Theme
Prints
Printmaking is the other pillar of the artist's practice alongside painting. The 1989 Grand Prize-winning 〈Arirang — A Joyful Day〉 was a woodblock print, followed by the Patron's Prize at the 1st Sapporo International Print Biennale (1991) and Second Prizes at the 4th and 5th Wakayama International Print Biennales (1991, 1993). In 1992, he was invited to documenta IX in Kassel — a rare honor for a Korean artist at the time. Spanning thirty years of woodblock prints, etchings, and digital prints, he served as president of the Korean Contemporary Printmakers Association from 2017 to 2019.
87 works · 1982 — 2023
Memory 4
198210×10 cm · Etching
Arirang-Prayer1
1989440×180 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang -Happy Day
198955×34 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang-Happy Day Ⅴ
1989113×76 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang -Coexistence 5
198968×47 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang -Unity
198953×54 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang -Soul
198972.2×53 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang -Soul
198933×33 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang -Coexistence
198920×30 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang -Happy Day
198965×42 cm · Woodblock Print
Energy — Vitality
198945×65 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang -Coexistence
198955×34 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang -Happy Day
1989112×76 cm · Woodblock Print
A Friend Came with the Moon
198933×42 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang -Happy Day 8
199068×47 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang -Morning
199038×56 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang-Soul10
199072×51 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang -Happy Day
199262×42 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang-Prayer
199262×42 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang – Soul
199230×30 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang-Prayer
1992110×56 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang-Prayer
199276×56 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang-Vitality
199262×42 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang -Hope
199258×45 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang - Vitality
199236×28 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang -Vitality
1992120×80 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang -Vitality
199238×28 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang -Hope
199262×42 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang - Vitality
199231×34 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang - Coexistence
199290×57 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang -Hope
199265×53 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang -Vitality
199262×42 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang - Vitality
199262×42 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang-Vitality
199262×42 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang -Lucky Pouch
199262×42 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang — Resound the Earth, Resound the Sky
199262×42 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang-Vitality
199230×30 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang-Vitality
199230×30 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang-Vitality
199230×30 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang-Vitality
199230×30 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang-Prayer
199256×56 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang-Vitality
199262×42 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang-Vitality
199262×42 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang-Prayer
199262×42 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang-Vitality
199230×30 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang -Happy Day
199363×44 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang -Happy Day
199345×65 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang -Happy Day
1993168×76 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang -Happy Day
1993100×100 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang -Prayer
199362×42 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang-Vitality
199362×42 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang -Happy Day
1994160×120 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang -Happy Day
1994112×76 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang -Happy Day
1996100×60 cm · Woodblock Print + Computer Print
Arirang-Vitality
1997110×70 cm · Woodblock Print
Arirang — Life Force
1997110×70 cm · Woodblock Print
Candlelight at Jokhang Temple + Practitioner at Tashilhunpo Monastery, Shigatse + Candlelight at Monkey Temple, Kathmandu
2005120×80 cm · Photograph + Woodblock on Printing Paper
At the Pillar of the Living Goddess Kumari Temple
2005100×65 cm · Photograph on Printing Paper
Wood Carving at Kumari Temple, Kathmandu
200576×56 cm · Drawing on Printing Paper
Bagmati River, Source of the Ganges — Pashupati Nath Temple
200566×50 cm · Photograph on Printing Paper
“......”
200566×50 cm · Photograph on Printing Paper
Crematorium at Pashupati Nath Temple
200566×50 cm · Photograph on Printing Paper
Crematorium — Body, Fire, and Pouring Rain
200566×50 cm · Photograph on Printing Paper
Lost in Thought, Caught in the Rain — Pashupati Nath Temple
200566×50 cm · Photograph on Printing Paper
Arirang-Happy Day
200635×25 cm · Woodblock, Silkscreen
Arirang-Vitality
200635×25 cm · Woodblock, Silkscreen
Arirang-Morning
200635×25 cm · Woodblock, Silkscreen
Arirang-Hope
200635×25 cm · Woodblock, Silkscreen
Arirang-Happy Day 2
200635×25 cm · Woodblock, Silkscreen
Arirang-Hope 2
200635×25 cm · Woodblock, Silkscreen
Candlelight 2009-1
200976×56 cm · Digital Print
Candlelight 2009-2
200976×56 cm · Digital Print
Candlelight 2009-3
200976×56 cm · Digital Print
Candlelight 2009-4
200976×56 cm · Digital Print
Samadhi
201394×63 cm · Digital Print + Drawing
Samadhi
201460×42 cm · Digital Print
To That Hill — Cosmic Inflation; Gravitational Wave
2014100×30 cm · Digital Print
Candlelight Shines Beautifully Like Stars in the Night Sky
201660×40 cm · Woodblock Print
Candlelight and Star
201953×33.5 cm · Woodblock Print
Mt. Geumgang-Hope
202076×78 cm · Woodblock Print
The Whale Dances — Tiger, Leopard, Deer, and Person
2021107×52 cm · Woodblock Print
Light of Cheonhwadae, Mt. Geumgang
202171×38 cm · Woodblock Print
Mt. Geumgang from Sangpaldam
202170×30 cm · woodblock print
Arirang – Happy Day
202261×46 cm · Woodblock Print
Baekdu-daegan Mt. Seorak Cheonhwadae
202369×25 cm · Woodblock Print
Mt. Geumgang Vitality 1
202334×14 cm · Woodblock Print
Mt. Geumgang Vitality 2
202334×14 cm · Woodblock Print