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List Of South Korean Women Artists
This is a list of women artists who were born in South Korea or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. A *Jun Ahn (active since 2006), fine arts photographer B *Bang Hai Ja (born 1937), abstract painter, stained-glass artist and calligrapher *Lee Bul (born 1964), installation artist C *Mina Cheon (born 1973), new media artist *Young-ja Cho (born 1951), sculptor *Jung Hee Choi (active since 1999), artist, musician, based in New York *Choi Kyung-ah (born 1969), manhwa artist *Kyung-hwa Choi-ahoi (born 1967), graphic artist and academic based in Hamburg *Chunghi Choo (born 1938), jewellery designer, metalsmith G *Goh Gyong-Sook (born 1972), children's writer and illustrator H *Kyungah Ham (born 1966), multimedia artist *Young Gi Han (born 1984), contemporary artist *Kyung-hee Hong (born 1954), sculptor *Ran Hwang (born 1960), mixed media artist working with buttons, pins and thread *Hyewon Yum (born 1976), children's book writer and illustrator K *Kang Kyung-ok ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eastern border is defined by the Sea of Japan. South Korea claims to be the sole legitimate government of the entire peninsula and List of islands of South Korea, adjacent islands. It has a Demographics of South Korea, population of 51.75 million, of which roughly half live in the Seoul Capital Area, the List of metropolitan areas by population, fourth most populous metropolitan area in the world. Other major cities include Incheon, Busan, and Daegu. The Korean Peninsula was inhabited as early as the Lower Paleolithic period. Its Gojoseon, first kingdom was noted in Chinese records in the early 7th century BCE. Following the unification of the Three Kingdoms of Korea into Unified Silla, Silla and Balhae in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyewon Yum
Hyewon Yum is a South Korean author and illustrator of several acclaimed books for children, including ''Last Night'', ''There Are No Scary Wolves'', ''The Twins' Blanket'', and ''Mom, It's My First Day of Kindergarten''!. Yum has received the Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award, a Charlotte Zolotow Award commendation, and other awards. Born and raised in South Korea, she currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Biography Hyewon Yum she studied illustration at the SVA (School of Visual Art) in New York. She published her first original picture book ''Last Night'' in 2009, which was also her SVA graduation project. For ''Last Night'', Yum won a Bologna Ragazzi Award Honorable Mention for Fiction and the Golden Kite Award for Picture Book Illustration. It was followed by many notable works. After graduating from the undergraduate and graduate programs at Seoul National University, followed by her studies at SVA, she published ''Last Night'' in 2009, which was translated and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massstar
massstar (Hangul: 맛스타) is a South Korean webtoon artist. She is best known for her webcomic unTouchable. Career massstar developed a love of drawing when she was young, and wanted to be a comics artist since she was in primary school. However, she hesitated to take up comics due to a belief in Korea that comic artists are unable to feed themselves. When she was in university, she decided that she should try to follow her passion because she "only lived once." massstar participated in a comic competition held by Naver, which gave her the chance to debut. massstar created the webtoon ''unTouchable'', a story about Psychic vampire, vampires who absorb energy as a source of life through physical contact rather than drinking blood. From February 2014 onwards, ''unTouchable'' was serialized on WEBTOON. In July of the same year, the Chinese and English translated versions of ''unTouchable'' were serialized on the service as well. In February 2015, massstar attended the Taipei I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minouk Lim
Minouk Lim (born 1968) is a South Korean multimedia artist, and documentary filmmaker. She has had exhibitions at such institutes as National Museum of Fine Arts, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Walker Art Center, and the Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum. Early life and education Lim was born in Daejeon, South Korea. At a young age, Lim moved to Seoul. She entered an art competition sponsored by the Little Angels where she was given an award as well as a scholarship for the art school. She enrolled at Ewha Womans University in 1985 to study painting. Lim became dissatisfied with the school and left during her last year. She, then, studied at École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Career Lim started showing her work in South Korea in the late 1990s. In 1998, she created the installation ''Bus Stop'' for the exhibition ''City and Image: Food, Clothing, Shelter''. The work was centered around the bus stop billboards in S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Young-you
Lee Young-you (born April 11, 1977, in Seoul, South Korea) is a female creator of Korean manhwa. Several of her series have been translated into English and released in the United States. Works * Kill Me, Kiss Me * Moon Boy * Priceless * Pastel Green Spell *Siesta A ''siesta'' (from Spanish, pronounced and meaning "nap") is a short nap taken in the early afternoon, often after the midday meal. Such a period of sleep is a common tradition in some countries, particularly those in warm-weather zones. Th ... * Spring Spring References South Korean manhwa artists South Korean manhwa writers Living people 1977 births Artists from Seoul South Korean women artists South Korean female comics artists Female comics writers {{Manhwa-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee So-young (artist)
Lee So-young (born 31 August 1973) is South Korean manhwa artist. Her works, including ''Model'' and ''Arcana'', are licensed by Tokyopop. Works * ''Model'' (1999) * ''Check'' (2001) * ''Arcana'' (2003) * ''Horror Collector'' (2007) * ''Blue Bird'' (2009) * ''Yeonmo'' (2011–14) References 1973 births South Korean manhwa artists South Korean manhwa writers Living people South Korean female comics artists Female comics writers South Korean women artists {{Manhwa-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Myung-ae
Lee Myung-ae ( is a South Korean picture book author and illustrator. Her best-known works include ''Plastic Island'', ''10 Seconds'', ''Tomorrow Will Be a Sunny Day'', ''Vacation'', and ''Flower.'' Lee's first original picture book, ''Plastic Island'' won the 2015 Nami Concours Green Island Award and the 2015 BIB Golden Apple Award for its creative approach. Awards * 2015 Nami Concours Green Island Award for ''Plastic Island'' * 2015 BIB Golden Plaque Award for ''Plastic Island'' * 2017 Nami Concours Green Island Award for ''Tomorrow Will Be a Sunny Day'' * 2020 Shortlisted for the AOI World Illustration Awards 2020 * 2021 Won the BIB Golden Apple Award for ''Tomorrow Will Be a Sunny Day'' Works * 2021 ''Flower'' (Munhakdongne) * 2021 ''Vacation (''Morae-al) * 2020 ''Plastic Island'' (Sang Publishing) ** 2022 ''МУСОРный OCTPOB'' (Самокат, Russia) ** 2019 ''塑料岛'' (山东教育出版社 Shandong Education Publishing, China)' ** 2019 Sur mon île (De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Hyeon-sook
Lee Hyeon-sook (; born December 29, 1971) is a South Korean manhwa artist who made her debut in 1992. Her works include '' Seduction More Beautiful Than Love'', about a teacher and her student, and '' The Flower of Evil'', a dark story about twins. Works * ''Making Friends'' (1992) * ''Ocean of Stars'' (1999) * '' Really?!'' (2001) * '' The Shadow of Moon'' (2001) * '' Seduction More Beautiful Than Love'' (2004) * '' Pure Love Stories'' (2006) * '' The Flower of Evil'' (2006) * ''Savage Garden Savage Garden was an Australian pop duo consisting of Darren Hayes on vocals and Daniel Jones on instruments. Formed in Brisbane, Queensland, in 1993, the duo achieved international success from the mid-1990s to early 2000s with the No. ...'' (2009) *''Nobody Knows'' (2012) *''The Mean Boy'' (BL Webtoon) (CopinComics) (2014) *''The Beast Must Die'' (BL Webtoon) (Lezhin) (2017) *''I will be here for you'' (BL Webtoon) (Lezhin) (2022) References Living people 1971 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JeeYoung Lee
JeeYoung Lee (; born 1983) is a South Korean visual artist. She graduated from Hongik University in Seoul and received the Sovereign Art Prize in 2012. Her photographs are held in the Kyoto Photographic Museum in Japan, the Incheon Foundation for Art and Culture, and Seoul's OCI Museum. Lee is known for her surreal images, which she creates by physically transforming her studio space into intricate and imaginative dreamscapes using hand-constructed props and then photographing them without digital manipulation. Restrained by conventional photography medium, Lee added plastic creativity and theatrical performance to it. Early life JeeYoung Lee grew up aspiring to be a painter, and enrolling in an art highschool was her first step to making it a reality. She then attended Hongik University to pursue a degree in Visual Communication Design. At the time, she was interested in film production art, but after taking a break from school to work as an assistant in a commercial product ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chang-Jin Lee
Chang-Jin Lee () is a Korean-American visual artist who lives in New York City. Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea, and lives in New York City. Education Lee attended Parsons School of Design and earned her BFA from the State University of New York at Purchase. Career In 2011, Lee received a fellowship from the Franconia Sculpture Park, for which she created ''Dear Leader'', an inflatable monument of Kim Jung Il. Lee's sculptural art ''Floating Echo'', a transparent inflatable Buddha atop a lotus flower, debuted at the Busan Sea Art Festival in Korea in 2011. The 10-foot-high work was presented at the Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens in 2012, where it floated in the East River, and at the Three River Arts Festival at Point State Park in Pittsburgh the following year. Lee began researching comfort women in 2007. She traveled to seven Asian countries and interviewed survivors of sexual slavery during World War II as well as a former Imperial Japanese Army soldier. She creat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyung Hye-won
Kyung Hye-won( ko, 경혜원) is a South Korean picture book author and illustrator. Her representative works include ''Elevator'', ''Dinosaur X-Ray'', ''Bigger Than You'', ''I’m a Lion'', and ''My Big, Secret Friend.'' She won the Taiwan Open Book Award in 2018 for ''Dinosaur X-Ray''. Career Kyung has worked as an illustrator since 2004, mainly providing illustrations for children's books. She published her first picture book, ''Special Friends'', in 2014. Her representative works include ''Elevator'', ''Dinosaur X-Ray'', ''Bigger Than You'', ''I’m a Lion'', and ''My Big, Secret Friend.'' Since many of her picture books are dinosaur-themed, she is also known as a "dinosaur author" to children in Korea. Her work with ''Dinosaur X-Ray'' won the Taiwan Open Book Award for Best Children's Book in 2018. ''Bigger than You'' (2018) was first published by HarperCollins, an American publisher, and then exported back to Korea. Works * 2022 ''Me, the T-Rex, and Christmas'' (Munha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koo Jeong-a
Koo Jeong A is a South-Korean born and Paris-based mixed-media and installation artist. Koo studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She worked as an artist-in-residence in the Augarten Contemporary in 2002. Her work has included still and moving images, sound and scent, found objects, the natural environment, and site-specific installation. The New York Times referred to her work as having diverse influences and themes of childhood longing. Art in America called her work "focused", "quiet", and "quirky." Select exhibitions *''Visibilities: Intrepid Women of Artpace'', Artpace, San Antonio, Texas (2020) *Galerie Eva Presenhuber, New York (2020) *OooOoO, La Triennale di Milano, Milano (2019) *''Don't look like a line'', Pinksummer temporary venue, Hangar Toolbox, Via Egeo, Turin (2017) *''ajeongkoo'', Art Sonje Center, Seoul (2017) *''Arrogation'', 32nd São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo (2016) *'Odorama', Art Night with Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2016) *14th Ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
