Lives and works between Seoul and Los Angeles
yoohaena@gmail.com
Haena Yoo is a multidisciplinary artist who works between Seoul and Los Angeles. Yoo makes installations constructed with found materials, video, sound, and smell, exploring themes of labor, identity, and global capitalism. Through a tinkering process, she uses materials borrowed from different minority cultures, making operative systems that symbolize social interactions and power structures resulting from neo-globalization. Her work often shows the urgency created by limiting materials to what is at hand, showing the archeological and socio-political status of the maker.
EDUCATION
2025 (Forthcoming) Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2017 MFA Grad Art at ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA
2014 BFA Fiber Art at Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
SOLO/ TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 (Forthcoming) solo show, Murmurs, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Severance, Bibeaukrueger, New York City, NY
2022 The Oriental Sauce Factory (Part 2), Gallery Shilla, Seoul, South Korea
2021 The Oriental Sauce Factory, Murmurs, Los Angeles, CA
2021 The Birth of Venus, P.Bibeau, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Erin Calla Watson & Haena Yoo, As It Stands, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Woman Fantastic Plastic, u’s, Calgary, Canada
2018 Maintain Disgust, collaborated with Sterling Wells, AWHRHWAR, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Guttin’ n Out, MFA Thesis Show, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
2016 Under Construction, La Croix, Pasadena, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Flat Land with the Promise, Noise, Istanbul, Türkiye
2023 Porsche SCOPES, Seoul
2023 I’ve Gone To Look For America, Murmurs, Los Angeles, CA
2022 With her voice, penetrate earth’s floor, Eli Klein, New York City, NY
2022 Chambres d'Amis, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium
2021 Substrata, Epoch, Los Angeles, CA
2020 The Struggle For Change, Murmurs, Los Angeles, CA
2018 La Biennale di Vista del Oro, Yard Pedro, San Pedro, CA
2018 Dae-Bak, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2018 An Arm’s Length, Tierra de La Culebra, Los Angeles, CA
2018 It’s Snowing in LA, AALA, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Ecoshamanism, Leroy’s, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Some Ruins, Scranch, Wonder Valley, CA
2018 Greater Los Angeles MFA (GLAMFA), Max L.Gatov Gallery, CA
2017 I AM ERICA, New Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Amplified Presence, Scranch, Wonder Valley, CA
2017 Refresh, La Croix, Pasadena, CA
AWARD/GRANT/RESIDENCY
2025 (Forthcoming) Le Cyclop de Jean Tinguely Artist Residency, Milly-la-Forêt
2023 Recipient of Fund for Korean Art Abroad (FKAA), Korea Arts Management Service (KAMS)
2019 Final Nominee of CURRENT:LA Food Biennial, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affair
2018 Recipient of Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant
FAIRS
2023 Art-o-rama, Marseille, Bibeaukreuger
2023 The Preview, Seoul, Gallery Shilla
2019 Other Places Art Fair (OPAF), San Pedro, Harborview and Pole
TALKS
2021 Artist Talk, Murmurs, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Visiting Artist Talk, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, Canada
2018 Panel Guest, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Artist Talk with Kelly Akashi and Sterling Wells, Awhrhwar, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Guest Artist Lecture, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
SELECTED PRESS
2023 Art-o-rama Marseille 2023 Roundup, Mitch Speed. MOUSSE. Sep, 2023
2023 ART-O-RAMA 2023, Thomas Conchou. PROJECTS. Sep, 2023
2023 Inside South Korea’s Art-Mad Capital, Andrew Russeth. The New York Times. Jan, 2023
2022 Artist Interrogates Orientalism Through Fermented Soy, Yuna Park. The Korea Herald. Dec, 2022
2022 Existing Is Resisting, CARLA. Issue 29. April, 2022
2022 A Moving New Exhibition Pays Tribute to Christina Yuna Lee’s Start in the Art World, Harley Wong. Artsy. April, 2022
2022 The Art Gallery Where CHRISTINA YUNA LEE Once Worked Honors Her Life and Legacy, CNN Style. April, 2022
2022 Commemorating The Life Of CHRISTINA YUNA LEE. HYPERALLERGIC. April, 2022
2022 What To See In N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now. The New York Times. April, 2022
2022 Interview with Haena Yoo, Stephanie Mei Huang, issue 27. CARLA. March, 2022
2021 The Meaning Factory, Reuben Merringer. X-TRA. December, 2021
2021 Spelunking Through “Substrata” AEQAI. 2021
2021 Preston Zappas, Lindsay. Substrata’ at Epoch Gallery. KCRW. January 26, 2021
2021 Memories of Myst: Substrata, a new artist-run virtual exhibition, is like entering a magical afterlife. The Art Newspaper. March 12 2021
2019 Erin Calla Watson & Haena Yoo, Christina Catherine Martinez, issue 58. ARTFORUM. Feb, 2020
2019 The Birth of Venus, Nozomu Matsumoto. issue 17. EBM
2018 It’s Snowing in LA at AALA Gallery, Mattew Lax, Don’t make everything boring. issue 13. CARLA
2018 Synthetic Snow and 100 Degree Heat, Kathleen Deems. Curate LA. July 12, 2018
2018 Announcing the 2018 Emerging Artist Grantees in Los Angeles. ARTFORUM. Feb 2, 2018
2018 In Pictures: Discover the Next Wave of Los Angeles Contemporary Artists at GLAMFA, Asia Morris. Long Beach Post. January 24, 2018