AN Gyungsu has explored over a decade moving through various suburban areas, focusing on the peripheral landscapes between cities. He observes and experiences scenes that fail to become, or aspire to become, landscapes—interpreting them as transient and mutable “floating landscapes.” AN sketches the piles and objects pushed to the margins and sometimes superimposes his paintings onto actual landscapes, documenting the process through photography. His works feature peculiar scenes that are “too insubstantial to be swept away like dust, yet too cumbersome to ignore,” drifting in and out of visibility. In this way, AN follows the by-products of the landscape and transforms the sensations embedded in these marginal scenes and objects into a painterly language. As he puts it, “All the landscapes around us are made of such by-products slowly accumulating.”

He has held solo exhibitions at the Museum of Moscow (2022, Moscow), 5 Percent (2021, Seoul), Triumph Gallery (2017, Moscow), GalleryChosun (2016, Seoul), and the Window Gallery at Gallery Hyundai (2014, Seoul). His work has also been featured in group exhibitions at Museum Head (2024, Seoul), MMCA Cheongju (2024, Cheongju), Arario Gallery (2024, Seoul), Arko Art Center (2023, Seoul), Manarat Al Saadiyat (2020, Abu Dhabi), Buk-Seoul Museum of Art (2017, Seoul), Gyeongnam Art Museum (2017, Changwon), Art Space Pool (2016, Seoul), and Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art (2014, Ansan).