Yoona Kwon

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Email: yoona623@gmail.com
Instagram: @yoona.indeyo

Yoona Kwon (b.2000, based in London and Seoul) is a visual artist working across painting, drawing, and translucent textiles. Her practice explores how images emerge through perception, memory, and imagination, with a particular interest in the ambiguous forms found within the natural environment. Patterns observed in trees, clouds, stones, and other natural textures become starting points for drawings and paintings in which recognisable forms are deliberately kept unresolved.

Working primarily with oil paint, unprimed linen, and translucent organza, Kwon develops her paintings through an iterative process of layering, obscuring, and responding to forms as they emerge. Inspired in part by the visual qualities of the Korean traditional screen, bal, organza functions not simply as a veil but as an active perceptual medium that alters, fragments, and generates new images. Her paintings occupy a threshold between recognition and ambiguity, inviting viewers to form their own associations and images through looking.

CV: Selected Group Exhibitions
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2026 The Armory Show, New York, US

2026 Twined Will in The Wind, Somers Gallery, London, UK

2026 Slade Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK

2026 Welded Rivers, Blackbirdrook.com, London, UK

2024 35.5714286cm, SPLIT, London, UK

2024 Tap the Water Before You Step In, CHMBR, Seoul, KR

2023 Scout, Gallery Imazoo, Seoul, KR

2021 存)Jon Jon(ZONE, Seoul Artists’ Platform_New&Young, Seoul, KR

Press2025 “Colors Before Words”, feature on Yoona Kwon Vibes&Vistas Magazine, Issue 8: True Colors

Education

2026 MFA Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK

2023 BFA Studio Art, Chugye University for the Arts, KR