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 and Two Person Exhibitions

2023

"Yunhee Min," Miles McEnery, New York, NY

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

Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, New York, NY

2015

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

Site-specific installation, Inaugural exhibition, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2012

Installation at the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

2010

Attraction, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA

2008

Yunhee Min: Continuum: Structure #003, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA

James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA

2007

The City of the Future: A Design and Engineering Challenge, Los Angeles Competition, Harvard

Graduate School of Design Team participation, Sponsored by History Channel

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

"Fading Wild", Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, Texas

Double Positive", ArtPace, San Antonio, TX

2003

James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

"Corrugate", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2002

Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA

2001

James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA

2000

ACME, Los Angeles, CA

1999

Plug In, Winnipeg, Canada

Sala Diaz, San Antonio, TX

1998

Post, Los Angeles, CA

1997

LASCA, Los Angeles, CA

1996

ACME, Santa Monica, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

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

The Trans-Aestheticization of Daily Life, Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, CA

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

Windows on Wilshire, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Curated by Howard Fox Los Angeles, CA

1997

Yunhee Min / Lise Soskolne, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Agent Orange (Elevator Installation), POST, Los Angeles, CA

Ambient Suburbs, POST, Curated by Julie Joyce, Los Angeles, CA

1996

Human Condition, Caren Golden Fine Art, Curated by Bennett Roberts, New York, NY

The Full Moon Gallery, Foundation for Art Resources (FAR), Los Angeles, CA

Bibliography

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

Teaching Experience

2013 - Present

University of California Riverside, Associate Professor, Riverside, CA

2009-2013

Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Assistant Professor, Vancouver, BC, Canada

2006-2008

Vermont College of Fine Arts, Visiting Artist, Montpelier, VT

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Lecturer, Boston, MA

Visual and Environmental Studies, Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2005

University of California, Lecturer, San Diego, San Diego, CA

2004

University of Texas San Antonio, Visiting Artist, San Antonio, TX

2003

Otis College of Art and Design, Lecturer, Los Angeles, CA

Art Center College of Design, Lecturer, Pasadena, CA

2002

Art Center College of Design, Lecturer, Pasadena, CA

University of California, Irvine, Lecturer, Irvine, CA

2001

Otis College of Art and Design, Lecturer, Los Angeles, CA

2000

Otis College of Art and Design, Lecturer, Los Angeles, CA

1998

California Institute of the Arts, Visiting Artist, Valencia, CA

Otis College of Art and Design, Lecturer, Los Angeles, CA

1996

University of California, Los Angeles, Lecturer, Los Angeles, CA

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2022

Guggenheim Fellowship, Fine Art

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

Public Collections

2023

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, Washington