Arts Thread

Hongil Yoon(b.1993), currently lives and works between London and Seoul. He aims to deliver the feeling of isolation, evaluation, and loss of identity through the ambiguity of memory at the boundary between the digital and real. In his body of work, the sense and situations provided by the composition between geometric forms and the dynamism of figures imply various situations and effects that arise at the boundary between the digital and reality, where the implicit external forces fostered by collectivity collide with individuality, as the marginalised identity. Through these processes, Yoon does not merely reproduce images but instead seeks to construct new sensory strata.  He had a solo exhibition, The Blair Witch Project, at SaltSpace Cooperative Gallery in Glasgow, UK. He recently participated in group exhibitions in London, The Summer Day, Silian Gallery, Not With ______, But a Yawn, hosted by Norito Gallery, a Yawn Collective initiative, To Heaven-gate Ascend, Hypha Gallery Marble Arch, Through the Shattered Mirror of Yi Sang at Norito Gallery, Seoul Ghost at Upper Gulbenkian Hall in the Royal College of Art, and the RCA 2025 Degree Show. In addition, he attained the J D Kelly Memorial Prize for the best first year in Fine Art by The Glasgow School of Art. He holds a First Class Honours BA in Painting and Printmaking from the Glasgow School of Art (2024) and completed his MFA in Arts and Humanities at the Royal College of Art, London.