Chun Park (Chunbum Park):
Sin Seer and Super Fisher Figures
Solo Exhibition
August 28 - September 6, 2025
Address: 547 W 27TH ST. #428 (4th FL), NEW YORK, NY 10001
Opening Reception: August 28 (Thursday) from 6 to 8 PM
New York, NY – Roundcube Contemporary announces Chun Park (Chunbum Park)'s solo exhibition, "Sin Seer and Super Fisher Figures," curated by Julie Jang, taking place at COSMOS Gallery from August 28th to September 6th, 2025. Opening reception will be held on August 28th from 6 to 8 PM.
In this exhibition, Park explores the relations between sin and pleasure, desire and fantasy, and natural and artificial beauty in figurative painting. What is the proper place for Park's figuration that traverses between earnestness and superficiality and representation and abstraction? Is the source material for Park's works crude pornography or high art from antiquity?
As a play on words "sincere" and "superficial," the exhibition title suggests the duality of Park's psyche as a painter and duelist on the canvas battlefield. Half female and half male at different times, Park realizes a particular kind of figuration based in gender fluidity, anti-racist aesthetics, and Northeast Asian or Korean heritage. Their figurative painting contains the split charge of and the inner necessity for a pisces, which means two loaves of fish.
The characters that frequent Park's imagery include beautiful and voluptuous Northeast Asian and hybrid women that they desire to become, the tigers that represent the other masculine side of and the spiritual animal for the artist, and flowers. A virgin to this day at the age of 34, Park's paintings are filled to the brim with beauty and desire, sexual curiosity and fantasy, and love and conflict for their own Northeast Asian, Korean identity and physiognomy.
In a sudden turn of events, Park manifests their second solo exhibition for the year with works that examine the gender question and identity for the artist. Does Park truly desire to transition into womanhood, or are they comfortable in the current state of dual-sided ambiguity, in which occasional transformations with feminine outfits and makeup suffice?
Torn between the two states of being, Park finds themselves in a continual state of indecision. While Park's Korean friends and family try to push them away from a complete transition, the image of the self that the artist sees on the canvas, acting as a mirror, is that of a woman, most of the time.
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Chun Park (aka, Chunbum Park; Korean alphabet: 박준범, Chinese characters: 朴準範) is an artist from South Korea, where they were born in 1991. They received their BFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in 2020 and their MFA in Fine Arts Studio from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2022, where they changed their pronouns. Born a male, Park likes to cross dress and depicts themselves as a woman in their paintings. They are the inventor of the ArtBid art auction card game. In 2023, Park began writing exhibition reviews for various online and print magazines, including the New Visionary Magazine. They currently reside in Cliffside Park, New Jersey.