Wook Seo

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Wook Seo (Hyunwook Seo) is a visual artist based in Seoul and New York, who refuses to be confined to a specific culture or style, positioning himself as an intermediary in the gaps between boundaries. He earned both his bachelor's and master's degrees in Metal Craft from Seoul National University and later received an MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York. Following this, he participated in a residency program at Flux Factory in New York, where he engaged in various collaborative projects and exhibitions.

Recently, he has been devoted to adding narrative layers to the imaginations he builds within digital spaces, materializing them through carefully chosen mediums, and presenting them to the audience. The physical entities he creates pull viewers into the digital realm, inviting them into his narratives regardless of their generation or background knowledge.


CV

Project Haphazrd  
Trickster
Fantasy






SELECTED WORK

2025 THREE PRIESTS

“THREE PRIEST” is an installation that materializes a digital narrative into the physical world through sculptures. It features over 100 interconnected pieces embodying symbolic characters and their relationships. Rather than telling a full story, the project serves as a prologue, inviting viewers into the emerging dynamics of a fictional universe.

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2024 CHAMBERS

This project explores how digital forms created in a gravity-free 3D space are physically realized using materials like wax and vapor. The sculptural form is only fully experienced when placed inside a gas-filled chamber that blurs visibility and intensifies material perception. Through this, the work investigates the essential interplay between digital imagination and physical presence.

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2018 Suicide Machine

Suicide Machine explores the emotional effects of binaural beats by presenting sound within a large sculptural enclosure. By allowing the listener to enter and physically inhabit the audio environment, the work examines how emotional states are shaped when sound is experienced as spatial and embodied rather than purely auditory.

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2018 The Best Service

The Best Service is an installation of three enclosed listening booths that isolate participants from external visual stimuli, offering a fully private sensory environment. Each booth circulates fresh air and presents sound designed to evoke a distinct emotional state—happiness, meditation, or sensuality.

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2017 Nerf This

The term "nerf" began in online gaming to describe intentionally weakening a character or item through updates. It has since expanded into general usage to mean any reduction in effectiveness or impact.

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2016 Haphazard Project

Haphazard Project visualizes the extension of the artist’s intuition through digital tools, treating CAD programs as naturally as hand-held craft instruments. Begun in 2015, the project explores how forms can emerge directly from intuitive manipulation rather than deliberate rational planning.

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2015 Future Prediction System

FUTURE PREDICTION SYSTEM examines belief structures that rely on inductive reasoning despite lacking clear causal explanation. The work questions how meaning and certainty are constructed when repeated observation is mistaken for rational connection.

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2014 My Grandmother is an Oldmiss

The term Oldmiss is broken English used in Korea to describe an older unmarried woman, often with a negative tone. The phrase “my grandmother is an Oldmiss” is inherently contradictory, since being a grandmother presupposes marriage and family.

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2009 Theme Park

This project is a photographic series centered on a theme park rendered between reality and the surreal, using a custom head-mounted structure as both installation and ornament. Through editing and visual ambiguity, the work challenges the viewer’s perception of what is real.

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2009 Tha Marine


A machine that eats and poops.

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2009 The Holy Festival

An absurdly elaborate food-shaped trophy.


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