Biography

Born in Seoul, South Korea. Lives and works in Paris, France

EDUCATION

B.F.A. in Fine Art, Ewha University, Seoul
B.F.A.& M.F.A. in Fine  Art, University Paris VIII, Paris 
Graduated Ecole Nationale supérieur des Beaux- Arts de Paris, Paris
 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selected)

2024 Light and Space with Sonja Edle von Hoeßle, Galerie Uhn, Königstein, Germany

2024 As a Flash of Light, Gallery Soso, Seoul, South Korea

2024 Let’s get blue, L’H du Siège, Valenciennes, France

2023 Double notes, Woonjoong Gallery, Pangyo, South Korea(duo)

2022 Day is breaking, Maria Lund Gallery, Paris, France

2022 Deep space, Galerie Uhn, Königstein, Germany

2021 Dissounanz, Galerie Uhn, Königstein, Germany (duo)

2020 Autre part, Unong Museum of Art, Boseong, South Korea

2020 Towards an elsewhere, Daegu Art Factory, Daegu, South Korea

2020 Au-delà, Gallery Jacob 1212, Seoul, South Korea

2018 From her Empty Room, Cheongju Art Stuio, Cheongju, South korea

2018 L’obscur lumineux, Gallery Choi, Seoul, South Korea

2018 Hearths, Maria Lund Gallery, Paris, France

2017 L’eclat du Noir, La Folie en Tête, La Réole , France

2017 Dichotomie, Gallery 604 & Project B6, Busan, South Korea (duo)

2014 Taking My Time, Youngeun Museum Contemporary of Art, Gwangju, South Korea

2013 Becoming, Soma (Seoul Olympic Museum of Art) Drawing Center, Seoul, South Korea

2012 Anonimo, Artothèque de Rome, Roma, Italia

2011 Anonymes II, Kandler Gallery, Toulouse, France

2011 Anonymes, Maria Lund Gallery, Paris, France

2011 Oripeaux, Espace culturel, Gentilly, France (duo)

2009 Trait d’union, Espace Icare, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France (duo)

2008 Oeuvres récentes, Kandler Gallery, Toulouse, France

2008 L’obscur lumineux, Sellem Gallery, Paris, France

2006 Zone : Chelsea center for the arts, New York, USA (Curated by KIM Airyung)

2006 Gallery  Gana-Beaubourg, Paris, France (Curated by KIM Airyung)

2005 Peintures décentes, Bruno DELARUE Gallery, Paris, France

2002 Dessin-installation, Théâtre Le Vanves Gallery, Vanves, France

2001 Cheveux, Bruno DELARUE Gallery, Paris, France

2001 Albert Chanot Contemporary Art Center, Clamart, France

1993 Gallery Icon, Seoul, South Korea

1991 Galerie de la Grande Masse des Beaux-Arts de Paris, France

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)

2024 La nuit, le regard se tourne vers la lune et les étoiles, Abbaye Saint André- Contemporary art center, Meymac, France

2023 Raise the waves, National Maritime Museum, Busan, South Korea

          Le fond municipal d’art contemporain de Gentilly, Service culturel, Gentilly, France

          Black and matter, Cernuschi Museum, Paris, France

          Padam padam, Gallery Duson, Seoul, South Korea   

2022 A sense in/and the Garden, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Wanju, South Korea

          Nul homme que la lune n’ait vu, L’Ancienne Nonciature, Brusselles, Belgium

          Black and colors, gallery 5, Paris, France

          The event of the night, Espace 24 beaubourg, Paris, France

          Look-see!, The French Playing Card Museum, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France

2021Issy Biennale, The French Playing Card Museum, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France

         Sonamou, Korean cultural center, Paris, France

         Sonamou, Espace 24 beaubourg, Paris, France

2020 Flexible boundary, Daegu Art Factory, Daegu, South Korea

          3^rd International Biennal of Artworks on Paper, Museum of Kozara, Prijedor, Bosnia-Herzegovenia

          Let me introduce my self, Daegu Art Factory, Daegu, South Korea

2019 Sillages, Cheongju Museum of Art, Cheongju, Cheongju, South Korea  

          Recto-verso, MM Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

          Korean Modern and Contemporary Drawings, SOMA Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea

          Flâneries, Art Sabine Puget, Chateau Barras, Fox-Ampoux, France

          Onde Immatérielle, Bastille Design Center, Paris, France

          Sender Inquiery, Cheongju Art Studio, Cheongju, South Korea       

2018 Stars beyond the Night, Cheongju Art Studio, Cheongju, South Korea

          Memory of one star, B53, Arnhem, Holland                 

2017 Construction Time Again, Bastille Design Center, Paris, France

          SEOUL THE EXCHANGE, PHK 18, Rotterdam, Holland

          Art Project Ulsan, Ulsan, South Korea

2016 Hamel was there, Marter Project, WTC Art Gallery, Rotterdam, Holland

          Republic of 0 sang, Gwangju Biennale Special Exhibition, The National Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea,

          (Curated by Sim Eunlog)

         Reminiscing on past times…  Youngeun Museum of Contemporay Art, Gwangju, Gyonggi-do, South Korea,  

2015 Soma Drawing-mindfull mindless, SOMA Museum, Seoul, South Korea

          Korean Figuration, Cernuschi Museum, Paris, France (Curated by Mael Bellec)

          Biennale d’ISSY, The French Playing Card Museum, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France

          Senses croisés, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France

2014 Plis, Sabine Puget Gallery, Château Barras, Fox-Amphoux, France

          Sonamou, son.âme.où ? Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France

2013 Our history, Espace  Cosmopolis, Nantes, France (Curated by Sang A Chun)
2012 Acrrochage 4, Maria Lund Gallery, Paris, France
           Sonamou, Ara art center, Seoul, France
           Project X, The French Playing Card Museum, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France

2011 Installons nous, habitons le, Albert Chanot Art Center, Clamart, France
          Exposition des propositions d'acquisition du FMAC, Espace culturel, Gentilly, France
          Give me six,  Maria Lund Gallery, Paris, France

2010 Tomorrow festival-Media Arts Festivale, Omog Garden & SBS, Seoul, South Korea (Crated by KIM Unzi)
          Becoming, Korean Cultural Center, Warsaw, Poland
          Present from the Past, Korean Cultural Center, London, U.K.
          Fil rouge sur la ferme du Mousseau, Ferme du Mousseau Gallery, Elancourt, France
          Néo-graphie, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France (Curated by Sou-Hyeun KIM)
          Made in Korea-Les Femmes au Pays du Matin Calme, Lipao-Huang Gallery, Paris, France
          dessin, Albert Chanot Art Center, Clamart, France
          Polypthique, The French Playing Card Museum, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France

2009 Alice at chanot, Albert Chanot Art Center, Clamart, France
          from Dada to Tomorrow, Esprit Chave, Fondation Emile Hugues, Vence, France
          Line to line, Indonesia Nationale Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia (Curated by Michel Nuridsany)
          ISSY Biennale, The French Playing Card Museum, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France

2008  Micro-Narratives, temptation of little reality, Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole,

           France (Curated by Lorand Hegyi)

           Contemporary Korean Artists in Paris, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea (Curated by KIM Mee-Jin )
           Drawing woman, Gallery Johyun, Seoul & Busan, South Korea (Curated by KIM Airyung)
           Dessins-Au fil du hasard, Gallery Chave, Vence, France

2007  48th October Salon, Beograd, Serbia (Curated by Lorand Hegyi)
          Sensibility-Pink, Cyborg, Imperfect structure, International Incheon Women Artists' Biennale, Incheon, South Korea
          Cutting edge, Hôtel Dassault, Artcurial, Paris, France
          Strates, Korean Cultural Center, Paris, France
          Regards en miroir, The French Playing Card Museum, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France

2006 Choeng Jae kyu, YOO Hye Sook, Yun Ai young, Montparnasse Museum, Paris, France
          Par les nouvelles fenêtres, OECD , Paris, France (Curated by KIM Airyung)
          21 Contemporary Women Artistes, Ecole Polytechnique Féminine, Sceaux, France
          Textile and Poetry, lounge gallery, TAD Conceptstore, Milano, Italia
          Frontier, Montparnasse Museum, Paris & Conseil Generale Espace Saint Louis, Bar Le Duc, France

2005 Artists of Arch, In-Sa Art Plaza Gallery, Space Department Store AEKYNG, Seoul, South Korea
          Sonamou Paris-Seoul, Korean Foundation Cultural Center, Seoul, South Korea

2004 Coréegraphie, The French Playing Card Museum, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France

2003 Reflection and Transparenc, Gallery Korea, New York, USA
          PARIS-NEW YORK, Gangneung Cultural Center, Gangneung, South Korea
          Mise à nu, Korean Cultural Center, Paris, France
          ISSY Biennale, The French Playing Card Museum, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
         100 years of History of the Korean Artists in France, Gana-Beaubourg Gallery, Paris, France

2002 Dessins, Albert Chanot Art Center, Clamart, France

          Portraits, Espace Saint-Jacques, Saint-Quentin, France
          Trypthique, Angers, France

2001 Portraits, Aragon Culture Center, Oyonnax, France
          Neighbors, Korean Cultural Center, Paris & Artsenal, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
          Our traces, Gana-beaubourg Gallery, Paris, France
          Young Creation via Rennes, La Paillette, Rennes, France

          Salon Young Creation, Grande Hall de la Villette, Paris, France

          Salon Montrouge, Montrouge, France

2000 Salon Young Creation, Espace Eiffel-Branly, Paris, France
          November in Vitry, Vitry-sur-seine, France

          Salon Montrouge, Montrouge, France

          April Fool, Korean Cultural Center, Paris, France
          MANIF, Contemporary Art Biennale in Nîmes, Nîmes, France

          Artsenal, Ateliers Artsenal, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France

1999 For the love of Art, Atelier Artsenal, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France

1998 Translations, Galerie Sztuki BWA, Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland

           Figuration Critique, Le Toit de la Grande Arche, La Défense, France

1997 Salon Montrouge, Montrouge, France

          Artists for the Peace, Théâtre Victor-Hugo, Bagneux, France

          Salon Bagneux, Bagneux, France

          Regards du Monde, Le Toit de la Grande Arche, La Défense, France

1996 Salon Montrouge, Montrouge, France

           Salon Bagneux, Bagneux, France

1995  Salon Jeune Peinture, Espace Eiffel-Branly, Paris, France

           Why Paris?, Gallery Area, Paris, France

1993 5 Painters on Feburary, Gallery Indeco, Séoul, South Korea

1992  Paris, Là-Bas, Kwok On Museum, Paris, France

           Diplôme 91, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France

1991 Young Koreans Artists in Paris, Korean Cultural Center, New York, USA

           Atelier Segui, Galerie de la Maison des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France

1990  Jeunes Rencontres, Korean Cultural Center, Paris, France
 
 

AWARDS

The 3rd Prize Rocheron, Ecole Nationale supérieur des Beaux- Arts de Paris, France(1992)
Prize of Painting, Salon Montrouge, France (2000)

Selected Artist for Into Drawing, SOMA Drawing Center, Seoul, South  Korea (2012)

Archive Registration, SOMA Drawing Center, Seoul, South Korea (2012)

RESIDENCY

2023  L’H du Siège, Valenciennes, France

2020  Daegu Art Factory, Daegu, South Korea

2018  CJ Art Studio, Cheongju, South Korea

2016 Domaine of  Kerguéhennec, Bignan, Morbihan, France

2014  Youngeun Museum, Gwangju, Gyounggi-do, South Korea     

ACQUISITIONS

Cernuschi Museum, Paris, France

Cheongju Museum of Art, Cheongju, South Korea

Suwon Museum of Art, Suwon, South Korea

SOMA Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea

Ujong Museum of Art, Boseong, South Korea

Youngeun Museum of Contemporay Art,  Gwangju, South Korea

Municipal Foundation, Gentilly, France

Artothèque de Rome, Roma, Italia

Art Bank of National Museum of Contem porary Art, South Korea

Hyundae Munhak Co., South Korea

Ecole Nationale supérieur des Beaux- Arts de Paris, France

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES

- Catalog exhibition, Chun Heejung, Gallery Soso, Seoul, South Korea, 2024

- Dans la couleur bleu, Romain MATHIEU, Exposition Catalog, L’H du Siège, Valenciennes, France, 2024

- Journal of the art history course of the city of Ivry - sur- seine, N5, juin, 2023

- Contemporary fleeces, a fascinating subject and material for artists  Laurence d’ist, pp.64-67, Artension n°178,

   march-april, 2023

- Sense of Direction, Exhibition catalog, Cheongju Museum of Art, Cheongju, South Korea, 2023

- Tension calmes, Text: Mael BELLEC, Exhibition Catalog, Ujong Museum of Art, Boseong, South Korea, 2020

- The Other Side of Light, Text: Jung Hyun, Exhibition Catalog, Daegu Art Factory, Daegu, South Korea, 2020

- Au-delà, Text: Kim Ha Lim, Preface of Exhibition Catalog, Gallery Jacob 1212, Seoul, South Korea, 2020

- Sillages, Text: François Michaux, LEE Yoon Hi, Exhibition Catalog, Cheongju Museum of Art, Cheongju, South Korea, 2020

- Recto-verso, Exhibition Catalog, MM Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, 2019

- Arts Asiatiques, Mael Bellec, magazine p130-131,Tome 74, 2019

- Sender Inquiery , Exhibition Catalog,  Cheongju Art Studio, Cheongju, South Korea, 2019

- A lonely viewing From her Empty Room, Seong Wonsun, Exhibition Catalog “Sender Inquiry”, CJ Art Studio, Cheongju,

   South Korea, 2019

- Re-classification: The night leads to the night, Exhibition Catalog, Suwon I-Park Museum of Art, Suwon, South Korea, 2019

- Korean Modern and Contemporary Drawings, Exhibition Catalog, SOMA Musem of Art, Seoul, South Korea, 2019

- Review, Kim Mijin, magazine Wolgan Misool, October, 2018

- Forays into a familiar unknown, Text: Maria Lund, Catalog, Gallery Choi, Seoul, South Korea, 2018

- Room with a view, Text: Olivier Kaeppelin, Monograph, Gallery 604, Busan, South Korea, 2017

- Hye-Sook YOO, repititions & differences, Text: Sim Eunlog,  Monograph, Gallery 604, Busan, South Korea, 2017

- Reminiscing on past times, Exhibition Catalog, Youngeun Museum of Contemporay Art, Gwangju, Gyeonggi-do, 2016

- Republic of 0-sang, Text: Sim Eunlog,  Exhibition Catalog,  Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea, 2016

- mindfull mindless, Text: Nayoung Jung, Exhibition Catalog, SOMA Museum, Seoul, South Korea, 2015

- Sonamou, son. Âme. où?, Text: Sim Eunlog, Exhibition Catalog, Cité internationale des Arts, Paris, France, 2014

- Becoming, Text: Younjeong PARK, Exhibition Catalog, SOMA Drawing Center, Seoul, South Korea, 2013

- Yoo Hye-Sook, Monograph Catalog, sponsored by Korean Cultural Center in Paris, France, 2012
- Anonymes, Text: ITZHAK Goldberg, Exhibition Catalog, Maria Lund Gallery, Paris, France, 2011

- Yoo Hye-Sook, Catalog Monograph, ed. Les Arches, Issy- les- moulineaux, France, 2011

- Neo-Graphie, Text : Sou-Hyeun Kim,  Exhibition Catalog, Cité internationael des Arts, Paris, France, 2010 

- Present from the Past, Exhibition Catalog, korean Cultural Center, London, U.K. 2010

- Tomorrow festival-Media Arts Festivale , Exhibition Catalog, Seoul, South Korea, 2010

- Between-tow, Text: Françoise MONNIN, Exhibition « Trait d’union », Espace Icare, Issy-les-moulineaux, France, 2009

- Line to Line, Text: Michel Nuridsany, Exhibition Catalog, National gallery of Indonesia in Jakarta, Indonesia, 2009

- Taking a different line, Matheos Viktor Messakh , Article in The Jakarta Post, Jakarta, Indonesia, 2009

- From Dada to Tomorrow, Eesprit Chave, Exhibition Catalog, Vence Museum, Daniel Abadie, ed. Skira, Paris, France, 2009
- Contemporary Korean Artists in Paris, Text: Mee-jin KIM & Sou-Hyeun KIM, , Exhibition Catalog, Seoul Arts Center,

   Seoul, South korea, 2008
- Micro-Narratives, temptation of little reality, Exhibition Catalog, ed. Skira-Flammarion, Paris, France, 2008
- The Thorn of Time, Text: Jean - Louis POITEVIN, Exhibition Catalog, Monography, Kandler Gallery, Toulouse, France, 2008
- Drawing Woman, Text: Kim Airyung, Exhibition Catalog, ed. Jo hyun Gallery, Seoul & Busan, South Korea, 2008

- Micro-Narratives, October Salon, Exhibition Catalog, Beograd, Serbia, 2007
- Today’s Women Painters, Text: Françoise MONNIN, in Art Magazine  Azart special edition N 5 september, Paris, France, 2006
- The dark light, Text: Gilbert LASCAULT, Exhibition Catalog Monograph, Paris & New York, U.S.A., 2006

- Drwaing Project, Hyundae munhak, monthly magazine of contemporary literature, May, 2004, Seoul, South Korea

- Drwaing Project, Hyundae munhak, monthly magazine of contemporary literature, May, 2003, Seoul, South Korea

- 100years History of Korean Artiste Living in France, Exhibition Catalog,  Gallery Gana-Beaubourg, Paris, France, 2003

- Portraits, Exhibition Catalog, Saint-Quentin, France, 2002

- Hair, Text: Michel NURIDSANY, Preface of Monograph, Exhibition Catalog, Bruno Delarue Gallery, Paris, France, 2001
- Tif... , Text: Alexandre GRENIER, Article in Pariscope, Paris, France, 2005

- The Question of Time, Text: Alexandre GRENIER, Article in Pariscope, Paris, France, 2001

- Yoo hye-sook, dessiner les cheveux, Text:  Kim mi-young, Article in Art in Culture, Seoul, South Korea, 2001

- The Diary, Text: Jean- Louis POITEVIN « regard critique » Exhibition Catalog of Young Creation, Paris, France, 1995

- Painting of Sensibility, Text: Biongkwan JEUNG, Exhibition Catalog Monograph, Icon Gallery, Seoul, South Korea, 1993

- Traces 9, Exhibition Catalog, énb-a, Paris, France, 1992

EVENEMENT(SELECTION)

2015 Virtuel exhibition “false fable”, Mutuum Artothèque, Aquitaine, France

2011 Confidences pour un dessin, emission on M6 ,w9 and Paris première, France

2010 Realisation of first vidéo for the festival of 20th anniversary, SBS, Seoul, South Korea

2009 Workshop with choregraphers, théâtre de la Ferme du Mousseau, Elancourt, France

1998 TRANSLACJE, art symposium, Piotrkow Trybunalski,  Poland

ART FAIR

Art Paris, Paris, France

Asia Now, Paris, France

Art Elysées, Paris, France

Art Gwangju, South Korea

Art Karlsruhe , Karlsruhe, Germany

Art Busan, South Korea

Art on Paper, Brussels, Belgium

Chic Art Fair, Paris, France

Ddessin in Paris, France

Drawing Now, Paris, France

KiAF, Seoul, South Korea

St’art, Strasbourg, France