Woo Jeongsu reconstructs his pictorial world through collected narratives and images drawn from illustrations, myths, and episodes found in epic storytelling across different historical periods. Referencing a wide range of visual sources—from illustrations in European medieval publications and canonical works in art history to characters from popular fiction and comics—he deconstructs and reconfigures their original contexts to generate new narratives. Grounded in his distinctive drawing practice—marked by uninhibited, fluid brushwork combined with printmaking techniques—he portrays today’s world with a tone that is at once cynical and humorous.
His major solo exhibitions include Three Devils by the Bedside (Art Sonje Center, Seoul, 2024), Where Is My Voice (Doosan Gallery, Seoul, 2020), Tit for Tat (Doosan Gallery, New York, 2020), Calm the Storm (Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, 2018), and The Grave of Books (OCI Museum of Art, Seoul, 2016). He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions in Korea and internationally, including Flowing Moon, Embracing Land (Jeju Biennale, 2022), Young Korean Artists (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Gwacheon, 2021), Fortune Telling (Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, 2021), Compulsion to Repeat (Seoul Museum of Art, 2019), The Adventure of Korean Painting: I will go away all by myself (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Cheongju, 2019), and Imagined Borders (Gwangju Biennale, 2018).