Hong Seung-Hye

Hong Seung-Hye graduated the School of Art, Seoul National University with a bachelor of fine art degree and moved to France where she graduated the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1986. Since then she has held over 20 solo exhibitions and participated in several group exhibitions in Korea and abroad. Since her solo exhibition Organic Geometry in 1997 at the Kukje Gallery, Seoul, she has shown a profound interest in the creation of real space using pixels as building blocks. More recently, she has ventured into video art incorporating movements and sounds in geometric shapes. She has received many prestigious awards such as the Total Art Prize in 1997 and Lee Jung Seop Art Prize in 2007. Hong is currently a professor of the department of fine arts, Seoul National University of Science and Technology.