Hello, Iโm Yubi.
Born in Seoul, Yubi has lived in Japan, New Zealand, England, and the United Statesโeach place leaving an imprint on how she sees and creates. This multicultural journey forms the foundation of her artistic language, where diverse influences harmonize through personal and emotional narratives.
Yubi earned her BFA in Fine Arts in Tulsa, Oklahoma, developing a strong technical and visual foundation. In London, she studied Fashion Photography, expanding her understanding of composition, fashion history, and storytelling. Later, she completed an MFA in Painting at SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design) in Atlanta, where she began merging these disciplines into a unified mixed media practice.
Today, Yubiโs work intertwines painting, photography, and mixed materials to explore identity, the inner child, and the unconscious. Rooted in her Korean heritage and shaped by cross-cultural experiences, her art creates visual dialogues between inner and outer worldsโrevealing the beauty of self-acceptance and the interconnectedness that unites us all.
์์ธ์์ ํ์ด๋ ์ผ๋ณธ, ๋ด์ง๋๋, ์๊ตญ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์ ์ด์์จ ์ ๋ ๊ฐ ๋๋ผ์ ๋ฌธํ๊ฐ ์ ์ ์๊ฐ๊ณผ ์์ ์ ์ธ์ด์ ๊น์ด ์ค๋ฉฐ๋ค์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ๋ค๋ฌธํ์ ์ฌ์ ์ ์๋ก ๋ค๋ฅธ ๊ฐ์ฑ๊ณผ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์กฐํ๋กญ๊ฒ ์ด์ฐ๋ฌ์ง๋ ์์ ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ด ๋์์ต๋๋ค.
์คํด๋ผํธ๋ง ํธ์ฌ์์ ์์๋ฏธ์ ์ ์ ๊ณตํ๋ฉฐ ํํ์ ๊ธฐ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ค์ก๊ณ , ๋ฐ๋์์๋ ํจ์ ์ฌ์ง์ ๊ณต๋ถํ๋ฉฐ ๊ตฌ์ฑ๊ณผ ์คํ ๋ฆฌํ ๋ง์ ๋ํ ์ดํด๋ฅผ ํ์ฅํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ดํ ์ ํ๋ํ์ SCAD(Savannah College of Art and Design)์์ ํํ MFA๋ฅผ ์ทจ๋ํ๋ฉฐ, ํํ์ ์ฌ์ง์ ๊ฒฐํฉํ ํผํฉ ๋งค์ฒด ์์ ์ ๋ฐ์ ์์ผฐ์ต๋๋ค.
ํ์ฌ ์ ์ ์์ ์ ํํ, ์ฌ์ง, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ค์ํ ์ฌ๋ฃ๋ฅผ ๊ฒฐํฉํด ์ ์ฒด์ฑ๊ณผ ๋ด๋ฉด์์ด, ๋ฌด์์์ ํ์ ํ๊ตฌํฉ๋๋ค. ํ๊ตญ์ ์ ์ฒด์ฑ๊ณผ ๋ค๋ฌธํ์ ๊ฒฝํ์ ๋ฐํ์ผ๋ก ๋ด๋ฉด๊ณผ ์ธ๋ถ ์ธ๊ณ๋ฅผ ์๋ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ํ๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ค์ด๋ด๋ฉฐ, โ์์ฉ์ ์๋ฆ๋ค์โ๊ณผ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฐ๊ฒฐํ๋ ๊ด๊ณ์ฑ์ ๋๋ฌ๋ด๊ณ ์ ํฉ๋๋ค.
My artistic journey, deeply inspired by Carl Jung, leads me to reconnect with my inner child and the hidden landscapes within. Through photo collage, molding paste, dried flowers, and paint, I transform fragments of my unconscious into visual expressions of healing and self-discovery.
Rooted in reverence for Hanbok, I reinterpret this traditional Korean attire as a contemporary form of expressionโbridging heritage, modernity, and personal narrative. My works, inspired by gardens and the ocean, explore the fluidity of emotion and the quiet resilience of growth. โEternal Growthโ reflects the enduring dialogue between decay and renewalโlife continuously unfolding from stillness and sorrow into new inner gardens.
์ ์ ์์ ์ฌ์ ์ ์นผ ์ต(Carl Jung)์ ์ฌ์์ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ฐ์, ๋ด๋ฉด์์ด์ ์จ๊ฒจ์ง ํ๊ฒฝ์ผ๋ก ๋ค์ ์ฐ๊ฒฐ๋๋ ๊ณผ์ ์
๋๋ค. ์ฌ์ง ์ฝ๋ผ์ฃผ, ๋ชฐ๋ฉ ํ์ด์คํธ, ๋๋ผ์ด ํ๋ผ์, ๋ฌผ๊ฐ์ผ๋ก ๋ฌด์์์ ํํธ๋ค์ ์น์ ์ ์๊ธฐ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌ์ ์๊ฐ์ ์ธ์ด๋ก ๋ณ๋ชจ์ํต๋๋ค.
ํ๋ณต์ ๋ํ ๊น์ ์กด๊ฒฝ์ ๋ฐํ์ผ๋ก, ์ ํต๊ณผ ํ๋, ๊ฐ์ธ์ ์์ฌ๋ฅผ ์๋ ์๋ก์ด ํํ์ผ๋ก ์ฌํด์ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ ์๊ณผ ๋ฐ๋ค์์ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ฐ์ ์์
๋ค์ ๊ฐ์ ์ ์ ๋์ฑ๊ณผ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ์กฐ์ฉํ ํ๋ณต๋ ฅ์ ํ๊ตฌํฉ๋๋ค. โ์์ํ ์ฑ์ฅ(Eternal Growth)โ์ ์ ํด์ ์ฌ์ ์ฌ์ด์ ๋์์๋ ๋ํ๋ฅผ ๋ด์, ๊ณ ์์ ์ฌํ ์์์๋ ํผ์ด๋๋ ๋ด๋ฉด์ ์ ์์ ์์งํฉ๋๋ค.
Education
2021 - 2024 MFA in Painting, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
2017 - 2019 MA in Fashion Photography, University Arts London, London, United Kingdom
2014 - 2017 BA in Studio Art, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
2012 Associates Degree in Japanese, Tulsa Community College, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
Solo Exhibitions
2026
6/5-7/5 Yubi Lee Featured Artist Show โSecret Guardiansโ at Gustein Gallery, Savannah, GA
2/7-3/28 4/11-5/2 Yubi Lee Solo Show โSecret Guardiansโ at Bori Gallery, Houston, OK
2/7-3/28 Yubi Lee Solo Show โSecret Guardiansโ at Yubi Studio Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2025
1/11-2/2 Yubi Lee Solo Show โSecret Underwater Gardensโ at Gallery Chimera, Atlanta, GA
2024
4/20-4/25 Yubi Lee Thesis Solo Show โEchoes of Unconsciousโ at Bakery Atlanta 4/20-4/25, Atlanta, GA
Group Exhibitions
2025
9/6 High Museum Atlanta, โKorean Creatives then and Nowโ Public Conversation celebrating Kim Chong Hakโs exhibit and Korean culture
3/8-3/29 โPrimaveraโ Art Exhibit at Eleventh Hour Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2024
7/13-8/26 Group Art Show โSummer Urban Vibesโ Exhibit at Chimera Gallery Atlanta
7/11-8/11 Fashion/Art Brand Concept Orca Gallery Artist Representative Atlanta
5/28-7/22 Atlanta Photography Gallery, Group Exhibit โAsian Contemporary Photography Exhibitionโ
4/30-5/30 AAPI Coca-Cola Headquarters x SCAD Art Exhibit for Asian American Pacific Islander Month, Private reception 5/23
5/14-7/3 SCAD Savannah Gustein Gallery Group Exhibit โHere and Thereโ
5/2 AAPI Asian & Pacific American Heritage Month Atlanta City Hall Vendors&Artist Event Exhibit
3/29 Atlanta Artist Forum March Women History month exhibition Group Exhibition, Atlanta
2023
SCAD deFineART Photography and Fine art show exhibition 2/13 - 3/24, Savannah
2017-2022
2019 London College of Fashion 2019 MA Fashion Photograph Graduates Photography Exhibition, London, United Kingdom
2018 Cover & Artist publication for Elegant Magazine May Issue, London, United KIngdom
2018 KayGod Magazine Spring Summer April Issue, London, United KIngdom
2018 Cover Publication for Rise Magazine April Issue, London, United KIngdom
Awards
2024 Art Piece โGonji/Entering the Sanctuaryโ purchased by Coca-Cola for Permanent collection
2024 9-17-12/1 1st Place for Korean American Artist of Washington State(KAAW) Juried Annual Exhibit Seattle
2024 7/13-8/26 1st Place for โSummer Urban Vibesโ Exhibit at Chimera Gallery Atlanta
2023 Fall Ben E.Shute Endowed scholarship Atlanta campus Recipient, Atlanta
2022 SCAD International Fair Art Exhibition โFar From Homeโ 4/14, Grand Prize for Atlanta Campus, Savannah
2017 Light & Space Womenโs Artist Competition Special Merits Award โPerennial Bride,โ online exhibit
2017 Light & Space Womenโs Artist Competition Special Merits Award โBreathing Away,โ online exhibit