Kang Yebin (b. 1997) focuses on the perceptual unsettlement provoked by “the gaze.” She takes as the starting point of her painting the unresolved tension that arises at the moment of encountering a particular object or scene, and develops her work at the point where her certainty of being the one who looks begins to waver and her visual control is rendered powerless. The objects and images on her canvases are never fully absorbed into her interpretation; instead, they reveal the distance that lies between the artist and what she sees. This reflects her inclination to explore ways of looking at things without fully comprehending or possessing them, rather than reducing the world we perceive to discrete, meaningful signs.

Kang received her BFA in Painting from the College of Art & Design at Ewha Womans University and her MFA in Fine Arts (Two-Dimensional Media) from the School of Visual Arts at the Korea National University of Arts. She held a solo exhibition at Pokettales, Seoul (2025), and has participated in group exhibitions including Like Someone About to Drink Brandy, HITE Collection, Seoul (2025); Drawing Growing, Boan1942, Seoul (2025); Brief Encounter, WWNN, Seoul (2025); PEEPHOLE, ARC1 Gallery, Seoul (2024); This Is Not a Story About 〇〇, Villa Hamilton, Seoul (2022); and HANG-MAN, Changseong-dong Lab, Seoul (2021). In 2024, she co-authored A Tale of Hava with Choi Seungyoon, published by Naseon Press.