Artist Creates Vivid Canvases Where Fantasy Bleeds Into the Everyday, With Playful Yet Unsettling Compositions Questioning Human‑centric Worldviews

Lee Gihun (Lee Ki‑hoon) is a South Korean painter who blends pop‑surrealism with everyday scenes, creating vivid canvases where animal instincts, masks, and human conventions collide.

Working mainly in acrylic and oil pastel on canvas, he builds layered, colourful compositions that feel both playful and unsettling, often featuring masked figures and hybrid beings that question identity, social roles, and our place in a rapidly changing world. His ongoing “Masquerade” series and international solo shows—at spaces like Galleri Christoffer Egelund in Denmark and Dorothy Circus Gallery—position his work at the intersection of fantasy, critique of human‑centrism, and a fascination with the next generation’s future.

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