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

Solo exhibition 15th
- 2025. 10.13~24 'Meditations at 37.5℃
- 2025. 04.04~29 ‘Facets of Thought’, yeoljeong gallery
- 2024. 03.05. ‘Make New Wave’, Spaceum gallery
- 2023. 07.03. 'Secret Forest ' Gallery Tom
- 2022. 11.01. 'Modern Times' Gallery ZEINXENO
- 2022. 03.09. 'Beyond' Gallery is
- 2021. 11.03. ‘Two stories in one space. H contemporary Gallery
- 2021. 04.01. ‘My own space’ Lecoucou Gallery
- 2020. 07.09. ‘Beyond’ (remake invitation), Gallery Tom
- 2020. 06.01. ‘Staycation’, Hanilkwan Gallery
- 2019. 09.04. ‘Secret Forest’, Gallery iLHO
- 2019. 05.22. ‘Secret Forest’, KBS Gallery
- 2019. 03.04. ‘Secret Forest’ Seobu space
- 2018. 05. ‘Secret Forest’, Gallery Tom
- 2014. ‘The Wind Blows’ (Ara Art Center

Solo Booth exhibition
- 2018. 01 Brunel Art Fair (Brunel The Empire Hotel Grand)
- 2016. 11 Seoul Modern Art Festa Seoul Arts Center

Art Fair 24th
- 2025. 11.20-23 INCHEON ART SHOW
- 2025. 08.07~10 Bank Art Fair, ART BODA Gallery
- 2025. 06.06~08 UIAF 2025
- 2025. 05.22~25 PLAS ART SHOW
- 2025. 05.22~25 HONG KONG “Affordable Art Fair”
- 2025. 04.03~06 Busan Annual Market of Art BAMA2025, BEXCO Busan
- 2025. 03.13~16 BANK ART FAIR Fairmont Ambassador.
- 2025. 02.20~22 Busan International Blue Art Fair.
- 2025. 01.10~12...