The Armory Show
Javits Center, New York | Booth 435
September 24 - 27, 2026
NAMWON CHOI
NEW WORLD (YELLOW) | 14 x 14 x 2 inches / 35.5 x 35.5 x 5 cm, acrylic gouache on panel, 2023
THREE CIRCLE | 14 x 38 x 2 inches / 35.5 x 96.5 x 5 cm, acrylic and acrylic gouache on panel, 2026
RIGHT ARROW 2 | 26 x 18 x 2 inches / 66 x 46 x 5 cm, acrylic and goauche on panel, 2025
OCTAGON | 30 x 30 x 2 inches / 76 x 76 x 5 cm, acrylic and acrylic gouache on panel, 2026
DIRECTIONAL ARROW | 6 x 24 x 2 inches / 15 x 61 x 5 cm, acrylic gouache on panel, 2026
OCTAGON | 18 x 18 x 2 inches / 46 x 46 x 5 cm, acrylic and acrylic gouache on panel, 2026
248 MILES SQUARE (ESOO) | 18 x 18 x 12 inches / 45.7 x 45.7 x 30.5 cm, gouache, acrylic on panel, 2024
DIAMOND | 24 x 24 x 2 inches / 61 x 61 x 5 cm, acrylic gouache on panel, 2026
RIGHT ARROW 1 | 26 x 18 x 2 inches / 66 x 46 x 5 cm, acrylic and gouache on panel, 2025
CIRCLE | 18 x 18 x 2 inches / 46 x 46 x 5 cm, acrylic gouache on panel, 2026
CUBE | 36 x 36 x 2 inches / 91.4 x 91.4 x 5 cm, acrylic gouache, acrylic on panel, 2024
SPHERE | 5 inches diameter / 12.7 cm diameter, acrylic, gouache on wood, 2025
DIRECTIONAL ARROW | 6 x 24 x 2 inches / 15 x 61 x 5 cm, acrylic gouache on panel, 2026
248 MILES (SIX CIRCLES 1) | 54 x 12.5 x 12.5 inches / 137.2 x 31.5 x 31.5 cm, gouache, acrylic on panel, 2024
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The Armory Show
Javits Center429 11th Ave, New York, NYBooth 435
FAIR HOURS
VIP Preview: Thursday, September 24
(Invitation only)
Friday, September 25: 11 am – 6 pm
Saturday, September 26: 11 am – 7 pm
Sunday, September 27: 11 am – 6 pm
PENTIMENTI’s booth at The Armory Show will feature Namwon Choi’s newest paintings that operate between image, object, and memory. These paintings transform familiar visual languages into deeply personal examinations of longing, and connection. More exactly, Choi combines photorealist techniques with hard-edge abstraction to show how emotional depth and precise technique can coexist in a painting.
How far would you travel to be with someone you love? In Namwon Choi’s work, the journey itself becomes a painted homage to distance, devotion, and longing. Along the road, time unfolds slowly through cycles of patience, endurance, and anticipation. Choi’s paintings reveal physical and emotional pathways toward the people and places the heart deeply desires.
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Namwon Choi (b. 1976, Seoul, South Korea) received her BFA and MFA in Oriental Painting from Hongik University in Seoul, Korea and an MFA in Drawing and Painting from Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA. She has exhibited at institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, GA; Moss Arts Center, The Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT; Blacksburg, VA; the Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA; Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA; the Korean Cultural Center in Washington, D.C.; Gallery Korea at the Korean Cultural Center of New York, NY; the Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL; the Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA; and The Low Museum, Atlanta, GA.
Choi has participated in numerous residencies and received several prestigious awards, including the MOCA GA Working Artist Project, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA; MASS MoCA Residency, North Adams, MA; (VCCA) Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA; River Fellow Summer Resident Artist Program at Columbus State University, Columbus, GA; and the Creative Community Housing Project Artist-in- Residence at The Creative Project, Atlanta, GA; Finalist, 1858 Prize Contemporary Southern Art Awards, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC. In 2023, Choi was named one of the five “Women to Watch” by the Georgia Triennial Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts.