Chul Hyun Ahn

This is a Korean name; the family name is Ahn.
Chul Hyun Ahn
Born January 15, 1971
Busan, South Korea
Nationality South Korean
Education Maryland Institute College of Art, Chu-Gye University for the Arts
Known for Installation art, Sculpture, Light art
Movement Light art
Chul Hyun Ahn
Hangul 안철현
Revised Romanization An Cheol-hyeon
McCune–Reischauer An Ch'ŏlhyŏn
Chul Hyun Ahn, "Tunnel IV," 2011 (two views), cast concrete, lights, mirrors, ed. of 3, 20x40x40 inches

Chul Hyun Ahn is a South Korean artist who works primarily with light.

Description

Chul Hyun Ahn, "Visual Echo Experiment," 2005, 9 pieces, 104 x 104 x 5.5 inches

Ahn is a member of a group of young light artists including Olafur Eliasson, Ivan Navarro, Spencer Finch, and Leo Villareal. Ahn creates meditations on zen notions of the infinite and the void which distinguishes Ahn's oeuvre from other artists working with light. Ahn’s multiple on-going sculpture series including "Forked Series" and "Tunnel Series" systematically explore the limitations of space and optics.

Hilarie M. Sheets, contributing editor of ARTnews who also writes regularly for The New York Times, Art In America, and Art + Auction, said his work is "At once thrilling and ominous, it suggests a rabbit hole to another world—underwater, outer space, afterlife—or journey to the unknown, the kind of leap of faith involved in the artist’s own passage to an unfamiliar country and language."[1] As a pillar in the resurgence of light art, "Ahn creates sculptures utilizing light, color and illusion as physical representations of his investigation of infinite space." [2]

Ahn lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland, where he is represented by C. Grimaldis Gallery.

Biography

Chul Hyun Ahn was born in Busan, South Korea. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Chugye University for the Arts in Seoul. In 1997 he moved to the United States and received a Master of Fine Arts from the Mount Royal School at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore in 2002.[3]

Mr. Grimaldis first saw Ahn's work at his 2002 MFA thesis exhibition at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Soon after, he had his first exhibition with C. Grimaldis Gallery in the winter of 2003 in a solo exhibition titled Infinity - Emptiness which featured six light sculptures.[4][5] Since 2003 Chul Hyun Ahn has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally, and his work can be found in numerous important private and public collections.

In a review of Ahn's 2008 C. Grimaldis Gallery solo exhibition, Phenomena: Visual Echo art critic Cara Ober wrote: "What does infinity look like? Chul Hyun Ahn's show of thirteen mirrored light boxes (all 2008) answered this question over and over, in subtly different ways. The constructions of plywood and fluorescent light with exposed electrical cords unavoidably recall Donald Judd and Dan Flavin, but Ahn uses these industrial materials to a different end. Rather than clarifying visual phenomena without artifice, Ahn seeks to mystify." [6][7]

Selected exhibitions

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

1999

1996

Selected collections

References

  1. ↑ Sheets, Hilarie M. Illuminated Void. Comp. C. Grimaldis Gallery. Baltimore: C. Grimaldis Gallery, 2011. Print.
  2. ↑ "Chul Hyun Ahn." C.grimaldisgallery.com. C. Grimaldis Gallery. Web. 12 Jan. 2012. <http://www.cgrimaldisgallery.com/2010/05/25/chul-hyun-ahn/>.
  3. ↑ C. Grimaldis Gallery. art net. Artnet Worldwide Corporation. Website. 8 December 2011.
  4. ↑ C. Grimaldis Gallery, "Infinity - Emptiness." Price List. January 9 - February 8, 2003. Print.
  5. ↑ Mcnatt, Glenn. "Illuminating Colorful Reflections." The Baltimore Sun [Baltimore] 17 January 2007, 4C
  6. ↑ Ober, Cara. "Chul Hyun Ahn." Rev. of Phenomena: Visual Echo solo exhibition. ARTnews December 2008: 131. Magazine.
  7. ↑ Ober, Cara. Cara Ober. Portfolio website. 8 December 2011.
  8. ↑ Delaware Art Museum. Delaware Art Museum. 8 December 2011. Archived November 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  9. 1 2 C. Grimaldis Gallery. "Chul Hyun Ahn Resume." Cgrimaldisgallery.com. C. Grimaldis Gallery, 2011. Web. 1 Feb. 2012. <http://www.cgrimaldisgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/AHN_RESUME_2011.pdf>.

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