Yunghun Yoo

Yunghun Yoo (b. 1982, Seoul) is a Korean-American painter raised in Long Beach, California, and now based in Los Angeles. His thesis exhibition, Heterotopia Americana, was recently on view at Claremont Graduate University, where he is an MFA candidate. He earned a BA in English Literature from UCLA. His practice engages concepts of balance, displacement, and the unstable boundaries of identity, space, and perception. Yoo draws from a multicultural and migratory perspective to shape his nomadic worldview. He was a 2022 recipient of the Kerry James Marshall Award from the Visual and Media Arts Department at Los Angeles City College. This fall, he will be featured in the group show Sa(l)vage is the body–Tough Love at Durden and Ray, Los Angeles. He will also debut new and recent paintings in his first solo exhibition at 839.

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