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Price: ₩2,500,000. Size: 70.7x60.6cm. Medium: Oil on canvas, made in 2024.

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Yes. "Placing the Heart in Space" is an original Oil on canvas work by Seo Geumjaeng, verified through SAF 2026. A certificate of authenticity is provided where applicable.

Letting the Heart Rest — Seo Geumaeng, Oil on Canvas 2024

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Until the next exhibition, the next performance. For artists, income gaps are an unavoidable reality. For fellow artists forced into predatory loans just to afford paint, canvas, and studio rent, proceeds from this artwork become the Seed Fund — extending a fair hand at fair rates.

Voices of fellow artists

“The memory of going hungry for three days, alone, so my children wouldn't know.”

— 50s, theater artist

“I've been putting off urgent dental treatment because I can't afford it. I should be seeing a doctor regularly, but enduring instead of going has become a habit.”

— 50s, actor

“I kept delaying ear treatment because I had no money, and the symptoms in both ears worsened.”

— 30s, musician

“I couldn't pay my hospitalized mother's bills, so we had to delay her discharge, and she had to give up tests and treatment she needed.”

— 50s, actor/broadcaster

“Because of money troubles I had nowhere to go — drifting between gosiwon rooms and rehearsal studios, and for a while sleeping rough.”

— 30s, musician

“Because of unpaid rent, my collective was forced to vacate our shared workspace and home. Neither bank loans nor artist loans could help.”

— 50s, actor

“Without money, life collapses — and creating art? Out of the question.”

— 50s, artist

“It's painful that solving this month's money problems has to come before the work itself. As an artist, I can only earn well when the work succeeds — yet I have to chase odd jobs every month instead. It feels like being trapped in a vicious cycle.”

— 40s, musician

“Debt collection calls disrupted my rehearsals and performances, and the psychological burden made every day painful and the next day frightening.”

— 40s, theater artist

“Many times the loan payments looming each month forced me to step away from performing and focus on part-time work.”

— 50s, actor

“Sleeping less than four hours a night, juggling part-time jobs and theater — but the more I performed, the more debt piled up. Eventually I decided to quit performing.”

— 30s, actor

“When things were hardest, I couldn't even attend close friends' weddings or funerals — and as a result, relationships were severed.”

— 50s, actor/broadcaster

“When I said I was a stage actor, the loan officer called me "unemployed."”

— 50s, actor

“The shame and severed friendships that came with borrowing from people I knew, the pressure of failing to pay it back, the helplessness.”

— 50s, cartoonist/visual artist

“Even with programs meant for low-income citizens, I feel shame when I can't produce enough documentation simply because I'm an artist.”

— 30s, film/broadcasting professional

98 artworks sold, each becoming a seed of solidarity

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About the Artist

Seo Geumaeng is a painter who translates the energies and memories embedded in everyday spaces into painterly form. After graduating from the Department of Painting at Sookmyung Women's University, she completed her M.F.A. in Formative Arts at the same university's graduate school. She has held numerous solo exhibitions, from 〈Rooms〉 (Leehyung Art Center, 2008) to 〈Energy of Space〉 (E-Land Curated, 2023), 〈Density of Memory〉 (Art Space J, 2025), and 〈Seo Geum-aeng Exhibition〉 (Gallery Ilho, 2025). She has participated in ASYAAF, Breeze Art Fair, Gwanghwamun International Art Festival, and the K-Auction Premium Auction Preview. Her works are held in the collections of MMCA Art Bank and the E-Land Cultural Foundation.

Artist Statement

The story begins when the gaze settles on an everyday space that does not look special — and someone, from far away or up close, looks back at the space the subject has inhabited. The spaces in which we live exert a great influence on our lives, but the familiarity and ordinariness of the everyday often keep us from recognizing this clearly. When such everyday spaces are translated into art, viewers can approach the work more easily through the universality the everyday provides; and once the space recognized as art returns to daily life, viewers are given an occasion to re-recognize the meaning that space holds. In an actual space, an object is chosen and placed, but it acquires its meaning as a trace of presence. Through this, we come to recognize that space holds the traces of human beings, and through such traces we begin to wonder about presence itself. A trace remains regardless of the intent of the one who left it. Because the act of erasing a trace itself leaves another trace, traces have a quality that cannot be erased. By recognizing the everyday spaces around us, finding meaning there, and discovering traces of presence, I try to project the psychology felt within personal space. For me, "the space I belong to" means a deeply familiar everyday space. The space I come to inhabit through the repetition of everyday life takes on a color of its own and performs the function of remembering me. The scenes glimpsed through these spaces hold within them feelings tied to what I have lived through. My doubts and fancies about the repetitive everyday continue without end, and within ordinary life I sometimes catch a strange scene. The everyday is composed of all kinds of human activity — the entire process of activity that day after day repeats and creates anew, in itself accidental and impromptu yet so natural that the time or event passes us by before we recognize it. So even though human beings, who go on living, do recognize the everyday in which their time and space coexist, it is hard to take the everyday as something with a special meaning. For us, the everyday could be called an ongoing stage on which everyone is the leading role. I sought to express the everyday spaces I have lived through by creating spaces psychologically staged from such daily experiences — through the arrangement of objects placed within those spaces and through various ways of presenting them. Through the "space" within the painting, I tried to re-recognize what meaning that space holds for me, and to attempt continuous communication with the viewer through the form in which the work is presented. My work is premised on the idea that everyday spaces and objects gain a subjective meaning for those who see them; by staging spaces that hold the manifold meanings of the everyday, I have tried to create not only an artistic experience but also an occasion in which the everyday space itself can be newly perceived.

Key Career Highlights

Education B.F.A., Department of Painting, Sookmyung Women's University M.F.A., Department of Formative Arts, Graduate School, Sookmyung Women's University Solo Exhibitions 2025 <Density of Memory>, Gallery Invitational, Art Space J, Bundang 2025 <Seo Geum-aeng Exhibition>, Gallery Ilho, Seoul 2024 <Energy of Space>, Competition, Jungnang Art Center Hanpyeong Gallery, Seoul 2023 <Paradox of an Ordinary Day>, Alo Invitational, Gwanghwamun Ssalong, Seoul 2023 <Energy of Space>, E-Land Curated Exhibition, Kensington Resort Gallery, Jeju 2022 <Selected Artist Exhibition>, E-Land Space, Seoul 2022 <Lingering Gaze>, E-Land Curated Exhibition, Guro NC Department Store, Seoul 2020 <Looking at Everyday Life>, Invitational, Sempio Space, Icheon 2018 <Seo Geum-aeng Invitational>, GS Tower The Street Gallery, Seoul 2016 <Traces, Lingering>, A-Company Curated, Humax Village, Bundang 2011 <Placing the Heart in Space>, Gallery Competition, Gallery Dool, Seoul 2010 <Emerging Artist Competition>, Topohaus, Seoul 2008 <Rooms>, Leehyung Art Center, Seoul Group Exhibitions 2025 <ASYAAF Asia University Student & Young Artist Art Festival>, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul 2025 <Encountering Dreams>, Competition, Gallery Ilho, Seoul 2024 <Waves of Memory>, Sewol Ferry 10th Anniversary Memorial Exhibition, Modern & Contemporary Art Museum Damda, Yongin 2024 <1st Creative Conference Memorial Exhibition>, E-Land Cultural Foundation, E-Land Space, Seoul 2022 <K-Auction Premium Online Auction Preview>, K Auction Art Tower, Seoul 2021 <Smooth and Grooved>, Gong Gallery Cafe, Ilsan 2021 <K-Auction Premium Online Auction Preview>, K Auction Art Tower, Seoul 2021 <Emerging Artist Space Support Exhibition>, United Gallery, Seoul 2020 <All Different Paintings>, Art Space H, Seoul 2019 <Mediazen Small Paintings>, Art Space H, Seoul 2019 <Breeze Art Fair>, Nodeul Island, Seoul 2019 <LOCAL PRIDE>, Gongsyel Curated, Seochon Cafe Street, Seoul 2018 <Breeze Art Fair>, Sejong Center for the Performing Arts Museum, Seoul 2018 <Gwanghwamun International Art Festival>, Sejong Center for the Performing Arts Museum, Seoul 2017 <ASYAAF Asia University Student & Young Artist Art Festival>, DDP, Seoul 2017 <Daelim Changgo x Minari House>, Daelim Changgo Gallery Column, Seoul 2016 <Breeze Art Fair>, Blue Square NEMO, Seoul 2015 <Sookmyung Women's University 110th Anniversary Alumni Exhibition>, Moonshin Museum of Art, Seoul 2015 <Breeze Art Fair>, Seoul Innovation Park, Seoul 2014 <ASYAAF>, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul 2011 <ASYAAF>, Hongik University, Seoul 2010 <ASYAAF>, Sungshin Women's University, Seoul 2010 <Summer Summer Summer, Sookmyung Western Painting Alumni Exhibition>, Insa Art Center, Seoul 2010 <Breathing House Project>, Gallery Curated, Kimi Art, Seoul 2010 <ARCK U.S. Tour Exhibit-II>, Tacoma, Washington, U.S.A. 2009 <Behind SPACE>, Gallery Curated, EM Art Gallery, Seoul 2009 <Auction Star & Hana Bank Gold Club Joint Curated Exhibition>, Dogok Tower Hana Bank PB Center, Seoul 2009 <ASYAAF>, Former Defense Security Command, Seoul 2009 <ARCK U.S. Tour Exhibit-I Gallery HOMELAND>, Portland, U.S.A. 2009 <Hearts in Motion, Sookmyung Western Painting Alumni Exhibition>, Insa Art Center, Seoul 2009 <Seoul Auction 4th Auction Preview>, Shinsegae Gallery Seoul, Busan 2008 <EVERYDAY LIFE>, Gallery Curated, Gallery Sam, Busan 2008 <ASYAAF>, Former Seoul Station, Seoul 2008 <Phenomenon and Illusion>, Gallery Curated, AKA SEOUL Gallery, Seoul 2008 <Art Road Festival Booth>, Central City, Seoul 2008 <Intro Painting Exhibition>, Sejong Center Annex, Seoul 2007 <KPAM Pet Mania Exhibition>, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul 2007 <studio_UNIT OPEN STUDIO>, Gallery HUT, KT Art Hall, Seoul 2007 <18th, 19th Container & Jaewon Exhibition>, Cheongpa Gallery, Seoul Awards 2009 ART CONNECTION KOREA 1st Emerging Artist Grand Prize 2008 Grand Art Exhibition of Korea Contemporary Art Selection (Hongik Design Center) 2007 Grand Painting Exhibition of Korea Western Painting Special Selection (Seoul Museum of Art Branch) 2007 Sookmyung Women's University Best Graduation Work Award (Cheongpa Gallery) 2005 World Peace Art Competition Western Painting Selection (Ansan Danwon Museum of Art) Collections MMCA Art Bank, E-Land Cultural Foundation, A-Company, APC Works <Monthly Hanok> and numerous private collections