ARTIST

As a pioneer of feminist art in Korean, Yun Suknam (b. 1939) has continued her artistic endeavors through works that capture the lives and realities of women in Korea. Having started painting self-taught in her forties, she has been actively working for over 40 years since her first solo exhibition in 1982. Her early works are rooted in her autobiographical stories about her mother and motherhood, and YUN expanded her themes to include identity, life and care, nature, and women’s history. Recently, she is immersing herself in reinterpreting women in history. 
 
Yun’s major awards include the 8th Lee Joong-sup Award (1996), the Prime Minister Prize (1997), the 29th Kim Se-choong Sculpture Award (2015), the Order Of Civil Merit Moran Medal (2019), and the 23rd LEEINSUNG Art Prize (2022). Her major solo exhibitions include the 23rd LEEINSUNG Art Prize Recipient Exhibition Yun Suknam (2023), Women of Resistance, Becoming Historic at Hakgojae Gallery (2021), Expressions of Contemporary Asian Artist – Special Exhibition by Yun Suknam at the Tokushima Prefectural Museum in Japan (2016), and SeMA Green: Yun Suknam – HEART at the Seoul Museum of Art (2015). Her major group exhibitions include The Friendliest at Incheon Art Platform (2024), The birth of a new woman at Zaha Museum (2023), Flowing Moon, Embracing Land at the Jeju Biennale (2022), and Deoksugung Project 2021: Garden of Imagination at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (2021).