The Greater Archipelago
Sanghoon Bae
Painting · 2026
NYADW 2026 — Traces of Force
Gallery 456 · Aug 7–21
Acquisition
Not for Sale
Project Statement
Sun. Blue light. Its yellow shadow.
A donut with attachment issues.
New York, abstracted from time.
Gallery
Artist
Sanghoon Bae
Sanghoon Bae is an architect and artist trained at Yonsei University, Seoul. He has worked at Mass Studies in Seoul and KPF in New York, two offices distinguished by their approach to architecture as urban proposition and spatial argument rather than object. His practice moves between architectural design and painting, using both as instruments for understanding how cities accumulate meaning over time.
Bae's recent writing and research has appeared in The Seoulite (2025) and in the essay collection Materials & Spatial Qualities in Architecture (2025). His paintings — often large-format, densely layered — treat the canvas as a site of urban fieldwork: a surface on which impressions of place can be accumulated, edited, and examined at the pace that architecture rarely allows.
Opening Reception
Friday, August 7, 2026
6:00–9:00 PM — Gallery 456
Free and open to all. Join us to experience Traces of Force in person.
RSVP for the OpeningThis project is made possible in part with funds from Creative Engagement, a regrant program supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.