Young one (Hayoung Cheon)
Boston, Massachusetts <-> Seoul, Korea
Young one’s practice unfolds as an ongoing dialogue between their body and the world, spanning painting, printmaking, drawing, and spatial installation. Rooted in walking as both metaphor and embodied practice, they invite materials from their own time and space into the work as collaborators. Using found and discarded elements, from organic branches to industrial fragments, they create works that respond to light, wind, and movement, revealing the material before them as a site where countless overlapping times converge in the now.
Their current interest lies in translating sensory experiences of the digital world into physical material. The digital pixel space is slippery, fleeting, and flickering, illusion-like yet it penetrates the brain. Algorithms often intensify cognitive isolation under the guise of convenience. This condition becomes tangible through the visual interplay between rule-bound structures and randomness across their paintings. They respond as if in a game of chess played against the screen, and the surface becomes a tactile skin to be read by the eyes.
With translucent fabric and CNC bed boards, they build vibrant fields that range from microscopic details inviting close looking to macroscopic forms that the body explores. They fill the surface with repeated shapes, symbols, and chromatic traces drawn from the random temporalities of others. Through layering, sanding, and sustained care, they synthesize others’ traces and machine logic with their visual decisions and human labor. These works reflect modes of coexistence in contemporary society, where the future continuously becomes the present.
Education
MFA Boston University, College of Fine Arts, Department of Painting, 2026
BFA Seoul National University, College of Fine Arts, Department of Oriental Painting, 2022
Summa Cum Laude
Solo Exhibition
2023 《0 -1, 2, 3》, ONSU GONG-GAN Seoul, Korea
Duo Exhibition
2025, 《Skin / Screen》 with Alessandra Pozzuoli, Commonwealth Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
2025, 《Edge Walk》 with Soyeon Lee, Rayproject Seoul, Seoul, Korea
2023, 《Contest Special Exhibition》 with Sunjeong Huh, Gran Seoul, Seoul, Korea
Group Exhibition
2025, 《It's Us!》, Commonwealth Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
2025, 《Emerging & Midcareer International Art Awards Exhibition 2025》, The Vancouver Centre of International Contemporary Art (CICA), Vancouver, BC, Canada
2025,《Practice, Pieces》, Commonwealth Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
2025, 《FIM at Foundations 2025》, Artsy with FIM
2025, 《Presences》, Jameson & Thompson, Jamaica Plain, MA, USA
2025, 《Boston Young Contemporaries 2025》, Juried Exhibition, Stone Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
2025, 《Re:boot》, Boston Cyber Arts Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
2025, 《Art Off the Wall》, Brookline Arts Center, Brookline, MA, USA
2025, 《AOTW 2025: Brookline Booksmith Pop-Up》, Brookline Booksmith, Brookline, MA, USA
2025, 《Garden - Variety》, Ishibashi Gallery, Concord, MA, USA
2025 《Plastic Thoughts》, 808 Corridor Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
2025, 《Before We Were Famous》, Commonwealth Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
2024, 《Pieces of Us》, Dohing Art, Seoul, Korea
2023, 《WESS Exhibition & Publication》, Rasun Library, Seoul, Korea
2023, 《Hongikhada》, Hongik University Contemporary Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2023, 《HOmm & Ink》 Printmaking Exhibition, Space Rora, Seoul, Korea
2023, 《April Fools #2: Void》, Floor_, Seoul, Korea
2022, 《Waiting Room》, Suchi, Seoul, Korea
2022, 《Drawinging》, Insa 1010, Seoul, Korea
2021, 《Beginning Point》, Graduation Exhibition, Seoul National University College of Fine Art, Seoul, Korea
2021, 《Move》, Seoul National University College of Fine Art, Seoul, Korea
2019, 《Science and art》, Calligraphy exhibition of Korean and Chinese students and faculty scholars, Culture Center
at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
2017 - 2019, 《Hwamookhui》, Annual Calligraphy Exhibition, Culture Center at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
2017, 《Hyehwajeon》 Student Council Exhibition, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
GRANTS & RESIDENCIES
2026 LOMA SERENA x VIRREINA Residency, Bogotá. Colombia — Aug – Sep, Upcoming
2026 Bunker Projects Residency, Pittsburgh, PA — May–June, Upcoming
2024–2026 College of Fine Arts Merit Scholarship, Boston University
2023 Etching & Intaglio Intensive Program, Print Art Research Center, Seoul, Korea — Sponsored by the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
2022 The Alumni Association President’s Award, 76th Seoul National University Alumni
2017–2021 Seoul National University Academic Excellence Scholarship
2017 Science and Art, Outstanding Award — Calligraphy Exchange Exhibition of Korean and Chinese Students and Faculty, Seoul National University
2026 Bunker Projects Residency, Pittsburgh, PA — May–June, Upcoming
2024–2026 College of Fine Arts Merit Scholarship, Boston University
2023 Etching & Intaglio Intensive Program, Print Art Research Center, Seoul, Korea — Sponsored by the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
2022 The Alumni Association President’s Award, 76th Seoul National University Alumni
2017–2021 Seoul National University Academic Excellence Scholarship
2017 Science and Art, Outstanding Award — Calligraphy Exchange Exhibition of Korean and Chinese Students and Faculty, Seoul National University
Mail : yazasooc@gmail.com
Instagram : @01.drawing