Awareness Post #3 - Seonna Hong3/21/2019 Seonna Hong graduated from California State University Long Beach in 1996. In 2004, she won the Emmy Award for Individual Achievement in Production Design for My Life as a Teenage Robot, Nickelodeon. She also featured in an issue of "Uneasy Art" (the Giant Robot Issue #38) by Eric Nakamura and a book called Animus by Baby Tattoo Publishing. From 2006-2007, she had a solo exhibition in the Knoxville Museum of Art in Knoxville, TN called "SubUrban Series." In 2006, she was also the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant. In 2007, she featured in SaraJane Sluke's "Sirens of the Surreal, Swindle Issue #10" and Roger Gastman's "Wife, Mother, Artist and Solid Gold Dancer? Juxtapoz Issue #73." She had another solo exhibition in 2007 called "Our Endless Numbered Days" at the 5BE Gallery in New York, NY. In 2008, Hong had a solo exhibition called "Viscery Loves Company" in the KaiKai Kiki Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. In 2009, her work was in group exhibitions at the Jonathan Levine Gallery (Beach Blanket Bingo), the Sloan Fine Art Gallery (+2 Summer Group Show, I Know What You're Thinking), the GRSF (15 Year Anniversary Show), and the Eagle Rock Center for the Arts (Brood Work). She also exhibited in galleries like the GR2 Gallery, the Portsmouth Museum of Art, the Kaikai Kiki Gallery, the Bo Lee Gallery, the LeBasse Projects, the Breeze Block Gallery, the Grand Central Art Center, the Hurley Gallery, Arena 1, THIS Los Angeles, Good Eye Gallery, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Grumpy Bert, Flower Pepper Gallery, KP Projects, Flood Gallery, Nahcotta Gallery, 101/Exhibit, Heron Gallery, Castelli Art Space, and Think Tank Gallery. In 2012, she had another solo show at LeBasse Projects in Culver City, CA called "Persistence of Vision." In 2015, she exhibited her work at the Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York, NY in a solo show called "If You Lived Here I'd Be Home by Now." In 2016, she worked with the Hashimoto Contemporary in San Francisco, CA on a solo show called "In our Nature," and they continued their collaboration in 2018 with her other solo show titled "Things Will Get Better." Her website is very minimalistic and the home page is a page full of her works her Bio/CV is linked next to her shop, news, and contact pages. Her Bio/CV is organized by bullet points and simplistic. She linked her instagram in the footer of each page and her email on her contact page. She also allows you to sign up for a newsletter. Her current sales are facilitated by Hashimoto Contemporary Gallery. I love Hong's work for its minimalistic but vibrant colors. The scenes are always mysterious yet tranquil. Her contrast of broad, bright strokes with the small people is particularly appealing to me. I love the colors she uses and the techniques she uses to achieve texture in her works. Her art is quietly astounding for its exertion of power in the softest way possible.
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