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Exhibitions

Im Sunny’s solo exhibition《STILL UNSTILL》reinterprets the anxieties, dualities, and uneasy beauty embedded deep within the human psyche through the language of contemporary vanitas still life.

2025.11.04

Exhibitions

Im Sunny (b.1975) is holding a solo exhibition, The Medium: Colored, Brushed at IMSOOBIN GALLERY 1 and 2 (formerly Ruach Gallery) in Yongsan until June 7. The exhibition aims to showcase the presence of the artist's works through the concepts of flatness and medium in painting, centered on 'color' and 'brushstrokes'.

2023.04.14

Exhibitions

In painting, the flatness is the essence of modernist painting and suggests a significant direction and point of view to see a contemporary painting as an independent area that distinguishes it from other artistic genres.

2019.10.16

Exhibitions

UARTSPACE holds Im Sunny’s solo exhibition ‘Painting as a Medium’ from October 19, 2017 to November 17, 2017. The exhibition introduces artworks of new possibilites and new experiments on applying various techniques of Matisse which show the flatness of paintings as well as the scenes and colors of Cezanne’s visual perception from the early Modernism.

2017.10.19

Exhibitions

Im Sunny's work begins with the question of what the essence of painting is, and then delves into the perpetual shackles of flatness. Its roots lie not in art, which prioritized representation over the question of the reality of a subject, attempting to capture a three-dimensional illusion within a two-dimensional canvas. Rather, it stems from the pursuit of abstract art, which began as an effort to eliminate this illusion—in other words, the pursuit of the essence of flat painting.

2015.12.02

Activities

The “2021 Galleries Art Fair” will be held at COEX Hall C from March 4th to 7th. UARTSPACE is participating in G091 booth with works by Lee Chae and Im Sunny.

2021.03.04

Activities

Im Sunny was selected as the cover artist of the month for “Culture+Seoul,” a magazine published by the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture.

2017.05.01

Activities

We would see in our coded viewpoint based on what's already domesticated and learned in this society. Im Sunny looks for the invisible power through the various media, such as image, painting and drawing.

2015

Activities

Artist Im Sunny has been creating self-replicative self-portraits by projecting herself onto popular media outlets like movies, news, and dramas. In this exhibition, the artist presents works that superimpose her image onto scenes from her favorite dramas.

2011

Statements

The ‘Still life_The Unbearable Lightness of Being’ is inspired by Milan Kundera’s novel 『The Unbearable Lightness of Being』. The core concept of the series visualizes the tension and duality within human existence through the lens of “kitsch,” one of the novel’s

2025

Texts

Lim Sunhee’s (b. 1975) colorful artworks may look like regular paintings that depict objects, scenery, or some sort of image. Lined Blue Ring Angelfish II (2019) resembles an aquarium filled with brilliantly colored fish, while Magritte_The Discovery of Fire (2022) seems to depict a dream in which a floating brass instrument is on fire somewhere on land where the sun sets.

2022.09.12

Statements

Since 2015, my painting practice has been grounded in a sustained inquiry into the fundamentals of the medium. Beginning with a formal investigation, I have explored the core components of painting—flatness, line, color, brushstroke, point of view, and layered surfaces—placing these elements at the center of my work.

2022

Texts

Im Sunny has long been active in the field of video art. What led her, after so many years, to return to painting—traditional painting—just two years ago? We met the artist at ‘Cafe M Gallery’ in Daechi-dong, where her recent works are on view, to hear her thoughts on the value of fine painting.

2017.08.01

Criticisms

In recent painting, contemporary relevance is achieved less through the invention of new forms or subjects than through a renewed attentiveness to how painting is perceived, interpreted, and framed. Increasingly, artists engage in a meta-critical reflection on the content and structure of traditional painting, revealing new perspectives embedded within its inherited conventions.

2015