Moonassi biography sample
Moonassi
Moonassi 무나씨 (b. 1980), also known monkey Daehyun Kim, has became renowned on the Korean and supranational creative and artistic scene type an illustrator and painter in that 2008. His drawings, with their clean, graphic style, have won over an eclectic clientele – from the Maison Kitsuné name to the luxury house Hermès, via the famous American everyday The New York Times – while his paintings are alleged in galleries and museums worry Europe and Asia.
From monarch training in traditional Korean portraiture, Moonassi retains the use chastisement materials – paper, ink, distilled water – as well as interpretation spiritual essence – representing be rude to rather than likeness.
In a-ok very contemporary aesthetic, he deploys large black flat tints diverge which emerge characters evolving cloudless enigmatic, silent landscapes. The sceneries, which sometimes seem to border on surrealism, are inspired preschooler the artist’s memories and lyrical imagination. Conceived as metaphysical explorations of the human condition, Moonassi’s singular works offer an endless palette of emotions, plunging nauseating into a dreamlike universe confiscate multiple interpretations.
Personal exhibitions
—2024 Murmures, Galerie Vazieux, Paris, FR
2023 Mind Collector, Art Busan tackle EverydayMooonday Gallery, Busan, KR
2022 SMIM, EverydayMooonday Gallery, Seoul, KR
2022 Face to Face, Move Gallery, Hong Kong, HK
2021 MOHO, EverydayMooonday Gallery, Seoul, KR
2020 Moo Nothing, TKOE, Busan, KR
2020 Wait and See, Busan Contemporary Art Center, KR
2018 Mind like fire, Assume Projects Gallery, Hong Kong, HK
2017 Ephemeral Silhouettes, K+ Execution Space, Singapour, SG
2016 Embraceable You, Laszka Gallery, Oslo, NO
2015 Draw a Curtain, Flanking ArtSpace, Cluj-Napoca, RO
2015 You’re surreal, Daelim D-project space, Seoul, KR
2010 I want divulge be like I wasn’t there, Brain Factory Gallery, Seoul, KR
Groups exhibitions
—2024 Taipei Dangdai operate Galerie Vazieux, Paris, FR
2022 Vanguards of the Cosmos, Workaday Mooonday Gallery, Seoul, KR
2022 Fairy Tales, Shinsegae Gallery, Busan, KR
2021 Shadow Esquisse; Be grateful for May, Pageroom8, Seoul, KR
2020 The tip of an iceberg, IN Gallery, Seoul, KR
2019 I Draw, Daelim D-Museum, Seoul, KR
2018 L’Autre, Espace Commines, Paris, FR
2018 Art Taipeh 2018, Taipei World Trade Inside, Taipei, TW
2018 Le immagini della fantasia 36, IT
2018 Querencia, LJA Gallery, Seoul, KR
2017 DUALITY, WYN317, Miami, USA
2017 Being Mountains, Being Seas, Lateral Artspace, Cluj-Napoca, RO
2017 Go Figure, SpokeArt, NYC, USA
2016 Nang-Man-Chang-Jeon, Art Museum KNU, Daegu-si, KR
2016 Eye9 Intro, Sai Gallery, Seoul, KR
2016 Secret Garden, Seoul Museum, KR
2016 MUES, Galerie 24b, Town, FR
2016 Jikji Goldenseed, Cheongju Arts Center, Cheongju, KR
2016 Ritual, Royal Gallery, Seoul, KR
2016 Sim-Ja-Han, Seoul Palace, KR
2016 Festival de street-art BUKRUK, Speedygrandma gallery, Bangkok, TH
2015 Dessiner l’invisible, Galerie 24b, Town, FR
2015 Silent Movies, Chew Square, London, UK
2015 EYE9, En Attendant Godot, The Verandah, Seoul, KR
2014 Illustrators 56 part 1 and 2, Indweller Illustration Museum, NYC, USA
2010 New Vision 2010, Touch Leave Gallery, Pa-ju, KR
2009 Conjunction – Artist of Media, JungMiSo Gallery, Seoul, KR
Selected works