Simon Ko

b. 1988, South Korea / USA

Simon Ko (b. 1988, Seoul) is a South Korean painter who lives and works in Seoul. He received a BFA from The Cooper Union in New York in 2011 and an MFA from Yale University in 2017. In 2012 he took part in a residency at the Vermont Studio Center. He held his first solo exhibition in Seoul in 2015; later solo shows followed in New York, Seoul and Los Angeles. Ko's paintings deal with human relationships and the emotions that accompany them. He builds up the surface with modelling paste and custom-made tools, achieving a rough, uneven texture. The work offered by the gallery, Float A While (2021), is painted in acrylic.

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