Purume Hong

Purume Hong is a 20th-century Korean artist working in ink on paper. Exploring dreamlike, vaporous landscapes, oscillating between deep darkness and flashes of light, her work fuses Eastern and Western traditions and cultures. Purume Hong sees his artistic practice as a tool to enhance human life by nourishing its spirituality. As a professor in the Fine Arts Department at Kosin University in Busan, she passes on her knowledge and artistic commitment to the next generation. Her talent has been recognized on many occasions: she has twice won the Special Jury Prize at the National Korean Art Festival, as well as the Grand Prize at the Korean Landscape Painting Festival and the Gyom-Jae Art Prize. Purume Hong has participated in over 300 exhibitions, both in galleries and at international fairs such as the Shanghai Art Fair in 2015 and Art Miami in 2018. Some of his works have also been exhibited in museum institutions, such as the Seoul Museum of Art in 2010, and now feature in the collections of major museums, including the Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA).