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Now on view at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, “Ha Chong-Hyun: Retrospective” brings together more than 50 paintings spanning over six decades. Curated by Sunjung Kim, the exhibition traces Ha from his early experiments with thread and flame to his iconic Conjunction series.
Born in 1935 and coming of age after the Korean War, Ha often painted on burlap sacks once used to ship rice to South Korea. In 1974, he began the Conjunction series, developing his signature “back-pressure” method of pushing thick oil painting through the back of the canvas, seeping through the weave to the front.
The show is on view now through Janurary 25, and thank you so much again to the Asian Art Museum for making this visit possible!
Ha Chong-Hyun: Retrospective
September 25, 2026 - January 25, 2027
Asian Art Museum
200 Larkin Street, San Fransisco
@asianartmuseum @hachonghyun
Born in 1935 and coming of age after the Korean War, Ha often painted on burlap sacks once used to ship rice to South Korea. In 1974, he began the Conjunction series, developing his signature “back-pressure” method of pushing thick oil painting through the back of the canvas, seeping through the weave to the front.
The show is on view now through Janurary 25, and thank you so much again to the Asian Art Museum for making this visit possible!
Ha Chong-Hyun: Retrospective
September 25, 2026 - January 25, 2027
Asian Art Museum
200 Larkin Street, San Fransisco
@asianartmuseum @hachonghyun
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15 hours agopatriciadunnauthor
I’m going in January to SF and I will visit this museum again. I wonder if this exhibit will still be on display
16 days agomargot.afterdark.nil
ha chong-hyun is the quietest kind of obsession. fifty paintings of the same gesture until the gesture becomes a landscape. san francisco did right by giving him the retrospective
17 days agolilmissbloo
I knew that canvas wasn’t a regular one when it peaks out from under it adds such grit ahhhh I love this persons art
17 days agostripes_are_good
I was lucky enough to be able to see some of his work in person. The pieces were so powerful.
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