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Hwang Ran
Education
2000 School of Visual Arts, NY, USA
1997 Chung-Ang University Graduate School of Arts, Seoul, Korea
Solo
2022 Becoming Again, The Baker Museum, Florida, USA(Scheduled)
2021 Becoming Again, Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai, UAE
Hope Springs Eternal, Leila Heller Gallery, NY, USA
2019 The Flight of Time, Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2017 Josen Korea: Court Treasures and City Life, Asian Civilizations Museum, Singapore
Ran Hwang: Sacred Space, Leila Heller Gallery, NY, USA
2016 Visual Symphony, Asian Art Works, Busan, Korea
2015 Beginning of the Bright, UNESCO Paris Headquarters, Paris, France
Ran Hwang: Untethered, MASS MoCA, Massachusetts, USA
Game of Artifice, International Museum of Art and Science (IMAS), Cardensa Gallery, Texas, USA
2014 Becoming Again, Aloft at Hermès(former Third Floor-Hermès), Singapore
Ran Hwang: The Snowfall of Spiders, Leila Heller Gallery, NY, USA
Intervals, Asian Art Works, Beijing, China
Group
2022 Immersive, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, USA
OMNI VERSE, Museum San, Wonju, Korea
2021 No Strings, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK
2020 Pinned, Stitched and Glitzed: Challenging the Gender Stereotype, Art Apple Gallery, Athens, Greece
Awards
2021 FB Air Program, Facebook, NY, USA
2017 AHL-Jason J. Kim Grant 2017, AHL Foundation, NY, USA
2015 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation New York, USA
Introduction
As a Korean born, New York based artist, Hwang creates large iconic figures that embody her preoccupation with the nature of cyclical life, non-visibility and the beauty of a transient moment. Her earlier career in the fashion industry and the personal memories of 9/11 attack have led her to adopt the everyday materials into the delicate and dramatic works, whereas the artist's lifetime practice of Zen Buddhism has blended into the sophisticated hand-work accompanied by repetition and penance. Through her performative and conceptual approach, Hwang depicts the time of reflection and rumination of a human being in the society. Hwang's work permanently resides in the collections of internationally acclaimed venues, including the Brooklyn Museum, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Deji Art Museum, Nanjing; Dubai Opera House, Dubai; Des Moines Art Center, Iowa; New York University, New York and National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul. Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues including Leila Heller Gallery, New York (2021, 2017, 2014, 2012) and Dubai (2021, 2019); Asian Civilizations Museum, Singapore (2017); UNESCO Headquarters, Paris (2015); Mass MoCA, Boston (2015); Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, Singapore (2014); Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul (2010) and Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, Zurich (2009). Recently, her installation work has been exhibited at the Facebook New York Headquarter. Hwang received her BFA in Fine Art and completed MFA in Art Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York.