Ha Chong-Hyun is a Korean artist known for his innovative approach to painting, and for having been a leading member of the Korean style of abstract painting known as Dansaekhwa. Roughly translated as 'monochrome painting', Dansaekhwa refers to the work of a group of loosely affiliated Korean artists—among them Lee Ufan, Park Seo-Bo, and Yun Hyong-keun—who in the 1970s pioneered an aesthetic that emphasises process, tactility, and surface.

In his early years, Ha already employed non-traditional materials such as plaster, barbed wire or the burlap used to transport food aid from the U.S. after the Korean War. Since the early 1970s, he has been using the hemp cloth employed normally for rice bags, allowing him to paint without a paintbrush, just by applying of paint on the reverse of the canvas and pushing it until it penetrates the fabric and reaches the other side. His conception of painting has been described as both "a tool for meditation" and as "a bodily function". Phippe Dagen also notes that his limited palette and range of materials leads to a meditative simplicity and a "visual neutrality" which supersedes the ego present usually in Western Abstract Expressionism.