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9/24-11/5 solo show at JO-HS Gallery @johsgallery
38 Crosby St New York, NY
By appointment

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Installation shots of my current show, List of No’s, which is up until November 5th.
Thank you @elisabethjohs and @johsgallery for this great space and opportunity to show my work.
JO-HS Gallery is located at 38 Crosby Street, New York and the show is viewable by appointment through gallery email.

Thank you everyone who came by to see the show already.

Image 1. September Night, oil on canvas, 16”x20”, 2026 (Left) A Boy with Doubts No.10, oil on canvas, 16”x20”, 2026 (Right)
Image 3. A Boy with Doubts No.9 Large, oil on canvas, 64”x80”, 2026 (Left) Alone in the Studio, oil on canvas, 64”x80”, 2026 (Right)
Image 6. Studio Wall with Metaphysical Paintings, oil on canvas, 51”x55”, 2026
Image 9. A Room with Color (After Raoul de Keyser), oil on canvas, 16”x20”, 2026
Image 11. Pink Head and Pink Moon, oil on canvas, 16”x20”, 2026
Image 12. Celebration of Insignificance, oil on canvas, 80”x96”, 2026 taken in New York, New York by @hwihahm

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5 days ago

HWI HAHM @hwihahm
A Boy With Doubts No.9, 2026
Oil on canvas
162.6 x 203.2 cm
64 x 80 in by @hwihahm

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9 days ago

List of No’s HWI HAHM
A Room with Color (After Raoul de Keyser), 2026
Oil on canvas
50.8 x 40.6 cm
20 x 16 in by @hwihahm

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10 days ago

On View: List of No’s Hwi HAHM @hwihahm HWI HAHM
The Celebration of Insignificance, 2026
Oil on canvas
203.2 x 243.8 cm
80 x 96 in by @hwihahm

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11 days ago

In Celebration of Insignificance, a sequence of color structures leads the eye toward the moon. While the composition initially suggests a landscape, blocks of color interrupt the sense of depth, flattening the image and returning the viewer to the work as a painting. The work considers the distance between reality and its representation, as well as the possibility that things invested with profound meaning may ultimately be insignificant. Its monumental scale heightens this contradiction, giving physical weight to the idea of insignificance itself.
The painting takes its conceptual cue from Milan Kundera’s writing on insignificance as an ever-present condition of existence. For Hahm, this idea also relates to painting: an image can evoke a world while remaining an arrangement of color and form—an idea of reality rather than reality itself. - from the press release

Image: Celebration of Insignificance, oil on canvas, 80 x 96 inches, 2026

The show is up until November 5th. Please book an appointment through the gallery website to visit the show :) @johsgallery taken in New York, New York by @hwihahm

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12 days ago

ON VIEW

LIST OF NO’S
Hwi Hahm
SEPT 24 - NOV 5
JOHS is pleased to present List of No’s, a solo exhibition by Hwi Hahm bringing together a selection of new paintings. The exhibition considers painting through a process of elimination: a gradual stripping away of direct depiction and narrative certainty. By removing what is recognizable, Hahm focuses on what is in front of him: color, form, art historical references, and composition.

Hahm’s paintings move between abstraction and representation, offering fragments of landscapes, interiors, bodies, and objects without allowing any one reading to fully settle. By resisting the impulse to explain what an image represents, Hahm redirects attention toward the physical and formal qualities of painting itself. His paintings create a space between what is immediately visible on the surface and what we instinctively attempt to locate behind it.

The exhibition’s title, List of No’s, reflects this process of refusal. Each painting emerges from a series of decisions about what not to depict, explain, or resolve. Hahm turns inward, using the studio as a place to question his own position, his relationship to painting, and the limits of representation.

Hwi Hahm
Alone in the Studio, 2026
Oil on canvas
162.6 x 203.2 cm
64 x 80 in taken in Crosby Street , Soho by @hwihahm

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14 days ago

Pink Head and Pink Moon is on view at JO-HS Gallery 🌖

You can contact the gallery to book an appointment to view the show. @johsgallery
I’ll share more installation photos in the next few days.

List of No’s
9/24-11/5
38 Crosby st.
New York, NY

Pictured: Pink Head and Pink Moon, oil on canvas, 16”x20”, 2026 taken in New York, New York by @hwihahm

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17 days ago

Thank you all for coming to the opening of List of No’s!

The show will be up until November 5th.
It is by appointment only and you can book a date by contacting the email on the gallery website.
info@jo-hs.com
https://jo-hs.com/

📸 by @spicymisoh taken in New York, New York by @hwihahm

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20 days ago

See you tomorrow!

JOHS is pleased to present List of No’s, a solo exhibition by Hwi Hahm bringing together a selection of new paintings. The exhibition considers painting through a process of elimination: a gradual stripping away of direct depiction and narrative certainty. By removing what is recognizable, Hahm focuses on what is in front of him: color, form, art historical references, and composition.

Hahm’s paintings move between abstraction and representation, offering fragments of landscapes, interiors, bodies, and objects without allowing any one reading to fully settle. By resisting the impulse to explain what an image represents, Hahm redirects attention toward the physical and formal qualities of painting itself. His paintings create a space between what is immediately visible on the surface and what we instinctively attempt to locate behind it.

Image. Studio Wall with Metaphysical Paintings, oil on canvas, 51”x55”, 2026 taken in New York, New York by @hwihahm

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23 days ago

List of No’s
HWI HAHM @hwihahm
Opening Thursday 6-8

JOHS is pleased to present List of No’s, a solo exhibition by Hwi Hahm bringing together a selection of new paintings. The exhibition considers painting through a process of elimination: a gradual stripping away of direct depiction and narrative certainty. By removing what is recognizable, Hahm focuses on what is in front of him: color, form, art historical references, and composition.

HWI HAHM
A Boy With Doubts No. 10, 2026
Oil on canvas
40.6 x 50.8 cm
16 x 20 in by @hwihahm

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25 days ago

Some of my drawings from 2018-2022
Trying to make some more time to make gouache works
I used to make a lot of these while traveling for construction. taken in New York, New York by @hwihahm

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a month ago

Summer was filled with beautiful moments but also with heartbreaking memories as well.
Hopefully the cool autumn breeze will blow it away.
Definitely feeling it is close to foliage season! taken in New York, New York by @hwihahm

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a month ago