Jeehee Park
Jeehee Park is a sculptor whose work explores the nature of modern buildings in relation to biology, anthropology, and the history of architecture. Her work engages an interest in the non-human, time, and history and their entanglement in modern buildings, in the process of de-centering anthropocentric events and meaning. Park has been awarded fellowships and residencies at the Cité internationale des arts, Paris (2024) , the MAK Center, Los Angeles (2019) , The Glenfiddich Artist in Residence program, Scotland (2017) , and The Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai (2018). She is the recipient of major grants, including the Samsung Foundation of Culture Grant (2024) and the Art and Technology Convergence Support grant (2021, 2022). Her accolades also include the MAK Schindler Scholarship (2018) and the Kenneth Armitage Young Sculpture Prize (2014). Park’s work has been exhibited in numerous venues nationally and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include Haneulhaneulhan, Platform-L Contemporary Art Center, Seoul (2024) , and Drawing Elliptical Orbit 1., The Reference, Seoul (2022). She has also participated in significant group exhibitions such as Reference point, The Reference, Seoul (2023); Spinning East Asia Series II: A Net (Dis)entangled, CHAT, Hong Kong (2022) ; and Michael was a good neighbor, Mackey Apartment, Los Angeles (2019).
EDUCATION
2014, MFA
Slade School of Fine Arts
London, United Kingdom
2008, BFA
Ewha Woman’s University
Seoul, South Korea
JURY
Noit Banai
Hans Schabus
Hemma Schmutz
Much Untertrifaller
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein
FINAL PROJECT
© Jeehee Park
