Joo Hoosik is an sculptor who lives and works in Seoul, Korea. He was born in Gwangju in 1971 and Graduated from Dongguk University, Department of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture, and Graduate School of Arts, Department of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture. Joo Hoosik has held 25 solo ehibitions and is actively engaged in activities such as holding more than 300 group exhibitions including international art fairs including Art Miami, KIAF and LA Art Fair etc.

Joo Hoo Sik creates dogs. The life-size dogs are vivid as if they are alive. A wide variety of dog breeds makes their own poses and expressions like a dog fair. Anyone may recognize that they give the first impression of being cute, pretty and adorable. As natural as the impression upon us may appear at first glance, but after further thought on it, it does not seem to me that it is not certainly natural. Being cute, pretty and adorable may be an arbitrary impression and response that human beings have. By means of dogs, the artist focuses his concern on the arbitrary impression and response of human beings and on reminding us of dogs' positions that might be left out of our consideration, and on restoring the distorted unilateral channel to an interactive channel of communication. Apparently, he takes dogs as subject matters of his works, but through the dogs, he really wants to talk about us human beings, our lives, our society and our existence. He feels like telling something about nature that is represented by the dogs, true relationship between human and nature, and eventually about us human beings.

Beagle, 2023

45x45x2 cm, Korean Paper Casting, Korean ink

Boxer, 2023

40x40x2 cm, Korean Paper Casting, Korean ink

French Bulldog, 2021

65x53x3 cm, Korean Paper Casting, Korean ink

French Bulldog, 2023

37x48x2 cm, Korean Paper Casting, Korean ink

ltalian greyhound, 2023

80x30x2.5 cm, Korean Paper Casting, Korean ink

Pug, 2023

70x27x1.5 cm, Korean Paper Casting, Korean ink