“I cannot help being political. How can I ignore the reality of the North, where my parents are still suffering?” by Sun Mu.

Sun_Mu_Oil_Painting

Title: Sun Mu from North Korea

Exhibition Venue: SB D Gallery, 125 East 4^th Street, New York, NY 10003

Medium: Oil Painting

Exhibition Date:  July 16 – August 20 2011

Opening Reception:  July 16 2011 from 5-8pm

Quantity: 15 paintings

Curator: Yu Yeon Kim

Sun Mu, North Korean Artist who escaped from North Korea to China, Vietnam, Laos then finally to South Korea, will be presented his paintings to New York City for the first time in history.

Sun Mu’s work has been widely reported by BBC, Time magazine, New York Times, Financial Times  and international press when he attended at art college in South Korea last 3 years.

His painting has been echoed his tremendous life dangered experience by hiding himself in jungle for years in Laos then living in materialistic capitalism in South Korea and questioning dramatically different life, ideologies, controlled information and isolation.

His articles are following;
NEW YORK TIMES
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/21/world/asia/21painter.html

BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8000769.stm

TIME  By Michael Gibb,  Monday, Sep. 07, 2009
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1919276,00.html

<Biography>

Artist, SUN MU

Born in 1972, North Korea
He studied Fine Art at College in North Korea for 3 years

1998 He flew from North Korea.  He risked his life to cross China

1998 – 2002 China and South East Asia
2002 – present: S. Korea
2007  Graduate from Hong-Ik University, Fine Art – B.A degree
2009 Graduate from Hong-Ik University, Fine Art – M.A degree

Solo Exhibitions
2008 Nothing to envy in this World, Gallery Ssamzie, Seoul
2008 We are living in the happy world, Alternative Space Chung Jeong
Gak, Seoul

Group Exhibitions
2009 Shared, Divided, United, Deutchiland-Korea;
Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin
2009 Art in Busan 2009, Busan Museum of Art, Busan
2009 Exhibition of hte 9th North Korean Human Rights International
Conference
Grand Hyatt Hotel, Melbourne, Australia
2009  New Acquisitions, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan
2008  Korea Now, artLink, Inc and Sotheby’s, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2007 Sweet and Scary Presidential Election, Chung Jeong Gak, Seoul
2007 We are Happy, Gallery Curiosity, Seoul