Chul hyun ahn biography

Chul Hyun Ahn (Korean: 안철현) is a South Korean artist who works primarily with light.
Chul-Hyun Ahn was born in 1971 in Busan, Korea.
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Chul Hyun Ahn

born Busan, Korea 1971

BiographyThrough the interplay of mirrors and light, Baltimore-based artist Chul-Hyun Ahn makes mind-bending sculptures that conjure illusions of infinite space. Drawing from op art and light and space traditions, as well as theories of the subconscious, Ahn explores the immersive, illusory possibilities of reflection. He creates his light boxes by combining one-way mirrors and LED lights; the resulting objects look like portals extending deep into uncharted spaces, defined only by glowing geometric forms and fluorescent fractals. Though Ahn is often described as a light artist, he is quick to underline the significance of space in his work: “At the root, my art is about space,” he says. “Without light, the space was not visible, so I brought light to my artworks so people would experience a sense of deeper space in the direction of the fading light.” https://www.artsy.net/artist/chul-hyun-ahn

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Chul Hyun Ahn

Korean, active in the United States, sculptor, born 1971

BiographyUsing ordinary fluorescent tubing, mirrors, and plywood, Chul-Hyun Ahn constructs a dizzying illusion that creates an infinitely deep space for contemplation, reflecting his interest in Zen Buddhism. Ahn began exploring geometry while training as a painter in his native Korea. An interest in three-dimensionality led him to incorporate some of the devices used by the 1960s Minimalists and light artists, such as the grid, basic shapes, and industrially-produced materials.

Chul-Hyun Ahn has exhibited throughout the United States, in Germany, and in his native Korea and received his Master of Fine Arts degree from Maryland Institute College of Art. Ahn has been a semi-finalist for the prestigious Baltimore-based Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize and his works are included in The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse in Miami, Florida and the Palm Springs Art Museum, among others.

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Chul Hyun Ahn was born in Busan, South Korea. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Chugye University for the Arts in Seoul, South Korea. In 1997 he moved to the United States and in 2002 received a Master of Fine Arts from the Mount Royal School at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore.

Ahn creates sculptures utilizing light, color, and illusion as physical representations of his investigation of infinite space. He achieves this through the use of electrical light sources including Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs), fluorescent, and black lights set between mirrors and one-way mirrors combined with housings made of plywood, cast concrete, or cast acrylic materials. The image of the work is created through the placement of lights between the two reflective surfaces, which creates the illusion of an infinitely reflecting light sculpture.

Ahn’s mirrored light sculptures arose out of his background as a painter. His interest in hard-edge, geometric abstraction and creating infinite depth within the surface of his canvases led him to place one of his pai