I add images to my daily life and create an ideal world. My inspiration comes from everyday life.
My work actually began with traditional ink painting. Tradition is a culture and a valuable thing that our forefathers have kept for a long time. Mountains provide us with a great deal of inspiration and benefits. Humans are a part of nature, and they live within it. Traditional ink paintings are similar to nature. However, it must evolve gradually over time. In traditional ink paintings, I expressed modern nature in a way that changes little by little.
Haru K seeks to transform traditional sansuhwa (paintings of mountains and bodies of water) by
replacing the traditional concept of drawing by the modern concept of editing through recording
and collection. The results are modern-day sansuhwa pieces that depict, unlike their traditional
counterparts, both materialistic and spiritual ideals. The artist's recent sansuhwa projects
incorporate contemporary sensibilities into a variety of media other than the canvas. Haru.K had
twelve solo exhibitions and has participated in multiple group exhibitions in and outside Korea.
Haru.K won a Shinsegae Art Award in 2013 and has been a resident artist at the Uijae Cultural
Foundation and Gwangju Museum of Art Creative Studio.