Yhlayuen Hyunsook Kim

Yhlayuen studies about oriental traditional seal engraving. Her studies and works dedicate to develop and spread seal engraving’s practicality and artistic to today.

She educates artists through ‘Yhlayuen Seal Engraving Institute’ and provides seal engraving experience to everyone through ‘Yhlayuen Seal Engraving Academy’. Her works express oriental aesthetics and modernize traditional seal engraving. She collaborates various materials such as Ottchil, mother of pearl, ramie fabric, etc. with seal engraving. Especially, she changes and deconstruct letters form artistically in her works.

Yhlayuen majored Calligraphic Art and Oriental Aesthetics in Sungkyunkwan University Graduate School. She taught at Hongik University’s Advanced Program for contemporary Art and Sungkyunkwan University’s College of Confucian Studies and Eastern Philosophy. She held solo exhibitions in US, Singapore, Korea, etc. and organizes and holds ‘Yhlayuen Seal Engraving member’s exhibitions every year. Other than art work, she provide government, school, and corporations’ seal engraving events.

https://www.youtube.com/user/yhlayuen

Ph.D in Oriental Aesthetics, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea

PUBLICATIONS & FEATURING WORK

Yhlayuen. (2019). Learning Seal Engraving, Mijinsa.

Kim, H. (2017). An aesthetic consciousness research on literati's seal engraving in the late Joseon Dynasty. The Study of Calligraphy, Vol,. No. 30. pp. 75-98

Kim, H. (2010). 文人篆刻의 美學的 硏究
 An Aesthetic study on the Literati's seal engraving (Doctoral thesis). Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea

- More than 15 thesis published of Seal engraving.

Kim, H. (2012). Water - O Yuga by Yoon Seondo [Seal engraving], Featuring work from Middle school art textbook: Kyohak.


CURRENTLY

Trustee: The Korean Society of Calligraphy Culture, The Korea Society of Calligraphy Criticism, Korea Society for Science of Eastern Art

Director, The Yhlayuen Seal Engraving Institute

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019 7th Solo Exhibition: Yhlayuen Seal Engraving: Learning Seal Engraving, I-eum Center Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2018 6th Solo Exhibition: Yhlayuen Seal Engraving, i-eum Center Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2018 5th Solo Exhibition: Hello New York!! -Story of life-, Able Fine Art Gallery, New York

2014 4th Solo Exhibition: Singapore Bank Art Fair. Pan Pacific Hotel, Singapore.

2014 3rd Solo Exhibition: Yhlayuen Seal Engraving, Insa Art Plaza Gallery, Seoul, Korea.

2013 2nd Solo Exhibition: Yhlayuen Hangul Seal Engraving Aesthetics, Hwan Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2012 1st Solo Exhibition: Yhlayuen Seal Engraving Aesthetics, KEPCO Art Center Gallery, Seoul, Korea

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Yhlayuen joined more than 10 group exhibitions throughout in South Korea and other countries. Major exhibitions;

2016 Korean Art Exhibition, Fukuoka, Japan

2015 Seoul Art Show Exhibition, Coex, Seoul

2015 Asia Contemporary Art Show, conrad Hong Kong