Younhee Yang (, born July 10, 1977) is a contemporary South Korean painter.
Life and work
Yang was born in Seoul, and received her BFA in painting in 2005 from the Parsons School of Design in New York City. In 1998, she studied Oriental painting at the Dankook University () in Cheonan, Korea. Her artist work consists of painting,Project Din A4: Younhee Yang, accessed 28/03/2012 Installation art,Rise & Fall gallery: Installation project , accessed 30/03/13 Sculpture and Video art.Playlist Gasteig Open Video , accessed 30/04/2013
Yang's art has been exhibited internationally in Germany, Austria, South Korea, Canada, and in the United States of America. Among the museums and galleries having shown her work are the Korean Broadcasting and Advertisement MuseumMcCalebb 2012Korean Broadcasting and Advertisement Museum , accessed 01/05/13 in Seoul, South Korea, the Gong Art Space galleryExhibition "imaginative fairytale" by Younhee Yang, accessed 29/04/13 in Seoul, South Korea and the DadaPost GaleriePrevious exhibitions DadaPost gallery, accessed 29/04/13 in Berlin, Germany. Besides other art publications,Tunberg 2011Lemonidou 2010 the American sculptor Howard McCalebb published the monograph Silent Pictures, The paintings of Yang YounHeeGerman National Library: New Publications Listing, accessed 29/04/13 about Yang's work in 2012.
Yang works as an independent artist and founded the fine art studio Kunstatelier Younhee Yang, Berlin 2009Fine Art Studio Younhee Yang, Berlin, accessed 25/03/2012 in Berlin-Mitte, Germany. The art studio moved from 2012 to 2018 to Berlin-Charlottenburg, Germany. Since 2018, the Kunstatelier YounHee Yang, Berlin is located at Anton-Saefkow-Platz.8, 10369 Berlin, Germany,Location Kunstatelier Younhee Yang, Berlin, accessed 29/01/20 where it is located at current. Yang supports international social projectsArt and Prison eV. Younhee Yang , accessed 24/03/12 through her work.
Yang lives in Seoul, South Korea and in Berlin, Germany.
Exhibitions (selection)
2016: Sprudelwasser {Reflections}, 2016, AMgallery, GermanyExhibition planner AMgallery, accessed 26/08/2016 2014: Silent Pictures II, 2014, DadaPost Galerie, Berlin, GermanyDadaPost Gallery Berlin, accessed 31/08/2014 2013: Photo Op: Photo Opportunity: The Ubiquity of Photography, 2013, DadaPost Galerie, Berlin, GermanyDadaPost Gallery Berlin, accessed 24/10/2013 2012: Gasteig Open Video, Gasteig, Munich, GermanyInformation on Gasteig Open Video, accessed 19/01/13 2012: Silent Pictures, DadaPost Galerie, Berlin, GermanyDadaPost Gallery Berlin, accessed 18/09/12 2012: Bilder, Briefe, Noten LXXVI, Autorengalerie 1, Munich, GermanyHomepage Autorengalerie 1, accessed 19/09/12 2012: Bilder, Briefe, Noten LXXIV, Autorengalerie 1, Munich, Germany 2011: Gasteig Open Video, Gasteig, Munich, GermanyGasteig Open Video 2011, accessed 26/03/12 2011: Imaginative fairytale, Gong Art Space Gallery, Seoul, South KoreaImaginative fairytale, Gong Art Space, accessed 29/04/2013 2010: Gasteig Open Video, Gasteig, Munich, GermanyPress release Gasteig Open Video (PDF; 95 kB), accessed 26/03/12 2010: 14th Art Exhibition: Unification of Korea, Korean Broadcasting and Advertisement Museum, Seoul, South Korea 2010: Scope Miami Artfair, Miami, USA 2010: Youth Cult, DadaPost Galerie, Berlin, Germany 2010: Mit den Augen der Anderen, Galerie Magnificat, Berlin, GermanyWinners of the art-contest 2009 Younhee Yang , accessed 26/03/12 2009: Rise & Fall, BOA Life LLC, travelling exhibition, United StatesRise & Fall gallery: Installation project from Younhee Yang , accessed 25/03/12 2009: Personally Political – Contemporary Sensation, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, GermanyExhibition: Personally political - Contemporary sensation, accessed 26/03/12 2008: Imagination and Reality, International Academy for Fine Arts Salzburg, Hallein, Austria 2005: Threaded, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, Parsons, New York City, NY, USA 2004: Obsession, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery, Parsons, New York City, NY, USA
Literature
Lemonidou, Eve (2010), International Contemporary Artists, Vol. 1, TCA Publishing, 2010, Tunberg, Despina (2011), International Dictionary of Artists, World Wide Art Books, 2011, McCalebb, Howard (2012), Silent Pictures: The Paintings of YounHee Yang, BOD, McCalebb, Howard (2013), Autobiography as Critique, DadaPost,
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