Youngjin Han

Born in Korea in 1960, Korean-Canadian abstract painter. I am so blessed by God, in veiw of the fact that I could have started painting at the age of 40.
In earlier life of 20s, I had worked for news paper agency for about 8 years.
Since then, I had been weaving through the occupations like a copy writer, assistant director in theater company.
Even when I was nearing 40 yrs, I did not realize that I am destined to be a painter.
Of course, I am not a genius like Gauguin, I knew, but I could not resist my fateful gravity towards being an artist.
"It never be too late", God seems to whisper to me.
Of course, I feared skepticism of my artistic dream, intellectual vanity.
However I pondered over the reason why the notion of a painter had come to my mind even belatedly.
That is new vision left behind to me, grace by God, I believed.
I entered into Alberta college of art, Canada, in 1998,
having majored in painting, then finished it in 2003.
I have been working on abstract painting for 15 years,
particularly centering on color field and Minimalism recently.
I have a strong aspiration of resurrecting Minimalism again since 1960s. It might be reckless challenge,
but also I feel that this too is fate for me to pursue Mini...

B.F.A Alberta College of Art& Design, Calgary, 2003, in Canada.
B.A Han-Kook University of Foreign Study. Seoul, Korea, in 1984.

Solo shows - 2009 in Seoul, Korea
2008 in San Francisco.
2007 in Montreal, Canada.
2004 in Montreal, Canada


Group shows - 2019 in Ventura, U.S
in Portland, U.S
2013 in L.A, U.S
2012 in NY, U.S
2010 in Florence, Italy
in San Francisco, U S