Chung Sanghwa (born 1932,

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, North Gyeongsang,

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) is a South Korean minimalist and '' Dansaekhwa'' (monochromatic) painter. After receiving his BFA from College of Fine Arts in

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in 1956, Chung briefly moved to Paris in 1967. Coming from a generation of post-war artists, Chung's reductive process of painting consists of repetitive application and removal of the paint on canvas. Chung held national and international exhibitions, including ''FROM ALL SIDES: TANSAEKHWA ON ABSTRACTION'' at

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Gallery in Los Angeles. In 2015, Chung Sanghwa's paintings were included in Frieze New York Art Fair. Gallery Hyundai (Seoul, Korea) has organized more than 25 of Chung's exhibitions, including 9 solo shows since 1983. From 1996, Chung began to work in recluse in Yeosu, Gyeonggido Province. Chung's works are in permanent collection of the Samsung Leeum Museum of Art, the

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in Seoul, the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the

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and the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum.

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