Taewon Ahn

Taewon Ahn (b. 1993, Seoul), who also works under the name Ppuri, graduated from the Department of Western Painting at Chung-Ang University and lives and works in Seoul. He airbrushes images onto shaped canvases and sculptures in a way that mirrors texture mapping, the process by which a flat image file is wrapped onto a three dimensional model in digital software. His recurring subject is his cat Hiro, distorted and repeated until it behaves less like an animal than like an image circulating online.

Recent solo exhibitions include PPURI at P21, Seoul (2024) and Copy & Paste at Gallery STAN, Seoul (2022), followed by a solo presentation at Gallery STAN in New York the same year. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Busan (2022) and The Hole, New York (2022), and was presented at Frieze Seoul in 2023.

Ahn's first solo exhibition in Europe, Liminal Room, opened at Plan X Milan in 2023.