SUNKYUNG BAEK
b. 2000 Seoul, Korea
Based in London
Sunkyung Baek’s work explores contemporary society through images of water, flooding, and destabilised familiar spaces. She understands contemporary society as shaped by fluidity, flexibility, and mobility, using flooding as a metaphor to examine how these conditions unsettle environments associated with safety, such as homes, cars, and rooms. In her paintings, water operates as an uncontrollable external force - excessive, quiet, and persistent - entering and transforming these spaces. Rather than depicting dramatic catastrophe, Baek focuses on slower processes of accumulation and infiltration.
Her work moves between submersion and aftermath, where traces of sediment, dampness, and residue remain and shape space. She sees the contemporary condition through excessive accumulation of information and images, an overwhelming range of options, and constant change, building into a flood of uncertainty, anxiety, and fatigue. Baek captures a suspended moment in which, like water seeping through the gap of a door, boundaries between inside and outside, stability and instability dissolve.
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Education
2026 M.A in Painting, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2024 B.F.A. in Painting, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
Selected Group Show
2026 Jackson’s Art Prize, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
Ongoing, Noho Studios, London, UK
Apocalypse, and After?, Hockney Gallery, London, UK
Untold, AMP Gallery, London, UK
2025 Nowhere Home, Seojin Art Space Yuyejae, Seoul, Korea
2024 Emerging Artists Exhibition, Art Space Qulia, Seoul, Korea
Innerside Truth, Gallery Sai, Seoul, Korea
2022 ASYAAF(2022), HoMA, Seoul, Korea
2021 ASYAAF(2021), HoMA, Seoul, Korea
The Era of Contemplation, Placemak3, Seoul, Korea
Awards & Grants
2026 Jackson’s Art Prize, People’s Choice Award Winner, London, UK
2022 Grant from Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, Korea
Contact
Email bsk408@gmail.com Instagram @sunkyung.__