Woo Hannah’s work imagines an existence that transcends the notion of a finite and fixed body. Based on this, she depicts a scenario where all beings are equal to one another in a horizontal relationship, breaking away from the existing dichotomy which divides humans and non-humans. She presents a situation in which opposite and polarized beings, such as the living and the non-living, the protecting and the protected, the old and the young, the painful and the joyful, converge and complement each other in works that do not limit the boundaries of genres, ranging from painting to sculpture to installation which is based on fabric as the main material.

Woo Hannah (B.1988) received both BFA and MFA from the Korea National University of Arts’ department of Visual Art and has held solo exhibitions at Frieze No.9 Cork Street (London, 2023), G Gallery (2023), and Song Eun Art Cube (2020). Her recent group exhibitions include Summer Love (Song Eun Art Center, 2022), Sculptural Impulse (Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, 2022), Superhero (Insa Art Space, 2020), 2020 Next Code (Daejeon Museum of Art, 2020), Nothing Twice (Seoul Museum of Art, Buk Seoul, 2019), Superfuture Food (Arko Museum of Art, 2019), Linkin Out (Ilmin Museum of Art, 2019), LOTUS LAND (National Asian Cultural Center, 2017), and many others, in addition to participating in the Art Plant Asia 2020 exhibition Hare Way Object. She received the Frieze Artist Award in 2023 and was a recipient of the Seoul Arts Council Fund in 2018 and 2019.

우한나는 유한한 육체와 고정된 신체 개념을 초월한 존재를 상정한다. 그것을 바탕으로 인간과 비인간을 나누는 기존의 이분법적 구분에서 벗어나 모든 존재와 수평적인 관계를 맺는 상황을 그린다. 살아있는 것과 그렇지 않은 것, 보호하는 것과 보호 받는 것, 나이 듦과 젊음, 고통과 희열 등 상반되고 양극단에 있는 존재들이 융합하고 상호 보완하는 상황을 패브릭을 주재료로 평면, 입체, 설치에 이르기까지 장르의 경계를 한정짓지 않은 작품으로 선보인다.

우한나(B.1988)는 한국예술종합학교 미술원 조형예술과 예술사, 동대학원을 졸업하고, Frieze No.9 Cork Street (London, 2023), 지갤러리 (2023), 송은아트큐브 (2020) 등에서 개인전을 열었다. 〈Summer Love〉(송은아트센터, 2022), 〈조각충동〉(서울시립북서울미술관, 2022), 〈슈퍼히어로〉(인사미술공간, 2020), 〈2020넥스트코드〉 (대전시립미술관, 2020), 〈두 번의 똑같은 밤은 없다〉(서울시립북서울미술관, 2019), 〈슈퍼퓨처푸드〉 (아르코미술관, 2019), 〈린킨아웃〉(일민미술관, 2019), 〈LOTUS LAND〉(국립아시아문화전당, 2017) 등 다수의 그룹전 및 아트플랜트아시아 2020 주제전 〈토끼 방향 오브젝트〉에 참여하였다. 2023년 Frieze Artist Award를 수상하였고 2018년 및 2019년에 서울문화재단 기금을 수혜했다.

Born
1988
Daejeon, Korea
Education
2016
MFA Visual Art, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, Korea
2014
Work Master(Exchange 1 year), Geneva University of Art and Design, Geneva, Switzerland
2012
BFA Visual Art, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, Korea
Solo exhibitions
2023
Appearances, G Gallery, Frieze No.9 Cork Street, London, UK
Tumbleweeds, Art Space BOAN, Seoul, Korea
Connection: Woo Hannah Open Studio, G Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2021
Hannah Flashed That, Art&Choi’s, Seoul, Korea
2020
Ma Moitié, SongEun Artcube, Seoul, Korea
2019
Moulage Mélancolique, P.S. Sarubia, Seoul, Korea
2018
Swinging, SamyukBD, Seoul, Korea
2016
City Units, Choc2gak, Seoul, Korea
Group exhibitions
2023
Autohypnosis, G Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Living in Joy, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
2022
Summer Love 2022, SongEun Art Space, Seoul, Korea
Circuit Seoul, Loop Station Ikseon, Seoul, Korea
Fashion Exhibition, MMCA Residency Changdong, Seoul, Korea
Sculptural Impulse, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
ART REBUILD, Boan1941, Seoul, Korea
Feather, Cylinder, Seoul, Korea
Ziggy Stardust, n/a, Seoul, Korea
2021
Night & Forest, Gana sounds Hannam, Seoul, Korea
Sculpture Park, Sculpture park at SEMA Nanji Residency, Seoul, Korea
Though we dance, cosmo40, Incheon, Korea
Object, Tsutaya Bookstore, Kyoto, Japan
Our Days, Alone Together, Chungnam National University Sejong Hospital, Busan Station, Ulsan Station, Korea University Medical Center, Korea
2020
Next Code 2020, DMA, Daejeon, Korea
Hare Way Object, Art Plant Asia, Deoksugung Palace, Seoul, Korea
Super Hero, Insa Art Space, Seoul, Korea
The Material of the Audience, Blume Museum of Contemporary Art, Paju, Korea
The Parallel Universes of Prufrock, Rainbowcube, Seoul, Korea
2019
More More More!, SP gallery, Seoul, Korea
Linkin out, Ilmin Museum, Seoul, Korea
The 6th Amado Anualnale, Amdo Art Space/Lab, Seoul, Korea
8people from Korea, Parplume Gallery, Ganagawa, Japan
Come to think of it, it’s a good thing corpses smell, Artspace Pool, Seoul, Korea
Nothing Twice, SEMA Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2018
DDANG!, 5%, Seoul, Korea
2017
Kitty Decadance, Open heroes, Seoul, Korea
Sticky Forever, Keep in Touch, Seoul, Korea
The Scrape, The Scrap, Seoul, Korea
PACK F/W 17, Culturetank, Seoul, Korea
2X2, “The Revenge, it’s Ma Power, huh!”, Audio Visual Pavilion, Seoul, Korea
LOTUS LAND, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
2015
Visitor Q, Post Territory Ujeongguk, Seoul, Korea
2014
Read The Room/you’ve got to, S.A.L.T.S, Basel, Switzerland
Oops!, tehtaakatu 27-29, Helsinki, Finland
Oops!, duplex, Geneva, Switzerland
Oops!, room335, Tallinn, Estonia
Bougeois bore, Istituto Svizzero, Rome, Italy
There is more Fresh air on the floor, Amado Art Space/Lab, Seoul, Korea
2012
37.9ºN 22.9ºN, Kunshan art gallery, Taiwan
Awards
2023
Frieze Artist Award
Collections
2023
Art Sonje Center
DOOSAN ART CENTER
Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA)
Residencies
2021
SeMA NANJI RESIDENCY, Seoul Museum of Art
Projects
2019
Super Future Food, Arko feelux, Seoul, Korea
2017
The girl who can go nowhere, Project Tambourine, Busan, Korea
Protagonist, Somewhere you should go, Seogyo Art Center, Seoul, Korea