Yunju Song
Education
Born in Seoul
1974
BFA Oriental Painting, College of Fine Arts, SNU & MFA
2001
PHD Department of Fine Arts, Graduate School, SNU
2020
Professor of Fine Art Department Incheon National University
Now
Solo Exhibitions
As If They Were Present(如在), Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul
2025
Sky, Earth, and Grain, OCI Thunderbird Sogong Dream, Seoul
2024
Life-world, Artreon Gallery, Seoul
2021
Banghwasuryu(訪花隨柳), Hoam Faculty House, Seoul National University, Seoul
2020
Manchunmungwaljuindae(萬川明月主人翁), Azabujuban Gallery, Tokyo
2019
Letter in Letters(文中文), Youngeun Museum, Gwangju
2017
The World Through Images, Hanwon Museum of Art, Seoul
2015
Somoon(素文), Hoam Faculty House, Seoul National University, Seoul
2012
Trace of the Star, 63 Sky Art Gallery, Seoul
Character Landscape Painting, Gahoe-dong 60, Seoul
2011
Feast of Characters, Gallery Artside, Seoul
2007
So(素)-Undo, Gallery Dam, Seoul
2009
So(素)-Indeterminate Image, Gong Gallery, Seoul
2006
Color Expo_So(素), Coex, Seoul
2005
So(素), Chuwa Gallery, Tokyo
2004
Art Seoul_So, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
So(素), Moin Gallery, Seoul
2002
Group Exhibitions
Non-Repetitive Korean Painting: Rewriting 'Character is Painting', Maru Art Center, Seoul
2026
Art History Without Men and Korean Female Artists: Gender and Decolonization, Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul
SNU Korean Painting Exhibition: The Origin and Echoes of Korean Painting, Baegak Art Space, Seoul
FOURWARD: Four Flows Connected through Art, Kangwon National University Art Museum, Gangwon-do
ART ADDICT, Gallery Twostones, Seoul
2025
Narrow (狹) Cooperation (協) 'Hyeop', In Gahee Gallery, Seoul
Homophony and Connection, Hanbyukwon Museum of Art, Seoul
The Spring of Seven Artists, Artreon Gallery, Seoul
When Poetry Becomes Painting, Korean Cultural Center Osaka, Japan
Poetic Sentiment and Artistic Intent: Painting Woljeon, Icheon Municipal Woljeon Museum of Art, Icheon
2024
SPACE+ ART FAIR 2023: K-ART SPECIAL COLLECTION, COEX Hall C, Seoul
Gradually Going into the Mountains, Art Space Qualia, Seoul
The Boundary Between Change and Invariance, Hankuk Art Museum, Gyeonggi-do
OPEN STUDIO, Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeonggi-do
The 50th Anniversary of Korea-India Diplomatic Relations: Mass of Emptiness Korea-India 2023, Seoul Metropolitan Council Main Building Central Hall Gallery, Seoul
A Stroll through Rice Culture (米學散策), Pyeongtaek Sinri, Gyeonggi-do
2023
A Room of One's Own, Art Space Isack, Seoul
The Boundary of Images: Eras and Daily Life, Hanbyukwon Museum of Art, Seoul
THE NEW PAST, Western Gallery, Los Angeles (LA)
Contemporary Design Web Art International Exhibition, Changwon National University Gallery, Changwon
MENTOR+MENTEE, Hanwon Museum of Art, Seoul
2022
COUNTDOWN 2021, Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul
Ecology, Eco-Art and Femininity, Dongduk Art Gallery, Seoul
Uh-heung! Year of the Tiger Exhibition, Gallery Naeil, Seoul
SNU VILLA D’ART 2021, Hangaram Art Museum at Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
2021
Empathy 2020, Artreon Gallery, Seoul
Eight Views of Happiness, Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul
Forty_Lee Won Exhibition, Gallery Dos, Seoul
2020
Visual Art Exchange INU-CU in Bangkok, Chulalongkorn University Museum, Bangkok
The Moments of Meditation for the Peace, Changwon National University Johyunwuk Art Hall
Two layers of Shadow Labour, Sejong Center for the Arts, Seoul
Beulbeuldonghang(★★同行), Gunsan Art Center, Gunsan, Gwangyang Culture & Arts Center,
Gwangyang, Pohang Culture & Arts Center, Pohang
2019
Power of Lime, Artreon Gallery, Seoul
Transformative Colloquies, Korean Cultural Center, New delhi
SNU VILLA D’ART FESTIVAL 2018, Seoul Arts Center Hangaram Museum, seoul
Jeonnam International Sumuk Biennale 2018, Mokpo Culture & Arts Center, Mokpo
2018
Munwhabonillul(文化本一律), Gyeongju Solgeo Art Museum, Gyeongju
Face of Seongnam- Walking in Seongnam, Seongnam Cube Art Museum, Seongnam
Indivisible(不二): Woman & nature, Chosun Ilbo Art Museum, Seoul
Intuition 2017, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul
2017
Cre8tive Report, OCI Museum of Art, Seoul
Guanaksa 'Character' Companion Exhibition, Weifang University Art Museum, Shandong
Where Are You?, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, Korea
2016
Unfolding in Heaven, Samtan Art Mine, Jeongseon, Korea
Soma Drawing: Mindful Mindless, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul
Beyond the Borders, Korean Cultural Center, New Delhi
2015
Cheon-Ae-Yak-Bee-Rin, Incheon Educational and Cultural Center for Students, Incheon, Korea
Metamorphosis of Korean Paintings, Chosun Ilbo Art Museum, Seoul
Korean Painting, Meeting with Healing: Typhoon, the Profound Moment, Gallery Grimson, Seoul
2014
Korean Painting, Meeting with Healing: Sodong(素動), Gallery Grimson, Seoul
Drawing, Birth of Thinking, Lee & Park Gallery, Paju, Korea
Korean Contemporary Art – Being Free, Seoul Museum of Art, Seou
2013
The Road not Taken, Gail Art Museum, Yangpyeong, Korea
Creation in Art: Earth’s Insurgency – Homecoming, Revival, and Encounter, Korean Cultural Center, Berlin
2012
Artchorus – 21C Focus of Contemporary Art, Incheon Culture & Arts Center, Incheon, Korea
100 Contemporary Artists, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
MoA Invites, Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul
2011
A Tactual Map: Light, Fragile, Flexible, Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul
Art in Dialog, Seoul National University Space 599, Seoul
Blue Star, Seoul National University Gallery Fanco, Seoul
2010
Korean Contemporary Painting, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
Romance of the Three Kingdoms(三國G) – Intermediate World of Malerisch Expression, KEPCO Plaza Gallery
My First Collection, Keumsan Gallery, Paju, Korea
Five Dots, Chungmu Art Hall, Seoul
2009
Stillness by Practice, Kimi Art, Seoul
Unrhymed Verse for Ganghwa, Bupyeong History Museum, Incheon, Korea
Encounter – In Between Oriental and Western Painting, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul
2008
Residencies
Youngeun Art Studio, Gwangju, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
2017
OCI Museum of Art Residency, Incheon
2016
Awards
GGCF-The selection of Local Cultural Art Activity support, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
2017
SFAC-Artwork Support, Visual Arts Sector Selection, Seoul
2015
SOMA Drawing Center, 9th Archive Registeration, Seoul
2014
SOMA Drawing Center, 7th Archive Registeration, Seoul
2012
SFAC-Awards for Visual Arts' Creation support, Seoul
2011
SFAC-Seoul Foundation for Artists Support program, Seoul
2009
Selected, SongEun Art Award, SongEun Art Space, Seoul
2005
Selected, Grand Art Exhibition of Korea, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
1999
Selected, Grand Art Exhibition of Korea, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
1998
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
Suwon I Park Museum of Art, Suwon, Korea
Suwon District Court, Suwon
Art Bank, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Seongnam Art Bank, Seongnam, Korea
Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul
Seoul National University Hoam Faculty House, Seoul
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Seoul
Yeosu City Hall, Yeosu, Korea
Youngeun Museum, Gyeonggido Gwangju
Hanwha Hotels & Resorts, Seoul
Public Collections
Taepoong, Grimson Gallery, Seoul
2014