Younhee Yang


Younhee Yang is a contemporary South Korean painter.

Life and work

Yang was born in Seoul, and received her BFA in painting in 2005 from the Parsons School of Design in New York City. In 1998, she studied Oriental painting at the Dankook University in Cheonan, Korea.
Her artist work consists of painting, Installation art, Sculpture and Video art.
Yang's art has been exhibited internationally in Germany, Austria, South Korea, Canada, and in the United States of America. Among the museums and galleries having shown her work are the Korean Broadcasting and Advertisement Museum in Seoul, South Korea, the Gong Art Space gallery in Seoul, South Korea and the DadaPost Galerie in Berlin, Germany. Besides other art publications, the American sculptor Howard McCalebb published the monograph Silent Pictures, The paintings of Yang YounHee about Yang's work in 2012.
Yang works as an independent artist and founded the fine art studio Kunstatelier Younhee Yang, Berlin 2009 in Berlin-Mitte, Germany. The art studio moved from 2012 to 2018 to Berlin-Charlottenburg, Germany. Since 2018, the Kunstatelier YounHee Yang, Berlin is located at Anton-Saefkow-Platz.8, 10369 Berlin, Germany, where it is located at current. Yang supports international social projects through her work.
Yang lives in Seoul, South Korea and in Berlin, Germany.

Exhibitions (selection)