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Choi Yoonhee

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Choi Yoonhee’s (B.1986) paintings depict accumulated time that remains like a trace. Paint is layered onto the canvas where atypical smudges and tangled thread-like lines merge in abstract landscapes of flowing waves, portraying inner emotions, memories, and traces of time. Transitioning from capturing the outskirts of the cityscape to delving deep into the inner self, Choi replaced her intense strokes and vibrant colors with compositions of faint and subtle lines and surfaces, the light strokes of her paintbrush just barely grazing the surface of the canvas. Incorporating a tactile sense of physically rubbing the paint with her hands, she portrays a continuous flow connected by subtle emotional nuances, devoid of any sharpness. Her gaze towards the inner self follows the traces that remain when one closes one's eyes or covers one's ears to block out sight and sound. These moments are not of disappearance, where nothing is left, but exist in their own ineffable form, a shape that is not a shape, a sound that is not a sound. Choi Yoonhee graduated from Gachon University with a degree in Painting and obtained a Master's in Visual Art from the Korea National University of Arts. She has held solo exhibitions at various institutions, including Tuning In at TINC in 2024, the OCI Museum of Art, PS Sarubia, and Gallery175. She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions at the Daejeon Museum of Art, Amado Art, P21, and Common Center. She has been selected as a supported artist for PS Sarubia and as an OCI Young Creative by the OCI Museum of Art.
Education
  • 2014

    MFA Department of Fine Arts, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, Korea
  • 2010

    Painting, Gachon University, Seoul, Korea
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Solo Exhibition
  • 2024

    Tuning In, TINC, Seoul, Korea
  • 2023

    Mute, A-Lounge Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  • 2022

    Far from the Start, Project Space SARUBIA, Seoul, Korea
  • 2020

    Cutting the Spring, Hakgojae Design PROJECT SPACE, Seoul, Korea
  • 2019

    Recording Pattern, OCI Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
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Group Exhibition
  • 2025

    DIALOGUE: Unread, Hwigyumjae, Seoul, Korea
  • 2025

    UNBOXING PROJECT: Message, König Telegraphenamt, Berlin, Germany
  • 2025

    6 Murals, PCO, Seoul, Korea
  • 2024

    Unfolded, Kyobo Artspace, Seoul, Korea
  • 2024

    Open Corridor, INTERIM, Seoul, Korea
  • 2024

    Artificial Tears, Museumhead, Seoul, Korea
  • 2024

    Stand Alone, Gallery SP, Seoul, Korea
  • 2024

    Thick Skin, G Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  • 2023

    Acquainted with the Night, Frieze No.9 Cork Street, London, UK
  • 2023

    Unseen, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
  • 2023

    Tentative Romanticism, nook gallery, Seoul, Korea
  • 2022

    The Fool on the Hill, ONE AND J. Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  • 2022

    BGA Index: Open Storage, BGA Index, Seoul, Korea
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Other activities
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Collection
  • 2025

    Serge Tiroche Contemporary, Tel Aviv, Lsrael
  • 2023

    Doosan Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  • 2020

    Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Gyeonggi, Korea
  • 2019

    OCI Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  • 2019

    Mimesis Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
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