Artist In June Park

 In June is a Korean painter based in New York whose work pushes back against the velocity of contemporary image culture. Having spent his teenage years in Santiago before moving to the United States to pursue art, his practice is shaped by a life lived across geographies and visual languages. His paintings draw from archived moments—reflections, memories, and everyday objects—slowly rendered in layered acrylic to create images that both reveal and obscure. Borrowing strategies familiar to the camera generation, such as cropping, distance, and collage, he uses the canvas as a site to reconsider how meaning is constructed through images.

Across his work, subjects ranging from religious icons to abandoned household items are extracted from their original contexts and repositioned within new visual relationships. This act of removal becomes a method for examining how power operates through visual and material language. By allowing these motifs to interact across a series, he builds a collective narrative that resists linear interpretation, instead inviting viewers to navigate the subtle tensions between presence and absence, memory and distortion. His paintings ask us to slow down—to look with intention in a moment defined by speed.

In June received his BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and his MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at Anton Kern Gallery, Wallach Gallery, MAMA Projects, Albert Van Abbe Huis, Alyssa Davis Gallery, Petitree Gallery, and Latitude Gallery. He is a recipient of the Glassier Fellowship, the Hopper Prize, and the Becky Westcott Memorial Award, and will participate in the Radio28CS International Artist Residency in Mexico City this spring. Through this evolving practice, he positions both himself and the viewer as observers—attentive witnesses to the slow unfolding of images in a world that rarely pauses.