| ARTIST BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Artist Han Sungpil artistic practice includes photography, video, and installations, covering subjects such as environmental issues, originalities, history, and the relation between the real and the represented through a series of artistic directives morphed from his experiences. Sungpil received a BFA in photography from Chung-Ang University in Seoul and completed Curating Contemporary Design, a joint MA program offered by Kingston University and the Design Museum, both in London.
His works have been exhibited and collected nationally and internationally, including the Alberta Foundation for the Arts (Edmonton, Canada), National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul and Gwacheon, Korea), National Assembly Library (Seoul, Korea), The Museum of Photography (Seoul, Korea), Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, USA), Chateau de Chaumont (Loire, France), Abbaye Royale de Saint-Riquier (Somme, France), National Museum of Fine Arts (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Museum of Contemporary Art (Shanghai, China), Fotografie Forum Frankfurt (Germany), Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (Japan), Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (Japan), Yokohama Triennale (Japan), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum & Tochoji Buddhist temple (Japan) and Havana Biennial (Cuba). He has several books on photography, including ‘Façade’ published at FOIL (Tokyo, Japan in 2011), ‘Phantasmagoria’ at Museum Hanmi (Seoul, Korea in 2016) and ‘Intervention’ at Hatje Cantz (Berlin, Germany in 2017), with support by the Ilwoo Foundation.
Sungpil has been the recipient of funding and fellowships from the UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries, Ministere Francais des Affaires Culturelles, Foundation TENOT in France, The Irish Arts Council, The Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Korean Culture and Arts Foundation grants, Samsung Foundation of Culture in Korea, the Gyong-Gi Cultural Foundation Fellowship in Korea, Paradise Art Foundation in Korea.
Upon Sungpil’s immigration to Canada in 2020, his artistic practice focused on the Rocky Mountain’s melting glaciers and Canadian wildfire which have evolved into in-depth work with the 2021 ArtShare Program Fund Award given by Calgary Art Development.
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