Kyung Youl Yoon (b. 1947) is a Korean American artist, currently dedicating his practice to the ‘Cubic Inception’ series of sculptural paintings. Cubic Inception began as a response both to global climate change and to the alienation of contemporary urban life. He began adding sculptural elements to his paintings to '“break the indifference of onlookers,” as he has written, “to create an exchange where the viewer begins to reflect on a new thought or idea that eliminates obscurity in the forms and creates personal meaning.” The individual pieces become a large matrix of cubes forming a collection of ideas. Each cubic piece takes the place of a brushstroke. Each edge takes the place of a line. The resulting masses of shapes suggest aerial views of industrial landscapes, articulated topographies of beautiful but implicitly hostile environments. The Cubic Inception paintings brim with both metaphorical resonance and tactile allure. Los Angeles-based critic and curator, Peter Frank, notes that the Cubic Inception paintings “extend Yoon’s painterly practice into sculpture, into a low relief of a kind that cannot logically be derived from painting.

Yoon studies at the University of Bellas Artes in Madrid, Spain and held numerous exhibitions in the United States, Korea, China, and Spain since the 1980s, including the Shanghai Li Haisu Museum, Public Naeseorak Art Museum Korea, Seoul Arts Center, Madrid National University of Spain, Queens Museum, and the Art Gallery at the Rockefeller State Park Preserve. In 2015, Yoon, held a solo exhibition titled “Journey” at the United Gallery in Korea, and he was also invited to exhibit his works at Encounter Korea at the Southern Utah Museum of Art (SUMA) and the Project of First Encounter at the Korean Culture Center in Los Angeles, California. Notably, his recent works were shown in a solo exhibition at the Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery. He is also represented by the Donghwa Ode Gallery, through which he participated in the Art New York/Art Miami/Aspen/Art Palm Springs Art Fairs, and Hamptons Art Fair. He also exhibited at the Passion Connected 100 x 100 - Pyeong Chang Olympic 2018 Event, the Asia Week Special Exhibition, A Wave of Peace from the World Korean Cultural Center in New York, and many other venues.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2014

Nabi Museum of the Arts, New Jersey, USA

2013

Shanghai Liu Haisu Museum, Shanghai, China

Riverside Gallery, New Jersey, USA

2005-2006

FGS Cultural Center, New Jersey, USA

1999-2002

K.Fine Art Studio, New Jersey, USA

1996

Gallery Icon, Seoul, Korea

Seoul Museum of Art (Seoul Art Center), Korea

1994

Gallery Detursa, Madrid, Spain

1993

Gallery Jain Marunouchi, New York, USA

Gallery Siena, Ponferrada, Leon, Spain

1992

Cultural Center “Clock House"“, Madrid, Spain

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014

SHADES OF TIME Part - 2 Gallery Korea, New York, USA

New York Foundation Art Fair, New York, USA

New York Asia Art Week, Artosino Gallery, New York, USA

Total Talent International Belski Museum, New Jersey, USA

2013

The Gathering of the Artists in 2013, Riverside Gallery, New Jersey, USA

2012-2013

Prospecting 2013, Riverside Gallery, New Jersey, USA

2012

Milal Silentn Auction, New Jersey, USA

Breast Cancer Benefit at Trump National Golf Club, Silent Auction

2011-2012

Exhibition of Fine Art, Blue Hill Cultural Art Center, New York, USA

New York Fountain Art Fair, New York, USA

2011

Exhibition Universe of Art, JS Sun Gallery, New York, USA

Scope New York Art Fair, New York, USA

Contemporary Visions: Paintings, Riverside Gallery, New Jersey, USA

Post 21 Club First Annual Gala Show, New Jersey, USA

Comfort and Confidence in Past and Present, Riverside Gallery, New Jersey, USA

2010

Scope Miami Art Fair, Florida, USA

Award Ceremony and Benefit GALA/AHL Foundation, New York, USA

2002

New York Independent Art Fair, Plaza Hotel, New York, USA

2001-2002

Blue Hill Cultural Art Center, New Jersey, USA

2001

Old Church Art Center, New Jersey, USA

2000

Arts Forum, New York, USA