We are thrilled to be present Sungho Bae at the Barely Fair. Barely Fair 2025 is a fully ticketed exhibition. Tickets are available for purchase here.

Sungho Bae reinterprets the visual domain, strategically engaging consumption through images of latent or explicit violence sourced from the physical perceptions embedded in everyday life, mass media, and consumer products. Considering humans as mutants continually adapting within these visual territories, his practice navigates the mechanisms of image-making and the processing of superficial consumption data. By collecting and repurposing imagery and forms, Bae employs strategies of physical and contextual reduction, exaggeration, repetition, and deliberate recontextualization. His work displaces accumulated visual information from its intended contexts, scrutinizing traces of fragmentation revealed on material surfaces. Through reconstructive fragmentation, Bae exposes hidden instabilities within visual narratives, suggesting new modes of relation between human and non-human entities.

Sungho Bae received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his BFA from Seoul National University. He has exhibited at venues including Cylinder Gallery, Seoul, South Korea; Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, South Korea; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL; Root & Culture, Chicago, IL; and Casemore Gallery, San Francisco, CA. He has participated in residency programs such as RAIR, Philadelphia; Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY; Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; and HATCH Residency, Chicago, IL.

Image 1-5 : Sungho Bae, Homo Derelictus Retextus: PA-11335, 2025, Reconstructed stuffed animal parts salvaged from a waste disposal site through anatomical inference, 7.7 x 7.7 x 9.7 inches