Hongil Yoon

Arts & Humanities (MFA)
A portrait with short black hair wearing a dark outfit stands beside a colorful abstract painting mounted on a white wall
A large multi-panel abstract painting displayed on a white gallery wall, featuring fragmented geometric forms in deep purples, blues, and muted tones, with a small black-and-white digital screen embedded between panels.
A large multi-panel abstract painting displayed on a white gallery wall, featuring fragmented geometric forms in deep purples, blues, and muted tones, with a small black-and-white digital screen embedded between panels.
The Heart of Bacchus, 2025, Oil on canvas and film on iPhone, 144 x 292 (cm).
A colorful abstract painting with geometric and fragmented forms in soft pinks, blues, and purples is displayed between two tall windows.
A colorful abstract painting with geometric and fragmented forms in soft pinks, blues, and purples is displayed between two tall windows.
Where It Withers, 2025, Oil on canvas, 54 x 96 (cm).
An abstract geometric painting featuring layered translucent shapes in soft pastel tones of green, purple, blue, and peach, mounted on a clean white gallery wall.
An abstract geometric painting featuring layered translucent shapes in soft pastel tones of green, purple, blue, and peach, mounted on a clean white gallery wall.
A Void Room, 2025, Oil on canvas, 63 x 112 (cm).
A painting featuring a softly rendered figure seen from behind, partially obscured by translucent geometric panels in shades of pink, peach, and deep red, creating a sense of depth and quiet introspection.
A painting featuring a softly rendered figure seen from behind, partially obscured by translucent geometric panels in shades of pink, peach, and deep red, creating a sense of depth and quiet introspection.
Slip, Oil on canvas, 2025, 45 x 80 (cm).
A large multi-panel abstract painting displayed on a white gallery wall, featuring fragmented geometric forms in deep purples, blues, and muted tones, with a small black-and-white digital screen embedded between panels.
A colorful abstract painting with geometric and fragmented forms in soft pinks, blues, and purples is displayed between two tall windows.
An abstract geometric painting featuring layered translucent shapes in soft pastel tones of green, purple, blue, and peach, mounted on a clean white gallery wall.
A painting featuring a softly rendered figure seen from behind, partially obscured by translucent geometric panels in shades of pink, peach, and deep red, creating a sense of depth and quiet introspection.

About

Hongil Yoon(b.1993) traces the drifting residues of emotion that elude capture within the accelerated, image-saturated terrain of contemporary visual culture. His practice manifests as a durational attentiveness to emotional undercurrents—a quiet excavation of affect, following the nearly imperceptible cracks that emerge between personal memory and collective forgetting, between self and society.

Rather than dramatising pain or loss, Yoon turns toward forgotten sensations – quiet residues that slowly settle in the depths of consciousness and linger beyond the edges of memory and time. He does not seek to resolve or expose, but instead remains alongside them, dwelling in the unstable threshold between presence and absence, where memory trembles and identity disperses.

Through this practice, Yoon renders visible the uncertain identities that reside in immaterial, psychological spaces, attending to what disappears without inscription or witness. His work echoes with the minor, the unvoiced, the overlooked- the fragile murmur of what remains unspoken, offering a space for fugitive sensations to resurface, however fleetingly.

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