South Korean artist JIHI is a creature of digital culture, intimately familiar with its tropes and abbreviations. She paints clusters and sequences of symbols and pictograms in flat, bright colour. Her compositions are assertively decorative, eschewing any spatial depth.

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Jihi (b. 1987) explores various forms of communication in human relationships through the lens of pop art. Central to her works are motifs of heart-shaped lips and primary colors, which create a familiar and vibrant atmosphere.

South Korean artist JIHI creates mixed media images on panel which, at first glance, seem to be simple, graffiti-like characters. These humble forms combine to create an allegory full of highly implicit symbols. Utilising this light and bright formative language, she explores the heavy theme of lonely human alienation and...

Jihi is a Korean artist who was born in 1987. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Pontone Gallery, London have featured Jihi's work in the past. Jihi's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 447 USD to 6,400 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork.

JIHI has developed an instantly recognizable, graffiti-like iconography of lips, text, and speech bubbles. With these lighthearted symbols, her Pop-inspired mixed-media works explore themes of connection and loneliness.

This winter Pontone Gallery exhibits at the prestigious Art Miami fair. The gallery showcases a selection of its international artists, who range across the fields...

Works by JIHI: Feeling, 2022 , Group, 2022 , Keypoint, 2022 , Needs_1, 2022 , Needs_10, 2022 , Needs_2, 2022 , Needs_4, 2022 , Needs_5, 2022 , Needs_7, 2022 , Page ...

South Korean artist JIHI is a creature of digital culture, intimately familiar with its tropes and abbreviations. She paints clusters and sequences of symbols and pictograms in flat, bright colour. Her compositions are assertively decorative, eschewing any spatial depth.

The shape of the lips represent the conversation and the texts, lines, and dots represent the words, thoughts, and emotions exchanged during the conversation. The artist hopes that the artwork will spark a conversation between the viewers.