Gahee Park
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Auction record
Auction record established during strong contemporary market period
Auction highlights
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| Work | Result | Venue and date |
|---|---|---|
| A Cat Next Door | Offered but price not disclosed in search results | Christie's, May 29, 2024 |
| Tied Up | Offered but price not disclosed in search results | Sotheby's, September 28, 2023 |
| Woman with a Cigar | Offered but price not disclosed in search results | Christie's, May 29, 2023 |
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Pricing
- 2022 record
- $126,000 for major oil painting at Phillips
- Market notes
- Gallery-controlled market with Perrotin representation suggests stable pricing; auction appearances limited relative to primary market activity
- Current range estimate
- Major oils likely $50,000-150,000 range based on 2022 record and gallery positioning; works on paper and smaller pieces $5,000-30,000
Primary market
- Editions
- Limited edition prints published by Perrotin (e.g., 'Tipsy Lovers' edition of 35)
- Availability
- Works regularly available through Perrotin gallery exhibitions and art fairs
- Pricing structure
- Gallery pricing typically not publicly disclosed; contact Perrotin for current primary market rates
- Gallery representation
- Perrotin (Paris, New York, Tokyo, Seoul) - major international gallery
Auction history
Price range
- Note
- Range depends on size and medium; prints and works on paper at lower end, major oil paintings at upper end
- Low USD
- 523
- High USD
- 126000
Record price
- Work
- Still Life with Fish
- Year
- 2022
- Notes
- Auction record established during strong contemporary market period
- Amount USD
- $126,000
- Auction house
- Phillips New York
Market metrics
- Auction frequency
- Multiple lots annually 2022-2024
- Market trajectory
- Ascending - record established 2022, continued major auction house presence 2023-2024
- Sell through rate
- Data suggests strong performance but specific rate unavailable
- Total lots at auction
- 21+ artworks offered
Market position
Market positioning
- Collector base
- International collectors; institutional acquisitions indicate museum-level interest
Peer comparisons
Exhibited alongside contemporary painters Julie Curtiss, Genesis Belanger, Emily Mae Smith, Danielle Orchard - mid-career figurative painters with gallery representation
- Geographic demand
- Strong presence in North American and European markets; Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 highlight
- Fair participation
- Regular participant in major art fairs including Art Basel Miami Beach 2025, Art Taipei 2025
Institutional presence
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Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
Not Quite Tomorrow
- Year
- 2025
- Dates
- April 26 - May 28, 2025
- Venue
- Perrotin Paris
- Significance
- Second solo exhibition in Paris, sixth with gallery
Fun and Games
- Year
- 2024
- Dates
- February 24 - April 6, 2024
- Venue
- Perrotin New York
- Works
- Nine new paintings showcasing hyper-stylized romantic scenes
Académie Conti
- Year
- 2023
- Dates
- July 2 - September 24, 2023
- Venue
- Consortium Museum, Vosne-Romanée, France
- Curator
- Eric Troncy
- Significance
- Major museum solo exhibition in prestigious French institution
Eveningness
- Year
- 2023
- Venue
- Perrotin Tokyo
- Significance
- First solo exhibition in Japan
Too Early After All
- Year
- 2021
- Venue
- Perrotin Paris
- Significance
- First solo exhibition in Paris
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Betrayal (Sweet Blood)
- Year
- 2020
- Dates
- September 12 - October 17, 2020
- Scope
- Two floors of new paintings and drawings; first time introducing herself as subject
- Venue
- Perrotin New York
We Used to Be Fish
- Year
- 2019
- Venue
- Perrotin Seoul
- Significance
- First solo exhibition with Perrotin gallery
Every Day Was Yesterday
- Year
- 2018
- Venue
- Taymour Grahne, London
Kissing in the Tree
- Year
- 2017
- Venue
- Motel, Brooklyn
Butt on Face
- Year
- 2016
- Venue
- Pioneer Works, 2nd Floor Gallery, Brooklyn
No No Means Yes Yes
- Year
- 2015
- Venue
- Marginal Utility Gallery, Philadelphia
Major group exhibitions
Her Dark Materials
- Year
- 2025
- Venue
- Jessica Silverman, San Francisco
- Status
- Forthcoming
Erotic City
- Year
- 2025
- Venue
- Eric Firestone Gallery, New York
50 Paintings
- Year
- 2023
- Venue
- Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
- Significance
- Major museum group exhibition
PUBLIC PRIVATE
- Year
- 2023
- Venue
- Pond Society, Shanghai, China
- Curator
- Jareh Das
Wonder Women
- Year
- 2022
- Venue
- Jeffrey Deitch
- Locations
- New York and Los Angeles
- Significance
- Major thematic group show at prominent commercial venue
Art on the Grid
- Work
- Still life with Living Things (2020)
- Year
- 2020
- Dates
- June 29 - September 20, 2020
- Scope
- 50 artworks on 500 bus shelters and 1,700 WiFi kiosks across five boroughs
- Venue
- Public Art Fund, New York City
- Significance
- Major public art commission
No Patience for Monuments
- Year
- 2019
- Venue
- Perrotin Seoul
- Significance
- Group show challenging historical narrative
Museum collections
Critical institutional validation
Exhibition venues
Progression from alternative spaces (Pioneer Works, Motel) to major international galleries (Perrotin network) to museum exhibitions (Consortium Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum)
- Curatorial attention
- Work curated by significant figures including Eric Troncy (Consortium Museum) and Jareh Das; featured in scholarly contexts
Museum acquisition trajectory
Growing institutional interest evidenced by Columbus Museum of Art and ICA Miami acquisitions; Scantland Collection acquisition particularly significant as major contemporary collection building
Career & Biography
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Career
Career development
Early life
Raised in a strict conservative Catholic family in Seoul where sex and sexuality were forbidden topics, which significantly influenced her later artistic practice
Immigration
Moved to the United States in late 2000s for graduate studies, experiencing newfound liberation to explore themes of body, gender, sexuality and eroticism
- Current status
- Mid-career painter with strong international presence, living and working in Montreal since relocating from New York
- Career transition
- Progressed from early exhibitions in Brooklyn and Philadelphia (2015-2018) to major gallery representation with Perrotin beginning 2019
Identity
Bfa
- Year
- 2012
- Degree
- BFA in Painting
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA
- Institution
- Tyler School of Art
Mfa
- Year
- 2015
- Degree
- MFA in Painting
- Location
- New York, NY
- Institution
- Hunter College
Awards and residencies
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| Year | Award |
|---|---|
| 2018 | Shandaken: Storm King Artist-in-Residency |
| 2016 | Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship in Painting |
| 2016 | C12 Emerging Artist: Special Recognition |
| 2016 | The Cooper Union: Summer Artist-in-Residence |
Verified biographical information
- Gender
- Female
- Full name
- Park, Gahee
- Birth year
- 1985
- Birth place
- Seoul, South Korea
- Nationality
- South Korean
- Getty ulan ID
- 500780969
- Current location
- Montreal, Canada
Alternative names
- Gahee Park
- Park Gahee
- Park, GaHee
- Park, Ka-hŭi
- 박가희
Artistic context
Primary themes
Explores intimacy, voyeurism, domesticity, desire, pleasure, and the boundaries between public and private space through surreal and ambiguous scenes
Cultural influences
Experience moving between Korea and the United States informs exploration of cultural norms, freedom, and otherness; Korean public baths as liberating spaces for female bodies
Personal motivation
Drawing became 'a way of rebelling and asserting myself' against conservative upbringing and challenging traditional values about sex and sexist ideas imposed upon women
Artistic Profile
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Style
Color palette
Saturated colors, pastel tones, peachy flesh, lemon yellows, limpid sea-blues, shimmering greys; both instinctual and theoretical approach to color
Technical approach
Oil painting, colored pencil drawing; emphasis on flatness through texture and pattern work; detailed rendering of woodgrain and brocade; hyper-stylized compositional elements
- Compositional devices
- Frames within frames, mirrors, windows creating ambiguity; paintings-within-paintings; doubling and doppelgangers; spatial collapse
Visual characteristics
Surreal paintings and drawings rendered with flat planes of saturated color; naive style reminiscent of Henri Rousseau; theatrical compositions with lush color; forced perspective creating spatial ambiguity
Evolution
- Early work
- Drawings and smaller paintings exploring forbidden subjects (sexuality, nudity, grotesque images) as rebellion against conservative upbringing
- Mid period
- Development of signature style with larger oil paintings; establishing domestic interior vocabulary with erotic undertones
Recent work
Introduction of self as subject (2020); increasing complexity of doubling effects and spatial ambiguity; 'Not Quite Tomorrow' (2025) series explores temporal and spatial collapse
Influences
Historical
Henri Rousseau (naive style), Paul Cadmus and George Tooker (Magic Realism), Balthus, Fernand Léger, Alex Katz, Pierre Molinier, Norman Rockwell (subverted), elements of Cubism
- Contemporary
- Exhibited alongside and compared to Genesis Belanger, Julie Curtiss, Emily Mae Smith - contemporary figurative painters exploring similar terrain
- Art historical canon
- Engaging with still life tradition, interior painting, nude tradition while critiquing and subverting sexist representations
Themes and subjects
- Primary themes
- Intimate domestic scenes, erotic encounters, still life subjects, nude figures (particularly female bodies), couples in embrace
Recurring motifs
- Fish, crustaceans, sea creatures
- Plants, flowers (especially Anthurium), potted plants
- Pets (cats, dogs) as observers
- Insects (ants, dragonflies, fireflies)
- Food and drink (rotund fruit, cheeses, bottles, cocktails, cigars)
- Domestic interiors with patterned textiles
- Mirrors and reflective surfaces
- Pools and water settings
- Shadows and fragmented bodies
Atmospheric qualities
Scenes oscillate between idyllic and sour, playful and sinister, intimate and voyeuristic; sense of psychological complexity and ambiguous eroticism
Movements and periods
Conceptual framework
- Body and desire
- Exploring female body from female perspective; addressing intimacy, pleasure, eroticism outside male gaze; bodies as fragmented or elongated
Memory and space
Korean public bath memories as liberating non-sexualized female spaces; domestic interiors as reflection of society; exploration of how space influences identity
- Cultural dislocation
- Experience of moving between Korean and American cultures informs exploration of freedom, otherness, cultural norms around sexuality and body
Public private boundaries
Dismantling separation between public and private space; viewer positioned as voyeur; ambiguity about whether scenes are intentional display or privacy violation
Critical Reception
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Critical reception
- Curatorial essays
- Multiple essays by prominent curators including Eric Troncy, Jareh Das
- Academic discourse
- Work increasingly discussed in contemporary art scholarship around gender, sexuality, cultural identity
- Museum publications
- Featured in Consortium Museum exhibition materials, Columbus Museum of Art collection catalogue
Critical reception themes
- Academic interest
- Work discussed in context of contemporary feminist art practice, representation of female body and desire, cross-cultural identity
Stylistic comparisons
Henri Rousseau's naive style, Surrealism, Magic Realism painters (Paul Cadmus, George Tooker), Fernand Léger, Alex Katz, Pierre Molinier, Norman Rockwell
- Theoretical frameworks
- Critiquing and escaping the male gaze; challenging sexist depictions of women in art historical canon; exploring public/private boundaries
- Recurring critical terms
- Voyeurism, eroticism, ambiguity, psychological tension, theatrical compositions, forced perspective, surreal, naive, playful, sinister
Art historical positioning
- Canonical references
- Positioned within tradition of still life and interior painting while subverting genre conventions
- Generational context
- Part of cohort of mid-career painters (born 1980s) addressing identity, sexuality, representation
- Movement associations
- Contemporary figurative painting, feminist art practice, surrealist influences
Publications and media
Major publications and reviews
- Date
- January 2018
- Type
- Critics' Pick
- Key quote
- There was a curious thrill in not being able to fully comprehend what was taking place
- Exhibition
- Kissing in the Tree (Motel, Brooklyn 2017)
- Publication
- Artforum
- Date
- September 2021
- Focus
- Analysis of lush paintings and colored-pencil drawings, decadent rendering of flesh, fruits and flowers
- Exhibition
- Too Early After All (Perrotin Paris)
- Publication
- Artforum
GaHee Park: Building Fluid Worlds
- Date
- December 2020
- Type
- In-depth interview and profile
- Author
- Jareh Das
- Publication
- Ocula Magazine
- Significance
- Major feature in leading Asia-Pacific contemporary art publication
- Coverage
- Featured in coverage of exhibitions and career development
- Publication
- The New York Times
- Coverage
- Artist profile and critical analysis
- Publication
- BOMB Magazine
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- Coverage
- Cultural commentary on work
- Publication
- The Paris Review
- Coverage
- Contemporary art and culture feature
- Publication
- Sleek Magazine
- Date
- March 2020
- Type
- Extended interview
- Focus
- Discussion of sexuality, color treatment, cultural background
- Publication
- Metal Magazine
- Coverage
- Recent coverage including contemporary art market positioning
- Publication
- HYPEBEAST
- Coverage
- Exhibition announcements and reviews
- Publication
- ArtDaily
- Date
- May 2025
- Pages
- 7-page feature
- Publication
- Contemporary Art Issue
- Significance
- Major multi-page feature in specialist publication
The Best of Art Basel Miami Beach 2025: Eight Booths Defining the Fair's Next Era
- Date
- December 2025
- Publication
- WHITEWALL
- Significance
- Highlighted as one of eight defining presentations at major art fair
Gallery & Representation
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Fair presence
Art fair participation
- 2025
- Art Basel Miami Beach (highlighted in WHITEWALL as one of eight defining booths), Art Taipei
- Fair positioning
- Positioned within major gallery presentations alongside established contemporary artists
- Regular participation
- Perrotin presents work at major international fairs including Art Basel, Frieze
Representation
- Since
- 2019
- Gallery
- Perrotin
Locations
- Paris (Marais and Turenne)
- New York
- Tokyo
- Seoul
- Hong Kong
- Shanghai
- Gallery tier
- Tier 1 - Major international gallery founded 1989 by Emmanuel Perrotin with 17+ spaces globally
Roster context
Exhibited alongside blue-chip and established mid-career artists including Balthus, Laurent Grasso, Genesis Belanger, Emily Mae Smith, Julie Curtiss
Gallery strategy
- Market development
- Systematic international expansion through Perrotin's global network
- Publication support
- Edition publishing through Perrotin; featured in gallery's Contemporary Art Issue publication
- Institutional placement
- Active placement in museum collections and major group exhibitions
Secondary galleries
Jessica Silverman
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
Exhibitions
- Beyond Identity (2022)
- Her Dark Materials (2025 forthcoming)
Pilar Corrias
- Location
- London, UK
Exhibitions
- Conversation Galante (2024)
Berry Campbell
- Location
- New York, NY
Exhibitions
- The Imaginary Made Real (2024)
Nassima Landau
- Location
- Tel Aviv, Israel
Exhibitions
- They Shut Me Up In Prose (2022)
- From the Collection (2025)
Blouin Division
- Location
- Montreal, Canada
Exhibitions
- Volupté (2023)
Drawer
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY
- Relationship
- Early career drawings and works on paper
Exhibition history with gallery
- Frequency
- Regular exhibition schedule 2019-2025 indicates strong gallery commitment
- Locations
- Paris (2), New York (2), Tokyo (1), Seoul (1)
- Solo shows
- 6
- Group shows
- Multiple group exhibitions in Perrotin spaces worldwide
Sources & research notes
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