Yoon Sukone

Sukone Yoon (b. 1983, South Korea) studied Communication Design at Konkuk University and completed a master's degree in Contemporary Art at the same institution. Yoon creates works under the overarching theme of creation and extinction, using collections of photographic images that he has captured and amassed as a basis. The artist transfers his impressions of scenes or moments onto canvas, incorporating his memories and emotional stirrings. Whether direct or indirect, he infuses his experiences with the elements of memory and emotion, thereby capturing vividly the afterimages of light and darkness as well as the movements of the unseen atmosphere through delicate shifts in colors and shapes. Yoon conveys dichotomous meanings like life and death, or creation and extinction, with his vertical and horizontal brushstrokes and generates visual balance and tension on his canvas by interlacing the implicated meanings embedded in the vertical and horizontal elements of his imagery. Yoon has held numerous solo exhibitions at venues such as Gallery Baton, Cheongju Art Studio, Wumin Art Center, and Chapter II, as well as participating in group exhibitions at galleries including Mimesis Art Museum, Seongnam Cube Art Museum, Cheongju Museum of Art, Kimhongdo Art Museum, and Shin Museum. He was selected for the Public Art’s New Hero Program (2021) and the 37th Joongang Fine Art Prize (2015), and received the Danwon Art Prize at the 18th Danwon Art Festival (2016). With his ascending career garnering considerable attention, Yoon's works have become part of the collections of both domestic and international institutions including the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Korea), Cheongju Museum of Art, Kimhongdo Art Museum, Hankook Samgong, the Tiroche DeLeon Collection (Israel), KAIST Graduate School of Business, Space K, and Chapter II.

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