Price
₩3,000,000
A unique original — the only one in the world
Art protects art
8 out of 10
artists are shut out by banks
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
168 artworks sold, each becoming a seed of solidarity
One artwork becomes the oxygen that keeps a fellow artist creating.
Sales proceeds go to the artist mutual-aid fund.
a late summer forest
Hong Jinhui
- Category
- Painting
- Size
- 65.5×47cm · Size 15 · Medium How big is this? →
- Year
- 2023
- Edition
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- Price
- ₩3,000,000
- Availability
- For sale
About the Artist
Hong Jinhee is a painter who unfolds 'forests drawn with thread' in a painterly language. After graduating from the College of Fine Arts at Hongik University, she has held over 16 solo exhibitions—including 〈Forest Drawn with Thread〉 (KB Kookmin Bank Seocho PB Center, 2011; JH Gallery, 2012; Seongbuk Art Creation Center, 2015), 〈With the Forest〉 (Gallery Or, Yongin, 2025), 〈Forest, Circulation and Healing〉 (Beotyi Museum, 2024), 〈Forest of Memory〉 (Gallery Gabi, 2017), and 〈Pink Forest〉 (Gallery Life, 2016). She received the Excellence Award at the 2nd Local Color New York Competition (2013), was selected as a Yongin Special City and Yongin Cultural Foundation artist (2024–2025), and has been a multi-year grantee of the Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation and the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture. She published Healing Forest Created by Threads (2012). Her works are held in MMCA Art Bank and the Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art.
Artist Statement
The artist statement is currently available in Korean.
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Two beginnings made by one piece
- For you —
- One-of-a-kind in the world
- For the artist —
- the pride of standing with a peer
- For a fellow artist —
- a new ₩3,000,000 path of low-interest support
354 artists have walked this path of recovery; 95% returned to open it for the next.