History
Ham Sup was born in 1942 and for many years worked on canvas in oils and acrylic medium; early in the 1980s, however, he began to explore paper art using traditional Korean mulberry paper his medium, in an attempt to express himself as an artist without nostalgia for the past, for what once existed hut is now over and gone, though still working within the continuum of that culture.
His works may sometimes resemble oil-paintings in certain respects, but they are in fact composed using a thick sheet of mulberry paper made in traditional manner as their basic support. Colored sheets of paper and old books are soaked in water, then the fragments are matched and fixed to this support; while tearing and fixing, he beats them with a hard brush, creating his work by concentrating uniquely on the particular ¡®flavor¡¯ of the mulberry paper, the essence of pattern and color expressed through an initial destruction. Ham Sup completely transforms the original appearance and nature of his basic materials; they are reborn in his work, a process resulting in a hitherto unseen blending of East and West, of past and present and yielding works of contemporary art replete with a traditional Korean flavor.
1942 Born in Chuncheon, Korea
1966 B.F.A, College of Fine Arts, Hong-Ik University, Seoul
1983 M.F.A, Dong-Kuk University
Selected Solo Exbition
2013 Invitation Exhibition of Wonju Hanji Theme Park
West Brook Gallery Invitation Exhibition, Carmel, California, USA
Chuncheon Museum (7th Memorial Exhibition for Dong-gok award)
2011 Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
West Brook Gallery Invitation Exhibition, Carmel, California, USA
2010 Galerie Bhak, Seoul
2009 Art & Museum Invitation Exhibition (3.2 - 3.14)
2008 Gallery Sonamou Invitation Exhibition
The Opening Invitation Exhibition Gongpyeong Artspace seoul
2007 Galerie COVALENCO, Geldrop, Holland
2006 Galerie Bhak, Seoul
Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery
2003 Galerie Bhak, Seoul
POSCO Gallery, Pohang
2001 Galerie COVALENCO, Geldrop, Holland
Galerie Bhak, Seoul
Gallery Asia, Hong Kong
2000 Gallery Asia, Hong Kong
1999 Galerie Bhak, Seoul
1998 Gallery Amber, Holland
1997 Galerie Muller-Brunert, Koln
1996 Chongro Gallery, Seoul
1994 Chongro Gallery, Seoul
Yemac Gallery, Seoul
Galerie Muller -Brunert, Koln
1993 Hyundai Art Gallery, Seoul
Kangnam Gallery, Seoul
1992 Dan Gallery, Seoul
1991 Indeco Gallery, Seoul
1987 Whan Gallery, Seoul
1986 Woo-jung Art Gallery, Seoul
1985 Suk Gallery, Seoul
1983 Total Gallery, Seoul
1978 The Korean Culture and Art Foundation Center,
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