parkkaro

Conceptual Engineering.

Parkkaro investigates human systems of belief, focusing on how faith underpins the world.

Drawing on the reliability of science and mathematics, their practice develops a humanistic philosophy realized through installation, painting, text, ceramics, video, music, performance, and tattoo.

The works move beyond formal composition to become hand-shaped symbols and figures, acts that embody belief, and rituals in themselves.
“X°” serves as a signature that extends the artist’s identity, deconstructing and reconfiguring existing meanings while proposing unfamiliar perspectives.

a) “X°” merges X—the unknown and the horizontal axis of the Cartesian plane—with the degree symbol (°), denoting angle, time, and temperature. It embodies a way of seeing from an unfamiliar point of view.

박카로는 인간의 신념 체계를 탐구하며, 믿음이 세계를 지탱하는 방식에 주목한다.

과학과 수학의 신뢰성을 바탕으로 인문학적 철학을 디자인하고, 이를 설치, 페인팅, 텍스트, 도자기, 비디오, 음악, 퍼포먼스, 타투 등 다매체적 형태로 구현한다. 작업의 주 형태는 단순한 조형을 넘어, 손으로 빚어진 기호이자 도상(figure)이며, 신념을 담는 행위이자 하나의 의식(ritual)으로 작동한다.

 ‘X°’는 작가 아이덴티티를 확장하는 시그니처로, 기존의 의미를 해체하고 재구성하며, 낯선 시선을 제안한다.

a) ‘X°’ 는 미지수, 직교좌표계의 수평축을 뜻하는 X와 각도와 시간, 온도를 뜻하는 도(°)를 접목 시킨 것으로 낯선 시선으로 바라봄을 의미한다.

'Dust, floats in the air and is everywhere at the same time.

Art is the same' is the motto that I pursue as the director and dustlab,

and I try to pursue works that dont confine themselves to a specific genre.

I try to observe from different attitudes and perspectives

‘먼지, 공기 중에 부유하며 어디에나 있다. 예술도 그와 같다.’라는 모토로 먼지연구소 소장으로 있으며,

장르에 국한되지 않는 작업을 추구하고,

여러 태도들의 시선으로 관찰하기를 시도하고 있다.

Group Exhibitions

2012 19 relay performance <Lee Young June x Parkkaro ‘CV’> / Seoul Art Space Seogyo
2013 Group Exhibition - Flying Dimensionson <Masturbation Lesson> / Gallery 27
2013 Group Exhibition – Leave, Don’t Return < I Like The Way You Grow> / Amado Art Space Seoul
2014 Group Exhibition – BOX@DMC Media Exhibition <Texts for Aria> / DMC Public Relations Hall
2014 Group Exhibition – Frontier Art Project Welcome/<Prompt: Order-Execution-Action> / B-art hall Busan
2014 Group Exhibition – Weird Middleman Service / <Compromise Point>/ Indie Art Hall Hong Seoul
2015 Group Exhibition – Crazy Exhibition <Human Trash Guide> / Alternative Space Loop Seoul
2015 Group Exhibition - Brave New World/<Separated Space> / Alternative Space Loop Seoul
2015 Group Exhibition - Trace Of Impression and Action <Image Resume> / Dong-Jak Art Gallary Seoul
2018 Group Exhibition - No Space Between / <Aperture Enclosed with Knowledge> / Boan1942 Seoul
2019 Group Exhibition - Hybrid Artist /(Un)certain Diagnosis / SeMA Storage from Seoul Museum of Art
2020 Group Exhibition - Antenna Space <The Role of Space Explorer>, <Lost Paradise> / Gallery Villa Hamilton Seoul
2020 Group Exhibition – Not Moving Because of the Desire to Stay Immobile <Friction> / Euljiro OF Seoul
2021 Coex Urban Break Art Fair / Art Brokerage Office <Boundary Between A and B> Seoul
2022 Group Exhibition – City, Euljiro +2° Time of Middle <The Contemplative Tail> / Eulji Art Center Soeul
2022 Group Exhibition – Paranormal Opera <Egoer> / Alternative Space Loop Seoul
2022 Group Exhibition – TOO MUCH LOVE WILL KILL YOU / Subtitled NYC Brooklyn
2023 PACK FAIR 23 <We Want a Deep Stack> / Gonggan Wadiz Seoul
2025 Group Exhibition – A hand Looking for a hand: The hand makers <Ritual Iconography> / Ahlfah! Collective Seoul

Solo Exhibitions

2020 Solo Exhibition - <Boundary Between A and B> /Gallery Villa Hamilton Seoul
2023 Solo Exhibition - <33: Eternity, where the edge of our sleeves can't be stained> / Humor Garmgot Seoul
2024 Solo Exhibition <(On-No)RED> / Subtitled NYC Brooklyn
2025 Solo Exhibition <Ritual Round Road> / POST Gallery Seoul

Selected Media / Appearances

EBS (Educational Broadcasting System, Korea) Documentary “Post-COVID-19” Part 2, 2020 – Featured as an artist presenting an immersive installation based on COVID-19 experience (included the work “Boundary Between A and B”)

Programs / Projects