Biography
Park Yena works across installation and new media, exploring unfamiliar forms of vitality that emerge in the cracks and ruptures of a human-centered world. Observing how humans relate to artificial objects, she focuses on the ways built environments—originally designed for efficiency and utility—come to shape and regulate our thoughts and behaviors in return.
In her work, familiar artificial surroundings are reimagined as unknown ecosystems. Within these speculative environments, man-made objects move across the boundaries of space and time, the real and the virtual, appearing as seemingly autonomous beings. By imagining other life forms and unknown worlds that feed on human activity, Park considers how anthropocentric order might dissolve within broader ecological cycles, and what new centers might emerge in its place.
Ossia Organ, mixed media, sensing·control system, variable installation, 2025
Exhibition view of Inversium (Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, 2025)
Part of the Incident_Chamber no.3, mixed media, real-time processing system, variable installation, 2025
Exhibition view of Inversium (Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, 2025)
Exhibition view of Interstitium (OCI Museum or Art, 2024)
Part of the Incident, mixed media, variable installation, 2024
Discovery of Love, VR, looped video, stereo sound_5min59sec, 2024
Exhibition view of Hotspots Base Camp(G-Blue Gallery, 2023)
Documentation Photos of Hotspots Field Research (Euljiro redevelopment area, 2023)
Excavation, silicone and mixed media, variable installation, 2023
Exhibition view of Overlapping World (building in the redevelopment area of Pungmu-dong, 2021)
Dead skin cells of the Earth ver.Ⅱ, artificial debris collected in Gimpo, VR virtual space, 2021
2020 Master of Letters, Sculpture, The Glasgow School of Art, UK
2015 - M.F.A. in Fine Arts, Seoul National Korea
2013 B.F.A. in Oriental Painting, Seoul National University, Korea
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Inversium, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art Project Gallery, Ansan, Korea
2024 Heterotopia: Restored Future, Gallery Zanne, Chungju, Korea
2024 Interstitium, OCI Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2023 Hotspots Base Camp, GBlue Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2021 Overlapping World, Gimpo, Korea
2020 Post-future Ground, Online
2017 Project: Movement for a Breakaway, Atertain Stage, Seoul, Korea
Group Exhibitions
2025 Electric Shock, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2025 Dialogue: Unread, Hwigyumjae, Seoul, Korea
2024 The Jenga - the research project on biodiversity, Layer27, Seoul, Korea
2024 (In)visible Wireless Communication in Everyday Life, G Valley Industrial Museum,
Seoul, Korea
2024 Nature Issue, Gallery ZANNE, Cheongju, Korea
2024 The land where substances originate, Dambit Art Space, Damyang, Korea
2023 The Choices We Make, Artspace BOAN 1,2,3, Seoul, Korea
2023 Elogium, Haengju Historical Park, Goyang, Korea
2023 Window Reconstruction, Amado Art Space, Seoul, Korea
2022 The Language Between, Kim Hong-Do Museum of Art, Ansan, Korea
2022 Gradation, Gaegok Welfare Center, Gimpo, Korea
2022 Future Fantastic, Artcenter Nabi, Seoul, Korea
2022 A flàneur of the nomadic city, Tribowl, Incheon, Korea
2022 Καλυψώ, Doosan Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2022 Expanse, The Pipe Factory, Glasgow, UK
2022 A Remix of Damage, Reid Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2021 Strata, New Glasgow Society(East), Glasgow, UK
2021 Party in a Box, Artcenter Nabi, Seoul, Korea
2021 Solar Happy Hour, 2021.6.21. online streaming
2021 Fragile Not Yet Broken, Glasgow green laundry poles, Glasgow, UK
2021 Onto-Cartography, Hongik Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2021 The Continous Present, Sahng-Up Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2020 K, Stow building, Glasgow, UK
2019 Are you well light well?, Garage space, Glasgow, UK
2019 Torpor / A Bliss / A Slump, Haarlemmerweg 613, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2018 Towards The Distanced, ODRU Project x Parc, Parc, Seoul, Korea
2018 Still There, Sidae Inn, Seoul, Korea
2018 Touch dry, aloq episode, Seoul, Korea
2018 One Hundred Shadows, Seongbuk Cultural Foundation&Dimension Variable,
Seoul, Korea
2018 In the forest, Nocdo-zip, Seoul, Korea
2017 The Third Project Show, project space SARUBIA, Seoul, Korea
Other Projects
2025, ARTIJECTA ARCHIVES ver.1, independent publisher
Residency
2025 MMCA Goyang Residency, Goyang, Korea
2024 Suwan Art Studio PUREUNJIDAE CHANGJAK SAEMTEO, Suwan, Korea
2023 Goyang Artist Residency Haeum, Goyang, Korea
Grants&Awards
2023 OCI Young Creatives, OCI Museum, Korea
2022, 2023 Art&Tech, Art Council Korea, Korea
2021, 2022 Creative Mentoring Program for Young Professionals CREATIVE +,
Korea Creative Content, Korea
2021 Nature Project, Seoulo Media Canvas, Seoul, Korea
2021 Project Funding, Gimpo Cultural Foundation, Korea
2020 John Kinross Scholarship, Royal Scottish Academy, Scotland, UK
2017 Project Funding, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Korea
2017 Academic Future Generations Scholarship, Seoul National University, Korea
Collections
2024, OCI Museum of Art, Korea
