Yoon Byoungjoo
Born in 1984 in Seoul, Korea, Yoon Byoungjoo studied photography at Seoul Institute of Arts where he began exploring various characteristics of photography, including its documentary attributes, based around the theme of Hwaseong, a city in Gyeonggi-do. The artist has presented at a number of group exhibitions such as Museum Scandal held at the Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art in 2011 and FF2 (2012) at Michael Schultz Gallery Seoul, and he has held several solo exhibitions including Exploration of Hwaseong (2014, Space Willing N Dealing) and Mark on Hwaseong (2014, SongEun Art Cube). With his young, experimental viewpoint, Yoon is actively working on his artworks, and he was awarded the Mirae Award by ParkGeonhi Foundation in 2013 and the Selected Artists at the 36th Joongang Fine Arts Prize in 2014.