Yeesookyung 

Yeesookyung (1963, Seoul, Korea) has held numerous solo exhibitions, including Yeesookyung: Temple portatif, Musée Cernuschi, Paris, France (2023); Moonlight Crown at Art Sonje Centre, Seoul (2022); The Story of a Girl Named Long Journey at the Buk-Seoul Museum of Art (2022); Whisper Only to You at MDRE & Capodimonte Museum, Naples, Italy (2019); Saint Breeder at Atelier Hermès, Seoul (2015); and When I become you, Yeesookyung in Taipei at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan (2015). She also participated in the inaugural Korea Artist Prize at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (2012); and the 57th Venice Biennale, VIVA ARTE VIVA (2017). Her works are held in prominent museum collections worldwide, including The British Museum, London, UK; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA; Seoul Museum of Art, Korea; Salama Bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation, Abu Dhabi, UAE; M+ Museum, Hong Kong; Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea; Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; and Bristol Museum, UK.

Yeesookyung works with installation, sculpture, performance, video art, painting and drawing, each infused with a rich narrative imagination. She has crafted a unique artistic world that explores fundamental themes, including the intersections of past and present, life and death, reality and imagined, the secular and the sacred, individuals and communities, societal structures, and cross-cultural connections. Using unorthodox methods and working with traditional artisans – from ceramists, musicians, to dancers – Yeesookyung creates new meanings around cultural translation and the coexistence of past and present. Inspired by ancient mythology and personal experience, she weaves these influences into an evocative artistic universe that seeks transcendence and enlightenment from within.