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Price: ₩1,800,000. Size: 53.0x33.4cm. Medium: Acrylic on canvas, made in 2020.

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Yes. "Light Stays-3" is an original Acrylic on canvas work by Seo Geumjaeng, verified through SAF 2026. A certificate of authenticity is provided where applicable.

Light Stays-3 · Seo Geumjaeng

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interest saved vs. predatory rates

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

One artwork becomes the oxygen that keeps a fellow artist creating.

Sales proceeds go to the artist mutual-aid fund.

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CategoryPaintingMaterialAcrylic on canvas Size53×33.4cm · Size 8 · Small How big is this? →Year2020Price₩1,800,000

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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 rests upon an everyday space that does not seem special, and someone, from far off or close by, looks at the space where the subject once stayed. The spaces in which we live exert an important influence on our lives, but the familiar, ordinary feeling of the everyday often keeps us from clearly recognizing this. When such an everyday space is rendered as an artwork, the viewer can approach the work more easily, drawn in by the universality of everyday life, and once back in the everyday, can find an occasion to recognize anew the meaning of a space they once perceived as artwork. In an actual space, an object is chosen and placed, but its meaning is gained as a trace of presence. Through this process, one comes to recognize that space carries the trace of a human being, and through such traces, one comes to wonder about presence. 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 the property of being unerasable. Through recognizing the everyday spaces around us, finding meaning there and discovering traces of presence, I want to project the psychology felt within a personal space. For me, 'a space I belong to' means a very intimate, daily space. Within repeated daily life, the space I come to belong to takes on its own subjective color, and performs the function of remembering me. The scenes shown through these spaces hold within them feelings linked to what I have experienced in life. Doubt and imagination toward the repeating everyday continue without break, and within ordinary daily life, the catching of an unfamiliar scene also takes place. Daily life is made up of many human activities; it means the whole sequence of activity made up of repetition and creation, day by day, and is itself accidental and improvisational, yet so natural that it is also the time, or the event, that passes by before one recognizes it. Therefore, even people living their lives, while aware that they exist within the everyday—where the time and the space they belong to coexist—find it hard to receive that as something with special meaning. For human beings, the everyday can be called an ongoing stage on which everyone is the protagonist. By making spaces psychologically composed from such daily-life experiences, through the arrangement of objects placed within those spaces and the various ways in which they are shown, I sought to express the spaces of the everyday I have experienced. Through the 'space' within the picture, I tried to recognize anew what meaning it holds for me, and through the form in which the work appears, I tried to attempt a continuing conversation with the viewer. The everyday space and object were taken on the premise that they would be granted subjective meaning by the one who sees, and by composing spaces that hold the various meanings the everyday carries, I tried to provide, in addition to artistic experience, an occasion to recognize the everyday space anew.

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