived experience: landscapes retained in the mind, emotional traces that resist language, and visual forms drawn from Korean material culture. Through repeated lines, layered chromatic fields, and modular compositions, she transforms recollection into a contemplative visual rhythm.
Across The Beauty of Gathering, Select and Repeat, and Glowing Colors, fragments are never merely separate. They gather, recur, and resonate until they produce a larger field of perception. Min's practice moves between the intimacy of personal memory and the collective sensibility embedded in Korean forms, creating paintings that are immediately luminous yet slowly unfolding.
2026
Formless Form - Contemporary Art Asia Summer Exhibition, OXO Gallery, London, UK, July 1-5
2025
Strata of Memory - Special Invitational Solo Exhibition in Celebration of Award, Gallery Majuan, Gongju, Korea,
June 24-29
Hidden Essence; Hidden Glow - Selected Artist Solo Exhibition, Gallery Hill, Sejong, Korea, September 14-30
Award - 2nd Place, 2025 Art Collide Emerging Artists Competition, USA, May
Award - Honorable Mention, 14th ABSTRACT International Juried Art Competition, USA, May
Award - Finalist, 9th COLOR International Juried Art Competition, USA, August
2024
Glowing Colors: Select and Repeat - Invitational Solo Exhibition, Gallery Rimhae, Busan, Korea, November 2-14
National Assembly Cultural Space Exhibition - Invited Artist, National Assembly of the Republic of Korea, Seoul,
Korea, October 1-16
Art Gyeongnam Art Show 2024 - Invited Artist, Korea, July 5-7
2023
A Very Lyrical Landscape - Invitational Solo Exhibition, Dada Project, Seoul, Korea, November 11-30
2022
Glowing Colors - Selected Artist Solo Exhibition, BRT Small Art Museum, Sejong, Korea, December 14-25
Glowing Colors - Invitational Solo Exhibition, Gallery Majuan, Gongju, Korea, November 5-8
2021
Glowing Colors - Solo Exhibition, Gallery La Mer, Seoul, Korea, May 19-25
2018-Present
Participated in more than 20 group exhibitions and over 10 art fairs.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work begins with the repetitive process of building layers of color and texture. Each brushstroke is more
than a physical mark; it becomes a record of accumulated time, carrying within it an invisible language of
my own. What may initially appear monochromatic is, in fact, composed of numerous layers of color and
texture, creating a subtle yet resonant depth.
Color, for me, is closely connected to memory. The colors we encounter in everyday life and nature can
awaken memories, emotions, and inner energies that remain beneath our conscious awareness. Fleeting
landscapes and accumulated experiences often return through particular colors. In my paintings, these
memories and emotions emerge through repeated gestures, gradually forming an inner language.
Through repetition, layers of color and texture interact with light, inscribing what I think of as "invisible
writing" onto the surface. Depending on the light and the viewer's perspective, hidden traces, textures, and
shadows quietly reveal themselves. These marks record stories that cannot easily be expressed in words.
I hope that color and texture can move beyond their purely visual qualities and become a form of language
- a silent text that each viewer may read in their own way. My paintings remain open spaces where
personal memories and emotions can be projected and rediscovered.
Ultimately, I hope my work becomes a quiet dialogue between the painting and the viewer, where light,
color, memory, and emotion meet and resonate with one another.
Hye J. Min