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Artist Statement
Working primarily with painting and often combining it with digital printing, installation, and objects, Jiyoung Yoo examines the way a format of medium transforms its content. Her practice is primarily focussed on the conversion of indefinite ideas in flux into disconnected fragments arranged within a certain frame and on the consequent substitution of their nature with the medium’s formal qualities. Yoo employs painting as a means of visualising the process by questioning the underlying principle of painting where it has its external relation to the wall and internal relation to content. Overlapping the conditions of painting with daily elements within the system of arrangement, her works unfold an unusual painting situation where the viewers are invited to perceive the structure within and outside the medium.
Biography
Jiyoung Yoo is a South Korean-born artist who is based in London and Seoul. Questioning the conventional conditions of painting, Yoo explores relationships between objects within the system of arrangement developed based on their uses. She graduated with an MA degree in Painting from the Slade School of Fine Art, London (2017) and received a BFA in Painting from Hongik University, Seoul (2014). She recently had two solo exhibitions in Seoul including One After Another, Alltimespace (2019); and Spilled Water, RainbowCube (2018). She has been awarded grants and residencies, among which are: the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture’s solo show grant (2021) and research grant (2019); and the position of artist-in-residence at Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul (2021) and Katitak Centre, HKBU, Hong Kong (2018). She was the finalist of Korean Eye 2020 organised by Parallel Contemporary Art (2020) and Contemporary Visions 8 run by Beers London (2017).
Education
2015-2017 MA Painting, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, UK
2009-2014 BFA Painting, Hongik University, KR
Solo Exhibition
2019 One after Another, Alltimespace, Seoul, KR
2018 Spilled Water, Rainbow Cube Gallery, Seoul, KR
Selected Group Exhibition&Projects
2021 Todays, Keep in Touch, Seoul, KR
2020 cut! cut! cut! - index, Alltimespace, Seoul, KR
2020 Axis 2020, 021 Gallery, Daegu, KR
2020 Anti-Sea, The London Arts Board, London, UK
2020 To All Our Absent Dialogues (organised by Warbling Collective), 155a, London, UK
2020 cut! cut! cut!, Seetangraum, Jeju, KR
2019 Study of Basic Forms 1, Ilwoo Space, Seoul, KR
2018 TasteView, Tastehouse, Seoul, KR
2018 Painters by Painters, 2/W, Seoul, KR
2018 Mei Yahn Yu, Kaitak Centre, Hong Kong (two-person show with Jocelyn McGregor)
2018 Contemporary Visions 8, Beers London, London, UK
2017 The Choice of a New Generation (organised by isthisit?), Muse at 269, London, UK
2017 Is this it?, Serf, Leeds, UK
2017 Faith, Austin Forum, London, UK
2017 MeMeMeMe, The Crypt Gallery, London, UK
2016 pillow, swallow, hollow, yellow, The Artwall, Athens, GR
2016 Techno and the City, Fiumano Projects, London, UK
2015 The Windshow, Camden People's Theatre, London, UK
Awards&Grants
2021 Exhibition Grant, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, KR
2020 Korean Eye 2020, PCA(Parallel Contemporary Art), London, UK
2019 Research Grant, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, KR
2017 Finalist, Contemporary Visions VIII, Beers London, UK
2017 Scholarship, ART-UNI-ON (founded by Hyundai Motor and Seoul National University), KR
Residencies
2021 Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul Foundatioin for Arts and Culture, KR
2018 Academy of Visual Arts, HKBU, Hong Kong
*How to break water into pieces;
2020, oil paint on canvas mounted on fiberboard, jesmonite, copper tube, lacquered balsa, clock mechanism, 29 x 29 x 4.2 cm
Anti-Sea
2019, UV print and coloured pencil on linen, plaster, acrylic paint, gel wax, glass, 200 x 140 x 5 cm
Template of Hope
Installation view: Spilled Water (2018, Rainbow Cube)
1-13 from Plate XIXX.
2018, oil and acrylic on canvas, dimensions variable
