THE DOTS IV
2026. 6. 3 – 6. 27 | [GALLERIES] gallery NoW
Shin Mee-kyoung, Lee Mee-kyoung, Lee Jin-yong, Jang Seung-taek, Gina Sohn, Hwang Ran
Shin Mee-kyoung, CW 57, 58×33×35cm, soap,pigment,fragrance oil, 2024
Gallery NoW seeks to present another point of reference in contemporary Korean art through THE DOTS IV in 2026, following THE DOTS in 2023, THE DOTS II in 2024, and THE DOTS III in 2025.
This exhibition brings together six artists—Shin Mee-kyoung, Lee Mee-kyoung, Lee Jin-yong, Jang Seung-taek, Gina Sohn, and Hwang Ran—and offers a comprehensive view of their practices, each of which has developed a distinct sculptural and visual world through different media and artistic languages.
Lee Mee-kyoung, 영산리의 사계-봄(야경), 80x80cm, with a pen, use the acrylic ink on paper, 2026
Contemporary art can no longer be explained through a single style or a unified narrative. Art today emerges at the intersection of social reality and personal sensibility, material and image, memory and experience. In this process, it continuously reconfigures existing boundaries and systems of order.
When different media and artistic attitudes coexist within a single space, new relationships and tensions arise—ones that may not be fully revealed through each individual work alone. THE DOTS IV focuses precisely on this sense of the “in-between.” The exhibition seeks to share the experience of invisible gaps and connections created as works that have expanded in different directions encounter one another, as well as the new sensations that emerge from within those encounters.
Lee Jin-yong, Continuum, 지름120cm, Mixed media, 2025
THE DOTS series is an annual project organized by Gallery NoW to highlight artists who have actively contributed to the field of contemporary Korean art while building independent artistic worlds of their own. Here, the “dot” is not merely a formal unit. Rather, it signifies an artist who, without relying on external trends or passing currents, has established an autonomous world with its own density, existing like a star.
At the same time, the exhibition embodies respect and admiration for the aesthetic and social achievements of artists who have expanded the diverse possibilities of contemporary art.
Jang Seung-taek, Layered Painting 100-88, 160x130cm, Acrylic on canvas, 2023
While THE DOTS in 2023 focused on works that expanded different forms of narrative based on representation, THE DOTS II explored the layered perspectives through which artists perceive the world and translate it onto the pictorial plane.
THE DOTS III then sought to reveal the inner dimensions of contemporary sensibility by unfolding human emotions and sensations embedded in everyday life through deeper narratives.
Building upon this trajectory, THE DOTS IV takes a further step by examining the diversity of media used in artistic practice, presenting artists who work with distinct materials and modes of expression.
Gina Sohn, 늦게 도착한 선, 180x160cm, Acrylic, oil stick,oil,pastel,ink,graphite on cotton fabric, 2026
The participating artists engage with sculpture, painting, installation, photography, objects, and other media in their own ways, yet beneath their practices lies a shared question: how to look anew at reality and existence.
By giving unfamiliar sensations to familiar objects and images, accumulating traces of time upon material surfaces, and translating human memory and emotion into visual language, their works demonstrate that contemporary art remains a vital field of questions and sensations.
Hwang Ran, Healing Forest_TWO, H125xW100cm, Plastic buttons,Beads,Pins on Wooden panel, 2025
Through the practices of artists who move between material and image, time and memory, sensation and concept, THE DOTS IV examines the flexible possibilities through which contemporary art continues to expand.
As these distinct dots connect and form a single flow, the exhibition will become a site for discovering the subtle vibrations and new possibilities of meaning that arise in the spaces between them.
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- 2026. 6. 3 – 6. 27
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