JOO YEON WOO
Artist Statement
Joo Yeon Woo’s studio practice is both visual and curatorial—deeply personal yet inherently collective—seeking to translate lived experience into visual form. The work grows out of the complexity of navigating two homelands and layered identities as an artist, immigrant, Asian, teacher, and mother, while resonating with broader questions of belonging and becoming, dislocation and return, void and presence—an ongoing exchange between East and West. What began as “personal” experiences has evolved into a collective and political practice, echoing the lives of many who grapple with histories of displacement and in-betweenness. Through image, gesture, and material, Woo approaches landscape as both a portrait of immigration and a site of in-betweenness, where histories, memories, and identities converge to open new possibilities for reflection.
Past Solo Exhibitions: Do Not Draw a Red Star, 2024 Sound Words, 2018
What's My Name?, 2015
Past Group Exhibitions: “Write me letters” you write to me, 2024 Sunshowers, 2023 Structures of Feeling, 2022 Fractal Nature, 2021 Forever is composed of Nows, 2020 Active directions of the mind, 2019 Facing Disjunction, 2018
Gathering Differences, 2017
In The Secret Garden, 2016
New Art In An Old House, 2016
Transformed Viewpoints, 2015
Liminal Communities, 2014 Frag.ment, 2013 The A.I.R. Gallery 9th Biennial, 2011