Stickymonger is a New York-based artist whose giant murals transform ordinary spaces into eerie, dreamlike, parallel universes. Looking into the large eyes of her animation-inspired subjects, the viewer is invited to explore the interplay of darkness and light, as well as the tension between innocence and fear, femininity and anxiety.
The artist’s early murals were created using hundreds of vinyl stickers, meticulously put together, piece by piece. The method served to create a sense that each image was melting and flowing together, like a river of ink down a gallery’s walls. This dark fluidity at the center of Stickymonger’s work was inspired by her youth in South Korea, where — growing up in a home next to her family’s gas station — the artist’s imaginative universe was formed while playing in the shadow of oil drums and staring into the reflections of dense black petroleum puddles.
Currently, Stickymonger has expanded her work beyond vinyl to include other mediums such as spray paint and acrylic. As her methods evolve and change, she continues to offer the viewer a portal into a surreal shadow-world of contradictions: as inviting as it is ominous, both delightful and disconcerting.
stickymonger@gmail.com
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
2024 Point of View | Ross+Kramer Gallery, Miami, USA
Everything Makes Sense | Ross+Kramer Gallery, New York, USA
2023 D.D.D | NANZUKA 2G, 3110NZ by Nanzuka Underground, Tokyo, Japan
2022 Eat, Play, and Whatever | WOAW Gallery, Untitled Art Fair. Miami, USA.
It Was A Very Good Year, Kind Of | Villazan Gallery. Madrid, Spain.
HOT! COOL! HOT! | WOAW Gallery, CAN Ibiza, Art Fair. Ibiza, Spain.
2021 My Kinda Vacation | Four You Gallery. Paris, France.
Thank You Plastic | WOAW Gallery, ART021 Shanghai, Art Fair. Shanghai, China.
Still Smiling | Allouche Gallery, New York, USA
2020 Lonesome Planet | Four You Gallery, Dubai, UAE
Parallel Universe | Unveiled Limited with Space27, Hong Kong, China
On a Clear Day | Hidari Zingrao Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2018 Searching For Something That Isn’t There | AFA Gallery, New York, USA
2016 Cosmic Girls | Everyday Mooonday Gallery, Seoul, Korea
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
& ART FAIR
CURATED EXHIBITION
EDUCATION
2024 Frieze Art Fair | Nanzuka Gallery, Seoul, Korea
PASSION STRENGTH POWER - Star Wars Exhibition | Parco Museum Tokyo, Japan
2023 Art Basel | Nanzuka Gallery, Miami, USA.
Brick by Brick | Ross+Kramer Gallery, New York, USA.
As Friends & Partners | WOAW Gallery, Singapore, Singapore.
2022 Familia | WOAW Gallery, Hong Kong, China.
Tides (NFT) | Nifty Gateway, Online.
2021 Superplastic: The Janky Heist (NFT) | Christie’s, New York, USA.
Works on Paper | WOAW Gallery x Avante Arte, Hong Kong, China.
4 in LA | Allouche Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
2019 Frieze Art Fair | Kaikai Kiki Gallery, New York, USA.
Art Basel | Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Hong Kong, China.
FEMME | Juxtapoz Project Space, Jersey City, NJ, USA.
2018 7th Annual Supersonic Invitational | Spoke-Art, NY, USA.
2017 JUXTAPOZ Clubhouse | Superchief Gallery, Miami, FL, USA.
CIRQUE NOIR | AFA Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
2016 Tower to Streets | World Trade Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
2022 Spray Painterly 2 | Allouche Gallery, New York, USA
2021 Spray Painterly | Allouche Gallery, New York, USA
Pratt Institute | New York, USA | M.F.A. Digital Arts
Ewha Womans University | Korea | B.F.A. Visual Information Design
Parsons the New School for Design | New York, USA |
Exchange Student in Design & Technology