Kyung Youl Yoon is an artist from Seoul, South Korea, who eventually moved to El Madrid, Spain, in the late 1980s for his art education. He finished his studies of painting and printmaking at the University of Bellas Artes in Spain and then continued his artist’s career in Spain and Europe for 7 years. Yoon migrated to America in 1995, and he is still continuing his art career. He is currently living and working as an artist in New Jersey. And his art exhibitions take place in New Jersey, New York, and recently Shanghai, China. Yoon works with oil-based paint, acrylic paint, watercolor paint, plexi-glass, mirrors, mixed media (brass, gold, aluminum, bamboo, hanji, and paper), and printmaking to create artworks. He tries to express his internal self, emotions, imagination, thoughts, and mind through his paintings; which are metaphorically expressed as an existence in a vast world, diminishing echoes, marks, and textures become seeds and new forms of a meaningful river. His motives can be seen in Pleasing Abstraction, Poetry of Metaphors, Approach, Itinerant Life, Elegy of April, Artist’s Sketch, and Distance between Form and Aspect. Yoon’s Pleasing Abstraction approached to viewers as a pleasure and joy, while his motive came from his agonizing and distressful reality and life.

Yoon was selected for exhibition at the Dongah Daily News Exhibition at National Modern Art Museum, and participated K.I.S. International Modern Art Exhibition in KoonSan. Starting from 1985 to 1988, Yoon was invited to exhibit his works at Seoul Modern Art Exhibition at Seoul Art Museum.

During his 7 years of works in Spain, Yoon was awarded with the First Prize at Summer Workshop Competition in Spain. The artist’s works were exhibited in “End of Career” and “Monasterio de Carracedo” at the University of Bellas Artes. In 1994, Yoon was invited by the City of Valdés arte O Barco de Valdeorras to do an exhibition of his works, and he was chosen by Exmo in Spain, which his exhibition was sponsored. With an art critique’s recommendation, ABC and El Pais Newspaper’s sponsors, Yoon was able to have exchange exhibition, “ESTE Y COMPLUTESE,” at various cultural centers like M.E.A.C., Arte Contemporaneo and Alcobendas for 2 years.

After moving into America in 1995, a year after that, his first solo exhibition took place at Seoul Arts Center, Gallery Icon, in Korea. His selected exhibitions include Jain Marunouchi Gallery NY, JS Sun Gallery NY, and Chelsea Art Walk New York, and Art Forum Gallery in 2008, KCC Invitational Exhibition. New York Blue Hill Cultural Art Center has invited Kyung Youl for 12 artists exhibition, and in 2011 and 2012, he has participated Scope Art Fair in New York and Miami, Florida. His Pleasing Abstraction solo exhibition was held in 2013 at Riverside Gallery.

In September, 2013, Shanghai Liu Haisu Art Museum has invited him to have a special solo exhibition there; he also had his exhibition at Shanghai Tosan Museum, and Shanghai Grand Theater Gallery. During the Asian Week in 2014, his works were exhibited at Artosino Gallery in New York, and he joined 2014 Kiaf International Art Fair in Seoul, Korea.

Followed by Total International Belskie Museum of Art, his work was also exhibited the Queens Museum in New York, Gallery Korea, NY, 2014 Archive of Korean-American Artists Part Two, 1989-2001 Shades of Time, 2015 Prospecting at Riverside Gallery, and SIA Gallery in Chelsea New  

These recent achievements continue an artistic trajectory that began in Korea in the 1980s, developed through Yoon’s years of study and artistic practice in Spain and Europe, and continued after his move to the United States in 1995. Through Cubic Inception, Yoon continues his longstanding investigation into material, structure, light, and space, expanding the possibilities of painting into the realms of sculpture and architectural space.

Yoon’s artworks were acknowledged and recognized by critics; the reviews of the artist Kyung Youl Yoon and the works of art were publicized and released to various magazines and newspapers. His reviews include, Newsis, Shanghai Journal, Koalife Magazine, Korea Daily for June, 2013, Newsroh, and Shanghai Artists Magazine for 2013 No.4.

In recent years, Kyung Youl Yoon’s work has received renewed attention in New York. In 2025, he presented the solo exhibition A Transcendent Eye at the Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Gallery in New York City, featuring works from his signature Cubic Inception series and highlighting his continuing exploration of the boundaries between painting and sculpture. Art critic Richard Vine subsequently published a review of the exhibition and Yoon’s work in Whitehot

Magazine.

In 2026, Yoon was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship in Painting from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. The fellowship recognizes artistic excellence through a competitive, independent peer-review process.