Exhibitions

Alex Foxton

Sebastian August 31 - October 19, 2024 Seoul VSF Seoul is pleased to announce Sebastian, Alex Foxton’s (b. 1980, England) first solo exhibition in Asia. Foxton’s elegant and boldly colored paintings have captured the attention of an international audience. Engaging with the complexity and ambiguity of masculine archetypes, Foxton mines familiar figures - soldiers, sailors, cowboys, saints, and... Read more

Color Fields

Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola | Huh Myoungwook July 13 - August 24, 2024 Seoul Night Gallery and Various Small Fires (VSF), Seoul are delighted to present Color Fields, a two-person exhibition by New York-based Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola and Seoul-based Huh Myoungwook. This will be Akinbola’s first presentation in Korea, on view at VSF, Seoul. These artists are united in their material explorations of the... Read more

Lumin Wakoa

The Unnaming June 8 - July 6, 2024 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present Lumin Wakoa’s first Asia solo presentation, The Unnaming. This the artist’s second collaborative project with the gallery after her solo exhibition at VSF Los Angeles. As a child in northern Florida, Wakoa often sat with her father on their front porch. 'Let’s see,'... Read more

Wendy Park

Cerritos, California May 4 - June 1, 2024 Seoul Various Small Fires is delighted to announce the solo presentation of Wendy Park’s second solo exhibition with the gallery in Cerritos, California. This will be Park’s first solo exhibition in Asia. This collection of new works explores Park’s childhood in Cerritos, a suburb of Los Angeles, California, where the artist... Read more

Glen Wilson

Meridian Dub March 23 - April 27, 2024 Seoul With pleasure, VSF Seoul presents Glen Wilson’s first solo exhibition in Asia, Meridian Dub. Wilson is a Los Angeles-based artist, whose practice is rooted in a pocket of Venice Beach, California known locally as Oakwood, just blocks from the water where Wilson has made his home for many years. In... Read more

Samantha Bittman

On Pattern January 13 - March 2, 2024 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present Samantha Bittman: On Pattern, the New York-based artist’s first solo exhibition in Seoul. Following Shaping Color, an exhibition curated by Diedrick Brackens in our Los Angeles Gallery, this is Bittman’s second collaboration with VSF. Over the last fifteen years, Samantha Bittman has developed... Read more

Alvin Ong

In My Head October 28 - December 23, 2023 Seoul Various Small Fires proudly presents In My Head, a solo exhibition by Alvin Ong, marking the artist's Seoul debut and first exhibition with the gallery. One of the most exciting young figurative painters in Asia, Ong is known for his intimate paintings that capture quotidian moments in surreal bodily compositions,... Read more

Nikki S. Lee

Parts: Revisited September 5 - October 14, 2023 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present an intimate historical survey of Nikki S. Lee’s iconic Parts series. This exhibition marks the artist’s second with the gallery and Lee’s first presentation of the Parts series in her hometown of Seoul, South Korea. Nikki S. Lee’s Parts, shot in New York... Read more

Alex Becerra

Prelude to Understanding June 17 - August 19, 2023 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present Los Angeles-based artist Alex Becerra’s debut presentation in Asia titled Prelude to Understanding. This is the second solo exhibition with the gallery. Becerra approaches painting with the aim to summon embodied responses, enrolling the viewer in an experience that links vision... Read more

Dew Kim

I Surrender April 29 - June 10, 2023 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present Seoul-based artist Dew Kim’s solo exhibition, I Surrender in its Seoul location. Featuring seven all-new works, the artist addresses issues of sexuality, queerness, BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadism, masochism), and religion through a variety of sculptural languages. The presentation is a continuous exploration of... Read more

Kyungmi Shin

Monster's appetite March 4 - April 15, 2023 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present Kyungmi Shin’s solo exhibition in Seoul, featuring all new photographic collage paintings. This will mark the artist’s first solo presentation in Asia and her second with the gallery. Originally trained as a sculptor, Shin's current practice is inspired by black-and-white vintage photographs from... Read more

John Miller

Imaginary Interventions January 7 - February 25, 2023 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present Imaginary Interventions by American artist John Miller (b. 1954, Cleveland, Ohio). This exhibition of nine new works on canvas plus a vinyl wall graphic will mark the artist’s first solo presentation in Seoul. As an artist, writer, curator, and musician, Miller consistently takes... Read more

Will Gabaldón

All out beyond horizon October 29 - December 23, 2022 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present Chicago-based artist Will Gabaldón’s debut presentation in Asia. All out beyond horizon, the artist’s second solo exhibition with VSF, will showcase twelve new landscape paintings drawn from both real life and memory. The pastoral scenes are simultaneous representations of real places and manifestations... Read more

Diedrick Brackens

together our shadows make a single belly September 1 - October 15, 2022 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present Texas-native Diedrick Brackens’ debut solo exhibition in Asia, together our shadows make a single belly. In a series of four new works, Brackens offers woven tapestries dense with analogy and narrative. For his solo exhibition in Seoul, Brackens expands his exploration of silhouetted... Read more

The Harrison Studio

DMZ: A Bioregional Transformation July 9 - August 20, 2022 Seoul Various Small Fires Seoul proudly presents DMZ: A Bioregional Transformation, a solo exhibition that revisits The Harrison Studio's 2021 research on the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone), which is located on the border between North and South Korea. Their work uncovered that the area had become the most ecologically rich nature reserve... Read more

Jungyoon Hyen & Mark Yang

Inanimatefy
Curated by Hayoung Chung April 16 - June 11, 2022 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present a two-person exhibition by Jungyoon Hyen and Mark Yang in its Seoul space. Like the exhibition title Inanimatefy, a unique term coined by combining ‘inanimate’ with ‘~to make (-fy),’ both artists take away the subjects’ lives and grant new meaning to their existence.... Read more

Sara Anstis

Bundle February 25 - April 9, 2022 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Sara Anstis, the artist’s first with the gallery and in Asia. Bundle offers a glimpse inside the artist’s world through recent works on paper and canvas. Anstis' figures inhabit an environment ripe with dreamlike elements. Each naked body, rendered... Read more

Che Lovelace

Presented as Natural January 12 - February 16, 2022 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to announce Presented as Natural, Che Lovelace’s second exhibition with the gallery, and his first exhibition in Asia. This presentation of paintings draws from a pool of works produced over the last six years. Lovelace’s vibrantly-charged paintings channel the flora, fauna, and culture of the... Read more

Dashiell Manley | Hayal Pozanti | Davina Semo

Tangerine Dreams | Jessica Silverman x VSF November 13, 2021 - January 8, 2022 Seoul Various Small Fires and Jessica Silverman are pleased to present Tangerine Dreams, a group exhibition bringing together new work by Dashiell Manley, Hayal Pozanti, and Davina Semo. Drawing inspiration from the optimism that arises from the symbolism of Tangerines, hues of orange and red throughout the exhibition reverberate feelings of... Read more

Lezley Saar

Black Garden September 18 - November 6, 2021 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present Lezley Saar’s first exhibition with the gallery, and her debut presentation in Asia. Through surrealist celestial paintings, collages, and tapestries, Saar’s work explores a range of topics, among them mixed-race identity and the nuances of gender and sexuality. The daughter of the artistically... Read more

Andrea Marie Breiling | Mira Dancy | Samara Golden | Robert Nava

Sunburst | Night Gallery x VSF July 31 - September 11, 2021 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present Sunburst, a group exhibition presented in collaboration with Night Gallery at our Seoul location. Bringing together new work by Night Gallery artists Andrea Marie Breiling, Mira Dancy, Samara Golden, and Robert Nava, the exhibition is defined by a spirit of chromatic exuberance. Featuring... Read more

Julien Creuzet | Hun Kyu Kim | Aaron Garber Maikovska | Pentti Monkkonen

High Art x VSF June 26 - July 28, 2021 Seoul Never! Time can never be stopped, yo! Why do you hesitate? When there’s only one choice Now is your only chance Here is your only Your only place to stay You are in a fantasy When everything is crumbling away You are still in a fantasy (…) – Excerpt from... Read more

Jessie Homer French

Skunk Cabbage May 29 - June 24, 2021 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present Skunk Cabbage, an exhibition of paintings by American artist Jessie Homer French in Seoul, Korea. This is the artist’s first solo presentation in Asia and third with VSF. For over a decade, the artist has lived in the desert mountains several hours outside... Read more

Harold Ancart | Sebastian Black | Loïc Raguénès

Arms of the Sea | C L E A R I N G x VSF April 3 - May 22, 2021 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present Arms Of The Sea in collaboration with C L E A R I N G New York / Brussels / Beverly Hills in its Seoul location. The exhibition by Harold Ancart, Sebastian Black and Loïc Raguénès, is proposed through three axes of work... Read more

Gina Beavers

Passionaries January 16 - March 20, 2021 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present Passionaries, American artist Gina Beavers’ first solo exhibition in Asia and her first exhibition with VSF. In Seoul, the artist will present eight new paintings that look at contemporary Internet culture and social phenomena to consider themes that include consumerism, celebrity fandom, global... Read more

Henni Alftan & Dike Blair

KARMA x VSF November 28, 2020 - January 6, 2021 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present a two-person exhibition with Henni Alftan and Dike Blair in collaboration with Karma, NY in its Seoul location. Featuring six new paintings by each artist, the work of Alftan and Blair negotiates the pure rendering of an image and the conceptual grounding behind... Read more

Sojourner Truth Parsons

Milk river October 27 - November 21, 2020 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present the debut solo exhibition in Asia of New York based artist Sojourner Truth Parsons (b. 1984, Vancouver, CA) and the artist’s first solo exhibition at VSF. Parsons’ introspective paintings often offer glimpses into her personal environment, lived psychological processes, and the multi-perspectival identification... Read more

Elizabeth Neel

In the Belly of the Whale | Co-presented with Salon 94 September 22 - October 24, 2020 Seoul In Vermont daily life is experienced intensely, as every moment not in the studio – nature’s logic stands in front of me with crossed arms. — Elizabeth Neel, August 2020 American painter Elizabeth Neel’s latest exhibition, In the Belly of the Whale, is a hypnotic gateway into the beguiling pull... Read more

Gina Beavers | Diedrick Brackens | Jessie Homer French | Chase Hall | Cindy Ji Hye Kim | Calida Rawles

Next of Kin May 30 - August 8, 2020 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present, Next of Kin, the exhibition debut of six American artists in Seoul, South Korea. In the unsettling ups and downs of the current COVID-19 crisis, VSF has taken the opportunity this summer to focus on a universal constant: family. Pushing beyond its biological... Read more

Josh Kline

Alternative Facts April 11 - May 23, 2020 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in Asia of the American artist Josh Kline, an extension of the artist’s project Civil War, which explores the catastrophic implications of America’s political dysfunction. For over a decade as an artist and curator, Kline has surveyed the current... Read more

Liz Magic Laser

February 1 - March 28, 2020 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present Liz Magic Laser’s first solo exhibition in Asia. As a traveling presentation from Laser’s most recent exhibition at VSF Los Angeles, this debut presentation in Seoul introduces both the artist’s earlier work Mine (2009) and latest institutional project Handle / Poignée (2018), which... Read more

Math Bass

Fill It Up Silver November 2, 2019 - January 18, 2020 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present the debut exhibition of Los Angeles based artist Math Bass in South Korea, the artist’s first solo exhibition with VSF. A continued investigation into semiotics and visual processing, Fill It Up Silver mines the methodology of valuation through a series of paintings from... Read more

Joshua Nathanson

Symbiotic July 27 - October 12, 2019 Seoul Various Small Fires is pleased to present the debut presentation in South Korea of Los Angeles-based artist Joshua Nathanson (b. 1976, Washington D.C.). Featuring his latest works, Joshua Nathanson: Symbiotic will be on view from July 27 through October 12 at VSF Seoul. In Nathason’s previous work, carefree people luxuriate... Read more