Gahee Park
Value#29
Egon Investment Scores
Liquidity
5/10
How easily works can be bought and sold at auction
Institutional
7/10
Museum collections, biennials, and institutional recognition
Momentum
8/10
Recent price trends, gallery moves, and market buzz
Discovery
1/10
Undervaluation opportunity relative to peer artists
Risk
3/10
Investment risk factors — higher means more volatile
Market Position
Auction Record
$126,000
Still Life with Fish
Phillips New York
- 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
- Recent Auction Activity
Work Date Result Auction House Medium Size A Cat Next Door May 29, 2024 Offered but price not disclosed in search results Christie's Oil on canvas 152.5 x 122 cm (60 x 48 in) Tied Up September 28, 2023 Offered but price not disclosed in search results Sotheby's Oil on canvas 30 x 24 in (76.2 x 61 cm) Woman with a Cigar May 29, 2023 Offered but price not disclosed in search results Christie's Oil on canvas 111.8 x 127 cm (44 x 50 in) Tipsy Lovers July 13, 2022 Sold (price not disclosed) Tate Ward Auctions Inkjet print with varnish (edition of 35) 47 x 38 cm
- 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
Columbus Museum of Art
Columbus, OH, USAInstitute of Contemporary Art, Miami
Miami, FL, USAPond Society
Shanghai, ChinaMedianoche Foundation
Granada, Spain- Exhibitions
- Solo Exhibitions
Title Year Venue Significance Not Quite Tomorrow 2025 Perrotin Paris Second solo exhibition in Paris, sixth with gallery Fun and Games 2024 Perrotin New York — Académie Conti 2023 Consortium Museum, Vosne-Romanée, France Major museum solo exhibition in prestigious French institution Eveningness 2023 Perrotin Tokyo First solo exhibition in Japan Too Early After All 2021 Perrotin Paris First solo exhibition in Paris Betrayal (Sweet Blood) 2020 Perrotin New York — We Used to Be Fish 2019 Perrotin Seoul First solo exhibition with Perrotin gallery Every Day Was Yesterday 2018 Taymour Grahne, London — Kissing in the Tree 2017 Motel, Brooklyn — Butt on Face 2016 Pioneer Works, 2nd Floor Gallery, Brooklyn — No No Means Yes Yes 2015 Marginal Utility Gallery, Philadelphia — - Major Group Exhibitions
Title Year Venue Significance Her Dark Materials 2025 Jessica Silverman, San Francisco — Erotic City 2025 Eric Firestone Gallery, New York — 50 Paintings 2023 Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI Major museum group exhibition PUBLIC PRIVATE 2023 Pond Society, Shanghai, China — Wonder Women 2022 Jeffrey Deitch Major thematic group show at prominent commercial venue Art on the Grid 2020 Public Art Fund, New York City Major public art commission No Patience for Monuments 2019 Perrotin Seoul 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
- 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
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 ParkPark GaheePark, GaHeePark, Ka-hŭi박가희
- 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
- 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 creaturesPlants, flowers (especially Anthurium), potted plantsPets (cats, dogs) as observersInsects (ants, dragonflies, fireflies)Food and drink (rotund fruit, cheeses, bottles, cocktails, cigars)Domestic interiors with patterned textilesMirrors and reflective surfacesPools and water settingsShadows 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
- 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 Coverage Publication January 2018 — Artforum September 2021 — Artforum December 2020 — Ocula Magazine — Featured in coverage of exhibitions and career development The New York Times — Artist profile and critical analysis BOMB Magazine — Cultural commentary on work The Paris Review — Contemporary art and culture feature Sleek Magazine March 2020 — Metal Magazine — Recent coverage including contemporary art market positioning HYPEBEAST — Exhibition announcements and reviews ArtDaily May 2025 — Contemporary Art Issue December 2025 — WHITEWALL
Gallery & Representation
- 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 YorkTokyoSeoulHong KongShanghai
- 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
Location Exhibitions Gallery San Francisco, CA Beyond Identity (2022), Her Dark Materials (2025 forthcoming) Jessica Silverman London, UK Conversation Galante (2024) Pilar Corrias New York, NY The Imaginary Made Real (2024) Berry Campbell Tel Aviv, Israel They Shut Me Up In Prose (2022), From the Collection (2025) Nassima Landau Montreal, Canada Volupté (2023) Blouin Division Brooklyn, NY — Drawer - 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
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