Yu-Si Wook

Born in May.20.1967 in Seoul/ Graduated from & Currently in M.F.A Course at Hong-ik Univ.

Solo Exhibitions
The 1st Solo Exhibition(Yegajok Gallery)
The 2nd Solo Exhibition(Seoul Art Center)
The 3rd Solo Exhibition(Open Studio)
The 4th Solo Exhibition(Asan Gallery)
The 5th Solo Exhibition(Gallery ASTO, LA))

Awards
Republic of Korea Grand Art Awards(The Plastic Arts/non-plastic arts)-Selected 7times(National Contemporary Art Museum)
Misulsegae Grand Art Awards-Special entries twice(Jongro Gallery, Kyungin Art Museum)
Kukmin Grand Art Awards-Special entry(Sejong Cultural Center)
Jinkyung sansu Grand Art Awards-Speical entry(Sejong Cultural Center)
Sinsu Group Art Exhibition-woonbo Kim Ki Chang Awards(Jongro Gallery)
Dong-A Grand Art Awards(Seoul Art Center)
Danwon Grand Art Awards(Danwon Art Festival Special Exhibition Hall)
Korean Painting Grand Art Awards(Kwangju City Museum of Art)
Haengju Grand Art Awards (Flower Exposition Hall)
New Frontier Art Exhibition

Invitational/Planned Exhibition
Exhibition for Alumnae of Hong-ik Univ. Department of Korean paintings
Contemporary Expressions of Korean Young Artists(Seoul Museum of Art)
Original native place of Literary Art Spirit(Kongpyung Art Center)
Invitational Exhibition for Korean Slected Artists(Seoul Museum of Art)
Siyeon Group 10-12times(Dukwon, Seoho Gallery)
2001 World Ceramics Expo Invitational Exhibition(Icheon)
Exhibition for Folk Artists(Paju citizen's center)
Changwon Exhibition(Johyung Gallery)
Asian Contemporary Art Exhibition(Tokyo)
Exhibition for 100 Korean Artists(Los Angeles Art Space ‘Tomato’)
Yeon-eo gajok(salmon fish family) Invitational Exhibition(Gongpyung Art Center)
Other exhibitions(submitted works about 40times)

Present: Member of Korean Art Group, Siyeon Group, Art Space Tomato Gallery ASTO
Address: No.1401, 102 World 1-cha APT, Wadong-ri, Gyoha-eup, Paju-si, Kyungki-do
Studio: B-dong, 890 Kusan-dong, Ilsan-ku, Koyang-si, Kyungki-do
tel: +82-31-923-9781/+82-31-948-4397 fax: +82-31-923-9782
Mobile:+82-17-201-0057 Email: siwook01@naver.com

Outer Area-Attentive Beauty within the life of an outer area

The outer area I often depict is not simply talking about the spatial existence. What I am trying to depict is the loving time and little warm glimpses of life that exist in our lives.

There always exists a nostalgia in the time that has already passed. In all that time, I give attentive looks to things around me.
Absolutely everything is special to me.
I think about where the era we are living today should be going from this kind of attentiveness of the everyday life.

Lively changes of our lives themselves become ‘paintings’.
My ‘outer place’ is like the blind alley of life but there exists traces of slow changes of life.
Those changes are not of external ones but they are secretive changes that have been constructed through the traces and odors of serious life which have been communicated and compromised with one another.
In those changes, there exists the attentive reality of life.
To me, painting is all about putting the breath of the landscape of that real life.

Works