YOON HYUP

b.1982, Korea

 

Yoon Hyup was born in South Korea in 1982, now works and lives in New York. He is a self-taught painter and has been working since early 2000 with murals and live paintings. He grew up with studying violin and skateboarding since his childhood, he had ambitions to design skateboards, but once he discovered painting it became his new focus. In early 2000s, he began to improvise without sketch during the process of mural and live paintings, which is became an important starting point for the present way of expression.

 

In his work, Yoon Hyup freely uses lines and dots to draw a minimalistic work from a unique perspective. Components of various cultures, he has experienced, are strongly reflected in his works. The rhythm & improvisation in music, the flexibility & radical perspective in various cultures are some of the creative inputs that transform into lines, dots, “rhythms” and colors in his works. A combination of these elements powers the creation of unique abstract paintings.

 

Numerous key galleries and have featured Yoon Hyup‘s work in the past, including the latest ones: “Next Episode: Coexist,” Tang Contemporary Art, Seoul (Korea, 2024); “L'Empire des sens,” Tang Contemporary Art, Seoul (Korea, 2022); “Light and Shadow,” StolenSpace Gallery, London (U.K., 2022); The Planets, Nanzuka 2G, Tokyo (Japan, 2021); “Innervisions,” Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea, Milan (Italy, 2019). Yoon Hyup has been featured in articles for HYPEBEAST, JUXTAPOZ and The Korea Times.

 

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