Park Yung-Nam

Park Yung-Nam (박영남) was born in 1949 in Seoul, Korea. He earned a BFA in Western Painting from Seoul National University's College of Fine Arts in 1973, then moved to New York and completed an MFA in Painting at the City College of New York, part of the City University of New York graduate school, in 1983.

In 1992 he received the 3rd Kim Swoo Geun Art Award from the Kim Soogeun Foundation for the Arts, one of Korea's notable honors for practicing artists. His gallery materials describe solo exhibitions in Korea, France, and the United States, and his work has appeared in group exhibitions at institutions including the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Korea, the Busan Museum of Art, the Cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie in Paris, the Musee Pierre-Noel de Saint-Die-des-Vosges, and the Fondation Eugene Napoleon in France, though exact years for these group presentations are not specified in the sources reviewed for this profile.

In 2017 his work was shown alongside that of An Zongde in the two-person exhibition By Nature at Pearl Lam Galleries SOHO in Hong Kong. In 2019 he held a solo exhibition, Monet before Me, at Gana Art Center in Seoul, and Gana Art has since presented a further solo show, Day and Night, though the exact year of that exhibition is not confirmed in available sources. As of 2026-07-16, no obituary, death notice, or gallery memorial statement for Park Yung-Nam has been located, and his gallery's curriculum vitae continues to list him using the open-ended format "b. 1949," standard practice for a living artist. He is treated here as living.

The clearest available signals of institutional standing are his inclusion in five major Korean museum and public collections, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, the Seoul Museum of Art, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, the Artsonje Museum, and the Arario Museum, together with his 1992 Kim Swoo Geun Art Award and his continuing representation by Gana Art. No verbatim critical assessment from a named critic writing in a major outlet was located for this profile, so none is quoted here.

No internal Masterworks market record existed for Park Yung-Nam prior to this profile, and a dedicated check of major Korean auction market coverage, including reporting on Seoul Auction and K Auction sales, did not surface a specific work, price, auction house, or sale date attributable to him. This should be read as an absence of documentation in the sources available, not as confirmation that no sale has ever occurred. It may reflect a market that runs primarily through his gallery, Gana Art, rather than through the secondary auction market, but that reading is not independently confirmed and should be treated as a hypothesis rather than a fact.

Park Yung-Nam's institutional profile, five museum collections, a national art award, and continuous representation by a major Seoul gallery, is well documented, but his public secondary-market history is not. There is no catalogue raisonne and no confirmed authentication program beyond the gallery relationship itself, so any prospective transaction should be verified directly through Gana Art and cross-checked against the exhibition history above. Collectors should treat the absence of a locatable auction record as a data gap to investigate further, not as evidence of value one way or the other.