Biography
Park Sung-Tae was born in 1960 in Kwangiu, Korea. In 1987 he received BFA in oriental painting from College of Fine Arts, Seoul National University in Korea.
In 1993 he received MFA in oriental painting from Graduate School of Seoul National University. Since this time he has held solo exhibitions in his home country as well as in China, Russia and Macau. His works had been shown at numerous art fairs throughout Asia and beyond, including Art Singapore, Shanghai Contemporary Art, Shanghai Art Fair, Art Cologne, Melbourne Art Fair, Art Taipei, CIGE – China International Gallery Exposition as well as in Melbourne, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, Dubai, Moscow and others.
Park Sung-Tae received twice the Excellence Prize, MBC Grand Art Exhibition in Korea. His works are kept in the National Museum of Contemporary Art (Kyuinggi-Do, Korea), Seoul Municipal Museum of Art, Seoul National University Museum, Samsung Home Plus (Seoul, Korea), Om Heung-Do Museum (Kangwon, Korea), Chungju City Hall (Chungju, Korea) and in numerous private collections
Park Sung-Tae is a leading sculptor in contemporary Korean art, most well-recognized for his ‘aluminum mesh beings’ in the shapes of infants, horses, and people. These hand-sculpted three dimensional half-figures with subtly defined muscles and agile bodies testify to the superb skill of the artist. In addition, its translucency allows light to permeate through its image, projecting a shadow of its own form. The virtual reflection from the real image is perhaps suggestive of a cloned being. These fascinating visual effects lend motion and life to these figures and animals.