Yun Suknam
Yun Suknam (born 1939) is a South Korean artist. Yun has been called "a pioneering figure in feminist art".[1]
Also recorded as Sŏng-nam Yun
Yun Suknam
- Name
- Yun Suknam
- Born
- 1939
- Birthplace
- Manchuria, China
- Training
- Sungkyunkwan University, Pratt Institute
- Nationality
- South Korea
- Occupation
- painter
- Education
- Sungkyunkwan University
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Yun Suknam (born 1939) is a South Korean artist. Yun has been called "a pioneering figure in feminist art".[1]
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• Name — Yun Suknam • Born — 1939 • Birthplace — Manchuria, China • Training — Sungkyunkwan University, Pratt Institute • Website — http: www.yunsuknam.com
Early life and education
Early life and education
Yun Suknam was born in 1939 in Manchuria, China. She returned to Korea, a year after Korea's liberation from Japan in 1946. She studied English literature at Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea, It was not until her 40s that she entered the art world, moving to New York to study printmaking at Pratt Institute, and painting at the Art Student League in New York.[2][3]
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Yun has been an active feminist artist based in Seoul. Following her studies in New York City, she returned to Korea to found the feminist art collective October Group (Sewolmoyim) in 1985.[4] The following year, the group would hold what is widely considered to be Kora's first feminist exhibition.[5] Yun Suk-nam has dedicated her career to creating art advocating women's rights.[6] Her work is included in the collections of the Tate Museum,[7] the Queensland Art Gallery and the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum.[8]
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- 1.Catlin, Roger. Breakthrough Korean Feminist Artist Yun Suknam in Her First U.S. Museum Exhibition. Smithsonian Magazine.
- 2.The Artro. Yun Suknam Artist.
- 3.Yun Suknam at OCI Museum. www.artforum.com.
- 4.Portraits of the World: Korea. npg.si.edu. 17 December 2018.
- 5.Gray, Emily. Women and Reality: Yun Suk-nam. QAGOMA Blog. 12 July 2021.
- 6.The Korea Herald. Painter Yun Suk-nam calls out to souls of forgotten female activists.
- 7.Yun Suknam born 1939. Tate.
- 8.福岡アジア美術館.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 5
- Australian Centre for Photography. The Biennale of Sydney at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. 130. 2000.
- Fine Arts Press. Art and AsiaPacific. 42. 2005.
- Center for Inter-Cultural Studies and Education, Josai University. Review of Japanese Culture and Society. 69. 2003.
- Chung, Hyng-Min. Modern Korean Ink Painting. Hollym. 136. 2006. 978-1-56591-238-0.
- Academia Koreana, Keimyung University. Acta Koreana. 10. 2002.
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