Yerin Yu

My art work is based on the grotesque aesthetics, which considers the world as chaotic and ambiguous, and in which the limitations of imagination are always beyond imagination. Above all, I want to metaphorize the complex and confusing modern society by specifying the appearance of the grotesque shapes appearing in the works as psychological caves (grotta) mixed with human anxiety and anger. Of course, in this metaphor, the consciousness of the fundamental alienation of modern man is revealed in front of the image.
I pursue the arts which can show us the reason we live although we exist in the world for no reason.
As the boundaries between ugly and beautiful, moral principles and which are not, are becoming blurred, the world that humans have believed as absolute begins to collapse. Has there been a single moment that was not cruel ever since the human beings were thrown into this world? The eyes that look at the world just honestly, the eyes that face the grotesque, and the recognition of the existence of this unusual world, these are artistic attitudes with which I can perform as an artist in this cruel world.

2017 Chung-Ang University graduate school, graduate, Seoul
2010 Sangmyung University , graduate, Seoul

Solo exhibition


2017Grotta,cyartspace,Seoul
2011 Circulation, palaisdeseoul, Seoul

2010 Marionette the familiar narrative, Space Zero, Seoul


Group exhibition

2016 Meet by chance, Hang ju woo art museum, china
2015 狀中摸索, Woosuck Galley, Seoul
靑春, ZEINXENO, Seoul
노루잠, Riverview, Seoul
2011boilingpoint,KunstDocGallery,Seoul Spring, Dong Shin University, Naju
YWCA, Gallery Imagoo , Seoul
Asyaaf, Hongik Universitiy, Seoul
Drawing Festival, KunstDoc Gallery, Seoul
2010 boiling point, KonstDoc Gallery, Seoul