Born in Seoul, KR
Currently based in Jeju, KR + unlearningspace.com
studio@yoeryou.com
@whyryou
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Yo-E Ryou is an artist, researcher, and educator based on Jeju Island, South Korea. Working across moving image, sound, performance, and text, she reimagines language through a hydrofeminist lens. Attuning to the constantly shifting relations between bodies of water and bodies of women, her practice explores how stories can be felt, remembered, and carried through the senses. Rooted in hydrofeminist and decolonial methodologies, her work traces alternative ways of listening, speaking, reading, and writing—forming sensorial archives that resist extractive systems of knowledge.She runs Unlearning Space, an artist-led platform for collective research and dialogue, where submerged histories and embodied memories resurface through shared acts of attention. She holds degrees from Yale University and the Rhode Island School of Design.
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요이는 제주를 기반으로 활동하는 예술가이자 연구자, 교육자이다. 다양한 매체를 빌려 하이드로페미니스트의 시선에서 언어를 새롭게 상상한다. 끊임없이 변화하고 순환하는 환경 속에서 경계의 유동성을 사유하며, 기존의 구조에서 발화되지 못했던 물과 여성의 몸이 지닌 감각적 기억과 관계를 꺼내어 엮는 대안적 듣기, 말하기, 읽기와 쓰기를 실험한다.
예일대학교와 리즈디에서 시각 예술과 디자인을 공부하고 Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum, State University of New York, Purchase College, London College of Arts, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Paju Typography Institute, UN Women 등 에서 다양한 종류의 협업과 강의를 했다. 현재 언러닝스페이스Unlearning Space에서 예술 작업에 기반한 리서치, 리서치에 기반한 예술 작업을 통해, 예술가, 교육자, 연구자로서의 활동을 균형 있게 이어가고 있다.
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Education
Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT. MFA. 2018
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. BFA. 2012
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Selected solo, group exhibitions + screenings
2025
(upcoming) The 25th SongEun Art Award Exhibition, Seoul, Korea 2025.12-2026.2
Musée du Quai Branly | LE FRESNOY, LAURÉATE RÉSIDENCE SONORE, France, 2025-2026
Breath Orchestra, Act 5-6, Performance as part of WINDMILL AIR, Windmill, Seoul. 2025.9.27
Washingtonia, screening program, saetangraum, Jeju, Korea. 2025.9.27-11.15
Life on Earth: Art and Ecofeminism, West, The Hague, NL. 2025.2.28-7.27
Performance, Breath Orchestra, Act 4: Resonant Bodies, as part of Touchy Feely: Seoul, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul. 2025.7.25
Manifesto for Sustainable Experimentation, international screening program curated by A.L. Steiner, Beaconsfield, London, UK 2025.5.21-8.9
Yo-E Ryou Solo Exhibition: Breath Pause, Forever Gallery, Seoul, KR. 2025.4.19-4.26
2024
Boundless: Language of the soul, Jeju gallery, Seoul, KR. 2024.12.7-29
Life on Earth: Art and Ecofeminism, The Brick, Los Angeles, CA. USA. 2024.9.15-12.21
Gangwon International Triennale 2024, Ecological Art from Beneath: Learning from Ant Tunnels. Gangwon, Korea. 2024.9.26-10.27
2024 Yeosu International Art Festival, Soul food and black cocktail, Yeosu, Korea. 2024.08.30-10.3
2023
Yo-E Ryou Solo Exhibition: Why I Swim, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea. 2023.5.11-6.12
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Teaching Experience
2023-present Lecturer, Foundation Visual Language, Paju Typography Institute, KR
2022 Visual Language Practice, Special Lecturer, London College of Communication, UK
2022 Lecturer, Foundation Design Workshop, Paju Typography Institute, KR
2022 Thesis Design Project Visiting Designer, Northeastern University College of Arts, Media and Design, US
2021 Lecturer, Visual Language Workshop, Paju Typography Institute, KR
2020 Lecturer, Moving Image Method: Screen-based graphic course, Paju Typography Institute, KR
2018-2020 Adjunct Faculty, Visual Language, Visual Art and Design Department, State University of New York, Purchase College, Harrison, NY
2020 Visiting Artist Workshop, Me, Myself, and I, Paju Typography Institute, KR
2018 Graduate Fellow, Blended Reality, Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, New Haven, CT
2017 Assistant Teacher, Moving Image Method, Graduate Seminar, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2016 Visiting Designer Workshop, American Institute of Graphic Artists, Design by Friendship, St.Louis, MO
2015 Visiting Critic, Concrete Books, Graphic Design Department, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI