Image courtesy of the artist
Although her intricate installations are often so large that they spread over walls onto ceilings and floors, Heeseop Yoon thinks of her work as freehand drawings. All of Yoon’s works are based on real spaces with vast messes, such as basements, workshops, storage spaces, or “places where everything is jumbled and time becomes ambiguous without the presence of people.” Based on photographs, Yoon draws freehand without erasing; based on her own drawings, she creates her enlarged wall drawings using black tapes. In the final installation, her miscalculations and corrections are visible, as Yoon is interested in how memory and perception constantly adjust both for herself and for her viewer, and the paradox that the more she corrects her work, the less legible the drawing becomes.
"The more I see, the less I believe in the accuracy or reality of the images I draw."
Yoon, whose solo exhibition Agglomeration is on view at The Korea Society Gallery June 9 - August 25, 2022, talks about her career and work.
Artist Talk: Heeseop Yoon
Tuesday, July 12, 2022 5 PM (EDT)
Video release
@ The Korea Society
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ABOUT THE ARTIST: 
Heeseop Yoon has had solo and two-person shows at Cityway Gallery, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art; Triple Candie, March Gallery, and Bose Pacia, all New York; Arario Gallery, Seoul; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ; OZ Arts, Nashville, TN; and at Sapar Contemporary, New York. She has also shown with Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA; William Holman Gallery, New York, NY; Crossing Borders, Periphery Space Gallery, RI; and Drawing in Space, Des Moines Art Center, IA.
Yoon has exhibited in museums and art centers internationally, including MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; The Bronx Museum, New York; Seoul Arts Center, Korea; China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) and Media Art Center, Beijing; and has participated in several residencies such as the Lower East Side Printshop, Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation; Skowhegan School of Painting, and Artist Alliance Inc., all New York, and Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Germany. Her first public mural installation is located at the Italian Market in Philadelphia.