Yun Suknam Solo Show

On the occasion of its three years anniversary, Hakgojae Shanghai is pleased to announce the representative Korean feminist artist Yun Suknam’s first solo exhibition in China.

Born in Manju, 1939, Yun Suknam has been working assiduously as a representative Korean feminist artist for the past 30 years. She never had a chance to earn proper education in art until she was in her forties. After starting her career as an artist, Yun actively participated in feminist culture activities in an aim towards equality amongst sexes. She also was a member of ‘Siwolmoim’, one of Korea’s minjung art societies in 1985, opposing Western art in which depicted subjects far from our everyday lives.

Yun continuously focuses on maternal instinct and strength; she shows uneasy inner world of women, reinstating oppressed women, and depicting the beauty of women who attempted to be themselves through her works.

This time, Hakgojae Shanghai would like to present Yun Suknam’s Fish Market II, Pink Room, as well as other representative works in the exhibition. It will be an invaluable opportunity to understand the passion and altruistic life of the artist.

Yun Suknam was the first female artist to be awarded Lee Choong Sup Award. Actively participating in numerous solo and group exhibitions, the artist was exhibited in Venice Biennale at Korean Pavilion in 1996 and recently participated in Gwangju Biennial in 2014. Yun’s works are part of public collections at prestigious art institutions including Tate Modern (London), National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Gwacheon, Korea), Fukuoka Museum of Art (Fukuoka, Japan), Taipei Museum of Art (Taipei), Kumho Museum of Art (Seoul), and Gyeonggido Museum of Art (Ansan, Korea).