NA HYUN KOREA, b. 1970

Biography
NA HYUN
Na Hyun is a research-based installation artist whose practice investigates the gaps between recorded history and lived reality. Trained initially in painting, he has expanded her methodology through site research and archival inquiry, working across photography, video, drawing, text, and architectural structures to construct projects that unfold across multiple layers.
 
His work begins with the material and temporal conditions of specific sites—traces of historical sedimentation, remains of development, and cycles of nature. he gathers and analyzes documents such as official records, maps, plans, photographs, and interviews, building narrative frameworks that he reconfigures into spatial installations. Through these processes, he exposes the omissions and instability embedded in historical and institutional archives, prompting viewers to reconsider the borders of what is accepted as “fact.”
 
Rather than presenting a single finished object, Na Hyun composes exhibitions as ongoing research environments, where investigative materials and physical structures coexist. Viewers navigate the space as active readers and interpreters, encountering information, artifacts, and constructed forms that collectively open up new ways of engaging with history, memory, and the natural world. This interplay of documentary methods and artistic imagination forms the foundation of his distinct visual language.
 
Na Hyun has presented his work at major institutions including SeMA, Sungkok Art Museum, the Hermes Foundation exhibition, and the MMCA Korea’s Artist of the Year program, and he has participated in several international residency programs. His practice continues to evolve through projects developed in museums, biennales, and environmental art contexts, contributing to a significant contemporary discourse centered on history, ecology, memory, and site-specificity.
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Works
  • NA HYUN, Nanjido 15-01-2, 2022
    Nanjido 15-01-2, 2022
  • NA HYUN, Nanjido 15-37-2, 2022
    Nanjido 15-37-2, 2022
  • NA HYUN, Nanjido 15-38-2, 2022
    Nanjido 15-38-2, 2022
  • NA HYUN, Formosa Project-P03, 2021
    Formosa Project-P03, 2021
  • NA HYUN, Formosa Project-P13, 2021
    Formosa Project-P13, 2021
  • NA HYUN, Formosa Project-P14, 2021
    Formosa Project-P14, 2021
  • NA HYUN, Formosa Project-T07, 2021
    Formosa Project-T07, 2021
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