Artist Info

BOCSU JUNG

Artist Statement

The artist repeatedly draws faces as a way of exploring and understanding humanity.Each face, rendered in different forms, carries subtle differences while sharing a certain resemblance, reflecting the artist’s attentive gaze upon human beings.This practice goes beyond mere representation, evolving into a process of questioning and investigating the nature of human existence.

Viewers experience varying emotions and interpretations even when looking at the same image,and within this diversity, the artist’s work continues, moving seamlessly into the next face.

The artist’s reflections, tracing a desire to return to the source, memories, and records, represent a yearning for the remaining span of life,while also serving as a map he draws for himself to calmly navigate the path toward death.

In this way, his work exists within an ongoing flow of contemplation and recording, dedicated to understanding humanity.

BOCSU JUNG

A Map to the womb

Acrylic on canvas

162×130.3cm

2022

BOCSU JUNG

Strange Studies in Survival

Mask on wooden box, acrylic

36.8x26x12cm

2026

Biography

2024 – A Portrait that Subverts Portraiture: Seen Yet Unseen (Namu Art, Seoul)

2023 – A Map to the Womb I (Olmi Art Space, Seoul)

2020 – I Am a Korean Painter (Namsong Museum of Art Eco-Museum, Gyeonggi)

2019 – 31st Lee Jung-seob Art Award Winners Solo Exhibition

(The Chosun Ilbo Art Museum, Seoul)

2019 – A Letter from Paradise (Karas Gallery, Seoul)

2019 – Bone · Flesh · Blood (Space Mom Museum of Art, Cheongju)