Jaehee Yoo

Jaehee Yoo

Location: South Korea (Republic of Korea)

Seoul-based artist Jaehee Yoo was born in Seoul, South Korea. 
She received her bachelor's degree from the College of Art at 
Ewha Womans University. She majored in traditional Korean 
painting and art history. She explores the relationship between 
her own stories and traditional Korean women's culture through 
her work. Her main media include Indian ink, silk, and 
traditional Korean paper Hanji. Yoo questions how tradition and 
personal experience shape modernity and identity. She believes 
that images can express a person's true inner self. She is 
interested in using bamboo pens, Indian ink, and silk to express 
personal narratives, and delicate lines reveal metaphorical 
images that symbolize the essence of the artis

Portfolio:

Story of Korean woman painter

My abstracted painting allude to the South Korean landscape. Selecting colours, textures and details from surrounding sceneries as well as from personal memories, i present an enhanced experience of nature as a place for today's digitalised world. The work depicts a limited significance in the face of the endlessness of space and time.

Rain on Window “Rain on Window”

53x46cm hanjipaper collage 2020

Cherry blossom Lover “Cherry blossom Lover”

"My Lover series becomes my personal memories, but I hope it can
also become memories for the viewers. Observing the past me or the
present me through the others is a meaningful thing. "