Artist Statement/ Biography

Joonhong Min works predominantly in mixed media including drawing, installation, performance and video, questioning how collective and personal urban memories embedded in ‘found’ objects and images alter people’s perception of the city. He collects the wastage and sceneries from the streets and daily life then follows this by reassembling these collected materials according to his vision. Through these methods, he curates multi-medium space to question how collective and personal urban memories in founding objects alter people’s perception of the city.

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Joonhong Min is a visual artist who lives and works in London and Seoul. He received BFA and MFA in painting from Seoul National University(2014) and an MFA in Fine art media from SLADE School of Fine Art, University College London(2016), He had a solo exhibition 'Future's Present' at SPACE gallery and 'Urban Camouflage' at Stone Space gallery, London, UK(2018). He has finished The London Summer Intensive Residency Program at Camden Art Centre and had a solo exhibition ‘Embellishing Ephemerality’ at The Flying Dutchman Play Space Gallery, London, UK(2017). He has also participated Jerwood Drawing prize(2016) and the Ashurst Emerging Artist prize, London, UK(2015) among numerous others.