Yoon Hyup
Born in South Korea in 1982, currently works and lives in New York.
Yoon Hyup is a self-taught painter and has been working since early 2000 with murals and live paintings. In his work, Yoon freely uses lines and dots to draw a minimalistic landscape from a unique perspective. Components of various cultures, he has experienced, are strongly reflected in his works.
Hyup sees his artistic process analogous to jazz music improvisation. It is a flowing trial, in which some tones fit better than others. However, nothing is wrong and it is fully focused on creating a piece on any particular moment. No worries about the past or future, only the present rhythms count. As improvising jazz is a musical interplay of notes, artist Yoon Hyup’s art can be explained as a creative interplay of music, paint, colors and cities. Hyup himself likes to view it as ‘creating his own world’. A world in which colors can be out of balance, just as musical notes can be in jazz.
Hyup also explores the city on a skateboard, making his experience of it uniquely tactile. He says, “When I skate, I feel rhythm. I feel like I become a flowing water that never stops.” On a similar wavelength, his own experiences of the city and the streets often become inspiration. The rhythm and improvisation in music, the flexibility and radical perspective in street culture are some of the creative inputs that transform into lines, dots, “rhythms” and colors in his works. A combination of these elements powers the creation of unique abstract paintings.
1992年出生於韓國，現時工作和生活在紐約。
尹協是一位自學成才的畫家，自 2000 年初以來一直從事壁畫和現場繪畫的工作。在創作時，尹協會自由地使用線和點，從獨特的角度描繪出極簡的風景。他所經歷的各種文化的組成部分都會在他的作品強烈的反映出來，比如音樂中的節奏和即興創作、街頭文化中的靈活和激進的視角等等，為創作獨特的抽像畫提供了生命力。
尹協就如爵士樂手般，將線條、點和顏色化成即興隨性的音符，具試驗性但不失流暢，不存在對錯，只有全情投入藝術的節奏脈動中。偶然，藝術家也會踏上他的滑板，以獨一無二的視角探索這座城市。他說道，「當我在滑板上，我能感受到城市的脈搏。我彷彿化身為這個城市中一道永不停息的流水。」這種漫遊城市的經驗經常轉化為他的創作靈感。尹協的作品就是色彩、音樂及城市氣息互相牽動的獨特樂曲，建構出屬於藝術家的世界。
PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS
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2024
Nocturne City | Lotte Museum of Art | Seoul, South Korea2022
Light and Shadow | StolenSpace Gallery | London, UK2021
While You Sleep | AISHONANZUKA | Hong Kong
The Planets | NANZUKA 2G | Tokyo, Japan2020
Kaleidoscope | StolenSpace Gallery | London, UK2019
LINE AND DOT | EVERYDAY MOOONDAY | Seoul, South Korea
Innervisions | Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea | Milan, Italy2018
Headlights at The Yard: Herald Square | The Yard | New York, NY2017
Rhythm and Flow | 16 Shibuya | Tokyo, Japan2016
Elevator art exhibition | Shinjuku Lumine 1 | Tokyo, Japan2012
Evolution | rm.360 | Seoul, South Korea -
2023
Unpack Reveal Unleash | Tang Contemporary Art | Seoul, South Korea2022
L’Empire des sens | Tang Contemporary Art | Seoul, South Korea2021
Mickey Mouse: Now And Future | PARCO Museum | Tokyo, Japan
Prism | NANZUKA Underground | Tokyo, Japan2020
The Brand new doors| AISHONANZUKA | Hong Kong
Postcards of 2020 | StolenSpace Gallery | London, UK
Fine Line | StolenSpace Gallery | London, UK
Wet Paint Miami | Museum of Graffiti | Miami, FL2019
MIDNIGHTS | GR Gallery | New York, NY2018
Kinetic | Kinfolk 90 | New York, NY2017
Pop and Street | Seibu Shibuya | Tokyo, Japan2016
QUEST | HPGRP Gallery | New York, NY2015
Sideways: Exploring Skateboard Art + Culture | Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College | Traverse City, MI2014
Aura Division Tour | All Bilbao | Bilbao, Spain
Project X | Osage Gallery | Hong Kong2013
Creative Cities | Kaoshiung Design Festival | Kaoshiung, Taiwan
Amoeba Hood in Seoul Gana Art Center | Seoul, South Korea
Disney Art Toy | KEPCO Art Center | Seoul, Korea2009
Blue Dot Asia | Seoul Arts Center | Seoul, Korea
Haechi Parade | Seoul Olympic Stadium | Seoul, Korea
Si-bi Wol | Chungjunggak Gallery | Seoul, Korea2008
Be True | presented by Nike Korea | Seoul, Korea
Understand | AA Gallery | Seoul, Korea2007
1 Love | presented by Nike Korea | Seoul, Korea2006
Mini 3D Gallery | Presented by Mini | Seoul, Korea2005
‘K-Spray’, Logan Hicks, Sixten, Phibs and and Yoon Hyup | Won Gallery | Seoul, Korea2004
Air Jordan | presented by Nike Korea | Seoul, Korea
Sneaker Culture | presented by Nike Korea | Seoul, Korea