About Sae Yeoun Hwang

Sae Yeoun Hwang (b. 1994) is an artist living and working between London and Seoul. She gained her MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2020. Through her practice, she creates non-linear visual stories, and questions the role of humour and how it functions. She has featured in a number of shows across the UK, including: CIRCA, London, FOLD Gallery, London, and Hockney Gallery, London.

Hwang’s work explores the thin line between personal experience and universality. It is a collection of memories, experiences, and imagination, exploring both micro and macro aspects of self and life. Growing up in multiple different cultures, the artist describes often being seen as an Asian immigrant in Western eyes. Through living as the perpetual other in society, she gained a certain perspective on these cultural formations. Such experiences also made her look back on her childhood memories in order to relate back to her own culture. Through this, the artist developed a particular interest in narrative and comedy, as understanding the joke, and further, the context, reveals the viewer’s socio-economic, cultural and political understanding, and questions the root of the joke itself.

Education 

2020 Royal College of Art, London, MA Fine Art

2017 Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, BA Fine Art 

Selected Exhibitions

2020 no-longer-being-able-to-be-able, curated by Hang Li, Skelf (online)

2020 CIRCA 2020 Showcase, Piccadilly Lights, London

2020 50/50, FOLD Gallery, London

2020 RCA 2020, Royal College of Art, London

2020 Snapshot, Hockney Gallery, London

2019 NYAP 50th Anniversary Exhibition, NY ARTS PROGRAM, New York

2019 Fetari Series 1: Womxn of Colour, The Jago, London

2019 Patch of Green in London, Cookhouse Gallery, London

2017 Memoria: Senior Exhibition, Leeds Gallery, Richmond, Indiana

2016 118th Juried Annual Exhibition of Richmond and Area Artists, juried by Mark Ruschman, Richmond Art Museum, Richmond, Indiana