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NOH Sangho (b. 1986) has constructed a unique artistic realm centered around paintings derived from images floating in the online sphere. By collecting, replicating, and transforming the images encountered daily in the digital virtual world of the internet, he reinterprets them into analog art forms, including painting, sculpture, and video. NOH Sangho's creative process reflects the artist's contemplation on how images are consumed and created within the conditions of our time. The Great Chapbook series, which NOH has consistently presented since 2014, is a collection of paintings that combine daily drawings into one scene and color them with oil paint. Working with the digital media environment as a core reference, NOH strives to respond simultaneously to the impacts of unfamiliar technologies. Beginning in 2021, he integrated 3D video production techniques into his practice and, in 2022, began to utilize results from AI image generation programs as a subject matter for his paintings. This indicates that shifts in his creative approach consistently coincide with the advent of new media technologies. Advancing beyond the conventional method of surfing the internet for images, the series HOLY (2022-) emerged from the intuitive selection of images produced by AI, drawing them onto the canvas.
NOH Sangho was born in Seoul, Korea, in 1986. He received his BFA in Printmaking at Hongik University in 2013, and MFA in Fine Arts at Seoul National University of Science & Technology in 2022. He has held solo exhibitions at various institutions such as Yukikomizutani (Tokyo, Japan, 2024), ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL (Seoul, Korea, 2024), ARARIO GALLERY SHANGHAI (Shanghai, China, 2023), ARARIO MUSEUM in SPACE (Seoul, Korea, 2018), SongEun ArtCube (Seoul, Korea, 2017), and SeMA West Warehouse (Seoul, Korea, 2016), as well as group exhibitions held at Ilmin Museum of Art (Seoul, Korea, 2023; 2018), ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL (Seoul, Korea, 2023; 2021; 2016), Isetan The Space (Tokyo, Japan, 2022), ARARIO GALLERY CHEONAN (Cheonan, Korea, 2021), Atelier Hermès (Seoul, Korea, 2020), Daegu Art Museum (Daegu, Korea, 2019), SongEun ArtSpace (Seoul, Korea, 2018), Kumho Museum of Art (Seoul, Korea, 2017), National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Gwacheon, Korea, 2017; 2014), and more. The artist gained attention for being selected in The 24th SongEun Art Award (2024) and National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art's Young Exploration 2014 (2014). He was the artist-in-residence at the SeMA Nanji Residency (Seoul, Korea) in 2015, and also participated in an artist residency exchange program between Hungary and Korea (Budapest, Hungary) in 2016. He won the Lee Sang Wook Prize (Korean Contemporary Printmakers Association, Korea) in 2016. His works are collected by institutions such as the MMCA Gorverment Art Bank, MMCA Art Bank, Koo House Museum, ARARIO MUSEUM, and more.
Sangho Noh (b. 1986) has built a unique body of work centered on paintings based on images floating in the online world. He collects, reproduces, and transforms images that he encounters every day in the digital virtual world based on the Internet and reinterprets them into analog art such as painting, sculpture, and video. Noh's process reflects the artist's concerns about the way we consume and create images in contemporary conditions. The Great Chapbook series, which he has been presenting since 2014, is a series of paintings in which he colorfully combines one drawing per day on a single screen and paints them with oil paint. Using the contemporary media environment as a key reference point, Noh strives to simultaneously respond to the impact of unfamiliar technologies. Changes in his working method are always closely linked to the emergence of new media technologies, such as learning 3D video production technology in 2021 and incorporating it into his work, and using the results obtained by using an AI image generation program in 2022 as materials for his paintings. The 'Holly' series was born when the artist moved from manually collecting images by surfing the internet to intuitively selecting figures from a large number of AI-generated images and dragging them onto the screen. Sangho Noh describes his work as "analog painting with a digital screen always by my side." This means that while he actively utilizes digital elements, it ultimately comes down to the act of drawing by hand.
Sangho Noh was born in 1986 in Seoul, South Korea. He graduated from Hongik University in 2013 with an undergraduate degree in printmaking and received his MFA from Seoul National University of Science and Technology in 2022. He has held solo exhibitions at Yukiko Mizutani (Tokyo, Japan, 2024), Arario Gallery Seoul (Seoul, Korea, 2024), Arario Gallery Shanghai (Shanghai, China, 2023), Arario Museum in Space (Seoul, Korea, 2018), Song Eun Art Cube (Seoul, Korea, 2017), and Seoul Museum of Art West Warehouse (Seoul, Korea, 2016). He has participated in group exhibitions at Ilmin Museum of Art (Seoul, Korea, 2023; 2018), Arario Gallery Seoul (Seoul, Korea, 2023; 2021; 2016), Isetan The Space (Tokyo, Japan, 2022), Arario Gallery Cheonan (Cheonan, Korea, 2021), Atelier Hermès (Seoul, Korea, 2020), Daegu Museum of Art (Daegu, Korea, 2019, Song Eun (Seoul, Korea, 2018), Kumho Museum of Art (Seoul, Korea, 2017), National Museum of Contemporary Art (Gwacheon, Korea, 2017; 2014), and was selected to participate in group exhibitions at the 24th Song-eun Art Prize (2024) and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (2014). In 2015, he was a resident at Nanji Art Studio (Seoul, Korea) and participated in the Hungarian-Korean Artist Exchange Residency Project (Budapest, Hungary) in 2016. In 2016, he received the Sangwook Lee Award from the Korean Contemporary Printmakers Association. His works are in the collections of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Government Art Bank and Art Bank of Korea, Guhaus Museum, Arario Museum, and many other institutions.