About | hyunmo-yang-artist

Hyunmo Yang (b. 1990, Seoul, South Korea) is an artist based in Düsseldorf, Germany, with a background in traditional Korean painting and art history, Yang holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London, and BFA/BA degrees from Ewha W. University, Seoul. Her interdisciplinary practice moves fluidly between painting and language, investigating how fragmented text, memory, and erased narratives can take visual form.

Yang’s recent work draws from her own journals and fiction, transferring handwritten phrases and selected words onto canvas using traditional materials such as bunchae (powdered pigments), ink, and jangji (Korean mulberry paper). These elements are recomposed through collage, rubbing, and repetition, forming visual landscapes that evoke absence, emotional residue, and disjointed meaning. She often refers to historical painting manuals such as Gyewonhwabo and reinterprets conventional motifs—like the ‘orchid’ or ‘phoenix eye’—to question how tradition codifies nature. Her paintings are not illustrations but fragmentary surfaces where stories fail to cohere, prompting viewers to navigate meaning through silence, texture, and spatial rhythm.

Yang has exhibited internationally in Paris, London, Düsseldorf and Seoul, and participated in residencies including Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris) and Artestudio Ginestrelle (Assisi). Her works are included in collections such as Centre Artasia (Paris), Barclays Bank (London), and Rathbones Investment Management (London).

CONTACT

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