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    • Jian Yoo    Artist
    • Where Time Settles into Light

      Jian Yoo explores how invisible emotions and the flow of time can remain as traces and structures.

      Countless fragments of light form a continuous flow, densely revealing layers of the inner self shaped by accumulated time and experience across the surface. This flow extends into sensation and memory, relationships and environment, and is translated by the artist into sculptural elements such as the ocean, the cosmos, and flowers.

      “The exploration of a material’s inherent nature is, for me, a way of looking inward. Within the flow of time and the many environments that surround me, calm yet dynamic energies begin to stir, unfolding into small fragments.”

      Within the work, mother-of-pearl functions as a singular language that records light. Formed over long spans of time, its radiance firmly fixes inner elements into visible form. The rhythmic waves of light moving across the surface are the condensed result of emotion and time—an afterimage that continues to linger even after one has moved on.


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      Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, US
      Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

      Selected Projects, Commissions & Collections

      • Selected as official state gifts for heads of state in over 45 countries
      – President of Türkiye – Official State Gift for the State Visit (2025)
      – Korea–US Presidential Summits (2021, 2023)
      – Queen Elizabeth II, United Kingdom (2013, 2016)
      • Rolls-Royce Motor Cars – ‘Inspiring Greatness’ Global Project
      • Genesis – ‘One of One’ VVIP Commissioned Artwork
      • Kia – Commissioned Artwork for Rafael Nadal, ‘The Bull of Manacor’
      • Korean Air – ICN Prestige Class / LAX Prestige & First Class Lounges Commissioned Artwork
      • Seoul Smart City Prize – Official Trophy Artwork (2023–2025)
      • Van Cleef & Arpels – VVIP Commissioned Artwork
      • FRED (LVMH) – VVIP Commissioned Artwork (2024–2025)
      • Chanel – Special Commission for Karl Lagerfeld
      • Christian Dior – Special Commission for Maria Grazia Chiuri
      • Blancpain – VIP Commissioned Artwork & ‘Art de Vivre’ Events
      • Panerai – ‘Luminor Due’ / ‘Luminor Due Luna’ Commissioned Art Project
      • Delvaux – ‘One Fine Day in Spring’ VIP Event
      • Cartier – Maison Cheongdam Permanent Collection
      • National Folk Museum of Korea – Permanent Collection
      • Sono Hotels & Resorts – Sono Calm Gyeongju Permanent Collection
      • SK Sunhyewon – Permanent Collection
      • Raemian One Perla – Community Permanent Collection
      • Disney+ Original Series ‘Tempest’ Mother-of-Pearl Art Project
      • Dubai Expo 2020 – Korea Pavilion Official Video
      • Samsung – Neo QLED TV Demo Video
      • Microsoft Korea – Commissioned Artwork
      • National Gugak Center – Commissioned Artwork
      • The Whoo – ‘Imperial Youth Art & Heritage’ Set
      • Sulwhasoo – VIP State Gift Edition
      • Four Seasons Hotel Seoul – OUL × Jian Yoo
      • Park Hyatt Seoul – Presidential Suite Artwork

      Selected Exhibitions

      • Frieze New York – The Whoo Lounge, New York, US (2025)
      • Homo Faber – Venice, Italy (2024)
      • UNESCO Headquarters – ‘Najeon, Meeting with the Timeless Shine’, Paris, France (2022)
      • Abu Dhabi Art – Sun Gallery, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2025)
      • Rolls-Royce Motor Cars – ‘Infinite Allure’, Solo Exhibition, Korea (2021–2023)
      • National Folk Museum of Korea – ‘Glimmer & Shine’ (2023); ‘Simple and Neat’ (2022)
      • The Korea Society – ‘Iridescent Hue’, Solo Exhibition, New York, US (2024)
      • Downtown Design Dubai – Dubai, UAE (2019, 2021, 2023)
      • Tower Club Singapore – Special Solo Exhibition, Singapore (2023)
      • Culture Object – ‘Jian Yoo: A Special Presentation’, New York, US (2022)
      • Helen J. Gallery – ‘Moonlight’, Los Angeles, US (2020)
      • Korean Cultural Center – Paris (2022); Rome & Budapest (2017)
      • Museo Diocesano di Albano – Albano, Italy (2017)
      • Lotte Hotel Seoul – ‘On the Path of Time’, Solo Exhibition, Korea (2023)
      • Sofitel Ambassador Seoul – ‘SAVOR the ART’, Korea (2025)
      • Andaz Seoul Gangnam – Solo Exhibition, Korea (2023)
      • Grand InterContinental Seoul Parnas – ‘True Luxury with ART’, Korea (2024)
      • The Handsome Haus – ‘Moon White’, Korea (2025)
      • Galleries Art Fair – Seoul, Korea (2025)
  • Works

  • BEYOND THE OCEAN

    BEYOND THE OCEAN is a series that visualizes the flow of time, memory, and existence through the ever-changing image of the sea. Fragments of light scatter and gather like water, wind, and waves, gently sweeping across the surface. The sea becomes a mirror of the inner self, and the work quietly records the flow of emotion and traces of time through the language of light.

  • BEYOND THE OCEAN – WAVE / ETERNAL FLOW

    This series visualizes the moment when invisible flows emerge in the form of waves. Organically connected fragments of light form ripples that move with varying rhythms, amplitudes, and textures—each wave carrying the breath of a singular moment in time. Where inner and outer flows converge, the movement extends beyond the frame, and its delicate motion pulses with vibrant life.

  • BEYOND THE OCEAN – THE MOON / MOONLIGHT

    This series captures the quiet boundary where moonlight meets the sea, held within the form of a moon jar. Its rounded shape becomes a universe of cyclical time and layered memories. The trembling light that flows across the curved surface scatters, gathers, and quietly shimmers. Even in darkness, the inner universe continues to breathe—gently revealing itself through this silent rhythm.

  • INTERSECTION

    This series deconstructs and reconfigures scenes of landscapes and daily life found in Korean mother-of-pearl art from the 1950s to the 1990s, expanding them into a new visual language. Within a flow where tradition and contemporaneity, reality and fiction, presence and absence intersect, historical imagery undergoes fragmentation, recomposition, and transformation—giving rise to new narratives where time, memory, and culture coexist.

  • BLOOM

    Inspired by Jang Seung-eop’s plum blossom paintings from the late Joseon Dynasty, this series captures the fleeting moment of full bloom through abstract rhythm. Petals fall like stars, scatter like blossom rain, and dissolve into waves of light and motion. Boundaries blur, and shimmering layers unfold across fields of color. In this painterly dialogue where past and present resonate, each blooming gesture becomes a language beyond time.

  • OBLIQUE

    Inspired by urban architecture, this body of work explores a new spatial rhythm through shifts in perspective and geometric composition. Onto asymmetrical structural forms, Korean scenes are inscribed—transforming each object into a unique terrain where narrative flows through a balance of ornament and utility, free from fixed viewpoints.

  • GOT

    This object reinterprets the traditional Korean hat, gat, by layering delicate textures—strand by strand—onto a conical and disc-shaped structure, embodying the flow of light. Once used to shade light, the gat now reveals it. Within a rhythm of repetition and balance, the sensibilities of tradition and modernity are woven into a single flow.