Si On
Selected Works
True or false
2022oil and spray on canvas
460 × 270 cm (181 ⅛ × 106 ¼ inches)
Meaningless universe
2022oil and spray on canvas
approx.: 400 × 270 cm (157 ½ × 106 ¼ inches)
Peel away lifeless face
2022oil and spray on canvas
460 × 270 cm (181 ⅛ × 106 ¼ inches)
Born with a void 3 (Schoolgirl), 2023
2023oil, ceramics, wood, canvas
48 3/8 × 23 5/8 × 16 1/2 inches
Born with a void 4 (Boxer), 2023
2023oil, ceramics, wood, canvas / olio, ceramica, legno, tela
48 7/8 × 24 3/8 × 17 3/8 inches
Born with a void 5 (Nice), 2023
2023oil, ceramics, wood, canvas
49 3/4 × 24 × 17 3/4 inches
Born with a void 6 (Bikini), 2023
2023oil, ceramics, wood, canvas
50 1/4 × 24 3/8 × 15 3/4 inches
Born with a void 7 (Maid), 2023
2023oil, ceramics, wood, canvas
5/8 × 24 3/8 × 16 1/2 inches
Fragile Heart with Spiked Soul
2022-2023mixed media, acrylic, oil on panel
180 × 168 cm (70 7/8 × 66 1/8 inches)
Female Creature
2019satin and mixed media on canvas
200 × 160 cm (78 3/4 × 63 inches)
How Beautiful, How Ugly
2022oil and spray on canvas
180 × 155 × 4.5 cm (70 ⅞ × 61 × 1 ¾ inches)
On Stunt
2021oil on canvas
65 × 60 cm (25 ⅝ × 23 ⅝ inches)
Long Goodbye to Summer
2021oil on wooden panel
60.5 × 66.5 cm (23 ⅞ × 26 ⅛ inches)
Last Leaf
2021oil, spray on canvas
60 × 70 cm (23 ⅝ × 27 ½ inches)
Conquer from within
2021oil and spray on canvas
227 × 130.5 cm (89 ⅜ × 51 ⅜ inches)
Burial and Sowing
2021mixed media
120 × 50 × 55 cm (47 ¼ × 19 ⅝ × 21 ⅝ inches), 120 × 80 × 100 cm (47 ¼ × 31 ½ × 39 ⅜ inches)
Break free
2021oil, spray on canvas
220 × 170 cm (86 ⅝ × 66 ⅞ inches)
Be where You Are
2020mixed media
220 × 170 cm (86 ⅝ × 66 ⅞ inches)
Fragile
2020oil, spray, jeans, styrofoam on canvas
172 × 150 × 8 cm (67 ¾ × 59 × 3 ⅛ inches)
Ha!
2020oil on canvas
240 × 195 cm (94 ½ × 76 ¾ inches)
Wounded Heart
2020mixed media
200 × 165 × 125 cm (78 ¾ × 65 × 49 ¼ inches)
I lived well
2020oil, spray on canvas
240 × 194 cm (94 ½ × 76 ⅜ inches)
The Night
2020oil, spray on canvas
155 × 180 cm (61 × 70 ⅞ inches)
Untitled
2020satin and mixed media on canvas
ø 40 cm (ø 15 ¾ inches)
40 Years Old
2018-2021bronze and mixed media
240 × 100 × 82 cm (94 ½ × 39 ⅜ × 32 ¼ inches)
MAM Project 028
2020Installation at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
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Biography
Gallery Exhibitions
Other Venues
Selected Press
From the Studio: Si On
Studio Visit
CV
2011
PhD in Painting Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan
2008
MA in Painting Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan
2002
BA Western Painting Mokwon University, Daejeon, Korea
2023
‘I Am An Outcast From The World’, James Fuentes Gallery, New York
‘Si On: A Peace Brimming with Malice’, Edel Assanti, London
2022
‘Born with a Void’, Le Scalze, Naples
2021
‘Burial and Sowing’ T293, Rome
2020
‘Shaman Woman’, HOS Gallery, Warsaw gallery Weekend, Warsaw, Poland
‘MAM Project 028: Si On’, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
‘Si On: Female Creature’, Hunt Kastner, Prague
2019
‘Hyon Gyon’, Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London
2017
‘Cruel World’, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong
2016
‘Emotional Drought’, Shin Gallery, New York
2015
‘Hyon Gyon and the Factory Chashama’, New York
‘No-Mad Nomad’, Pioneer Works, New York
2013
‘Phantoms on Parade’, Shin Gallery, New York
‘All Night Haps’, HAPS, Kyoto, Japan
2012
‘The Incarnation of The World’, Gallery Golmok, Seoul, Korea
2011
‘New incubation 3, On a Knife Edge’, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan
2010
‘Giragira’, g3 gallery, Tokyo
‘Tamahuri’, g3 gallery, Tokyo
2009
‘lyoiyo’, Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong
2008
‘Iyoiyo’, Magical ArtRoom, Tokyo
‘TWS-Emerging 099’, Awesome Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo
‘Tokyo Wonder Wall’, Tokyo Metropolitan Government Tokyo
2022
‘Uncombed, Unforeseen, Unconstrained’, Parasol unit, Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello, Venice
2019
‘Elements of Transcendence’, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong
‘Paint, also known as blood. Woman, Affect, and Desire in Contemporary Painting’, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland
‘Trip’ (in collaboration with Jakub Julian Ziolkowski), BWA Wroclaw Galleries of Contemporary Art, Wroclaw, Poland
2018
‘Great Nobles of the Country’, BWA Tarnów, Poland
‘Holy Nothing’ (in collaboration with Jakub Julian Ziolkowski), Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
‘Sue Coe, Eliza Douglas, Joseph Geagan, Hyon Gyon’, James Fuentes Gallery, New York
2017
‘Culture City of East Asia 2017’, Kyoto, Japan
‘The World is a Stage, but the Play is Badly Cast’, Batu Museum, New York
‘Naturalia’, Paul Kasmin, New York
2016
‘Art for Art’s Sake: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation’, Carnegie Art Museum, California, USA
‘BEYOND SECRETARY’, Mark Borghi Gallery, New York
2015
‘The Brooklyn Artists Ball’, Brooklyn Museum, New York
2013
‘KAWAI, CAMP – Contemporary Art Meeting Point’, Athens
‘Kyoto Artist Meeting 2013’, Antenna Media, Kyoto, Japan
‘Kyoto Studio’, @KCUA, Kyoto, Japan
2012
‘Phantoms of Asia’, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
‘Transmit Program #3 Metis’, @KCUA, Kyoto, Japan
2011
‘Tokyo Frontline’, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo
2010
‘Tokyo Wonder Wall 10th Anniversary Museum of Contemporary Art’, Japan
‘Neoneo Part2 (girl) Neoneo Girls Open Iwato Personally’, Takahashi I collection, Tokyo
2009
‘Wakuwaku Joban-Kashiwa Proj-Ect’, TSCA, Kashiwa, Japan