Shin Se-won is a Trans-Artist.

He was the young, innovative leader of a Korean religious foundation who retired to introduce a new way of art called Trans-Art, expressing 'Enlightenment and Awakening' based on his own experience.

His Spiritual Art provided a basis for the 1st and 2nd reformation of the Korean traditional religion called Hanol-gyo.

Furthermore, Trans-Art served as a driving force behind the ‘Hanol Spiritual and Cultural movement of Art’ - the religious movement without religious obligation, by integrating Art and Spirituality.

Shin Se-won was well known in his youth as a prodigious painter, until he discontinued his art and majored in Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University. However, the unexpected and sudden passing of his father, who was the founder of the Hanol religion (the religious re-establishment of the Korean national founding principle based on the philosophy of spiritual transcendence), eventually led him to return to art expressing ‘spiritual transcendence' based on his own experience.

After Shin Se-won reformed the Hanol-gyo foundation, he resigned from all of his duties and returned to his art in order to introduce a new form of art called Trans-Art.

Trans-Art is Art that transcends the conventional form of art in order to express and experience the formless 'essence of art' which shares one and the same nature with our ‘true essence beyond form’.

In Part 1 ‘Optical Awakening’, he integrates 'Spiritual-meditation into Art'.

In Part 2 ‘Tasting-Art’, he integrates 'Taste with Art'.

In Part 3 ‘Mobile Art’, he combines 'Technology with Art'.

Brief History

• 28th Korean National Art competition for youth (approx. 22,3000 competitors) 1st prize with scholarship to study in the U.S.

• Georgetown Prep high school, Solo exhibitions in Seoul and Tokyo introduced “Super-Individual Art”

• Oxford University, Politics Philosophy and Economics (PPE)

• (Former) CEO of HI&T Inc.

• (Former) Chairman of Hanon Group

• Honorary Consul of Iraq in Korea

• (Former) Premier Representative of Hanol religious foundation

• Trans-Art part 1 “Optical Awakening”(before accident)

• Trans-Art Part 2 "Tasting Art", Part 3 "Mobile Art" (after accident)

• Hanol Spiritual & Cultural movement of Art

• Mobile-Gallery Kangwha, Daegu, Busan, Seoul, Trans-Art

• Tasting Art Exhibitions

• (Art) Book Publications : Intellectual Revolution, The Reflection series, Trans-Art, Tasting-Art, Optical-Awakening, Hanol magazines