Siena Park is a London based Korean artist whose practice reimagines the visual language of Korean folk painting through a contemporary lens. Working across painting, sculptural installation, and embedded light, Park explores power, tradition, beauty, and the quiet tensions hidden within inherited cultural symbols.
Drawing on minhwa, Korean folk painting, Park uses playful imagery, symbolic objects, fragmented storytelling, and restrained space to create works that appear bright and fantastical, while gradually revealing deeper emotional and psychological complexity. Her practice questions how tradition carries memory, authority, discomfort, and transformation across time.
Park’s artist statement reflects her interest in shifting ideas of value and power. Referencing the traditional a royal Korean screen painting historically centred around the presence of the king, she removes the sovereign figure and allows everyday objects, discarded forms, and symbols of consumption to take centre stage.
Park studied Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, and Oriental Painting at Keimyung University. Her selected exhibitions include Start Art Fair, London, KIAF Seoul, Abu Dhabi Art, and presentations with Lucie Chang Fine Arts Gallery, Hong Kong and Noor Royal Gallery, Dubai.
The work presented in this exhibition, Divine Distortion, draws the viewer into a vivid dreamscape of colour, movement, and symbolic displacement. A boat of animated figures crosses a rhythmic sea, while beneath the surface, mermaid like forms and sea creatures inhabit an underwater world. The painting balances innocence with unease, using fantasy to explore collective passage, uncertainty, survival, and emotional instability.
Through brightness, folklore, and carefully constructed fantasy, Park transforms tradition into a space for reflection, critique, and emotional truth. Her work invites viewers to look beyond decorative beauty and consider the layered meanings held within image, myth, and memory.