Chung Sang-Hwa

Korean | 1932

Chung Sang-Hwa is a Korean Asian Modern & Contemporary painter who was born in 1932.

How much does a Chung Sang-Hwa cost?

Chung Sang-Hwa's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 103 USD to 2,800,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork.

What is Chung Sang-Hwa's most expensive painting?

Since 2007 the record price for this artist at auction is 2,800,000 USD for Untitled 82-7-3, sold at Korea Premier Auction in 2016. In the past 12 months, their artworks have averaged 40,212 USD.

Where can I see Chung Sang-Hwa's works?

Numerous key galleries and museums such as Sorol Art Museum have featured Chung Sang-Hwa's work in the past.

Chung Sang-Hwa in the news

Chung Sang-Hwa has been featured in articles for The Art Newspaper, Korea Herald and ArtLyst. The most recent article is Asia Week New York celebrates a decade and a half of cultural and artistic diversity written for ArtDaily in March 2024.

Artist's alternative names: Chung Sanghwa, Sang-Hwa Chung

Featured for Sale

At Auction

Notable Lots

Untitled

By Chung Sang-Hwa

+507%

above mid-estimate

Untitled 85-5-5 ,1985

By Chung Sang-Hwa

+601%

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Upcoming Lots

Recent Auction Results

Work ,1974

By Chung Sang-Hwa

-62%

below mid-estimate

Korea Premier Auction

Untitled ,1969

By Chung Sang-Hwa

Korea Premier Auction

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Past Exhibitions

Chung Sang-Hwa: In Dialog

Sorol Art Museum

May 04,2024 - Aug 25,2024

Across the Decades: Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the National Academy of Arts

Korean Cultural Center UK

London | UK

Jul 04,2024 - Aug 23,2024

Chung Sang-Hwa: Infinite Breath

Gallery Hyundai

Jongro-gu | Seoul | South Korea

May 31,2023 - Jul 15,2023

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Articles

Asia Week New York celebrates a decade and a half of cultural and artistic diversity

ArtDaily 14/03/2024

When the 2024 edition of Asia Week New York opens–from March 14th-22nd–it will mark fifteen years of international galleries and auction houses displaying Asian art from the many corners of the Far East.

Korean Emerging Artists to watch at Frieze Seoul and Kiaf

The Art Newspaper 08/09/2023

From Boschian epics and BDSM hardware to understated sculptures and irreverent paintings, a new generation of Korean artists is making a splash.

Chung Sang-hwa's Enduring Art on Show at Gallery Hyundai

Korea Herald 27/06/2023

Artist Chung Sang-hwa is one of Korea's leading art figures, whose process of repeatedly peeling clay from the canvas and filling in the gaps resembles his lifelong self-discipline as an artist.

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Coverage

“ .. Indubitably, Chung’s work deals with the awakening of the surface, or a reduction process toward the surface, through a logical and structural procedure... ”
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Gallery Hyundai

“ ..Beginning in the early 1970s, Chung’s work increasingly addressed repetition, ritual, and process, typified in the 1973 masterpiece Untitled 73-12-11, a canvas of over seven feet tall comprised of faint... ”
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Greene Naftali Gallery

“ ..Eliminating decisions of scale (each canvas is 130 x 97 cm) and coloration, Chung instead foregrounds his meditative painting method... ”
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Lévy Gorvy, London

“ ..Chung repeats this process in succession to create multilayered, complex surfaces... ”
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Lévy Gorvy, London

“ ..Chung’s works have grown more intricate over the course of his career, as the artist continues to explore variations of the grid pattern... ”
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Lévy Gorvy, London