Hyunjin Park creates scenes where imaginary animals and AI companions coexist. Through sculpture, installation, performance, and video, she explores how care, kinship, and belonging shift across changing boundaries. Her visions grow from intersecting histories of migration: her late poodle's journey from life to death, an AI robot dog's travel from Japan to America, and her own passage from East to West. Through these shared experiences of crossing and settlement, Park became interested in how dogs—like migrants—navigate complex cultural positions. They exist as beloved companions yet simultaneously become subjects of derogatory language targeting both animals and women. Working with organic and mechanical materials, she creates hybrid sculptures and installations that blur boundaries between living and artificial, life and death, and the modern and ancient.
Hyunjin Park is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in New York and Seoul. She investigates the affective presence of non-human beings and how they challenge boundaries between the modern and ancient, life and death, and human and non-human. Her solo exhibitions include Gallery OOOJH (Seoul, 2022), Gallery Chamber (Seoul, 2025), with upcoming shows at Open Space Bae (Busan, 2025) and Kumho Museum of Art (Seoul, 2026). She has participated in group exhibitions at Total Museum, Onsugonggan, Hui Gallery (Hong Kong), and OyG project (NYC). Park has attended residencies including Domaine de Boisbuchet, Vermont Studio Center, the Wassaic Project, the Watermill Center, and NARS Foundation. Park was also selected as the AHL Foundation T&W grant recipient.
