Biography
Artist Seong Dam Hong graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at Chosun University and has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions both in Korea and abroad. He wased as a participating Korean artist for the 1st and 3rd Gwangju Biennale.
His major works include <Dawn>, a print from the Gwangju May People's Uprising series; the environmental ecology series <Tree Fish>; the East Asian nationalism series <The Widow of Yasukuni>; and the Jeju mythology series <Island of the Gods>. His works also include the 14-piece Passion of Jesus series, <the Jesus in May> series, the series analyzing press photography <Photos and Death>, the series on state violence <Portrait of Yushin>, and the series on the Sewol Ferry disaster <Inhalation, Exhalation>.
In 1990, Amnesty International named him one of the “World’s three leading prisoners of conscience,” and in 2014, Foreign Policy, an international affairs magazine based in New York, listed him among the “Top 100 Global Thinkers.”
His publications include <From May to Unification> (Youth History, 1990); <Liberation’s Sword Flower> (Pulbit Publishing, 1991); <People Calling Others> (Yakōsha, Tokyo, Japan, 2012); the graphic novel <Bari> (Saengchang Publishing, 2013); <Yasukunism in East Asia> (Yūgakushobō, Tokyo, Japan, 2016); the novel <Naughty>(Essayist, 2017); the essay collection <Standing on the Road Against the Inconvenient Truth>(Butterfly’s Runway, 2017); the Gwangju May-themed picture book <Sneakers Airplane> (Book Embracing Peace, 2017); and the Sewol-May picture and archival paper <The May of the Years> (Gwangju Museum of Art Edition, 2017).
His major works include <Dawn>, a print from the Gwangju May People's Uprising series; the environmental ecology series <Tree Fish>; the East Asian nationalism series <The Widow of Yasukuni>; and the Jeju mythology series <Island of the Gods>. His works also include the 14-piece Passion of Jesus series, <the Jesus in May> series, the series analyzing press photography <Photos and Death>, the series on state violence <Portrait of Yushin>, and the series on the Sewol Ferry disaster <Inhalation, Exhalation>.
In 1990, Amnesty International named him one of the “World’s three leading prisoners of conscience,” and in 2014, Foreign Policy, an international affairs magazine based in New York, listed him among the “Top 100 Global Thinkers.”
His publications include <From May to Unification> (Youth History, 1990); <Liberation’s Sword Flower> (Pulbit Publishing, 1991); <People Calling Others> (Yakōsha, Tokyo, Japan, 2012); the graphic novel <Bari> (Saengchang Publishing, 2013); <Yasukunism in East Asia> (Yūgakushobō, Tokyo, Japan, 2016); the novel <Naughty>(Essayist, 2017); the essay collection <Standing on the Road Against the Inconvenient Truth>(Butterfly’s Runway, 2017); the Gwangju May-themed picture book <Sneakers Airplane> (Book Embracing Peace, 2017); and the Sewol-May picture and archival paper <The May of the Years> (Gwangju Museum of Art Edition, 2017).
