Salnus is a Seoul-based painting and drawing artist. Having experimented with various media including painting, drawing, installation, and animation, he has recently focused his practice on painting and drawing. His work repeatedly engages with geometric structures, transparent objects, spheres and circular forms, and distorted images of the body, addressing voyeurism, the grotesque, and the relationship between 'being seen and being concealed' as major themes. Through transparent materials such as glass, crystal spheres, and semi-translucent structures combined with geometric forms, Salnus has consistently juxtaposed the tensions between decorativeness and violence, order and instability within his canvases. Moving between painting and installation, flat surface and three-dimensional form, narrative and structure, he is interested in constructing an image world that is both sensory and structural. Based in Seoul, he has participated in numerous curated exhibitions since his solo show Reverse Pursuit (2014). Recently, through expanded installations of past drawings and sketches and the serial work The Story of the Snake Following the Marble, he has been developing a practice that weaves flat and three-dimensional elements and the entire exhibition space into a single narrative structure.
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Education
2013 B.F.A., Department of Textile Art & Fashion Design, College of Fine Arts, Hongik University
Solo Exhibitions
2025 <Digging Out>, Rounded Flat, Jun 27-30, Seoul
2024 <Bad Taste>, Gallery Moss, May 24-31, Seoul
2022 <Story of a Ring Worm>, Peace Culture Jinji, Seoul, Oct 22-Nov 4
2022 <Overpainted Zone>, Goyang Aram Nuri, Goyang, Jul 27-31
2022 <Entrance>, Gallery Cafe Gaze, Seoul, Apr 20-May 8
2021 <Fragment of the Screen>, Horanggasinamu Creative Space, Gwangju, Nov 16-22
2021 <Genesis Garden - Gaze Beyond Focus>, Wumin Art Center, Cheongju, Sep 20-Nov 6
2020 <Genesis Garden - Inverted Clock>, Goyang Aram Nuri Museum, Goyang
2020 <Genesis Garden>, Yeongcheon Art Creative Studio, Yeongcheon
2018 <Not Unpleasant>, Gallery Binkan, Seoul
2014 <Reverse Chase>, Gallery Gaia, Seoul
Group Exhibitions
2025 <Landscape-Still Life>, N2 Art Space, Seoul, Jun 27-Jul 19
2025 <Tongue of Oblivion, Burning Eyes>, Art Space Raph, Seoul, Mar 14-Apr 5
2024 <Songdo Wandering>, Art Space In, Songdo, Oct 27-Nov 1
2024 <Demon's Tail>, Gallery Horton, Aug 6-31
2024 <PROSPECT24>, Gallery Dehwite, Seoul, Feb 16-Mar 15
2023 <UNDER THE SURFACE>, Horanggasinamu Creative Space, Gwangju, Dec 15-Jan 15
2023 <Room 360>, Online Platform 'Spatial', Oct 25-Dec 31
2023 <Expanding Landscape>, Goyang Aram Nuri Museum, Goyang, Oct 5-13
2023 <The Medium Is the Massage>, Collabo House Mullae, Seoul, Feb 22-27
2022 <Pretzel>, Gallery Gaze, Seoul, Dec 14-31
2022 <Yeonseoksan Horanggasinamu>, Yeonseoksan Woosong Museum, Oct 1-28
2022 <Together with Tiger>, Art District P, Busan, Sep 20-Oct 1
2022 <Simultaneous>, Gallery Gaze, Gallery Moss, Gallery Choyeon, Jun 2-12
2022 <Realistic Dreamers>, Gallery Moss, Seoul, Apr 19-25
2022 <Museum Contemplating Nature>, Goyang Aram Nuri Museum, Apr 13-May 25
2022 <Synthesis of Relations>, Horanggasinamu Creative Space, Gwangju, Mar 15-31
2021 <With>, Horanggasinamu Creative Space, Gwangju
2021 <I Too Am an Art Collector>, Goyang Aram Nuri Museum, Goyang
2021 <Story of a Miner>, Horanggasinamu Creative Space, Gwangju
2021 <Trouble in Paradise>, Round Them Oranges, Jaipur
2020 <Shadow of Perception>, Sian Museum of Art, Yeongcheon
2019 <Drawing on Paper>, Art Space Seoro, Seoul
2018 <Man>, Space Illi, Seoul
2018 <Landscape>, Gallery Birch, Seoul
2017 <Painter's Self-Portrait>, Dooin Gallery, Seoul
2017 <Cloudy and Slow>, Beoplyeonsa Bulil Museum of Art, Seoul
2016 <What Is Art?>, Banditraso, Seoul
2016 <Group 23.5 Degrees>, Duru Art Space, Seoul
2015 <Group 23.5 Degrees>, Gallery Cheong / Gana Art Space / Gallery Imaju, Seoul
2013 <2013 Tetsuson>, Gallery BankART, Yokohama
2012 <Today's Hongik Textile Art Curated Invitational>, KEPCO Art Center Gallery, Seoul
2012 <Goodness>, Seoul Museum of Art Gyeonghuigung Branch, Seoul
2011 <I>, Golden Tower Gallery, Seoul
Residencies
2022 Peace Culture Jinji 5th Cohort Resident Artist
2021 Horanggasinamu Creative Space 7th Cohort Resident Artist
2020 Yeongcheon Art Creative Studio 12th Cohort Short-term Resident Artist
