Jamsan is a Korean contemporary artist known for bridging illustration, concept art, and painting into a seamless narrative practice. Widely recognized for his visual direction in the acclaimed TV series It’s Okay to Not Be Okay, he has since developed a body of work that transcends media, expanding his darkly poetic fairy-tale aesthetics into fine art. His paintings dwell in the tension between fantasy and solitude—where chairs, roses, forests, and young girls reappear as recurring symbols of memory, vulnerability, and resilience. Each motif carries a double meaning: beauty intertwined with pain, stillness with longing, and imagination with healing. Jamsan’s surfaces, rendered in oil and acrylic with crisp outlines and luminous fields of color, evoke both the intimacy of picture-book illustrations and the depth of painterly space. In recent exhibitions such as The Voice at River City Bangkok, his world unfolds as a cosmic fable—roses from distant stars, silent forests, and dreamlike creatures whispering unspoken stories. By merging the language of visual storytelling with painterly sensibility, Jamsan crafts a space where viewers project their own narratives and find solace in the familiar icons of childhood and myth. His art offers a rare fusion of accessibility and profundity, resonating equally with popular audiences and serious collectors alike. SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 <Ordinary People; A Record of the Everyday> — Gangneung Art Museum, Gangneung, South Korea

2024 <Break Free> — Carin Gallery, Busan, South Korea

2024 <What Should We Do?> — 2gil29 Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2023 <Curtain Call> — PBG, Seoul, South Korea

2023 <Last Night on Earth> — Afternoon Gallery, Paris, France

2022 <Where Your Steps Take You> — Atelier Aki, Seoul, South Korea

2022 <Hide Well, Hide Well!> — Tsutaya Books Shanghai Pudong, Shanghai, China

2022 <Nevertheless> — Afternoon Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2021 <About the Attitude> — 2gil29 Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2021 <Pray> — Mokin Museum, Seoul, South Korea

2020 <Knock Knock> — RYSE Hotel, Seoul, South Korea

2020 <Ordinary People> — 2gil29 Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026 <Art We Love> — Carin Gallery, Busan, South Korea

2025 <Into the Night> — Gallery ERD, Seoul, South Korea

2025 <Color Pulse> — Maison JE Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand

2025 <Chasing Rainbow> — Blue Brick Gallery, Changwon, South Korea

2024 <Memories Become Treasures> — Movementlab, Seoul, South Korea

2023 <Cheek to Cheek> — S2A Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2023 <Well-Being & Well-Dying> — Mokin Museum, Seoul, South Korea

2023 <Adult’s Fairy Tale II> — Art Sohyang Gallery, Busan, South Korea

2022 <Distance Between Me & Me> — Powerlong Art Center / Xu Gallery, Shanghai, China

2022 <Alter Ego> — Noblesse Collection, Seoul, South Korea

2022 <Oh! Sentimental> — Gana Art Busan, Busan, South Korea

2021 <In Bloom> — Hite Collection, Seoul, South Korea

2019 <Ordinary Lie> — Seoul Museum, Seoul, South Korea