You Hyeonkyeong
You Hyeonkyeong's figures and landscapes do not fill the canvas with traces of brushstrokes and colors, but rather empty them upside down. Instead of drawing, she scribbles the brush and digs it out. An empty, empty, dry air flows. The dramatic situation that triggers and shakes emotions is dismantled into loose relationships and appears as an image of a character divided into a sense of speed that is closer to a trace rather than an expression. People always take other people into consideration and value the relationships, but few artists abandon relationships one by one in the course of their lives and gradually move toward one extreme relationship. Finally, they move to the time of ‘existence’ that forgets the relationship in the relationship-oriented work. As the amount of time the artist spends directly facing oneself without any mediation increases, the creations deviate from the ordinary and the universal, intuiting special and unusual moments, and vomit out something unique to the artist. The images by the artist You Hyeonkyeong are the shadows of existence that become an impossible challenge because they have been there from the beginning.
You Hyeonkyeong (b.1985)
Solo Exhibitions
2018 My pain gives you a warm, gallery sein, Seoul, Korea
2018 New Days, Spacemom museum of art, Cheongjoo, Korea
2017 No place to go 2, Woosuk gallery, Seoul national university, Seoul, Korea
2016 No place to go, Doosan gallery, New York, USA
2012 Lying, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2011 It’s my fault, OCI Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2010 I don’t know well, Gallery LVS, Seoul, Korea
2009 Painter and model, Hadongchul Scholarship exhibition, Woosuk Hall, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
2009 Sonata of desire, SeMA Seoul Museum of Art supporting program, Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 Figure/Landscape, amc lab, Seoul, Korea
2018 Portrait of a lady, Opera Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2018 Face to face, Soda Museum, Hwasung, Korea
2018 h/er, Ligak Museum of Art, Cheonan, Korea
2017 PROLOGUE 2017, Makeshop Art Space, Paju, Korea
2016 Painterly, unpainterly, Gallery Kiche, Seoul, Korea
2015 Cold fact, Chosun University Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
2015 Six Senses, OCI Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2014 Spectators, Doosan gallery, Seoul, Korea
2013 A Panorama of Figures, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Wanju, Korea
2013 New Visions New Voices 2013, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
2012 Woman+Body, Kepco Artcenter gallery, Seoul Korea
2011 A Brushstroke, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2010 Hue & Deep, Woosuk Hall, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
2010 Wild thinking, Artzio Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2010 Intuition, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2010 Ilhyun Travel Grant Recipients, Ilhyun Museum, Gangnam Eulji Hospital, Seoul, Korea
2010 SeogyoSixty 2010: The Imaginary Archive-gaze of 120, Gallery Sangsangmadang, Seoul, Korea
2009 Eastern evils, Doosan gallery, Seoul, Korea
2009 Ilhyun Travel Grant, Student artist supporting program, Ilhyun Museum, Yangyang, Korea
2009 [ ! ] Exclamation, Kaywon School of Art & Design Gallery 27, Uiwang, Korea
2009 Principle of having affairs run by a select few, Gallery Young, Seoul, Korea
2009 Excellent Graduation Exhibition, Dongduk Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2008 Slipped colors, Shinhan Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Residency Programs
2018 Makeshop art space, Paju, Korea
2016 Doosan residency, New York, USA
2014 Rote Fabrik, Zürich, Switzerland
2011 Schloss Plüschow, Plüschow, Germany