Jaehee Yoo

Jaehee Yoo is a Korean contemporary artist whose practice explores how memory, time, and relationships gradually shape our experience of place. Working with traditional Korean materials—including silk, ink, bamboo pen, natural pigments, and gold—she creates paintings that exist between figuration and abstraction, where images emerge through stillness rather than description.

Rather than depicting landscapes as fixed views, Yoo understands them as psychological and relational spaces. Her works do not seek to record places, but to reveal how a place slowly becomes part of our inner world through walking, waiting, lived experience, and memory. The city, nature, and human relationships are approached as interconnected environments that shape one another over time.

Rooted in the philosophy and material tradition of East Asian painting while engaging with contemporary life, her practice is guided by intuition before reflection. Each painting begins without a predetermined image, allowing the work to evolve through the rhythms of breath, chance, and attentive observation. Gold is used not as a symbol of luxury or the sacred, but as a quiet presence that invites stillness, waiting, and contemplation.

Yoo has exhibited internationally in...

M.A. in Oriental Art History, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
B.F.A. in Korean Painting, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea

Awards & Recognition
2026 Visual Art Open 2026 – Longlist
2026 Artist of the Year Award – Longlist
2023 Visual Art Open 2023 – Finalist
2021 Selected Artist, Saatchi Art

Selected Exhibitions

2026
Art Zurich international 2026, Zurich, Switzerland

2025
Art Expo New York, New York, USA

2024
Red Dot Miami, Miami, USA
Solo Exhibition, Gallery Harang, Seoul, South Korea

2023
Visual Art Open 2023 Finalist Exhibition, The Other Art Fair, London, UK

2022
The Other Art Fair – Virtual Edition

2021
Fira d'Art Internacional, Barcelona, Spain
Spectrum Miami / Red Dot Miami, Miami, USA
The Other Art Fair – Virtual Edition

2019
Spectrum Miami / Red Dot Miami, Miami, USA