Hyon Gyon began her career by making works in a vibrant color palette inspired by her experiences with Korean traditional shamanism. She shaped bolts of fabric to follow the gestures she made with a brush and paint. Working on customary Korean satin with both a soldering iron and blowtorch, Hyon Gyon created graphic shapes suggesting painterly images. Her material choices, color and schemes and overall design appear happy and playful, a counterpoint to the methods by which they are made. In her current series, Hyon Gyon is creating works in monochrome colors with bulky textures.

Hyon Gyon is based in New York. She received her B.A. from Mokwon University in Korea and her M.A. and PhD from Kyoto City University of Arts in Japan. She had one-person and group exhibitions at the Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto; Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco; and Shin Gallery, New York. Hyon Gyon’s work is included in the collections of the Museum of Kyoto, the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, the Kyoto City University of Arts, and the Takahashi Collection, among others. She has received several fellowships and awards, including the Asao Kato International Scholarship and the Tokyo Wonder Wall Competition Prize.