Hong’s art reflects a life shaped by migration, memory, and the quiet tension between tradition and progress.

Hong’s journey to becoming an artist has been anything but conventional. Trained as a chemical engineer, he earned both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Hanyang University before beginning his career in the research division at Hanhwa Group. At the age of 32, he moved to the United States after being recruited by Honeywell, where he went on to spend over a decade in the North American oil and gas sector as a systems consultant. After founding a startup in Canada and later returning to Korea as GE Korea’s Sales Director, Hong currently works as a consultant at Samsung SDS.

While his professional life followed the path of innovation and industry, his artistic practice developed as a parallel thread—quietly, intuitively, and with growing urgency. Much of his thirties and forties were spent living abroad, and those years became a time of introspection, particularly around Korea’s economic trajectory and its cultural transformations. His body of work—spanning Korean woodblock prints, painting, and silkscreen—emerges as a meditation on identity, displacement, and the contradictions of modern life.

Through material and process, Hong invites viewers to reflect on what is preserved, what is lost, and what we choose to carry forward.