New York New Ink!
January 10 – 30, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, Jan 9, 2026

The Korean Cultural Center New York is thrilled to present New York New Ink!, opening January 10. This exhibition brings together eight leading artists — Han Young Sup, Jeong Gwanghee, Kang Un, Kay Yoon, Kim Sang Yeon, Koo Seoungyoun, Lee Lee Nam, and Sul Park — who reinterpret the philosophy, materiality, and spirit of Korean ink through photography, installation, video, and contemporary abstraction. New York New Ink! continues and expands upon the Jeonnam International Sumuk Biennale, offering a fresh, global perspective on sumukhwa (ink painting).

Revisiting the history and artistic significance of sumukhwa (ink painting) is an act of rightful reclamation. Presented in New York — the epicenter of contemporary art — the exhibition seeks to reintroduce the spirituality and visual language of East Asian aesthetics into an art history long shaped by Western-centric narratives.

New York New Ink! becomes a site of convergence, where East meets West, memory meets modernity, and philosophy meets form. Rooted in Jeollanam-do, a region shaped by Korea’s democratization movement, the exhibition transforms historical scars into aesthetic and spiritual resonance. Here, ink — as both matter and metaphor — continues to embody the ethics and vitality of life itself.

Through their engagement with sumuk as both conceptual and material practice, the eight artists explore questions of memory, place, temporality, and transformation. By bridging past and present, local and global, the exhibition fosters a new aesthetic discourse grounded in East Asian cultural sensibilities while responding to the urgencies of the contemporary world.

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