KOO JiYoon

The images of a construction site, the noise and dust from the sites, are annoying things stimulating my sense and hovering about my everyday life. As such feelings and dissatisfactions in time turned to curiosity however, I wondered what happens behind the blue construction fence, so I documented aspects and happenings in construction sites with words, sketches, photographs, and one-minute videos. In construction site, all the contrasting, conflicting elements such as stacking and demolishing, horizontality and verticality, assembly and segregation, spectacle and tedium, fragments and weeds are intermingled, changing themselves every minute. There are variability and flexibility of the incomplete in a construction site. After giving up depicting images from constructions sites, I have applied the working methods in a construction site to my artistic work. Images in my mind are habitually depicted or distorted by hand. Their colors are rendered by blending paint on the canvas. The stains or lumps of paint splashed by mistake are added to the surface, or a completely new image is at times produced by applying this process to paintings I failed years ago. Although I judged my work as it is completed and then open to the public, I define this work as ‘solid incompletion,’ not ‘end’ or ‘completion,’ wishing for my work renewal and extinction are constantly recurring. 

KOO JiYoon
Born in    1982, Daegu, Korea

EDUCATION
2010    M.F.A, Studio Art, New York University
2007    B.F.A, Fine Arts, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2006    B.F.A, Fine Arts, The Korean National University of Arts

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
2012    Practical Painting, New Normal Business, New York, U.S.A
2011    The Ghost on the Back of the Painting, 175 Gallery, Seoul, Korea   
             But Nothing Happening, A.I.R.Gallery, Brooklyn, U.S.A  

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2014    Spectators, Doosan Gallery, Seoul, Korea  
             New Hero, NEMO, Seoul, Korea  
             Today’s Salon, Common Center, Seoul, Korea  
2013    Young Artists of Our Generation, Haneun Gallery in the Bank of Korea,
             Seoul, Korea
2012    O Fortuna, Traveling Exhibition, Paris/Dusseldorf/Berlin/New York,
             France/Germany/U.S.A
2010    One and Three Quarters of an Inch, St. Cecilia’s Parish, Brooklyn, U.S.A
             Force of Nature, Horticultural Society of New York, New York, U.S.A
             Subtle Anxiety, Doosan Gallery, New York, U.S.A
             Thesis Show, 80 Washington Square East Gallery, New York, U.S.A
2009    For Real, The Common Gallery, New York, U.S.A