ARTIST

Sueyon Yang (b.1988) is a South Korean artist based in Hong Kong, whose practice investigates death as an ontologically real yet experientially inaccessible event. Her work examines the disjunction between the visceral reality of grief encountered through others’ deaths and the fundamental distance that separates the living from death itself. Through hyperrealistic painting and spatial estrangement, Yang articulates the sensory afterimages and residual impressions that death leaves on perception.

Sueyon was awarded the Macazoa New Artist Award – Macazoa Cultural and Artistic Support Project (Korea, 2024), the Ghasong Art Award (Korea, 2021), the Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize Highly Commended (UK, 2021). She has held eight solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group shows both domestically and internationally. Her artworks were also shown in prestigious art fairs. She joined ‘Art Central Hong Kong 2022’ and in this fair her installation work ‘The Journey to the Infinite Circle’ was part of the ‘Yi Tai Sculpture & Installation Projects’ which is the program that presents site-specific installations and sculpture in a prominent, curated space within the fair.

Sueyon’s artworks have been collected by well-known institutions such as the Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Seong-nam Art Bank, Incheon District Court, Seoul National University Hospital in Korea and private collectors.