Victoria Miro Projects presents 'Imaginer' by Haejin Park, the Connecticut-based artist's first solo exhibition, from 11 November 2026 to 23 January 2027. It is the thirteenth project in the gallery's ongoing series of presentations by invited international artists, and it is accompanied by a new essay by Lucy Mercer.

For the show, Park has created a new body of work in which histories, fantasies and memories coalesce. Her paintings are made in watercolour, a medium often associated with studies and sketches, but central to her practice: its immediacy, rawness and fluidity leave her, she says, feeling 'the most empowered and limitless'. Water activates colour, which drips, spreads and blossoms across the surface. 'Colours determine my composition,' she says. 'Colours tell me what to do next.'

In 'Imaginer', Park returns to abstract figuration. Forms represent the artist and members of her family, and motifs of eyes, circles and flowers recur throughout the paintings. A woman kneels against a green-blue moon; wings emerge from the backs and eyes of figures, while other forms become self-contained worlds populated by landscapes, characters and symbols. As the title suggests, Park uses these motifs to unlock imagined worlds and her own inner visions.

Park, who lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut, studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Yale School of Art. She received the Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Award in 2026, and her work appeared this year in group presentations at Marianne Boesky Gallery, Tina Kim Gallery and Harper's Gallery in New York. She has also written and recorded poems to accompany selected works in the show, which visitors can read and listen to as they move through the exhibition.