Working Process: "Untying Space_ Drawing in the Gap", 2023 International Special Exhibition Project Jeju, 'Migrating Humans - Homo Migratio_ Jeju Museum of Art, Korea (c) 2023 Sun K. Kwak
"Drawing Performance: 'Drawing as Invisible Lines' for the completion of the project 'Untying Space_Drawing in the Gap.'" , masking tape, Jeju Museum of Art, Korea, 2023 (c) Sun K. Kwak, All rights reserved
Working process, “Untying Space_Yonge 8 Adelaide”, 2022. Photo: Stefan Lenzi *Commissioned by City of Toronto and Deloitte for "Nuit Blanche Toronto 2022", Canada © 2022 Sun K. Kwak
“Untying Space_Yonge 8 Adelaide”, 2022, graphic film, 44ft 2in x 225ft 11in. * *Commissioned by City of Toronto and Deloitte for "Nuit Blanche Toronto 2022", Canada. Photo: Sophia Min © Sun K. Kwak
“Untying Space_Yonge 8 Adelaide”, 2022, graphic film, 44ft 2in x 225ft 11in. *Commissioned by City of Toronto and Deloitte for "Nuit Blanche Toronto 2022", Canada. Photo: Sophia Min © Sun K. Kwak
“Untying Space_Yonge 8 Adelaide”, 2022, graphic film, 44ft 2in x 225ft 11in. *Commissioned by City of Toronto and Deloitte for "Nuit Blanche Toronto 2022", Canada. Photo: Sam Javanrouh © Sun K. Kwak
Untying Space_Leeum Samsung Museum of Art © Sun K. Kwak
"Untying Space_Gwangju Biennale", 2006_ masking tape, wooden wall, white paint _installed at The 6th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea. Photo: Youngha Cho. © Sun K. Kwak
Untying Space_Sala Alcala 31, 2007_ masking tape, vinyl, wooden panel wall installed at Sala Alcala 31 for Arco special exhibition, Madrid, Spain. © Sun K. Kwak
"Enfolding 280 Hours" at Brooklyn Museum, NY, 2009. Photo: Zake Kim © Sun K. Kwak
"Enfolding 280 Hours" at Brooklyn Museum, NY, 2009. Photo: Zake Kim © Sun K. Kwak
Untying Space_CUAM, 2011_ masking tape, vinyl, paint, plywood sheet for the sculptural wall, 9ft H x 21ft (Inside gallery part) _installed at Cu Art Museum at the Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A. Photo_Jeff Wells. © Sun K. Kwak
Installing process_"Walkable Drawing", 2015 for Runway for LIE SANGBONG, Mercedes Benz Fashion Week at Lincoln Center, New York. © Sun K. Kwak
"Nervous System_ Corner Force", 2008_velvet, mirror, vinyl_installed at Mixed Green Gallery, New York. © Sun K. Kwak
"Nervous System_ Corner Force", 2008_masking tape, vinyl, paint, panel, hardboard_installed at Mixed Green Gallery, New York. © Sun K. Kwak
"Untying Space_The New Children’s Museum", 2009_masking tape, plastic grip, varnish_Installed at The New Children’s Museum, San Diego, CA. © Sun K. Kwak
"Untying Space_The New Children’s Museum", 2009_masking tape, plastic grip, varnish_Installed at The New Children’s Museum, San Diego, CA. © Sun K. Kwak
" Peeling Appealing" (c) 2005 Sun K Kwak * private collection
"Rolling Space", 2015 printed poly vinyl chloride cut out 84H x 246W x 4.1 inch, installed at Gallery Skape, Korea *Collection of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul, Korea. Photo: Oyeol Kwon. © Sun K. Kwak
"Untying Space_Toranomon Hills Mori Tower", 2014_Entrance: 82.2 ft x 11.4 ft / 3Fl: 82.2ft x 10.8, Architect: Sou Fujimoto *Collection of the Toranomon Hills Mori Tower, Tokyo, Japan. © Sun K. Kwak
Working Process: "Untying Space_Toranomon Hills Mori Tower", 2014_Entrance: 82.2 ft x 11.4 ft / 3Fl: 82.2ft x 10.8, Architect: Sou Fujimoto *Collection of the Toranomon Hills Mori Tower, Tokyo, Japan. © Sun K. Kwak
Working process: "Rolling Space_A Tale of an Eagle", 2001, polished stainless steel, urethane paint, 5.6ft W X 8.8ft H x 3ft D, installed for Venice Biennale 2021-2022 at San Clemente Palace Kempinski, Venice, Italy. Photo: Lamberti © 2022 Sun K. Kwak
Working process: "Rolling Space_A Tale of an Eagle", 2001, polished stainless steel, urethane paint, 5.6ft W X 8.8ft H x 3ft D, installed for Venice Biennale 2021-2022 at San Clemente Palace Kempinski, Venice, Italy. Photo: Lamberti © 2022 Sun K. Kwak
"Rolling Space_A Tale of an Eagle", 2001, polished stainless steel, urethane paint, 5.6ft W X 8.8ft H x 3ft D, installed for Venice Biennale 2021-2022 at San Clemente Palace Kempinski, Venice, Italy. Photo: Simone Padovan. © Sun K. Kwak * *Collection of the St. Clemente Palace Kempinski, Venice
"Rolling Space_A Tale of an Eagle", 2001, polished stainless steel, urethane paint, 5.6ft W X 8.8ft H x 3ft D, installed for Venice Biennale 2021-2022 at San Clemente Palace Kempinski, Venice, Italy. Photo: Simone Padovan. © Sun K. Kwak * *Collection of the St. Clemente Palace Kempinski, Venice
"Rolling Space_A Tale of an Eagle", 2001, polished stainless steel, urethane paint, 5.6ft W X 8.8ft H x 3ft D, installed for Venice Biennale at St. Clemente Palace Kempinski, Venice, Italy. Photo: Simone Padovan. © Sun K. Kwak *Collection of the St. Clemente Palace Kempinski, Venice
"41 Rolls of Winding", 2014 -detail- gaffer tape, wire, varnish 9 in x 10 ft 6 in x 4.5 inch - detail © Sun K. Kwak *Collection of the Seoul City Museum, Seoul, Korea © Sun K. Kwak
"43 Rolls of Winding_Triumphant", 2014 gaffer tape, wire, varnish 9 in x 10 ft 6 in x 4.5 inch - detail © Sun K. Kwak © Sun K. Kwak
" Your Portrait" © Sun K. Kwak " Private collection
"Handsaw marks in 16 beats", 2015, masking, artist and gaffer tapes, wooden bars, 6H x 144L x 4.25W inch. Photo: Oyeol Kwon. © Sun K. Kwak
"Segment Drawing", gaffer tape, artist tape, masking tape, acrylic box © Sun K. Kwak * Private collection
Working Process: "Kairos", 2017, ceramic pigment on porcelain tile, 9 ft 9 in x 158.3 ft *Collection of the NYC Department of Education, Public Art for Public Schools, PS298Q, New York © Sun K. Kwak
"Kairos", 2017 - Detail- ceramic pigment on porcelain tile, 9 ft 9 in x 158.3 ft *Collection of the NYC Department of Education, Public Art for Public Schools, PS298Q, New York © Sun K. Kwak
"Kairos", 2017 - Detail- ceramic pigment on porcelain tile, 9 ft 9 in x 158.3 ft *Collection of the NYC Department of Education, Public Art for Public Schools, PS298Q, New York © Sun K. Kwak
"Works and Process" at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY, 2010. Photo: Aanna Campbell. © Sun K. Kwak
"Works and Process" at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY, 2010. Photo: Aanna Campbell. © Sun K. Kwak
"Drawing in the Gap", 2023 © Sun K. Kwak
Drawing Diary "Untitled" , 2004 © Sun K. Kwak
Drawing Diary "Untitled" © Sun K. Kwak
"Divine Move", 2020, acrylic paint, 8.5 x 11 ft * Long term installation at Waterfall Art Foundation © Sun K. Kwak
"Divine Move", 2020, acrylic paint, 8.5 x 11 ft * Long term installation at Waterfall Art Foundation © Sun K. Kwak
Digital Collage © Sun K. Kwak
60lb of Dust 2kg of Sand 32g of Ash_2015 (c) Sun K. Kwak
Following Dots and Lines_Divine Move_2012 pen, ink © Sun K. Kwak
Following Dots and Lines_Yearning_2012 © Sun K. Kwak
Sun K. Kwak is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist originally from Korea, widely recognized for her transformative Space Drawing and Sculptural Drawing. Her practice reshapes the perception and experience of space through immersive, site-specific interventions. At the core of her work is a performative process of emptying herself - an act of surrender that liberates both the artist and the environment.
Kwak's work traverses the boundaries between consciousness and unconsciousness, materiality and spirituality. Her installations dissolve fixed spatial limits and open up new possibilities of pictorial reality. The work reaches completion when viewers physically and perceptually engage with it, expanding their own sense of time and space and blurring the line between the visible and invisible.
Rooted in her transient life, Kwak’s practice reflects on border identity, formed in the in-between spaces of cultures, geographies, and temporalities. She also explores deterritorialization and reterritorialization, phenomenological perception, and the fusion and expansion of form and meaning. Through these contemplations, she proposes a transcendent space as a new pictorial reality.
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