SEONNA HONG (b. 1973, CA)

Seonna Hong: Animus, 2005

Deluxe Collector's Edition Book w/ SIGNED Print in Wooden Box

This deluxe boxed collector's edition is for huge Hong fans. It's got a clothbound and embossed hardcover and comes with a SIGNED and numbered '93/100' (ll) 7-color Gocco print on heavy wove paper packaged in a custom slide-top wooden box with wax seal. Hardbound first edition 34-page book with Pop-up elements. Dimensions: 8-1/4" x 6-1/4" x 2" (box); 7-1/2" x 5-1/2" x 1" (book); 6" x 4-1/8" (print). Limited Edition of 100. Excellent condition.

A moving--and moving!--picture book featuring charming pop-up paper engineering, Animus is the story of a little girl and a vicious dog.

From her first frightful encounter with the animal, through a fanciful series of attempts at communication, the girl comes to realize that some differences are irreconcilable. This book utilizes a unique mix of beautiful paintings and cleverly animated pop-up elements to bring its characters and their emotions to life. Children and adults will relate to this story's well-intentioned protagonist, and to the notion that some bullies are destined to remain bullies no matter how hard one tries to change them.

Gocco ("Print Gocco") is a self-contained compact color screenprinting system invented in 1977 by Noboru Hayama. Gocco became immensely popular in Japan and it is estimated that one-third of Japanese households own a Print Gocco system.

Using flash bulbs similar to those found in old cameras, an original image is thermally imprinted on a master screen.

The name "print gocco" is derived from the Japanese word gokko, loosely translated as make-believe play. Riso Kagaku president Noboru Hayama explained, "We [as kids] learned rules and knowledge through make-believe play. The spirit of play is an important cultural asset. I thought that I wanted to leave "play" in the product's name."

Los Angeles-based artist Seonna Hong is both an artist and an animator. In addition to making her paintings, she paints backgrounds for feature and television animation and was recently awarded an Emmy for Individual Achievement in Background Styling for her work on Nickelodeon's My Life as a Teenage Robot. Her work has been published in the Artistic Utopia calendar, the Beatsville Sci-fi Western and The Truth Show books.

Hong paints on wood panels and canvas, often in bright acid colors in a retro style that suggests anime, cartooning and children's books among other references. Many of the paintings include collage elements that give her work the look of a 3-D pop-up book. In her paintings, Hong focuses on children as the embodiment of humanizing power. Children are her protagonists, acting out the dramas in her narratives.

Hong was a recipient of a 2006 Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, and opened her first solo museum show as a part of the 'Suburban' series at the Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN.

In May 2008, Seonna Hong exhibited with KaiKai Kiki, Tokyo, as the first US based artist in the collection of Japanese artisans working under Takashi Murakami. Founded by Murakami in 2001, Kaikai Kiki is a multilateral art enterprise. Its goals include the production and promotion of fine art, as well as the management and support of select young artists, and the organization of art-related events and projects.

SELECT RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2024
'Seonna Hong: Paintings', Gilman Contemporary, Ketchum, ID (6/25 - 7/17)
'Pot Luck' (group exhibition), Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
'Red Envelope Show 2024' (group exhibition), Harman Projects, New York

2023
'Seonna Hong: Murmurations', Hashimoto Contemporary, New York, NY

2022
'Lush' (group exhibition), Hashimoto Contemporary, New York, NY
'Seonna Hong: Late Bloomer', Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA

2021
'Lush' (group exhibition), Hashimoto Contemporary, New York, NY

2020
'Seonna Hong: Liminal Space', Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA

2018
'The Universe is in Us' (group exhibition), Sp[a]ce Gallery, Pasadena, CA
'Seonna Hong: Things Will Get Better', Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA

2017
'East Looking West' (group exhibition), Heron Arts, San Francisco, CA

2016
'Seonna Hong: In Our Nature', Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA

2015
'Seonna Hong: If You Lived Here I'd Be Home By Now', Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York, NY

2012
'Seonna Hong: Persistence of Vision', LeBasse Projects, Culver City, CA

2010
'Pattern Recognition' (group exhibition), Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles, CA
'Unleash the Beast' (group exhibition), Arena 1, Santa Monica, CA
'Ed Emberley & Friends' (group exhibition), Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
'Ed Emberley & Friends' (group exhibition), Scion Space, Los Angeles, CA
'These Friends' (group exhibition), THIS, Los Angeles, CA
'A Visual Dialogue' (group exhibition), bo.lee Gallery, Bath, UK

2009
'Beach Blanket Bingo - A Summer Mixer' (group exhibition), Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York, NY
'+2' (group exhibition), Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY
'15-Year Anniversary Show' (group exhibition), GRSF, San Francisco, CA
'Brood Work' (group exhibition), Center for the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
'Seonna Hong, Caroline Hwang and Saelee Oh: I Know What You’re Thinking…' (group exhibition), Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY

2008
'Vocabularies of Metaphor: More Stories' (group exhibition), Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
'In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor' (group exhibition), Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
'Yosemite Studio' (group exhibition), Grass Hut Gallery, Portland, OR
'Seonna Hong: Viscery Loves Company', KaiKai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
'Hard Left' (group exhibition), Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Berlin, Germany
'Kaikai Kiki Artists: Seonna Hong, Mr., Mark Grotjahn, Matthew Monahan' (group exhibition), KaiKai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2007
'Giant Robot Biennale: 50 Issues' (group exhibition), Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA
'Inner Child: Good and Evil in the Garden of Memories' (group exhibition), Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
'Seonna Hong: Our Endless Numbered Days', Oliver Kamm / 5BE Gallery, New York, NY

2006
'Suburban: Seonna Hong', Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN

2005
'Seonna Hong: People in the City', sixspace, Culver City, CA

2004
'Seonna Hong: Animus', Oliver Kamm / 5BE Gallery, New York, NY
'Seonna Hong: Railroad', sixspace, Culver City, CA

2003
'Seonna Hong: Princess', sixspace, Culver City, CA

 

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