Ye Jin
Yang
Biography
Ye Jin Yang was born on 18 February 1999 in the Republic of Korea. She majored in Drawing and Painting at OCAD University in Toronto, Canada. Ye Jin is passionate about metaphor symbols, text art, interpreting personal experiences in an abstract painting. She creates art as self-expression to communicate with others and to form empathize. She gets inspired from quotes from a book, movies, colour palette of music videos, TV dramas and her memories and dream worlds and reinterprets the colour, composition, atmosphere, and subject matter of inspirations. The artist mentioned that art is an act of sharing and expressing individuals’ world.
Artist Statement
Ye Jin Yang practices art focusing on personal inner worlds such as emotions, memories, dream worlds, desires, and identity. All of the works are describing the themes through a metaphor with a symbol or an abstract representation. She is experimenting with diverse art mediums: watercolour, acrylics, and oils, and providing a sense of discovery of the human internal world by employing a colourful and bright palette and occasionally using muted tone. She creates a representation of various moments of human emotions that people feel in their lives using various colours and imagery to build the atmosphere that fits a theme. In her work, she seeks to communicate and share her personal experiences with her viewers to recall their own experiences similar to hers.
CV
Education
Drawing and Painting, OCAD University (2021)
Exhibitions
Gradex106, OCAD University (2021)
Volunteer Experiences
Art Museum Volunteer at Gyeongnam Art Museum (2020)
Tea Base Gardening (2019)
Student Union Events (2016-17)
Backstage Crew (2016)
Offsite Projects
Apartment Community Plaza Mural Project (2020)
School T-shirt Design (2017)
School T-shirt Degisn (2016)