Last updated: August 2026
Quick answer: LA painter Jonas Wood’s first museum survey in Asia opens at the Amorepacific Museum of Art (APMA) in Yongsan, Seoul, on September 1, 2026, and runs through February 28, 2027. The show gathers roughly 50 paintings and 30 works on paper, spanning the still lifes, interiors, potted plants, and sports-court scenes that made Wood one of the most recognizable painters of his generation. With a run stretching into next year, there’s no rush to catch it on a single autumn or winter trip.
Table of Contents
- Who Is Jonas Wood, and What’s in the Show?
- When and Where Is It?
- How Do You Get to the Amorepacific Museum of Art?
- What Else Is Nearby in Yongsan?
- What Else Is New in Seoul’s Museum Scene?
Who Is Jonas Wood, and What’s in the Show?
Jonas Wood is a Los Angeles-based painter known for flattened, pattern-heavy scenes built from everyday subjects: potted houseplants, domestic interiors, portraits, and — a recurring signature — basketball courts and sports imagery rendered in his distinctive collage-like style. According to Amorepacific’s official announcement, this exhibition is billed as his first museum survey staged in Asia, bringing together about 50 paintings and 30 works on paper that trace his practice across two decades. For a painter whose work sits in major collections worldwide but has rarely been shown at this scale outside the US, it’s a rare chance for Seoul visitors to see a substantial cross-section of his career in one building.
When and Where Is It?
The exhibition runs from September 1, 2026 to February 28, 2027 at the Amorepacific Museum of Art (APMA), the exhibition space housed inside the Amorepacific headquarters building in Yongsan-gu. The nearly six-month run means the show carries through the fall foliage season and into winter, so it’s easy to fold into a trip built around other Seoul seasonal highlights rather than a special one-off visit timed to a short window.
How Do You Get to the Amorepacific Museum of Art?
APMA sits on the lower level of the Amorepacific headquarters tower on Hangang-daero in Yongsan-gu, within walking distance of Sinyongsan Station on Seoul Metro Line 4. The building itself — designed by British architect David Chipperfield — is a recognizable landmark in the neighborhood in its own right, a minimalist white cube pierced with hanging gardens. Because museum hours, admission, and any timed-entry requirements for a headline show like this can shift closer to opening, check the Amorepacific Museum of Art’s official site before you plan your visit.
What Else Is Nearby in Yongsan?
The museum sits in one of Seoul’s most museum-dense pockets. The National Museum of Korea, the country’s largest museum, and the adjoining Yongsan Family Park are both a short walk away, making it easy to pair a morning of Korean history and green space with an afternoon at APMA. From there, the nightlife and dining streets of Itaewon are close enough for an easy dinner stop after the show, and our broader things to do in Seoul guide covers how to work a Yongsan museum stop into a wider day of sightseeing if you’re not staying in the immediate area.
What Else Is New in Seoul’s Museum Scene?
Jonas Wood’s show lands in the middle of an unusually packed stretch for Seoul’s art calendar. Do Ho Suh’s largest-ever solo survey opens at MMCA Seoul just days earlier, and Frieze Seoul brings its fifth edition to COEX from September 2 to 5 — with the fair’s citywide Neighborhood Nights gallery-hopping program spilling into Hannam-dong, not far from Yongsan. Earlier in the year, Centre Pompidou Hanwha opened its first permanent Asia branch in Yeouido. Taken together, it’s one of the stronger arguments yet for timing a Seoul trip around early September if contemporary art is part of the draw.
Exhibition dates and admission details are set by the Amorepacific Museum of Art and can change — check the museum’s official site before you visit.