Yoon Hyejin (b. 1994) focuses on the way a scene from one’s memory is replayed and the sense of its blurriness. Rather than attempting to grasp a clear form, or to simplify and reduce images to their essence, Yoon’s work is a gesture of reconstructing the past moments and the fragments of scene through sensory traces. This becomes both an act of resistance against disappearance and finitude, and a painterly response to the question of how we remember. The blurriness and ambiguity that can be found in Yoon’s paintings, along with the colors and atmospheres that surround them, become a process that a trace of past seeps into the present. Yoon’s work is placed in the intersection of “seeing” and “recognizing”. Weaving between clarity and obscurity, between forgetting and remembering, she questions whether painting can serve as a futile yet persistent memory device.

Yoon studied Painting and French Language and Literature at Hongik University and received her M.F.A. in painting from the Korea National University of Arts. She has held solo exhibitions at Pokettales, Seoul (2024); Gallery IN, Seoul (2023); and Light Little Walk, Seoul (2023). Her group exhibitions include The Infused Moment, Hidden M Gallery, Seoul (2025); A Geodesic Line, FIM, Seoul (2024); PEEPHOLE, ARC1, Seoul (2024); Sound Wave, Outhouse, Seoul (2023); Waiting Room, Suchi, Seoul (2022); and Fine Cloud Point, Dolchanggo Daejeong, Namhae (2018).