Hee Seung SUNG’s canvases are filled with recurring dots, light, and layered traces of color that may evoke stars or the cosmos, yet they are closer to impressions left by sensation than to representation. Her paintings do not depict a specific space; rather, they are the residue of time spent looking and lingering, impressions accumulated on the surface. Eternal Becoming is a process of forming a language that has not yet reached its end. It does not dwell on the moment when aform is finalized, but instead highlights the duration in which forms are continuously generated and set into motion.
Hee Seung SUNG (b. 1977) was born in Busan and currently lives and works in Seoul, New York. She studied Painting at the College of Fine Arts, Hongik University, where she also earned her MFA. In 2005, she completed an MA in Studio Art and Media Art at New York University, US, and in 2015 finished her doctoral coursework at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. In 2021, she received her PhD in Fine Arts from Kookmin University, Korea.
SUNG has held solo exhibitions including Eternal Becoming (2026, Hakgojae, Seoul, Korea); Engraving the Stars (2025, Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwangju, Korea); From Performance to Stardust: Heeseung SUNG's Art Life (2023, Zaha Museum, Seoul, Korea); Universe_( )IV (2021, Sejong Center for the Performing Arts, Sejong Museum, Seoul, Korea); 《Universe_( )lll》(2021, Gyeonggi Arts Center, Suwon, Korea), and Universe_( ) (2021, Hakgojae Art Center, Seoul, Korea).
Her major group exhibitions include A4 Action 2025: Revolution of Light (2025, National Assembly Members' Office Building, Seoul, Korea); Sicheon Yeomin (2024, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea); Artist of the Year (2022, Saatchi Art, London, UK); Life of an Artist (2021, G Gallery, Hiroshima, Japan); The World Seen Through Art (2019, Gangnam-gu Office, Seoul, Korea); The Rule of Art (2009, Korean Cultural Center in China, Beijing, China); View from Other Side (2008, Korean Cultural Center New York, New York, US); But I Was Only Acting (2006, Reina Sofía Museum, Madrid, Spain); and Invited / Uninvited (2003, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy).
Her works are included in the collections of Reina Sofía Museum (Madrid, Spain), Gyeonggi Arts Center (Suwon, Korea), Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art (Gwangju, Korea), Zaha Museum (Seoul, Korea), Samsung Foundation of Culture (Seoul, Korea), Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea), and Deutsche Bank (London, UK).
