jiwoonyoon@gmail.com
currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany
currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Jiwoon Yoon (1988, Pyeongtaek, South Korea) is an visual artist based in Berlin. She mostly grew up in South Korea and received an MFA from Columbia University in the city of New York. Starting with her early works on her identity and family history, she explores dynamics between an individual and social change. While observing how society affects individuals and how individuals react back to it, she searches for a moment where a single event meets a broader story, which ultimately shows nowness and reality. She is interested in the relation between bodyness and home, personal memory and identity, as well as new technology that brings meaningful social changes in the current dominant socio-political system, the combination of capitalism and democracy. She works within an interdisciplinary art practice, encompassing video installation, moving images, text and performance. The geopolitical specificity of the Korean peninsula in East Asia and cultural identity, formed under the influence of constant conflict, underlie her artistic expression and medium.
She has exhibited worldwide, including at Kunstraum LLC in New York, Brother Joseph McNally Gallery in Singapore, Fisher Landau Center For Art in New York, Judith Charles Gallery in New York, Wallach Gallery in New York, Hongik Museum of Art in Seoul, Experimental Film & Video Festival in Seoul, South Korea and WomenCinemakers Biennale in Berlin, Germany.
She has exhibited worldwide, including at Kunstraum LLC in New York, Brother Joseph McNally Gallery in Singapore, Fisher Landau Center For Art in New York, Judith Charles Gallery in New York, Wallach Gallery in New York, Hongik Museum of Art in Seoul, Experimental Film & Video Festival in Seoul, South Korea and WomenCinemakers Biennale in Berlin, Germany.
Education |
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| 2016 | Columbia University, School of the Arts, New York MFA, Visual Arts, New Genres |
| 2011 | Seoul Women's University, College of Fine Arts, Seoul, Korea Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting |
Curatorial Works |
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| 2016 | Simmer: The Politics of Food Kunstraum LLC, New York, NY |
Selected Articles & Interviews |
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| 2019 | WomenCinemakers Biennale, Berlin, Germany |
| 2016 | Simmer is an Exhibition on the Politics of Food right before the Boiling Point _by Carly Ayres |
Selected Exhibitions & Projects |
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| 2017 | the 17th Seoul International NewMedia Festival(NeMaf), Glocal Propose X, Seoul Art Space Seogyo, Seoul, Korea | The 14thGongju International Art Festival, Preview show, Limlip Art Museum, Chungnam, Korea |
| 2016 | Fictive Dreams, Brother Joseph McNally Gallery, Singapore | Finished Goods Warehouse, Curated by Natalie Bell, Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NY |
| MFA Thesis Exhibition, Fisher Landau Center For Art, New York, NY | |
| 2015 | Lesson One: Listen & Repeat,
Platform 12, Seoul, Korea |
| Floating Point, Judith Charles Gallery, New York | |
| First Year MFA Exhibition,
Wallach Gallery, New York, NY |
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| 2014 | 익숙한 질문 낯선 답(Familiar Questions & Unfamiliar Answers), Seoul Art Space Seogyo, Seoul, Korea |
| 경계의 언저리(The Fringes of the Boundary- Solo Exhibition) , Gallery Barom, Seoul, Korea | |
| 2013 | Triangle Art Festival in Daegu, Daegu Art Factory, Daegu, Korea |
| Triangle Art Festival in Seoul, Hongik Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea | |
| 2012 | Slow Art show, 'From Farmers' market at Heyri Art Village, Paju, Gyeonggi Province, Korea |
| Seoul Women Ⅱ, Gallery Sobab, Yang-Pyeong, Gyeonggi Province, Korea | |
| The 2012 Art Factory Project, Rice warehouse, Janghang, Socheon, South Chungcheong Province, Korea | |
| 생리生理 (Logic of Life) - A Public art project of realizing logics of life from nature, Heyri Art Village <Gate 6>, Paju, Gyeonggi Province, Korea | |
| Seoul Women Ⅰ, Gallery Sobab, Yang-Pyeong, Gyeonggi Province, Korea | |
| 2011 | Between, Gallery Indeco, Seoul, Korea |
Screenings |
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| 2012 | Media Canvas, Seoul Square, Seoul, Korea |
| 2010 | VideoChannel, One Minute Film Collection, Curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, Germany |
| Experimental Film & Video Festival in Kangwon, Wonju Media center, Wonju, Kangwon Province, Korea | |
| 2009 | Experimental Film & Video Festival in Seoul, Ex-Choice Selection, Seoul Art Cinema, Seoul, Korea |
Awards & Honors |
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| 2014 ~2016 | Visual Arts Scholarship, Columbia University, New York |
| 2014 ~2016 | Visual Arts TA Tuition Fellowship, Columbia University, New York |
| 2008 ~2011 | Academic Scholarship, Seoul Women's University, Seoul, Korea |