EUNWOO BYUN

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New york, NY




ARTIST STATEMENT 


The world cannot be perceived all at once. Within endlessly expanding time and space, in conversations with unfamiliar people, and in the words I encounter for the first time, there is always a sense of distance. As an outsider in reality, even the most ordinary moments must pass through sound, tone, and surface before I can begin to understand them. I think of this delayed perception between the world and myself as a “buffer.”


This buffer exists between reality and the virtual, between direct experience and mediated experience; it is both something that envelops me and a kind of cushion. My work explores the scenes glimpsed through this gap, along with the sensation of never fully reaching them. In this process, the world oscillates between understanding and misunderstanding, ultimately remaining in a state of incomplete perception. 





















CV 







Education
Hunter College, City University of New York,
BA, 2026


Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea, BFA, 2023





Solo ExhibitionIgnite the Moment, White Barn Space, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
2024

From a small plant growing between bricks into a large tree, Kimyoungsa Gallery, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
2023




Group Exhibition3751, White Barn Space, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea 2023

Outstanding Graduation Exhibition, Dongduk Art Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2023

BFA Thesis show, KUMA Gallery, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea
2022

Asian Students Young Artist Festival, Hongik Museum of Art, Hongik University, South Korea
2022

Translation: Interpret the Moment, 57th Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2022

BFA Studio show, KUMA Gallery, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea
2019





Curatorial Expereiences
Here We Are, Open Studio, Seoul, South Korea
2024

Translation: Interpret the Moment, 57th Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2022











Last Updated April 05, 2026
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How to Cook a Heart
Try cooking it yourself

 
The Wooden pieces had thickness, so when flipped over, they appeared completely different. When theu collided with one another, they also produced a hard, sharp sound. I spent a long time thinking about how to make use of these simple characteristics. Eventually, I realized that the pieces reminded me of block sets I played with as a child. Through actions such as stacking, hitting, and tapping the wooden pieces together, I wanted to recreated my emotions and the things that make me feel alive through metaphorical scenes. 





Wiggy Jippy
51.2 x 63.8”, color on Korean paper, 2022
 A compound word combining the Korean word ‘Wiggy’ meaning cirsis, and another Korean word ‘Jippy’, meaning weed. ‘Wiggy Jippy’ was born in my dream one day. ‘Jippy’ which simply broke down our family’s house with its huge body, seemed to be in pain because it wanted to get out. When the screen changes, it becomes me. I continued to remember and draw my heart, state, and appearance as a monster. I tried to relieve and stabilize my emotions by using ‘Wiggy Jippy’ which maximizes anxiety and worry deep inside my heart. It went through a kind of ritual-like process by drawing ‘Jippy’s hairs’ using ink, a traditional Korean material.





Drawings, mixed midea on Korean paper




ARTIST VIDEO2 min 52 sec, 2025

I’m not trying to capture dramatic moments. I think about that subtly slows down and space that becomes slighty distorted at the boundaries between consciousness and the unconscious, reality and dreams, past and present, and between writing and painting.






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