Sikyung Sung

Born in 1991 and based in Seoul, Sikyung Sung is among the most noteworthy emerging Korean painters today, gaining increasing attention with his distinctive modes of visual expression. Alternating between improvisation and intent, chance and choice, Sung produces abstract paintings that showcase free-spirited brushstrokes and bold contrasts of color. He allows the formal structures of the pictorial space to emerge from intuition, the spontaneous choices in the moment coming together to shape the composition. In lieu of specific forms, the artist pursues something approaching a pure visual language through aleatory permutations of the brush, resulting in an exquisite melding of intersecting patterns and expressive mark-making on the canvas. Sung holds a BFA from Hongik University, Seoul, and an MFA from the Seoul National University of Science and Technology. His solo exhibitions include BB&M (Seoul, 2025), d/p (Seoul, 2023), and Space Heyong/Shift (Seoul, 2019). His work has been included in group exhibitions at BB&M (Seoul, 2025, 2024, 2023); INTERIM (Seoul, 2024); DMZ Art Project (Paju, 2024); Factory2 (Seoul, 2023); Hongik University Museum (Seoul, 2023); P21 (Seoul, 2023); Art Space 3 (Seoul, 2022, 2019); Perigee Gallery (Seoul, 2021); and ONE AND J. Gallery (Seoul, 2020, 2016).