RIM PARK

Early years and background

Park was born in South Korea in 1998 and studied Painting at Hongik University in Seoul, graduating with a BFA in 2022. She lives and works in Seoul, developing a studio practice that moves between painting, printmaking and sculpture while closely observing how plants grow, decay and adapt in the city’s shifting environments.

Rim Park artworks

Rim Park’s artworks integrate real organic elements—such as dried flowers, leaves, soil and branches—with acrylic, resin and synthetic supports, creating hybrid surfaces that hover between landscape painting, scientific diagram and bodily fragment. Often derived from close-up observation and botanical research, her works translate data about roots, stems and cellular structures into tactile compositions that suggest both flourishing and breakdown, asking how nature persists within and beyond human-designed systems.

Plants, remnants and everyday nature

Park’s early exhibitions at Seoul space CYLINDER ONE, including Torque 2 / Neutral Steer and Last Mors, focused on plants that grow among debris, roadside verges and architectural edges, presenting them as protagonists in post-human, almost archaeological scenes. By embedding real plant remnants into painted grounds and low reliefs, she underscores cycles of growth and decay and reflects on how living organisms respond to human neglect, pollution and the slow violence of urban development.

‘Radix’ and root systems

In Radix at Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Park developed a body of work centred on roots as both biological structures and metaphors for origin, dependency and vulnerability. Printed and painted works echo the visual language of plant-science diagrams, while sculptures extend root-like forms into space, inviting viewers to consider how unseen systems—ecological, emotional, infrastructural—support visible life.

Everyday Nature and expanded ecologies

Park’s participation in exhibitions such as Everyday Nature at Patron Gallery in Chicago situates her alongside artists examining how contemporary life is shaped by more-than-human relations. Her canvases and objects, in which skin-toned grounds meet sprouting tendrils and embedded fragments, evoke bodies that are porous to climate, weather and time, collapsing distinctions between figure, ground and environment.

Select awards and accolades

• Featured in Ocula’s New Rules: The Artists to Watch for 2026, highlighting her as a key emerging voice in ecologically oriented contemporary art.
• Represented by Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, with works placed in significant private and emerging institutional collections.

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Rim Park exhibitions

Rim Park has been the subject of solo exhibitions in Seoul and Berlin and has participated in group exhibitions in Asia, Europe and the United States that foreground contemporary approaches to nature, materiality and post-human perspectives.

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Select solo exhibitions

• Radix, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2024)
• Last Mors, CYLINDER ONE, Seoul (2023)
• Torque 2 / Neutral Steer, CYLINDER, Seoul (2022)

Select group exhibitions

• Everyday Nature, Patron Gallery, Chicago (2024)
• Group presentations with Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler at international art fairs and curated shows (from 2023)

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Ocula | 2026