KIZZO

b. 1977, Seoul, Korea​ 

Lives and works in Seoul

 

Kizzo graduated from Anyang Film and Arts High School in 1996, entered the Department of Fine Arts at Suwon University in 1997. Challenging extreme family traumas, Kizzo delved into painting to confront and overcome parental dysfunctions, deep physical and mental scars, harassment, violence and brutality, despise and lack of self-esteem. If painting saved her life it is because she, by herself only, decided to face her own struggles, taking the necessary time and risk to explore the deepness of horror and the infinite possibilities of creativity. She is now ready to reveal to the world her very own unique style of surrealistic painting.

 

Kizzo’s painting is a continuous development of abstract, realistic, and fantastic glossary of forms, emerging from a unique experience of growing from darkness to germination, renaissance and efflorescence. Her art is a constant clash of distinguished colors and shapes, from deformation to reassemblage, reconstruction to liberation. There is not only darkness and sadness in Kizzo’s paintings. On the contrary: it is full of hope, maturity, autonomy and independence.