Half Memory, Twice Remembered: Korean Artists from the Yale School of Art

Jam Yoo

Jam Yoo (b. 1993, Baton Rouge, LA) is a Korean American interdisciplinary artist and arts educator based in New Haven, CT. He holds an MFA from Yale School of Art (2025) and a BFA from Cornell University (2016).

Haejin Park

Haejin Park (b. 1992, South Korea) is a painter who uses watercolor to archive emotions. Blending abstraction with fragmented bodies, she writes complex narratives in bursts of color. Her characters voice an interior climate shaped by memory, language, and somatic tension. They travel home only through painting, entering a psychic architecture.

Park received her MFA from Yale University and BFA from the RISD. Her work has been exhibited at Perrotin, Harper’s Gallery, Gladwell Projects, and NADA Miami. She participated in residencies at Mahler-LeWitt Studios and NXTHVN, and is a recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Award.

Su Ji Kim

Su Ji Kim (b. 1996) explores the fluid space between abstraction and figuration, where reality and fiction overlap. Working primarily in oil, she builds compositions drawn from personal and collective archives through an intuitive process of layering. Images accumulate only to be intentionally obscured, fragmented, and destabilized. What we see in the resulting paintings is not the memory of a whole, but the continuous production of possible wholes.
Kim earned her BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. She is currently based in New Haven, CT, where she is pursuing her MFA in Painting and Printmaking at Yale University.

Claire Chey

Claire (Won Jeong) Chey (b. 1997, Seoul) is a painter whose work explores the visceral intersections of trauma, desire, and embodiment. Chey's practice examines how the body absorbs, digests, and rearticulates psychic and physical experiences, using paint as a tactile medium of affect and rupture. Drawing on autobiography, medical imagery, folklore, and body horror, her work flickers between figuration and disintegration, conjuring spaces where taboo and longing coexist. She holds an MFA in Painting and Printmaking at the Yale School of Art (2025) and a dual BA in Fine Arts and Gender Studies from UCLA (2019). She has exhibited at Perrotin (New York), Latitude Gallery (New York), Eli Klein Gallery (New York), Volery Gallery (Dubai), PTT Space (Taipei), and Wooson Gallery (Daegu).

Yuna Cho

Yuna Cho (b. 1993, Seoul, South Korea; Korean-Canadian) creates sculptural environments that explore how perception is shaped through material, light, and time. Working with paper, plaster, wood, gelatin, and glycerin, she traces quiet transformations as materials respond to gravity, humidity, touch, and duration, allowing her works to soften, erode, collapse, and harden again as living records of time and contact. Cho received her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University (2026) and her BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design (2015). Upcoming exhibitions include presentations at James Fuentes, New York, and Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings (Issue 177). 

Sok Song

Sok Ho Song (송석호) is a Korean-born, New York–based artist whose interdisciplinary practice explores migration, militarization, labor, and cultural memory. Working with garments, uniforms, and textiles as repositories of lived experience, he employs graphite transfer printing, folding, and layered textile processes to examine absence, transformation, and the lingering traces of personal and collective histories. Song received his MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2026 and recently completed work on a large-scale textile installation for the 2026 Venice Biennale.

Namyoung Kim

Namyoung Kim (b. 1999, Seoul, South Korea) is an artist working across sculpture, performance, and drawing. Her practice explores how vulnerability and power emerge through bodily encounters, where intimacy, care, and tension become entangled. She received her BFA from Hongik University and is currently pursuing her MFA at Yale University. 

Young Grace Cho

Young Grace Cho (b. 1997) is an artist interested in infrastructure, time, and maintenance. Their work has been featured in exhibitions at WCMA, Williamstown; All Street, NYC; Kannski, Reykjavik; and Field Projects, NYC and has been covered in MOLD Magazine and Maake Magazine. Young holds a BA in Psychology and Neuroscience from Williams College and has worked as a research assistant, line cook, and pastry chef. She has been a resident at Marble House Project and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and is currently pursuing an MFA in Painting/Printmaking at the Yale School of Art.

Allison Yoon

Allison Yoon is a graphic designer based in New York. She works across identity, editorial, and typographic design, with a focus on the material transformation of language. She holds a BFA in Visual Communication Design from Hongik University, and an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale School of Art. Her work has been exhibited at ‘I Never Read,’ Basel Art Book Fair; ‘Multiple Formats,’ Boston Art Book Fair; and ‘Unlimited Edition,’ Seoul Art Book Fair.

Jeewon Kim

Jeewon Kim (b. 1996, Seoul, South Korea) is a multidisciplinary designer and visual artist based in New York and Seoul. She received her MFA at Yale in 2025 and BFA from Hongik University. She is particularly drawn to the relationship between devices, technologies, and human bodies, and creating pleasant frictions. Born in Seoul, with a brief early childhood in Washington D.C., Jeewon has a deep interest in language and translation. She sees translation as an act of mirroring—a process of defamiliarization and refamiliarization, encoding and decoding—methodologies that also occur in design. In an experiment with her friends, she had them mimic what she was writing on their backs, turning the body into a site of translation. She continues to explore new mediums where translation can take “shape.”

Youngjin Park

Youngjin Park is an interdisciplinary artist/designer who stages material as a site of psychological and technological tension. Working across installation, sculpture, print, and moving image, he transforms industrial and translucent materials including silicone, acrylic, and digital light into environments that hold pressure, rupture, and trace. His work examines how bodies and infrastructures mirror one another, revealing trauma embedded in systems of surveillance, extraction, and artificial nature.

Park received his MFA from Yale University and his BFA from Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. His work has been exhibited at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, among other venues.

David Jung

David Wonsik Jung is a graphic designer with a practice based on letterform-making. He is interested in the quiet primacies of written language and image, sometimes merely pointing them out to make them more visible, and sometimes picking fights with the illusive impartiality of these media. Such interrogation sprouts from the general craft of Graphic Design where the majority of the work involves constant decisions regarding manipulation of given texts and images.

Heejae Kim

Heejae Kim is a Korean American designer and artist working across analog and digital processes. His practice explores multiplicity through image-making, mark-making, and language. Through processes of encoding and decoding, he creates images and fragmented publications that investigate the spaces between memory and fiction, as well as systems of world-building. He received his MFA from Yale School of Art in 2026 and his BFA from RISD in 2016. His work has been exhibited in New York, and he is a recipient of ADC Young Guns.

Grace Han

Grace Han is a designer and artist working across print, material culture, typography, and installation. Her practice is interested in the ways materials move through everyday life and accumulate meaning through use, touch, circulation, and care. Drawing on graphic design as both a critical and generative tool, she creates works that attend to the relationships between objects, bodies, and the social worlds they inhabit. She received her BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art and is currently pursuing an MFA in Graphic Design at Yale University.