Beauty is harmony.

 

Two different elements, not reliant nor to subjugate by the other, radiate extraordinary beauty of its own when embraced in harmony.  Seemingly chaotic nature often demonstrates its ultimate beauty from its unintended harmony at the end.

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Dabin Ahn (b. 1988) is a young artist who has innate talent to conjure up the new from old, and abstraction from realism.  His mind and eyes shift seamlessly between the two dimensions to three dimensions in which makes his realized vision mysteriously intriguing and beautiful.   

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His early self-portraits are expressed in the classic realm of 'Caravaggio' in oil on canvas, and then transcends effortlessly into the modern abstraction of 'Mondrian' style but in his own interpretation of space.  He is a MFA student at SAIC.

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BACKGROUND & EDUCATION

 

 

2017   BFA (Painting/ School of The Art Institute of Chicago), Chicago, IL 2017

 

2007   Painting, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

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1988   Born in Seoul, Korea

 

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

 

 

 

2018   Solo Exhibition, “2 + 3,” Andrew Bae Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

 

2013   Solo Exhibition, "Records of Light," Gallery Imazoo, Seoul, Korea

 

 

2012   Solo Exhibition, "Me, Myself and I," Gallery Topohaus, Seoul, Korea

 

 

2008   Solo Exhibition Gallery So, Seoul, Korea

 

           

 

 

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & ART FAIRS

 

 

 

 

2016   "I Hear Shit," Gallery Laura, Chicago, IL

 

         

           BFA Thesis Show, Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, IL

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2013  “Silence, I Discover, Is Something You Can Hear," Gallery LVS, Seoul, Korea

 

         

           The 12th Korea Internation Art Fair, Seoul, Korea

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2012   Asia Contemporary Art Show, Hong Kong

          

           

           Jang Heung Art Market Jam, Seoul, Korea

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2002   "Lightless Light," Imart Gallery, Seoul, Korea

 

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