Having experienced periodic relocation, diasporic memories have deeply influenced Reeha’s practice. She explores ambiguities inherent in what is often taken for granted as an out-focusing on possibilities, an independence from one’s common sense, and as facing another’s heavy bare-face.
Self-portrait yet non-self-portrait, the work vessels for a transversal sensorium. Through ghost-like double-sided painting, Reeha reinforces by blurring the thresholds across space, between objects, and from within the sensory perceptions; physicality and metaphysicality; functionality and malfunctionality. Thin yet multi-layered paintings blend impressions with dreamlike scenery, oscillating between reality and Atopia – a place unmoored to anywhere.
Reeha’s personal memories are invariably cultural memories, and by revisiting and rehinging them, she tries to remember what has happened to us – which oftentimes is not necessarily the truth. Memories and truth interwoven, dreams and realities encroach; making sense of everything remains elusive, yet witnesses are ever-present.
EDUCATION
2024 Cranbrook Academy of Art, M.F.A., Painting MI, United States
2021 Hongik University, B.F.A., Fine Arts Painting Seoul, South Korea
2012-2013 Central Academy of Fine Arts, B.F.A., Chinese Painting Beijing, China
SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Back and Front, Passageway Gallery MI, United States
2022 Ul-Lung-Ddung-Ddang, TYA Gallery Seoul, South Korea
2016 REEHA & KYUNGSEO, Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, France
2013 Adieu, Xin Complex Cultural Space ShenYang, China
SELECTED
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Faction Summer Screening Night, Factio Seoul, South Korea
2024 Footprints, Chilli Art Projects London, United Kingdom
2023 Space, Chilli Art Projects London, United Kingdom
2023 Convergence, Centric Place MI, United States
2023 Mold Making, Forum Gallery MI, United States
2021 OFFON, Gallery 100_0 Seoul, Korea
2021 Hatred against P, Eulji-ro OF Gallery Seoul, South Korea
2020 From Untitled( ) To Everyone, Hongik University Seoul, South Korea
2018 Yit-ta, Haeng-hwa-tang Art Space Seoul, South Korea
2015 ARTIVAL, Gallery H Seoul, South Korea
ART FAIRS
2024 SWAB Art Fair Barcelona, Spain
2024 Foundations, Artsy Online Fair United States
GRANT & AWARDS
2024 New American Paintings, No.173, Midwest Issue
2022-2024 Fulbright Principal Candidate
2022-2024 Cranbrook Acaedemy of Art Merit Scholarship
2023 Honorable Mention, Innovate Grant
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2014-2016, 2018-2020 Hongik University Academic Excellence Scholarship
2010-2011 Northeast Yucai School Academic Excellence Scholarship
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCY
2024 NXTHVN CT, United States
2019 Art-up Seoul Seoul, South Korea
2017 Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, France