INSEPERABLE: A SOLO EXHIBITION BY HYONG NAM AHN
MORAN MUSEUM OF ART, SOUTH KOREA
Sept. 12 through December 28th, 2025
The Waterfall Arts Foundation is proud to exhibit the retrospective of artist Hyong Nam Ahn at the Moran Museum of Art, representing over 40 sculptures, installations, paintings, and drawings. For more than forty years, Ahn has merged the roles of artist, sculptor, and inventor, creating works that balance painting’s flatness with sculpture’s depth.
As Ahn himself writes: “I make art not to resolve or declare, but to free myself, breaking questions apart and sharing my experience honestly, proving that art is immediate, tangible, and inseparable from life.” Waterfall invites you to experience Inseparable not simply as an exhibition, but as a shared journey through memory and fracture, resilience and beauty, body, and spirit.
ARTIST HYONG NAM AHN
Hyong Nam Ahn was born in 1955 in South Korea and immigrated to Seattle with his family during high school. He received both his BFA and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1980. For over four decades, Ahn has bridged the roles of artist, sculptor, and inventor–creating a diverse and innovative body of work. Today, Ahn is regarded as one of the most respected Korean-American sculptor in the US.
At the core of Ahn’s practice is a dynamic interplay between pictorial flatness and sculptural presence. Striving to dissolve the boundaries between painting and sculpture, he distills form, material, and light into seamless, unified expressions that transcend objecthood and evoke the essence of natural phenomena.