Artist Bio

Sung Eun Park is an artist working across the medium of drawing, sculpture, and painting. In her current body of work, Park has been continuing to explore life and death. Ongoing series of work have been investigated into a “good death”, the reflection on our mortality and such an intensity of this inevitable shadow forces us to accept the prospect of death—an acceptance that impacts the way we lead our lives.

In each work, Park weaves a narrative that allows the viewers to follow the journey through a surreal world, a journey that will drive them to stay immersed in the present, free themselves from the past and the future, and to contemplate the dignity and value of their lives.

Born in Seoul, South Korea and immigrated to the United States, Park received her BFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art and an MFA from Indiana University Bloomington. Her work has appeared in print and exhibitions such as Vox Populi, Wassaic Summer Exhibition and CICA Museum. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Studios at Wassaic Project, Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, the Vermont Studio Center, The Studios at Mass MoCA, and others. She lives and works in Virginia.