Kyung Hee Min’s solo exhibition: Everywhere, elsewhere

- Exhibition Dates: November 19, 2022 – November 30, 2022
- Curator: Jiyoung Lee (AHL Foundation’s Program Manager)
- Artist: Kyung Hee Min
- Opening Reception: Saturday, November 19, 3-5pm
- Gallery hours: Wednesday to Saturday, 12-5PM
- Free and open to the public
- Venue: AHL Project Space
  - 2605 Frederick Douglass Blvd., New York, NY 10030

New York, NY – AHL Foundation, a non-profit organization supporting contemporary artists of Korean descent, is proud to announce its pop-up solo exhibition “Everywhere, elsewhere” featuring emerging artist, Kyung Hee Min at AHL Project Space (2605 Frederick Douglass Blvd. New York NY 10030).

Everywhere, elsewhere is curated by Jiyoung Lee, AHL Foundation’s Program Manager, and presents artworks of Kyung Hee Min, who is gradually expanding her scope of genre from an illustrator, best-selling essayist, and now to a painter, based in Seoul, South Korea. In this exhibition, her paintings, drawings, postcards, and books will be shown together. In addition, an art class where you can draw and have free conversations with the artist Kyunghee Min will be held during the exhibition. More details to be announced on Instagram (@ahlfoundation).

Kyung Hee Min (b. 1993, Seoul) published her first best-selling essay book “One Night When Things That Don’t Matter Became Extraordinary” in 2017 and has been actively communicating with her followers over social media (@page_737) since then. In 2019, she published her second essay book, “I Want to Be Like Your Everything” (Wisdom House). She participated in SK Social Value Campaign Online Gallery Illustration Project (2019) and UN Refugee Agency Shelter Campaign Illustration Project (2018), and recently participated in various of group exhibition such as <The Preview Seongsu – Shinhan Card Art Fair>, The Factory Seoul (2022), <together>, Shinsegae Department Store Gangnam, Seoul (2022), <Today I also write a diary>, SeMA Warehouse, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul (2020), and a solo exhibition: Objet Hood Busan <I Want to Be Like Your Everything> (2022).

The exhibition ‘Everywhere, elsewhere’ continues until November 30 (Wednesday), and anyone can visit it for free during the gallery hours (Wednesday to Saturday, 12-5 pm).

Exhibition Story:

Kyung Hee Min knows that many people were exposed to her artworks on social media. She knows that people must have seen her work through images floating around online as a recommended or tagged post. They were seeing the artist’s observations of daily life, looking into her heart, and thinking about her relationship with others. She posts her writing and paintings online consistently, and she never stops greeting those who come to her page.

It’s too irresponsible to say ‘anything can happen if you have the will’ or ‘It hurts you because you are young and immature’ that some random older professor said at their public lecture. Min’s messages sound more like your close friend talking over a smartphone to you.

People in her paintings can be me, you or friends. Occasionally, you probably could see the blurry faces of your past relationships in her paintings. The background in the picture is a very ordinary place where you could have stayed. That’s how we can be connected and empathize with each other. Everywhere and everywhere exists together and so do Seoul and New York.

AHL Project Space is a temporary space and pop-up event for the Foundation’s special projects. Stories that might have been shared from Seoul, New York, or any other cities are waiting for you at the gallery, so I hope many people will have a chance to visit us and enjoy Kyung Hee Min’s first exhibition in the United States.

For media inquiries, please contact:

Jiyoung Lee jlee@ahlfoundation.org