Minjeong Son is an emerging artist and researcher specializing in oriental painting and Korean art history. Her work focuses on the pictorial qualities of dancheong (traditional Korean decorative painting), reinterpreting them with a contemporary sensibility through chaesaekhwa (traditional Korean color painting). She explores the intersection of tradition and modernity by leveraging the materiality and color of her medium to present a new Korean aesthetic.
By capturing the textures of dancheong—as if covered in dust—and the traces of time, she constructs a unique painterly world that encompasses memory, time, and space. Through her work, she experiments with the possibilities of expanding tradition, positioning her artistic practice as an exploration of the harmony between tradition and modernity, opulence and simplicity, functionality and artistry.