As a child, Park spent many hours in the studio of her father, Hyun-Kyu Park, a renowned surrealist painter with work in major Korean national galleries and collections. Surrealism is a strong influence in Park's own work, which she considers as a process of exploring and mapping her psyche. She draws from a variety of sources: memories of a childhood split between two cultures; favourite toys, traditional festivals and Korean sweets; revisited dreams, memories and events; and the bittersweet vagaries of adulthood. Amusing and lyrical, strange and poignant, Park's surreal and dream-like paintings invoke the sharp tang of memory.

Joon-Hee Park has BFA and MFA from Elam School of Fine Arts, Major in Painting (Hons) 2003. She has exhibted regularly at OREXART since her graduation and has participated in numerous group and award shows both in NZ, Australia and USA. She was awarded 2015 Michael Evans Award.

Born in 1979 in Korea, Joon-Hee Park emigrated to New Zealand in 1993.

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