February 14, 2025

Han Sungpil: Nickle at Noon Artist Talk

Join Han Sungpil at the Nickle Galleries on February 13, 2025 for an artist talk. This is a great opportunity to meet the artist and hear more about his practice. 

Originally from Seoul, South Korea, Han Sungpil, is an internationally celebrated artist who explores environmental issues using photography, video and through the creation of large outdoor installations. Following a research trip to Lake Louse in 2014, Sungpil moved to Canada in 2020. Since then, his work has focused on exploring abandoned coal mines, melting glaciers, wildfire sites, and other examples of environmental change and degradation in the Rocky Mountains.

Sungpil’s works have been exhibited, collected and reviewed at notable venues and events around the world, including Royal Alberta Museum (Edmonton, Canada), TD Bank (Toronto, Canada), National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul and Gwacheon, Korea), Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, USA), Chateau de Chaumont (Loire, France), National Museum of Fine Arts (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Museum of Contemporary Art (Shanghai, China), Fotografie Forum Frankfurt (Germany), Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (Japan), and Havana Biennial (Cuba). He has published three photography books, Intervention at Hatje Cantz (Berlin, Germany, 2017) by the support of Ilwoo Foundation, Phantasmagoria at Museum Hanmi (Seoul, Korea, 2016) and Façade at FOIL (Tokyo, Japan, 2011).

He received a BFA in photography from Chung-Ang University in Seoul and completed Curating Contemporary Design, a joint MA program offered by Kingston University and the Design Museum, both in London, U.K. Sungpil received the CCIS New Canadian Artist Award from the Calgary Art Development in 2024. Most recently he presented a large-scale installation of Frozen Fire 32, Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, 2021 at the Havana Biennial in the fall of 2024-2025.

Don’t forget to stop by the gallery to view our Exposure Exhibitions with work by Vikky Alexander, Geoffrey James, and Han Sungpil on view until March 8, 2025.

Han Sungpil
Frozen Fire 101, Grisette Mountain and Mt Dromore, Jasper, 2025
Archival pigment print – Edition 1/3
59” x 90” / 150 x 230 cm