Bongsu Park (b. 1981, Busan, South Korea) is a London-based multidisciplinary artist whose work has been exhibited internationally in museum contexts, contemporary art fairs, and institutional exhibitions. Park’s work has been presented at Zona Maco Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City, FIAC in Paris, The Armory in New York, and The Moving Image Istanbul in Turkey, as well as in solo and group exhibitions at the gallery in London and notably her most recent exhibition at the MARV Museum in Gradara, Italy.
Her practice reflects an ongoing engagement with memory, sensory experience, and spatial perception.
Park studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and École des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, where her academic training supported the development of an interdisciplinary approach spanning performance, installation, and material-based practice.
She began her career in performance, using the live body as a site to activate memory and sensation. A pivotal work in this period, MIRROR (2024), presented at the gallery in London, invited audiences into an immersive sensory environment in which scent, sound, and touch prompted reflection and recollection. This performative focus on embodied experience lays the groundwork for her visual practice.
From this performance, Park evolved the Janhyang series, a body of work that translates the ephemeral qualities of memory and sensation into material form. Drawing on plant materials, natural dyes, and olfactory elements, Janhyang creates visual and sensory works that hold traces of lived experience and emotional reverberation, extending her exploration of how memory resides within both body and object.
Park’s multifaceted practice continues to bridge performance, installation, and sensory abstraction, positioning her as an important voice in contemporary art’s engagement with memory, presence, and intersubjective experience.