OMOO — 오무 — is a Korean contemporary artist whose paintings explore the gentle intersections between nature and humanity, memory and imagination.
Her work began, in a sense, by the water. Walking along the Han River during a difficult period of her life, OMOO slowly found her way back to herself — and her first River Series painting, Hangang, was born from that quiet healing. That same painting would, years later, travel to New York for Art Expo 2026.
Whales, belugas and rivers appear in her paintings as small characters carrying hidden emotions from everyday life. They are not cute, not decorative — they embody feelings of recovery, forgiveness, patience, and the courage to keep swimming upward, even when the water is dark.
Through analog textures and warm, subdued color, she preserves the grain of reality itself. Built stroke by stroke in acrylic on canvas or wooden panel, each painting carries the memory of the hand that made it.