HAEJAE DEBBIE OH • 吳慧宰 • 오혜재

Haejae Debbie Oh is a South Korean self-taught artist, office worker and writer.

She graduated from Ewha Womans University with both BA and MA degrees. Without any formal education in art, she has drawn illustrations since 2014. Starting with the Asia Contemporary Art Show (2019, Hong Kong), she has joined various domestic and foreign art events. She won the Gold Prize (Artist Group) for the “World Charity Painting Competition: Fight COVID-19” (2020, Singapore), and was chosen as the “artist of the 1st selection” for the 3rd COCA Project (2021, Italy).

In 2023, she was awarded a “special selection” prize for the 3rd Buddhist & Folk Painting Competition in South Korea, as well as the 2nd Prize of the Outsider Art VR Exhibition in Hong Kong; she also became a selected artist for the Climate Art Collection (CAC) in Germany in the same year. She has been working at the Korean National Commission for UNESCO since 2007, and wrote two artbooks: I Am a Self-taught Artist (2021), and The Bookshelf of the Self-taught Artist: Reading the Outsider Art (2022).

She also regularly contributes art critiques and columns. Based on her long-standing international work experiences and MA degree (multicultural/intercultural studies), she is eager to blend oriental and occidental cultures through her art.

HOMEPAGE http://haejaedebbieoh.creatorlink.net/

INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/haejaedebbieoh84/

E-MAIL haejaedebbieoh@gmail.com