b. 1973, CA
Seonna Hong is a multimedia artist based in Los Angeles. With a Bachelor of Arts from Cal State University Long Beach, she has worked in television and feature animation for over twenty years. In 2004, she received an Emmy Award for Individual Achievement in Production Design for her work on My Life as a Teenage Robot. Her illustrated book, Animus, is in its third printing and has been lauded for its “beautiful” and “mysteriously touching” imagery (Ken Johnson, New York Times). Hong is best known, however, for her quietly narrative and autobiographical paintings that have been exhibited in galleries and shows around the world, including in New York and Tokyo. She is represented by Hashimoto Contemporary.
EDUCATION
1996 BA, California State University Long Beach, CA
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Past Lives, The Museum of Art at St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA
2024 Freytag’s Pyramid, Gilman Contemporary, Ketchum, ID
2023 Murmurations, Hashimoto Contemporary, New York, NY
2022 Late Bloomer, Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Liminal Space, Hashimoto Contemporary, New York, NY
2018 Things Will Get Better, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
2016 In Our Nature, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
2015 If You Lived Here I'd Be Home by Now, Jonathan Levine Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Persistence of Vision, LeBasse Projects, Culver City, CA
2008 Viscery Loves Company, KaiKai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2007 Our Endless Numbered Days, 5BE Gallery, New York, NY
2006 - 2007 SubUrban Series, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Visual Language: Vistas, Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Villa Tigertail, Future Fairs, Los Angeles, CA
Foundations, Art Benefit with L.A. Ayuda, Felix Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
2024 Hashimoto Contemporary Anniversary Group Show, Hashimoto Contemporary, New York, NY
The Jaunt Group Show, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
Potluck, Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Red Envelope, Spoke Art, New York, NY
2023 Zona Maco Art Fair, Hashimoto Contemporary, Mexico City, Mexico
Desertland, Hey There Projects, Joshua Tree, CA
Locals Only, The Baldwin Art Gallery, Sierra Madre, CA
2022 Seattle Art Fair, Hashimoto Contemporary, Seattle, WA
2021 Lost Then Found, Hey There Projects, Joshua Tree, CA
8 x 8, GR2 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Context Art Miami, Hashimoto Contemporary, Miami, FL
2020 Post It Show, GR2 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Lush, Hashimoto Contemporary, New York, NY
Hey There Mart, Hey There Projects, Joshua Tree, CA
8 x 8, GR2 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Multiples, Hashimoto Contemporary, New York, NY
2019 Vanguard, Outré Gallery, Fitzroy, Australia
Context Art Miami, Hashimoto Contemporary, Miami, FL
Juxtapoz at 25: In Black and White, Juxtapoz at The Hotel South Beach, Miami, FL
Let’s Eat, GR2 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Surreal Sublime, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
World of Succulents, QPop Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Retold, Nahcotta Gallery, NH
Muscle Memories, Red Truck Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Rakugaki, GR2 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018 The Universe is In Us, {s}pace gallery at Ayzenberg, Pasadena, CA
One Way Through, Heron Arts, San Francisco, CA
Defining Detritus, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Art on Paper Art Fair, Pier 36, New York, NY
Cat Art Show, Think Tank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Giant Robot 15th Anniversary Show, GR2, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Enormous Tiny Art, Nahcotta Gallery, Portsmouth, NH
Figurative Futures, 101/Exhibit, Los Angeles, CA
East Meets West, Heron Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Pink, Castelli Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Panorama: Revisions of Landscape, Eastfield College, Mesquite, TX
Summer Selects, KP Projects, Los Angeles, CA
In This Together: art benefit for CASA of Los Angeles, Flood Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Keep it Together, Flower Pepper Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2015 Golden State, Bunsen Goetz Galerie, Nuremberg, Germany
LA Art Show, Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Moleskine Project group show, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Ode to the Motherlode, Good Eye Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Lost in Space, Grumpy Bert, Brooklyn, NY
2014 LA Wood Show, Arena 1, Santa Monica, CA
Parallel Universe, Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Art of Truancy, Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York, NY
Space // Squared, White Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013 Post It Show, GR2 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
These Friends 4, THIS Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2012 PULSE MIami, LeBasse Projects, Miami, FL
Space//Form, Breeze Block Gallery, Portland, OR
ISM: 10 Exhibition, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
Blacked Out, Hurley Gallery, Huntington Beach, CA
These Friends 3, THIS Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Fresh StART 2012, Arena 1, Santa Monica, CA
Printed Matter, GR2 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011 PULSE MIami, LeBasse Projects, Miami, FL
Benefit for GR2, GR2 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Support: Artists Unite For Japan, Art From the Ashes, Royal T, Los Angeles, CA
Momentum, LeBasse Projects, Culver City, CA
These Friends 2, THIS Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Post It Show, GR2 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Sanrioʼs Small Gift Miami, Miami, FL
Pattern Recognition, Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Sugipop!, Portsmouth Museum of Art, Portsmouth, NH
Unleash the Beast, Arena 1, Santa Monica, CA
Group Show, Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Taipei
Ed Emberley and Friends, Scion Installation, Culver City, CA
A Visual Dialogue, Bo Lee Gallery, Bath, England
2009 Beach Blanket Bingo, Jonathan Levine Gallery, New York, NY
“+2” Summer Group Show, Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY
15 Year Anniversary Show, GRSF, San Francisco, CA
Brood Work, Eagle Rock Center For the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
I Know What Youʼre Thinking, Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY
BOOKS AND EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
2012 Persistence of Vision, LeBasse Projects
2004 Animus, Baby Tattoo Publishing
INTERVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
2020 Jennifer Rizzo, Seonna Hong In Transit, Juxtapoz, March 4
Elena Martinique, Seonna Hong’s Characters Take on New Adventures in NYC, Widewalls, March 5
Brian Alfred, Seonna Hong Episode 205, Sound and Vision Podcast, March 26,
2018 Daniele Krysa, Peeling Paint, The Jealous Curator Podcast
2017 Suzie Vlcek, An Interview with Seonna Hong, Bright Lite Magazine
2016 Kurt Orzeck, Worlds Without End: The Art of Seonna Hong, Flood Magazine
2015 Hrishikesh Hirway, The Soundtrack to Painter Seonna Hong’s Dream Worlds, WIRED, October 23
Artist Spotlight: Seonna Hong, Hayo Magazine, No. 1: South
2014 Seonna Hong, Late Bloomer, Dirty Laundry Magazine
Kristin Farr, Seonna Hong, Juxtapoz Issue #161 p. 74-81
2012 Hung-Hei Yung, Interview: Seonna Hong, Arrested Motion
Gregory Koutrouby, Interview: Seonna Hong, A Thousand Stories
2011 Amanda Erlanson, Visceral Playground, TBA Magazine
2010 Lianya Magana, After the Flood, Hi-Fructose Issue #17, p. 74-85
2008 Eric Nakamura, Seonna Hong: Viscery Loves Company, Giant Robot
2007 SaraJane Sluke, Sirens of the Surreal, Swindle Issue #10 p. 68-78
Roger Gastman, Wife, Mother, Artist and Solid Gold Dancer?, Juxtapoz Issue #73 p. 84-93
2004 Eric Nakamura, Seonna Hong: Uneasy Art, Giant Robot Issue #38 p. 38-43
AWARDS
2006 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant Recipient
2004 Emmy Award for Individual Achievement in Production Design for My Life as a Teenage Robot, Nickelodeon