Park Jihye is a meticulous painter who concerns herself primarily with depictions of women. These women are often caught from behind, mid-movement. The lifelike qualities of her paintings interfere with a moment in time and she is able, through the interactions of movement, to engage the viewer into a time sequence. Without tension or preoccupation, her characters become familiar to the viewer and her paintings deny passive observation and encourage total absorption within the moment.

Born 1983.

Park received her MFA and BFA from Hong-Ik University. Since her first solo exhibition in 2007, she has been in a variety of group exhibitions including one at the Hongik Contemporary Museum of Art in 2007 and one at the Seoul Museum of Contemporary Art in 2011.