Youngshin Yook (South Korea) is an art historian who studies the media history of artistic labor through gendered and decolonial lenses. Her research and dissertation explore ways to reimagine ink painting as a malleable medium, rather than one confined by traditionalism or ethno-nationalism, and to reposition it within modern and contemporary art history. 

As a Brooks International Fellow at the Delfina Foundation and Tate Modern, Youngshin will research Asian artists and diasporas active in 1960s Britain and beyond, focusing on those whose work engaged with ink painting as material, method, or conceptual worldview. Rather than framing their practices through rhetorical binarism such as East and West, she will examine how their work was mediated by or collided with the artistic, geopolitical, and scientific currents of the time. 

Youngshin recently published article in Orientations magazine, on the ink abstractions of Hong Xian (Margaret Chang), a female member of Fifth Moon Group in postwar Taiwan, and is currently serving as associate editor of Primary Documents: Korea, a forthcoming anthology of critical writings on modern and contemporary Korean art from the Museum of Modern Art, New York. 

Youngshin was born in Korea and is based in Seoul, Korea, and Ann Arbor, USA. 

With support from:

The Brooks International Fellowship Programme

In partnership with:

Tate

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