Kang Seok Ho (1971–2021), Untitled, 2019, oil on canvas, 17 7/8 x 20 7/8 in. (45.5 x 53 cm), courtesy Kang Seok Ho Estate and Tina Kim Gallery

Kang Seok Ho: Hold Still
November 20, 2025 – January 24, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 20, from 6–8pm
525 West 21st Street, NYC

Tina Kim Gallery is pleased to present Kang Seok Ho: Hold Still, the gallery’s second solo exhibition of the late Korean artist. Bringing together Kang’s Couple and Nude paintings—created between the mid-2010s and 2021—the exhibition traces the artist’s engagement with the human figure as a means to explore surface, materiality, and form. Depicting intertwined bodies yet stripped of narrative and erotic intent, these works reflect Kang’s fixation on painting itself—and the paradox of closeness and distance in seeing and depicting another.

The exhibition’s title, Hold Still, refers to his signature process of re-framing images from contemporary life, translating the immediacy of photography into the slower temporality of paint.

Celebrate the opening of the exhibition with the gallery on Thursday, November 20, from 6–8pm, and experience Kang’s evocative works in person!

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