Hana Kwon (b. 1990)

Hana Kwon (b. 1990) majored in Illustration Design for her bachelor’s degree at Art Center College of Design located in Los Angeles California, USA, and actively building a career by expressing her honest emotions and memories through oil painting in fine arts and illustration. Especially, she captures the moments of flowing time that hoping to forever remember the moment, with this, the artist found herself controlling her emotions and discovers another self through the process of visualizing her thoughts and emotions that are difficult to express in words. In Hana KWON’s works, there is a character of humans combined with food, and make viewers go on a time travel from the character’s facial expressions about food. For the artist, food exists as a recovered moment after the sickness, the makeup moment after the fight, and a celebration meal for the anniversary. Hana KWON’s paintings of mealtime and food are not just drawn after finishing eating, but also sharing the moment of her warm memories, the food reproduced in the painting stimulates the sense of taste and reminds you of the memory. In our dynamic life, Hana KWON’s creations are a journey to find inner peace to herself at the same time, allowing many people to participate in the healing journey.