Park Eun-sun

Park Eun-sun (, born in 1965) is a South Korean sculptor.

Early life Park was born in South Korea in 1965. He graduated from the Department of Fine Arts of the Kyung Hee University is Seoul, and later obtained a degree from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara. Since 1993 he has been living and working in Pietrasanta, Italy. Park uses marble from Carrara, about 20 km from Pietrasanta, for much of his work. His pieces often feature two different colors of marble with prominent cracks, and are usually abstract. The first exhibition that attracted the public's attention was "Mostra di scutura in omaggio a SEM" in 1997. It was held in Pietrasanta and he was invited to the group exhibition. He has had a number of solo and group exhibitions in Europe including in Italy, Germany and France (Musée Bernard Boesch) etc. thumb

Awards 2021 - Honorary citizenship of the Municipality of Pietrasanta 2018 - Premio Fratelli Rosselli "Pietrasanta e la Versilia nel mondo" 2015 - Order of Civil Merit-Seongnuy Medal 2009 – Sun Prize in the Arts, Sun Gallery

Solo exhibitions Source:

2020 Kyro Art Gallery, Pietrasanta, Italia

2019–2020 Giacomo Puccini Square, Viareggio, Italy Pisa International Airport ‘Galileo Galilei’, Pisa, Italy Florence International Airport ‘Amerigo Vespucci’, Florence, Italy

2019 Hippodrome San Rossore, Pisa, Italy Art Of The World Gallery, Houston, Texas, United States of America Monumental Exhibition for Island National Festival 1st Edition, Sam-Hak Island, Mokpo, South Korea

2018 International Award ‘Pietrasanta and Versilia in the World’, Pietrasanta, Italy ThePage Gallery, Seoul, South Korea Art Busan 2018, BEXCO Square, Busan, South Korea Le Musée Galeria d’Art, La Ville Bernard Boesch, La Baule, France Hotel Principe, Forte dei Marmi, Italy

2017 Park Eun Sun e il Monumentale, Palazzo Panichi, Museo dei Bozzetti, Pietrasanta, Italy Duomo Square, Chiesa e Chiostro di Sant’Agostino, Pontile di Marina di Pietrasanta, Italy Mazzini Square, Viareggio, Italy Vecchiato Arte Gallery, Pietrasanta, Italy City Center, Padua, Italy Vecchiato Arte Gallery, Padua, Italy

2016 Korean Cultural Center, Rome, Italy Piazzale Michelangelo, Piazza Pitti, Aeroporto A. Vespucci, Giardino delle Rose, San Miniato al Monte, Palazzo Vecchio - Cortile dei Leoni, Florence, Italy

2015 Pisa International Airport 'Galileo Galilei’, Pisa, Italy Florence International Airport ‘Amerigo Vespucci’, Florence, Italy Forte dei Marmi, Italy Villa Ghirlanda, Cinisello, Milan, Italy Forte di Bard (Museum), Bard, Aosta, Italy Art Center Materima - Studio Copernico, Casalbeltrame, Novara, Italy Altes Bad Pfäfers, Bad Ragaz, Switzerland Mark Peet Visser Gallery, Heusden, Netherlands

2014 Traiano’s Market - Museum of Fori Imperiali, Roma, Italy Lacke&Farben Gallery, Berlin, Germany Le Musée Galeria d’Art, La Villa Boesch, Atlantia, La Baule, France City Center, La Baule, France

2013 City Center, Lugano, Switzerland Hotel Principe Leopoldo, Lugano, Switzerland Urbengsschlass Gallery, Hesperange, Luxembourg ’La Comune de Hesperange’ Park, Hesperange, Luxembourg Materima, Studio Copernico, Casalbetrame, Novara, Italy

2012 Villa Bertelli Foundation, Forte dei Marmi, Italy Carlina Gallery, Turin, Italy Arena Studio d’Arte, Verona, Italy

2011 Miniaci Gallery, Milan, Italy 'MARMOMACC 2011’ Henraux Foundation, Verona, Italy

2010 City CenterAlba, Miroglio, Alba, Italy City Center, Barolo, Italy Dosi Gallery, Busan, South Korea

2009 Marino Marini Museum, Florence, Italy Quattro Mori, Milan, Italy Sun Gallery, SUN Art Center, Seoul, South Korea

2008 Gana Art Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2007 ‘La Versiliana’ Park, Pietrasanta, Italy

2006 Absolute Art Gallery, Knokke, Belgium Mark Peet Visser Gallery, Heusden, Netherlands University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

2005 San Giorgio Gallery, Milan, Italy

2004 Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2003 Carlina Gallery, Turin, Italy Swinger Art Gallery, Verona, Italy

2002 Studio SEM, Pietrasanta, Italy

2001 Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul, South Korea RHO Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2000 Bernd Dürr Gallery, München, Germany

1997 Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

1996 Bernd Dürr Gallery, München, Germany Zehntscheuer Gallery, Münsingen, Germany

1995 Gadarte Gallery, Florence, Italy Duemme Gallery, Genoa, Italy

Group exhibitions Source:

2020 “Materia”, Kyro Art Gallery, Pietrasanta, Italy

2019 Art Busan BEXCO, Busan, South Korea 17th KIAF Korea International Art Fair, Coex, Seoul, South Korea

2018 I Marmi di Henraux, San Miniato, Italy Art Busan BEXCO, Busan, South Korea Monaco Yacht Show, Montecarlo 17th KIAF Korea International Art Fair, Coex, Seoul, South Korea

2017 Art Fair od Bologna, Italy ‘Park Eun Sun e il suo Atelier’, Sala Putti, Chiostro di Sant’Agostino, Pietrasanta, Italy 16th KIAF Korea International Art Fair, Coex, Seoul, South Korea

2016 Arte Downtown, Padua, Italy Arte Padova 2016, Vecchiato Arte, Padua, Italy 15th KIAF Korea International Art Fair, Coex, Seoul, South Korea Sculpture Biennale Changwon, Changwon, South Korea

2015 BARCU International Art Fair of Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia Sculpture Triennale, Bad Ragaz, Vaduz, Switzerland FIA International Art Fair of Caracas, Venezuela 14th KIAF Korea International Art Fair, Coex, Seoul, South Korea CONTEXT International Art Fair od Miami, United States of America

2014~2015 ‘Michelangelo e La Versilia’ Italian Cultural Center, New York, United States of America

2014 ‘ART STAGE’ Singapore 2014, Singapore 13th ‘KIAF' Korea International Art Fair, Coex, Seoul, South Korea

2013 Ocean Reef Islands, Panama City, Luz Botero Fine Art Gallery, Panama Seoul Art Show 2013, Seoul, South Korea 12th ‘KIAF’ Korea International Art Fair, Coex, Seoul, South Korea ‘BERLINER LISTE’ 2013 Contemporary Art Fair, Berlin, Germany The First Biennial of the South in Panama 2013, ‘Summoning Worlds’, Panama K-Sculpture 2013 Korea Sculpture Festival, Fiesole, Italy Sun Gallery ‘Korea Abstract’, Sun Art Center, Seoul, South Korea

2012 Shanshui Man, Lig Art SpaceSeoul, South Korea ‘Tra Cielo e Terra’, Ascona, Switzerland ‘Arte Padova 2012' Arena Studio d’arte, Padua, Italy Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea Art Fair Bologna 2012, Galleria Carlina, Bologna, Italy K-Sculpture 2012 Korea Sculpture Festival, Pietrasanta, Italy

2011 'Sign Off Design’, Slide Art, Venice, Italy 29th Korean Galleries Art Fair, Seoul, South Korea Versilia Wine Arte, Pietrasanta, Italy 'Sign Off Design’, Palazzo delle Esposizione, Turin, Italy

2010 28th Korean Galleries Art Fair, Busan, South Korea 'Scultura in Valigia’, Insa Gallery, Seoul, South Korea Museo del Vino, Barolo, Italy Marmo Fiera, CosMave, Carrara, Italy

2009 (New acquisitions 2008) National Museum of Contemporary and Modern Art, South Korea 'Scultura in Valigia', Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama, United States of America

2008 I Segreti...del Mestiere - Artisti per il Duomo, Pitrasanta, Italy Scultura Internazionale - Scultura Natura Oriente Occidente 2008, Turin, Italy Oisterwijk Sculture 2009, Entienne&Van den Del, Expressivee Contemporary Art, Netherlands 17 Artisti Rappresentanti Coreani di Oggigiorno, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2007 ‘Sculpture in the Garden’, Harold Martin Botanical Gardens, University of Leicester, England

2006 Art Fair ‘LINEART’, Ghent, Belgium Holland Art Fair 2006 (HAF), DenHaag, Netherlands Salon Primavera Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands Sculture EN PLEIN AIR, Turin, Italy Absolute Art Gallery, Brugge, Belgium

2005 MPV Gallery, Heusden, Netherlands Art Fair, Studio Copernico, Verona, Italy ‘I Segni e le Forme, Due Passi nell’Arte’, Pietrasanta, Italy Scultura ‘Amor Marmoris’, Levigliani, Italy Arte Fiera, Sangiorgio Gallery, Bari, Italy The 5th Anniversary Exhibition of Samsung TESCO, Insa Art Center, Seoul, Corea del Sud 'The Best of…’, Insa Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2004 ‘The Milano International Modern Arts Show’, Palazzo della Permanente, Milan, Italy

2003 Park Ryu Sook 20th Anniversary, Seoul, South Korea ‘Sculpture in the Garden’, Harold Martin Botanical Gardens, University of Leicester, England Art Fair ‘Bologna 2003’, Galleria Carlina, Bologna, Italia Art Fair ‘MIART’, Galleria Carlina, Swinger Art, Milano, Italia Art Fair, Swinger Art Gallery, Verona, Italy Magnetismi delle Forme, Scultori in Centrale ENEL Santa Barbara di Capriglia, Italy ‘Arte per la Vita’, Hotel Kraft, Florence, Italy Heiri Festival 2003, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul, South Korea ‘Sculture Carezzate da un Vento Etrusco’, ENEL, Piombino, Italy

2002 Art Fair ‘Cologne’, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Cologne, Germany Art Fair ‘Altissima’, Turin, Italy Art Fair ‘Post’, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul, South Korea World Cup Stadium Installation, Suwon, South Korea ‘L’acqua e la vita, Magnetismi delle Forme’, ENEL, Italy

2001 Art Fair ‘Cologne’, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Cologne, Germany Bell’Arte Gallery, Maastricht, Netherlands

2000 Arte Fiera ‘Cologne’, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Cologne, Germany Bell’Arte Gallery, Maastricht, Netherlands Arte&Città 2000, Bologna, Italy

1999 Arte Fiera ‘Cologne’, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Cologne, Germany Bell’Arte Gallery, Maastricht, Netherlands

1998 Arte Fiera ‘Basel', Switzerland Sculture On The Wall, Galleria Sai, Seoul, South Korea The Swiss Grand Hotel 10thAnniversary&GalleriaSamtuh’s, Seoul, South Korea ‘L’Infinito Possibili’, Pianeta Azzurro Museum, Rome, Italy Park Ryu Sook Gallery 15th Anniversary, Seoul, South Korea

1997 Unformed, 4 Scultori, Main Galley, Seoul, South Korea Mostra di Scultura in omaggio a SEM, Pietrasanta, Italy

1996 Open Arte96 München Bernd Dürr Gallery, München, Germany Chilford Hall, Cambridge, England ‘Two Sculptors’, Galleria Ars Polonia, Varsavia, Poland In attesa dell’Alba, Pietrasanta, Italy Scultori e Pittori Contemporanei, Zehntscheuer, Germany

1995 Il Gatto, Florence, Italy Art Fair ‘MIART’, Milan, Italy 1st Natura ut Scultura, Camaiore, Italy

1994 Pietra Lavorata, San Nicolò, Italy Cardo D’Argento, Florence, Italy

1993 Hoo In Gallery, Seoul, South Korea Ho-Am SamSung Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea

1991 National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, South Korea