“Seunghyun Moon stands at a peak of his career in the genre of watercolor. It is perceived that the grand prizes and top artist medals awarded to him at some recent domestic fine art exhibitions may be rewards for his lonely life as an artist and at the same time, diplomas urging him to depart from the tendency of open competitions and instead establish his own unique world of art. Now, Seunghyun Moon as an artist stands at a zero point where he should leave behind his hither-to performances to be prepared for the future again. The fact that the artist is well aware of such reality facing him is revealed most satisfactorily in his determinate working attitude. His solo exhibition this time is a collection of his latest 2-year-long achievements; it shows a performance different than before in both terms of work form and contents. The watercolor or a media that Seunghyun Moon has insisted on for more than 10 years since his first solo exhibition is deemed an embodied material for the artist. To him, the watercolor is no longer a special material or technique; it might be a tool used ordinarily like an age-old hammer or driver. A change of his working attitude is found just at this point. He pays attention to the properties of the watercolor itself as a tool set, while his attitude is playful. He confronts the watercolor as a matter just beyond the dimension of materials or techniques, enjoying its nature and properties with his body and brain. To Seunghyun Moon, the reason why the properties of watercolor are deemed playful objects may be that he has embodied the watercolor while using and experiencing it over a long time. What does the play of the watercolor properties itself mean in Seunghyun Moon’s artwork? It must mean a meditation on water and color as well as the fun of color, gloss, luster or texture. The secret of watercolor is related to the property of water as a medium varying the properties of paints. The watercolor reveals its colors when it meets the water; the colors are expressed as a form with diverse patterns in a colorful harmony with the paper. Seunghyun Moon experiences an organic world literally that can hardly be expressed either in watercolor, oil painting or acrylic one, and therein, he creates his own miniature universe that obeys the law of coincidence. The paints stuck and hardened onto the paper will be melted again when they are infiltrated by the water. The time that is found through the play of properties is not overlapped but deconstructed.”
Kim Young-Ho Ph.D
Professor of Chung-Ang University, Art Critic

Solo Exhibitions

2016
7th Solo Exhibition, Gallery Grimson, Seoul, South Korea

2015
6th Solo Exhibition, Chosun Ilbo Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2012
5th Solo Exhibition, H Gallery, Goyang, South Korea

2010
4th Solo Exhibition, Seojeongwook Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
3rd Solo Exhibition, Gallery La Mer, Seoul, South Korea

2009
2nd Solo Exhibition, Topohaus, Seoul, South Korea

2002
1st Solo Exhibition, Insa Art Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

Group Exhibitions

2015
Affordable Art Fair, HKCEC, Hong Kong
Art n Life Show, aT Center, Seoul, South Korea
The 45th Exbition of Korea Watercolor Association, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea

2014
Enjoy the Beautiful World with K-Art!, Gwanghwamoon Public Garden, Seoul, South Korea
The 44th Korea Water Color Association Annual, Korea Art Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
The 33rd Seoul Academy, Gallery La Mer, Seoul, South Korea
Inaugural Exhibition Invitational, Deokyang Gallery, Kkum’, Goyang, South Korea
The 7th Korea Water Color Festival, Seongnam Art Center, Seongnam, South Korea
Ah! Korea, Gallery Misulsegye, Seoul, South Korea
15th Anniversary of Ilsan Artists Association, Aramnuri Gallery, Goyang, South Korea
7 Artists, H Gallery, Goyang, South Korea
Dip in the Hearts, H Gallery, Goyang, South Korea

2013
The 43rd Korea Water Color Association Annual, Korea Art Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
The 32nd Grand Art Exhibition of Korea, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
who is who, Palais de Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
The 32nd Seoul Academy, Gongpyung Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
Korea Nature Fine Art Group, Gongpyung Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
Free-draw, Gangnam Senior Plaza Art Gallery

2012
The 42nd Korea Water Color Association Annual, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
Who is who, Topohaus Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
The 31st Seoul Academy, Hanjeon Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
Korea Nature Fine Art Group, Gongpyung Art Center Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2011
Children of the Wind, Special Exhibition to commemorating Ahn Byungsuk’s retirement, Insa Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
The 4th Korea Water Color Association Festival, Seongnam Arts Center, Seongnam, South Korea
The 41st Korea Water Color Association Annual, Seongnam Arts Center, Seongnam, South Korea
The 30th Seoul Academy, Seoul Museum, Seoul, South Korea
who is who, Junglebook Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2010
Seoul academy, Seoul Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Gy & 10, Lake Gallery, Goyang, South Korea
Goyang’s Culture and History through Arts, Oulimnuri Gallery, Goyang, South Korea
Korea Watercolor Association Annual, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea

2009
Seoul Academy Art Exhibition, Sejong Center, Seoul, South Korea
New Frontier Art Exhibition, Gallery Sinsang, Seoul, South Korea
Korea Watercolor Grand Exhibition, Invitational, Danwon Art Gallery, Ansan, South Korea
DMZ, Four Seasons, Kyoha Art Center, Paju, South Korea
Insa-dong, Gallery Art Fair, Gallery Sinsang, Seoul, South Korea
Gallery Shinsang Calendar Exhibition, Gallery Shinsang, Seoul, South Korea
ChungAng Fine Arts Exhibition, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea

2008
Seoul academy, Dongduk Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Goyang-si Nine Watercolor Painters, Lake Gallery, Goyang, South Korea
Encounter of Flower and the Arts, Oulimnuri Gallery, Goyang, South Korea

2007
Private View, National Sichuan Modern Gallery, Beijing, South Korea
Encore Alaska, Out North Contemporary Art House, Anchorage, Alaska
Seoul academy, Sejong Center, Seoul, South Korea
Encounter of Flower and the Arts, Junglebook Gallery, Goyang, South Korea
Goyang Contemporary Art Festival, Lake Gallery, Goyang, South Korea

2006
Seoul Academy Art Exhibition, Seoul Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Goyang Contemporary Art Festival, Ilsan Lake Gallery, Goyang, South Korea
Encounter of Flower and the Arts, Ilsan Lake Gallery, Goyang, South Korea
Paintings with Flower, International Horticulture Goyang Korea, Kintex, Goyang, South Korea
Christmas In August Art Exhibition, Lotte Gallery, Goyang, South Korea
Asia Contemporary Art Exchange, Oulimnuri Gallery, Goyang, South Korea

2005
Seoul Academy, Seoul Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Inaugural Exhibiton for International Association of Watercolor Painters, Seoul Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2004
Kwangnaru Fan Art exhibition, Art Station at Children’s Grand Park, Seoul, South Korea
Coexistence of Difference, Yewoo Group, Sejong Culture and Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea

2003
The Life, The Memory of Tomorrow, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2002
Kite and Fan Graphics, Sejong Culture and Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea
Korea watercolor Grand Exhibition, Seoul Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2001
Korea Watercolor Grand Exhibition, Dong-a Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Opening-up of Intelligence, Danwon Gallery, Ansan, South Korea

2000
Five Directions, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Flower of the Roadside, Na Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Reflection of the Reality, Jongro Art Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Korea-Japan International Exterchanges, Daerim Art Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Beauty of Affinity, Gongpyung Art Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Perception and the Transformation Afterwards, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

1999
Various, it is homogeneity Art Exhibition, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Gwangjin Artist Invitation Exhibition, Gwangjin Culture Center, Seoul, South Korea
A Millennium coming and A Millennium Going, Gongpyung Art Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

1995
Opening-up of Intelligence, Inter Art Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

1994
Te ture bell, Seokyung Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Figurative Paintings of Tomorrow in Korea, Insa Art Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

1993
5037 Art Exhibition, Kyungin Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

1992
An inspiration of a crisis, Samjung Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

Awards

The 32nd Korea Watercolor Grand Exhibition, Abstract Category First Prize, Seoul South Korea
The 25th Korea Watercolor Contest, Grand prize, Seongnam Arts Center, Seongnam, South Korea
The 2nd Korea Watercolor Grand Exhibition Award, First prize, Seoul Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

Art Fair

2014
13th Goyang International Art Fair, Goyang World Flower Pavillion, Goyang, South Korea
6th Modern Art Show, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
Affordable Art Fair Singapore, Water Colour and Tusk Gallery, Singapore, Singapore
Mid-Career Artists Exhibition invitational, Gallery Misulsegye, Seoul, South Korea

2010
Insadong Gallery Art Fair Sinsang Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Artgenève Palexpo, Genève, Switzerland

Current Membership

Korean Fine Arts Association, Goyang Chapter, Ilsan Artist Association., Seoul Academy Association, Korea Watercolor Grand Exhibition (with honorable mention), Korea Nature Fine Art Group, who is who, Korea Watercolor Association