Bohyeon Hwang

Bohyeon Hwang is a South Korean artist based in the Netherlands. She completed MFA in Painting at the Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen and holds BFA and MFA degrees from Ewha Womans University in Seoul.

Hwang’s painting practice explores the tension between surface and meaning—between the material presence of things and the emotional traces they leave behind. Working with discarded canvases, layered pigments, and drawn textures, she constructs works that blur the boundary between the tactile and the imagined. Her interest lies in how objects persist through transformation, and how overlooked or fragmentary materials - like a velvet fold or a torn scrap -retain presence beyond function or form. Her recent work engages with themes of memory, care, and resistance, drawing on philosophical notions such as Heidegger’s “readiness-to-hand” to frame objects as companions in lived experience. Through processes of layering, stitching, scraping, and sanding, she renders familiar forms into near-phantasmic shapes that resist easy categorization.

Her work has been exhibited in South Korea and the Netherlands. In 2024, she was nominated for The Royal Award for Modern Painting and presented her work at Royal Palace Amsterdam.