Kim Tae Ho is one of the leading artists of Korean monochrome art since the 1970s. His bold experimentation across media, incorporating traditional handmade Hanji paper within his heavily textured, monochromatic works, has strongly allied his practice with the legacy of his contemporary Dansaekhwa(단색화) painters.

Employing an extremely tedious and careful process of layering heavy brushstrokes on canvas - as much as over twenty times - bulky masses of acrylic paint is built up before being scratched away, revealing a multitude of vibrant colours hidden beneath the simple surface. In the process, not only is vitality and resonance triggered within the rhythm of the colours but countless visual spaces are also formed within the intersecting gridded lines.

Kim’s seemingly ironic and relentless efforts are not futile, instead, they manifest splendid and captivating outcomes, displaying an aesthetic rhythm of moderation and order through the void and the filled, the colourful and the monochrome. Seemingly static and flat in colour, the artworks nudge the audience to double-take, and upon closer inspection, notice the vast colours embedded within which becomes animated with shifting viewing angles.

From 1987 to 2016, Kim Tae Ho served as a professor at the Department of Painting in Hongik University. His works have been collected by The British Museum, UK, the National Museum of Contemporary Art and Seoul Museum of Art, Busan Municipal Museum of Art, Daejeon Municipal Museum of Art, Shimonoseki Museum, Japan and the Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China among others.