An Gyungsu
b. 1975, South KoreaAN Gyungsu (b. 1975) turns his attention not to landscapes in the conventional sense, but to scenes that resist being recognized as landscapes altogether. His paintings begin with questions about these scenes and the ways in which they are perceived. For many years, the artist has observed ruins that have long since lost their original form, as well as sites where byproducts and remnants detached from their original contexts have become entangled. These are spaces in which the structures that conventionally define landscape have collapsed and fragmented into states of disorder. They are anonymous places, representations of an unstable world, and precarious conditions suspended between one landscape and another. AN understands landscape as “a structure composed of countless overlapping layers.” Within the interstices of these layers, he discovers ruins and explores the fractured strata of place. These layered spaces remain embedded somewhere within the landscapes of the present, lingering as images and persisting as sensations.
AN was born in Busan, Korea in 1975. He has held solo exhibitions at ARARIO MUSEUM in SPACE (Seoul, Korea, 2025), Primary Practice (Seoul, Korea, 2025), Museum of Moscow (Moscow, Russia, 2022), Pibi Gallery (Seoul, Korea, 2021; 2019), Sahng-up Gallery (Seoul, Korea, 2018), Gallery Chosun (Seoul, Korea, 2016), Gallery Hyundai Window Gallery (Seoul, Korea, 2014) and more. He has participated in group exhibitions at SONGEUN (Seoul, Korea, 2026), Savina Museum (Seoul, Korea, 2026), Korean Cultural Center (Hong Kong, 2025), Museumhead (Seoul, Korea, 2024), Cheongju Museum of Art (Cheongju, Korea, 2024), ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL (Seoul, Korea, 2024), Incheon Art Platform (Incheon, Korea, 2023; 2017; 2012; 2011), Arko Art Center (Seoul, Korea, 2023), Total Museum of Contemporary Art (Seoul, Korea, 2020), Seoul Museum of Art (Buk-Seoul) (Seoul, Korea, 2017), Gyeongnam Art Museum (Changwon, Korea, 2017), Sungkok Art Museum (Seoul, Korea, 2015), and more. He was the artist-in-residence at the SeMA Nanji Residency (Seoul, Korea, 2019), Incheon Art Platform (Incheon, Korea, 2017), Gyeonggi Creation Center (Ansan, Korea, 2016), GlogauAIR Artist in Residence Program (Berlin, Germany, 2015), Baikal Nomadic Residency Program (Irkutsk, Russia, 2014), Artspace Ggooll&Ggoollpool Residency Program (Seoul, Korea, 2013), Kulturamt Frankfurt Am Main Artist in Residence Program (Frankfurt, Germany, 2010), and the MMCA Residency Goyang (Goyang, Korea, 2009). His works are collected by various institutions such as National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Korea), Seoul Museum of Art (Korea), Busan Museum of Art (Korea), ARARIO Collection (Korea), and more.
Courtesy Arario Gallery
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