Hyunjin Park

Working across performance, video, installation, and sculpture, Park explores the affective presence of non-human beings, from living creatures to machines, and how they unsettle boundaries between the modern and the ancient, life and death, and the human and the non-human. Park’s work stems from a long-standing fascination with how non-human beings such as animals, plants, machines, and women shape emotional, ethical, and temporal experiences. Through close collaborations with families living with dogs in Korea, a deep relationship with her late companion dog Popo (2008–2022), and ongoing projects involving the AI robotic dog Echo (2024~), Park continues to examine the fragile boundaries between the living and the artificial, the ancient and the futuristic. 

Her work focuses on themes of non-human beings, including plants, animals, airplanes, and artificial intelligence, exploring the intimate relationships nurtured through care, the longing embedded in these relationships, and the myths surrounding these entities. In particular, airplanes in her works take on a symbolic role, embodying both a bittersweet sense of departure and a desire for upward mobility. For many who, like herself, live abroad, the initial dream of escapism toward the American "dream" becomes complicated by the reality of (un)belonging. By miniaturizing airplanes into bird-sized sculptures and wearable objects, such as rings, she aims to shift perceptions of scale, illustrating that airplanes are not just large metal structures but reflections of humanity’s deep-rooted desires for connection, migration, and invention—long before the concept of flight even existed.

Hyunjin Park is a Korean interdisciplinary artist based in Seoul and NY. Her solo exhibitions include Gallery OOOJH in Seoul (2022) and Gallery Chamber in Seoul (2025). She will also present two upcoming solo exhibitions at Open Space Bae in Busan (2025) and the Kumho Museum of Art (2026). She has participated in group exhibitions at the OyG projects (NYC), Total Museum (Seoul), Onsugonggan (Seoul), and Hui Gallery (Hong Kong), among others. Park has been selected for several international residency programs, including Domaine de Boisbuchet in Lessac, France (2024, supported by the Youngmin International Art Program), the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont (2024, fellowship), the Wassaic Project in Wassaic, New York (2025), the Watermill Center in New York (2025), and the NARS Foundation residency in Brooklyn (2025).