Yunhee Min | VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES

: Born in Seoul, Korea
: Lives and works in Los Angeles, California

2007: MA, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Design Studies
1993: Kunstakademie, Dusseldorf, Germany
1991: BFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025: "Stills," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2023: "New Paintings," Miles McEnery, New York, NY
2022: “You Are Here,” Metro Purple Line, Westwood/UCLA Station (Planned Completion Date 2027)
2021: "Vitreous Opacities," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2020: "Up Close in Distance," Gallery Platform LA, online
2019: "Hammer Projects: Yunhee Min," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2018: "Yunhee Min & Peter Tolkin: Red Carpet in C," University of California, Riverside, Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, CA
: "Wilde Paintings," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2016: "movements," Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, New York, NY
2015: "movements," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: "Luminaire Delirium (Equitable Life or soft machine)," Equitable Vitrines, Los Angeles, CA
2013: "Into the Sun," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
: ""Shades for Night," Site-specific installation, Inaugural exhibition, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012: “For Instance,” Site-specific installation, Lindbrook Terrace, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2010: "Attraction," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2009: "Yunhee Min: Continuum: Structure #003," LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
2008: "Yunhee Min: For instance," The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, The Amie and Tony James Gallery, New York, NY
: "Claire Cowie and Yunhee Min,” James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
2007: Graduate School of Design Team participation, Sponsored by History Channel
: The City of the Future: A Design and Engineering Challenge, Los Angeles Competition, Harvard
2006: "Yunhee Min: Above and Beyond (x, y, z)," Pasadena Museum of Contemporary Art, CA
2005: "Distance is Like the Future, Circa Series: Yunhee Min", Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
: "another country", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: iT House, OutFiT Design for TaalmanKoch Architecture
2004: “Difference and Repetition (Invisible Cities)," Microsoft Corporation, Redmond Campus, WA
: "Fading Wild", Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
: "Double Positive", ArtPace, San Antonio, TX
2003: James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
: "Out of Bounds (from here and afar)," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
: "Corrugate", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2002: "Events in Dense Fog," Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
2001: "Recline," James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
2000: ACME, Los Angeles, CA
1999: "I Put a Spell on You Too," Plug In, Winnipeg, Canada
: "Tugboat," Sala Diaz, San Antonio, TX
1998: "Work in two and three dimensions," Post, Los Angeles, CA
: "Windows on Wilshire," LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
1997: "One Foot in Front of the Other," Or gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1996: "Between the Sheets," The Full Moon Gallery, Foundation for Art Resources (FAR), Los Angeles, CA
1997: “Agent Orange,” Site Specific Installation, POST, Los Angeles, CA
: "Home Improvement Paintings,” LASCA, Los Angeles, CA
1996: "Fast times," ACME, Santa Monica, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024-2025: "All Bangers, All The Time," Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
2024: "15 Years of Artist Curated Projects," Morán Morán, Los Angeles, CA
: "Pacific Abstractions," Perrotin, Los Angeles, CA
2021: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2019: "The light touch," Vielmetter Los Angeles, CA
2018: “Evolver,” LA Louver, Los Angeles, CA
: “Belief in Giants,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (Link)
2016: “L.A. Exuberance: New Gifts by Artists,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2015: "Elemental | Seeing the Light," Sturt Haaga Gallery, Descanso Gardens, Los Angeles, CA
: "Magic Mountain," Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara Satellite, Santa Barbara, CA
: "Speed Space," Tif Sigfrids, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Alexandra Gaty
2013: "Spectra," San Diego State University Downtown Gallery, San Diego, CA
2012: "Lost Line: Contemporary Art From the Collection," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2011: "Plain Brown Wrapper," curated by Molly Larkey, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
2010: "WP9," Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008: "Claire Cowie: 12 Views || Yunhee Min: New Paintings," James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
: "People Weekly," the Amie and Tony James Gallery at the Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York, NY
: "Digital With Monument," The Silver Shed, New York, NY
2007: "Merit Badge 2," Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY (Curated by Jason Middlebrook)
: "The Trans-Aestheticization of Daily Life," Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, CA, Curated by Peter Zeller
2006: "Too Much Love," Angles Gallery, Curated by Amy Adler
2005: "Wall Painting," UTSA Art Gallery at the University of Texas at San Antonio, curated by Frances Colpitt
: "Around About Abstraction:" Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro, NC
: "20 Scene 05," Korean American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2004: "Difference and Repetition (Invisible Cities)," Microsoft Corporation at Redmond, WA
: "New," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Inaugural exhibition Culver City space, Culver City, CA
: "Yunhee Min – Herbert Hamak", ArtSource, San Francisco, CA
2003: "Warped Space", CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, Curated by Ralph Rugoff
: "International Abstraction: Making Painting Real", Seattle Art Museum, Curated by Lisa Corrin, Seattle WA
: "Abstruction", Artists Space, Curated by Eungie Joo, New York, NY
2001: "Cal’s Art," University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, TX
: "Rogue Wave," LA Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
: "Snap Shot," UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, FL
: "Curious, Altoids Collection," The New Museum, New York, NY
2000: "The Next Wave," California Center for the Arts, Escondido, Curated by Noriko Gamblin, Escondido, CA
: "KOREAMERICAKOREA," Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Curated by David Ross & Sun-Jung Kim, Seoul, Korea; Traveled to KyungJu, Korea
: "Deterritorialization of Process," Artists Space, Curated by Michael Joo, New York, NY
: "Shimmer," Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Curated by Thomas Lawson, Los Angeles, CA
1999: "Hubcap Diamond Star Halo," Claremont Graduate University, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Curated by Leonardo Bravo and Christopher Miles, Claremont, CA
: "Other Paintings," Huntington Beach Art Center, curated by Julie Joyce, Los Angeles, CA
: "Structural Elements, Views of Architecture and Architectural Elements," Transamerica Pyramid Lobby, San Francisco, CA
: "Under 500/Intimate Abstract Painting,’ the Black Dragon Society, curated by James Hayward, Los Angeles, CA
: "After the Goldrush," Thread Waxing Space, curated by Joe Wallin & Lea Gongitano, New York, NY
1998: "Wings of Desire," San Francisco Art Institute, Walter/McBean Gallery, Curated by Michelle Guy, San Francisco, CA
1997: "Yunhee Min / Lise Soskolne," Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
: "Freeze," W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands
: "Ambient Suburbs," POST, Curated by Julie Joyce, Los Angeles, CA
1996: "Human Condition," Caren Golden Fine Art, Curated by Bennett Roberts, New York, NY

Bibliography

2025: Graham, Annabel. "Beyond Language," The Panafold, Fall/Winter 2025
2022: Min, Yunhee. "Abstraction," The Brooklyn Rail, July (Link)
2021: Zappas, Lindsay Preston. " Yunhee Min at Vielmetter Los Angeles," KCRW, July & August 2021 (Link)
2019: Walter, Alexander. "10 engaging architectural installations for your Friday inspiration," Archinet, May 3 (Link)
: Leung, Phillip. "Hammer Museum installation delivers vibrant, sensory experience," Daily Bruin, April 25 (Link)
2018: Brien, Patrick. "Four years in the making, massive Riverside exhibit blends art, architecture," The Press-Entreprise, November 22 (Link)
: Nash, David. "Kendall Wilkinson Outfits the $15.5 Million Penthouse at San Francisco’s 181 Fremont," Architectural Digest, October 30 (Link)
: Weber, Jessica, "Rolling Out the ‘Red Carpet’," UCR News, October 1 (Link)
: Stallings, Tyler, "Red Carpet in C at UCR ARTS Blurs Boundaries of Art and Architecture," KCET, September 4 (Link)
: "UCR Arts Exhibition Blurs Boundaries of Art and Architecture," UCR Today (web), August 16 (Link)
: “Yunhee Min’s ‘Wilde Paintings’ at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects,” Modern Painters, June
2016: Keefe, Alexander, “Yunhee Min: Equitable Vitrines,” Artforum, March
: “Yunhee Min | Artist,” Curator (web), March 26
: Price, Matthew, “Yunhee Min,” Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting, Phaidon
2015: Vankin, Deborah, Descanso Gardens Elemental Exhibition Looks at Art in Different Light, Los Angeles Times, February 14
: Goldman, Edward, Septemer LA, a Bursting Art Scene, KCRW (web & radio), September 8
: Napoli, Lisa, Pass the Oak Trees and the Camellias and Youll Find Art, KCRW, January 14
2013: Enholm, Molly, "Supersaturated! Three Southern Californian Abstractionists" Art ltd, September-October
: Shaw, Michael, Art Scene, July/August 2013
: Wagley, Catherine, Yunhee Min: Into the Sun; Mary Reid Kelley, Patrick Kelley: Priapus Agonistes, LAWeekly, June 21
: Lipschutz, Yael. Art Los Angeles Contemporary, January 24- 27, 2013, Flash Art Online, January 31
: Cheh, Carol, Night Gallery Opens a New Space Downtown, Transitioning From Feisty Alternative Space to a Full-Fledged Art Experience, LA Weekly, January 24
2012: Tuck, Geoff, Yunhee Min At the Hammer Museum and at LACMA, Notes on Looking, December 20
2007: Knight, Christopher, 45 Painters Under 45, Los Angeles Times, December 2
: Knight, Christopher, They Help Make the L.A. Scene, Los Angeles Times, December 2
: Freeman, Tommy, The Trans-Aestheticization of Daily Life at the Sweeney Art Gallery, Artweek, May
2006: Yunhee Min: Above and Beyond (x,y,z), The Los Angeles Times, June 10
2005: Jaunkauskas, Jennifer. Glass Tire, October
: Firstenberg, Laurie, Another Country, Art Papers, September/October Issue
: Frank, Peter, Picks of the Week Ellen Phelan, Yunhee Min, Nadine Robinson, LA Weekly, June 16
: Pagel, David, A method to crookedness, LA Times, June 3
2004: Oliver, Retha. ARTL!ES, #45, Winter, pg 102
: Kekonen, Allen. VOA, Volume 13, Issue 1
2003: Gaines, Malik, "Yunhee Min – Yerba Buena Center for the Arts", ARTUS, November/December issue, pg 11
: Van Proyen, Mark, "Yunhee Min at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts", Artweek, October issue, Volume 34, Issue 8
: Farr, Sheila, "Mesmerizing art aims to put viewer off balance", Seattle Times, Sept. 26
: Baker, Kenneth, "Welcome to Yerba Buena’s bargain basement of summer shows", San Francisco Chronicle, July 31
: Rugoff, Ralph, "Warped Space", exhibition catalog essay, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
: de Guzman, Rene, "A piece in four parts", exhibition catalog essay, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
: Kim, Christine Y., "Color Blind", V Magazine, March / April issue
: Laird, Tessa, "Critic’s Picks", ART ON PAPER, March issue
: Worman, Alex, "L.A. Confidential", ArtNet, February
2002: LaBelle, Brandon. Contemporary, March
: Ollman, Leah. ‘The Art of Disorientation,’ LA Times, February 9, F2
2001: Knight, Christopher. ‘A Snapshot of L.A. Artists,’ LA Times, June 6, F1
: Cotter, Holland. ‘Fresh,’ NY Times, January 19, B40
2000: Knight, Christopher. ‘Catching the ‘Next Wave’ of Painters,’ LA Times, June 20, F1
: Knight, Christopher. ‘Unsteady Glow, ‘LA Times, March 17, F25
: Mahoney, Robert. ‘Deterritorialization of Process,’ Time Out, New York, Issue 233, March 9-16
: Frank, Peter. LA Weekly, March 10-16
: Cotter, Holland. ‘Deterritorialization of Process,’ NY Times, March 17, B35
: Ollman, Leah. ‘Happily Enduring Vertigo Amid Min’s Mix of Colors,’ LA Times, March 3,
: Wilson Lloyd, Ann. Art in America, January
1999: Watson, Laurie. ‘put a spell on me too,’ Tart, issue 7
: Johnson, Ken. ‘After the Gold Rush,’ NY Times, June 18, B31
: Knight, Christopher. ‘Publicly funded artists rise to the challenge,’ LA Times, June 4, F16
: Morgan, Susan. ‘The Spirit of Place: Art in Los Angeles,’ COLA Catalogue Essay, Pg 10
1998: Scott, Kitty. ‘Vertical Economy,’ Canadian Art, Spring, Pg 112
: Webster, Mary Hull. Artweek, April, Pg 19
: Baker, Kenneth. ‘ L.A. Imports at Art Institute,’ San Francisco Chronicle, February 19, E1
: Helfand, Glen. ‘Wings of Desire,’ Guardian, February
1997: Spaid, Sue. ‘Foreign Policy,’ LA Weekly, December 12-18, Pg 65
: Young, Paul. ‘On the Edge,’ LA Magazine, November, Pg 92
1996: Kandel, Susan. ‘No Way Out,’ LA Times, March 21, F10

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2024: Thomas Mann Villa Aurora Fellowship, Berlin, Germany (Link)
2022: John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, Fine Art, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, NY
2016: Creative Capacity Fund (CCF) Quick Grant Program, Los Angeles, CA
2015: UCIRA Grant (University of California Institute for Research in the Arts for a Major Grant), Riverside, CA
2013: Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, NY
2010: Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA
2009: Artist in Residence, Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeju-Do, South Korea
2008: Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Derek Bok Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2006: Alptert Ucross Residency Prize
2003: Wattis Artist in Residence, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
1999: COLA, (City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Individual Artist Grant)
1996: KAFA, Korean America Foundation for the Arts Individual Artist Grant

Teaching Experience

2013 – Present: University of California Riverside, Professor of Art, Riverside, CA

Public Collections

: Metro Art Los Angeles, UCLA/Westwood Station, Los Angeles, CA
: Orange County Museum of Art, Orange County, CA
: Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
: University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA