Zinna Yoo

[Emotive Structurism = Emotion + Structure + -ism],
I don’t believe emotion resolves through immediate outburst. It needs time and environment to settle; I translate that process into order—through color, form, and framing. In this way, the calmly structured picture offers viewers a place of quiet, where their own feelings can gather, settle, and stay.
Constitutive Elements
• Emotion: inner feeling, memory, dream, unconscious affect (dripping, chromatic density, aqueous flow)
• Structurism: organizing emotion via form, plane, and composition (plane division, balance, spatial order, formal clarity)
• Painting: the site where emotion and structure meet (coexistence of abstraction and figuration)
Series & Relations
“Querencia” traces emotion settling into inner order, while the still-life/figurative series (Modern Dalbit/Moonlight, Modern Times, Beyond) show emotion emerging through external form and order. Together they articulate emotion–structure / inner–outer / abstraction–figuration to form a unified pictorial world.

Artist Statement
My painting translates emotion into structure, and lets structure cradle emotion in return. Color, form, line, and plane serve as the language of that order—the site of visual thought where em...

- Graduated from Dankook University of Arts
- Hanyang University Art Psychotherapy Completion

Selected Solo Exhibitions (2014–Present in 16)
-2026.01.05 – 02.27 | 16th [MUJE Still Becoming], Art Space J (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea)
-2025.10.13 – 10.24 | 15th [Meditations at 37.5°C], ARTBODA Gallery (Seoul, South Korea)
-2025.04.04 – 04.29 | 14th [Facets of Thought], Yeoljeong Gallery (Seoul, South Korea)
Supported by Mentor Communications CEO Woo-chul Kim (video production)
-2024.03.05 – 03.11 | 13th [Make New Wave], Spaceum Gallery (Seoul, South Korea)
Sponsored by Soop in the Moon | Supported by Chan-jae Park (sound production)
-2022.11.01 – 11.15 | 11th [Modern Times], Gallery ZEINXENO (Seoul, South Korea)
-2022.03.09 – 03.15 | 10th [Beyond], Gallery IS (Seoul, South Korea)
Presented by Gallery Tom | Sponsored by Tom N Toms Coffee
-2019.09.04 – 09.10 | 5th [Secret Forest], Gallery iLHO (Seoul, South Korea)
-2014.07.29 – 08.03 | 1st [The Wind Blows], Ara Art Center (Seoul, South Korea)

Selected Group Exhibitions (2015–Present in 45)
-2026.07.16 – 08.01 | [Beyond the Symbols] 2-Artist Exhibition, Chung Art Gallery (Seoul, South Korea)
-2026.06.15 – 07.04 | [Blooming Colors] 4-Artist Exhibition, Gallery Daon (Seoul, South Korea)
-2026.04.02 – 04.14 | [She, Her Spring] 3-Artist Exhibition, ARTBODA Gallery (Seoul, South Korea)...