Untitled
2006
Seonna Hong
Los Angeles, California
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About Seonna Hong
Seonna Hong is a multimedia artist based in Los Angeles. With a Bachelor of Arts from Cal State University Long Beach, she has worked in television and feature animation for over twenty years. In 2004, she received an Emmy Award for Individual Achievement in Production Design for her work on My Life as a Teenage Robot. Her illustrated book, Animus, is in its third printing and has been lauded for its “beautiful” and “mysteriously touching” imagery (Ken Johnson, The New York Times). Hong is best known, however, for her quietly narrative and autobiographical paintings that have been exhibited in galleries and shows around the world, including in New York and Tokyo. She is represented by Hashimoto Contemporary.
Program Participation
Painters & Sculptors Grant, 2006
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My recent work features dreamy landscapes in flat perspective. Unlike European landscape painting, the Korean landscape tradition does not simulate depth perception, and human figures, if present at all, appear diminished by their capacious surroundings. I’m influenced by this style, and particularly by how a flattened perspective facilitates gestural and symbolic ways of interpreting environments and relationships.”