Changha Hwang

Changha Hwang

Changha Hwang was born in Seoul, Korea in 1969. He moved to the U.S. in 1990. He went to Parsons School of Design in New York for his BFA in Painting and acquired his MFA in Painting from Hunter College City University of New York. He has had 13 solo shows in Paris, Madrid, Brussels, New York, and Seoul since 2002. And he had numerous group shows in Geneva, Switzerland, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and in New York. In 2007, Hwang's painting was purchased by National Collection of France.

Hwang was influenced by paintings of Jackson Pollock, Frank Stella, Robert Ryman, Howard Hodgekin, Piet Mondrian, Brice Marden, Terry Winters, Doug Ohlson and many more. His visual language stems from his interests in architecture, pattern, traditional Jewish paper cuts, Venetian lace making, Islamic tile pattern, and stain glass in Christian church. He's interested in visual tensions that are created by the relationships of complex imageries.

Hwang lives and works in Brooklyn.