Exhibitions
《The Flat》, 2015.12.02 – 2015.12.19, Incheon Art Platform
2015.12.02
Incheon Art Platform
Installation view of 《The Flat》 ©Incheon Art PlatformArtist Info
Im Sunny graduated from Ewha Womans University with both her BFA and MFA in Western Painting. After working consistently in video installation for many years, she has recently expanded her practice into painting. She has held eight solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group shows.
Exhibition Info
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.
Rather than attempting to convey the content within a painted image, IM SUNNY's work focuses on visual formative elements like color, line, and composition, as well as essential elements of painting, such as change, balance, and unity.
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The Age of ‘Anxiety’ and 'Obsession', Exploring the Duality of Human Nature through Vanitas Still LifeIm 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
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《The Medium : Colored, Brushed》, 2023.04.14 – 2023.06.07, IMSOOBIN GALLERYIm 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
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《The Medium : Layered, Lined》, 2019.10.16 – 2019.11.23, UARTSPACEIn 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
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《Painting as a medium》, 2017.10.19 – 2017.11.17, UARTSPACEUARTSPACE 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
《The Flat》, 2015.12.02 – 2015.12.19, Incheon Art PlatformIm 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