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Ken Gun Min: Strange Days of a Quiet Sun

Nazarian / Curcio Los Angeles · Mid-City
Exhibition on view: Feb 21, 2026 - Mar 28, 2026

Strange Days of a Quiet Sun presents new paintings by Ken Gun Min, including a monumental double sided folding screen. Botanical landscapes stage figures, animals, and symbols that draw from Western and Eastern art histories, political imagery, and queer narratives. Embroidery, beading, pearls, and hand applied materials expand the surface, addressing memory, militarized histories, and resilience.

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  • Ken Gun Min
On View
Feb 21, 2026 - Mar 28, 2026
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Ken Gun Min

Ken Gun Min, born 1976 in Seoul, is a painter exploring intimacy, masculinity, and cross-cultural representation, combining Western oil paint, Korean pigments, embroidery, and beading on raw canvas. Featuring nude and queer-coded men in lush landscapes, his work evokes longing and euphoria. Having lived in San Francisco, Zurich, Berlin, and Los Angeles, Min questions Eurocentric perspectives, integrating Eastern and Western styles while challenging Western art history’s depictions of sexuality, gender, and race.
Ken Gun Min
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