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Sangwoo YOO / 22nd (2024)

Sangwoo YOO

sangwoooyoo.studio@gmail.com
www.sangwooyoo.art

2024    M.F.A Sculpture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, United States

2021    B.F.A Environmental Sculpture, University of Seoul, Seoul, Korea Republic


Solo Exhibitions​
2025    ​Where Memory Becomes the Earth, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul ​
2024    Ephemeral Echoes, Comfort Station, Illinois, US
2024    From Dust to Senses​, SiTE Gallery, Illinois, US
2021    Hidden, Covered, and Distorted, gallery DOS, Seoul
​​2020    Amorphous nature, Red brick Gallery, Seoul


Selected Exhibitions​

2025    ​EXPO CHICAGO​, Navy Pier, Illinois, US
2025    ​Imprints of Time​, Bridgeport Art Center, Illinois, US
2024    ​Ground Floor​, Hyde Park Art Center, Illinois, US
​2024    Myth of the Organic City​, 6018lNorth, Illinois, US
​2024    PULP​, The Art Center Highland Park, Illinois, US
​2024    The Second Annual Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival of the Arts​, Zhou B Art Center, Illinois, US
​2024    ​Vision of Nature​, Site: Brooklyn Gallery, New York, US
​2024    Material Alchemy​, EXPO CHICAGO, Illinois, US
​2024    ​DUOTONE​, The Holy Art Gallery, London, UK
​2024    SAIC Graduate Exhibition​, SAIC Gallery, Illinois, US
​2023    Space for Empathy​​,​ OH Art Foundation Gallery, Illinois, US
​​2023    Works on Paper​,​ School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, US
2023    Small Stuff​,​ School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, US ​​​​​
2023    Miami University Young Sculptors Competition​,​ Hiestand Gallery, Ohio, US
2023    Porous Kinships​,​ School of Visual Arts, New York, US
2023    Department of Sculpture Exhibition​, Comfort Station, Illinois, US
2021    Isn't there any suspicious words​, TRAART, Seoul
2020    Spaceless​, Red brick Gallery, Seoul
2019    The Korean Figurative Sculpture Exhibition​, KEPCO Art Center, Seoul​
​2019    Korea-France intercourse exhibition, COSA Gallery, Seoul​
2016    Hoguk Art Exhibition, The War Memorial of Korea(Seoul), United Nations Peace Memorial Hall(Busan), Yanggu Humanities Museum(Gangwon),
                 ChunCheon National Museum(Gangwon


Residencies​
2025    Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, Colorado, US ​
2025    Loghaven Artist Residency, Knoxville, Tennessee, US
2025    ​Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont, US
2024    ​MASS MoCA Residency, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Massachusetts, US
2024    Chicago Artists Coalition Residency, Chicago, Illinois, US​​


Awards & Selections​
2025    Loghaven Artist Residency Fellowship,  Knoxville, Tennessee, US​
2025    Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts Award, Nebraska City, Nebraska, US
2024    KUMHO YOUNG ARTIST, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul​
2024    ​Eldon Danhausen Sculpture Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago​, Illinois, US

2016    Grand Prize, Korea Hoguk Art Exhibition, ROK army headquarters​

Sangwoo Yoo explores the senses lost in contemporary society by engaging with objects imbued with temporality. His practice highlights the value of natural elements that are increasingly marginalized, while seeking to recover perception through experiences that traverse the material and immaterial. In his exhibition Where Memory Becomes the Earth, Yoo collects discarded plants from urban Chicago and public gardens, transforming them into installations that bear the traces of time. As the exhibition progresses, the work gradually fades under environmental conditions and ultimately returns to nature as a catalyst for new life. Through his use of sustainable materials, Yoo proposes a new way of experiencing art – one rooted in ecological cycles and artistic renewal.