Yesuk Seo
Yesuk Seo(She/Her) is a U.S.-born Seoul-based multi-disciplinary artist who dealt with the abstraction of "Form, Color, and People." She has archived multi-faceted interests into her art practices with memories from family, collected found objects, and places. She creates suspended illusions by combining printmaking, sculpture, and painting genres.
"Form, Color, and People" was from her mother's annual exhibitions with her friends from the 1990s to the 2010s.
서예석은 장르 구분 없이 다양한 접근방식을 통해 회화적인 판화, 조각적인 회화, 판화적인 조각에 끝없이 탐구하는 작가이다.
"형, 색, 인"의 추상적인 관념에 초점을 두어, 그녀의 기억 속 가족, 사물들, 그리고 존재하지 않는 장소로부터 멈춰진 시간 안에 새로운 이야기를 채워가는 작업을 한다.
"형/색/인" 은 책장에 자주 등장하는 어머니의 1990-2010년대 전시 도록 제목이었다.
Selected Solo/Group Exhibitions
2024 Bronx Calling: The Sixth AIM Biennial I, The Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY
curated by Eileen Jeng Lynch
2023 RISD GRAD SHOW 2023, Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI
Graduate Printmaking Biennial, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
2022 Of Soiled Bodies, Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI
curated by Veronica Bello and Corina Dorrego
2021 Great Exhibition 2021 Part.2:+(Plus), G Gallery, Seoul, KR
Fresh Ruins, The Parlour, Baltimore, MD
curated by Erick A. Benitez & Ariel C. Foster
2020 Art Off-Screen, Neumeraki, Online
The 94th ANNUAL International Competition: Online Exhibition, The Print Center(Philadelphia, PA), Online
selected by Charlotte Cotton and Gretchen Wagner
2019 Between Edge & Interior, Pratt Institute Fine Arts, UNTITLED, ART., Miami Beach, FL
curated by Ashley James
Afterimage: Whispers from the Objects, Gallery DOS, Seoul, KR
片鱗/"A Piece of Scale: Beyond Holes", GS E&C, Seoul, KR
Awaken, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY
curated by Eileen Jeng Lynch
2018 Optimism, 2018 Endless Editions Biennial, efa Project Space, New York, NY
curated by Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo & organized by Endless Editions
Vacancy, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY
curated by Carmen Hermo
2017 BRIC OPEN (C)ALL: TRUTH, BRICartsmedia, Brooklyn, NY
Published by the Artist 2017, IPCNY, New York, NY
curated by Grayson Cox and Angela Conant
Sun Screen, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY
curated by Paul John Jr.
Allow Me to Interject, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY
curated by David Rios Ferreira
Idols and Impossible Structures: New Prints 2017/Winter, IPCNY, New York, NY
selected by jury Noel W. Anderson, Anne Coffin, Caitlin Condell, Lucia Hierro, Martin Nash and Francoise de Saint Phalle
2016 Flashbulb Memories of the Spaces, Pratt Studios Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Babylone - U.S.A., The Boiler/Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
curated by Daniel S. Palmer
Awards/Residencies/Fellowship
2021 AIM Fellowship at Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
2020 IEA Visual Arts Experimental Projects Residency, Alfred Univ., Alfred, NY
2020 FCA Emergency Grant Covid-19, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York. NY
2019 Semifinalist, The Print Center’s 94th ANNUAL International Competition, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Artist-in-Residence at Sculpture Space, Inc., Utica, NY
2018 The Studios @ MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
2017-2018 Keyholder Residency Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY
2016 UrbanGlass/Pratt Partnership Scholarship, Brooklyn, NY
Artist Printmaking Training Programs
2023 Graduate Assistant (Risograph printing), Miguel Lastra, Project Manager/ Hyundai Research Collaborative, RISD
2023 Instructor, Intro to Silkscreen(WS 2023), RISD
2021-23 Teaching Assistant, Experimental Relief by Megan Foster, Painterly Prints by Amber Heaton, Lithography by Andrew Eckhardt, Single Edition by Lois Harada, Copperplate Engraving by Andrew Raftery, RISD
2016 Intern at Lower East Side Printshop, LLC, New York, NY
2015 Graduate Assistant (Laser Cutting) at Pratt Woodshop, Brooklyn, NY
Artist Assistant
06/2023 Jim Drain, Warwick, RI
02/2017-07/2022 Alison Elizabeth Taylor, Brooklyn, NY
Education
2023 MFA(Printmaking) Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2016 MFA(Sculpture) Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2014 BFA(Fine Arts) School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2012 Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY
Press/Publication/Interview
BABYLONE – U.S.A., Selected works by second-year Fine Arts MFA candidates from Pratt Institute curated by Daniel S. Palmer, The Boiler/Pierogi, 2016
BABYLONE – U.S.A. at The Boiler | Pierogi Gallery (pierogi2000.com)
Idols and Impossible Structures: New Prints 2017/Winter, Print Center New York, 2017
Sun Screen, curated by Paul John Jr., Lower East Side Printshop, 2017
Vacancy, curated by Carmen Hermo, Lower East Side Printshop, 2018
Awaken, curated by Eileen Jeng Lynch, Lower East Side Printshop, 2019
GalleryDOS 기획전 전시도록, 2019
서예석 ‘Afterimages: Whispers from the Objects’ by GalleryDOS
Women in Expanded Print “An Interview with Yesuk Seo”, published by Elizabeth Corkery at Print Club LTD., 2019 https://jointheprintclub.com/journal/2019/8/6/an-interview-with-yesuk-seo
Between Edge & Interior, curated by Ashley James, Pratt Institute Fine Arts, UNTITLED, ART., 2019
Pratt Alumni Push the Boundaries of Painting at UNTITLED, ART Miami Beach - Pratt Institute
The 94th ANNUAL International Competition: Online Exhibition, The Print Center, 2020
Yesuk Seo Semifinalist – The Print Center
November 2 – 6 "The Institute of Electronic Arts welcomed Yesuk Seo as part of of Visual Arts program" at Alfred Univ., 2020
https://blog.alfred.edu/iea/2020/11/06/yesuk-seo-nov-1-7/
great exhibition Part 2: + (plus), G Gallery, Seoul, 2021
Bronx Calling: the 6th AIM Biennial, curated by Eileen Jeng Lynch, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2024
Bronx Calling: The Sixth AIM Biennial (Part One) - The Bronx Museum
Nayyar, Rhea, Bronx Calling is All About Knowledge and Agency, Hyperallegic, 2024
Bronx Calling Is All About Knowledge and Agency (hyperallergic.com) (installation view)
Sayej, Nadja, This Year's Bronx Biennial Showcases the Struggles of Urban Life, OBSERVER, 2024
Review: ‘Bronx Calling Sixth AIM Biennial’ at Bronx Museum of the Arts | Observer
Thesis
"Flashbulb Memories of Spaces: Looking through Suspended Windows" by Yesuk, Pratt Graduate Sculpture Thesis, 2016
"Objects and Apparitions: A Portable Museum" by Yesuk Seo, RISD Graduate Printmaking Thesis, 2023