Youngmin International Artist Residency Grant
Empowering the next generation
of Korean artists.
of Korean artists.
The Hanwha Foundation of Culture has been operating the Youngmin International Artist Residency Grant since 2023, in collaboration with leading art institutions around the world.
The program aims to discover and support promising Korean artists by providing opportunities to participate in international artist residency programs.
Established in honor of the late Mrs. Seo Young Min (wife of Hanwha Chairman Kim Seung Yeon) this meaningful initiative reflects her wish for Korean artists to broaden their creative horizons and engage in global artistic exchange.
Through this program, the Foundation seeks to foster the sustainable growth of Korea’s art ecosystem and support the future development of emerging artists.
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Minhee Kim
Artist Residency
Art OMI - Minhee Kim examines the idealized female images shaped by K-pop, animation, and internet culture. Through oil and acrylic painting, she confronts desire, conflict, and anxiety in the process of representing the female body, tracing deformed notions of beauty emerging from Korean society. Her work captures both self-contradiction and self-overcoming, weaving a complex narrative of femininity and identity. She has held solo exhibitions at Museum Head and Cylinder, and participated in group shows at Salihara Art Center (Jakarta), Ilmin Museum of Art (Seoul), and Daegu Art Museum, among others.
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Soojin Park
Artist Residency
Seven Stones Estate - Sujin Park, based between Norway and Seoul, works with clay not through traditional methods but by exploring and understanding its inherent properties to record traces of time and environment. For Park, “documentation” extends beyond the individual to encompass the shared conditions of human society. Countless transformations occur beyond our perception, and with each moment, traces of these changes remain—materialized in various forms throughout her work.
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Kyungmin Lee
Artist Residency
Domaine de Boisbuchet - Kyungmin Lee is a Seoul-based visual artist whose practice explores the spatiality and ontology of place through diverse media. She studied painting and graphic design at the undergraduate level and communication in graduate school. Her major solo exhibitions include The Walking Water at Night (Kim Chong Yung Museum, Seoul, 2024), Between the Words (Onsu Gonggan, Seoul, 2023), and House of Day, House of Night (Cheongju Art Studio, Cheongju, 2020). She has participated in several residency programs, including Domaine de Boisbuchet (France, 2025), Cheongju Art Studio (2019), and Ulsan Yeompo Art Studio (2018).
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Won Seok Chang
Artist Residency
Domaine de Boisbuchet - Won Seok Chang translates traces left in the wake of loss and the sensations they evoke into painting. Rather than revealing or resolving grief directly, his work quietly observes the coexistence of absence and presence. Moving between abstraction and figuration, Chang’s paintings transform mourning into multiple sensory impressions rather than a single narrative. Through the materiality of paint and the process of its formation, he reflects on the lingering resonance of what has vanished, the meanings that emerge from it, and the resilience of life.
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Hyunjin Park
Artist Residency
Domaine de Boisbuchet - Hyunjin Park is a New York– and Seoul–based artist and researcher working across sculpture, video, performance, and installation. Her work traces the historical and emotional relationships between humans and nonhuman animals, exploring how boundaries between modern and past, life and death, human, animal, and machine become blurred. She has held solo exhibitions at Gallery OOOJH and Gallery Chamber in Seoul. In addition, she has participated in curated group exhibitions at institutions such as Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Art Sonje Center, SongEun ArtSpace (Seoul), Hui Gallery (Hong Kong), and OyG Project (Brooklyn).
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Subin Seol
Artist Residency
Domaine de Boisbuchet - Subin Seol is a London- and Seoul-based art director and designer. Approaching design not as mere aesthetic expression but as a medium for storytelling, she moves fluidly between design and craft to expand her visual language. Her practice reconstructs narratives embedded in objects and spaces, exploring how they shape human perception, emotion, and behavior. Seol holds a Master’s degree from the Royal College of Art and is currently pursuing her PhD at Seoul National University. Her major works include the 'Korean Art Deco' collection, 'Remembrance', and a collaborative project with the fashion brand COS.
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Jiyoung Yoo
Artist Residency
Acme - Jiyoung Yoo transforms everyday objects that evoke time and space into abstract forms. Through intuitive choices and aesthetic interventions, she frees natural and traditional logics from their fixed order. Objects such as clocks, calendars, globes, and maps become spaces of uncertainty—between function and decay, order and deviation. Her works suggest that time and space are unstable systems filled with gaps and errors, inviting viewers to reinterpret the present, past, and future. Yoo earned her MA from the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, and has exhibited at Leeum Museum of Art, Museumhead, and Gallery Func in Shanghai.
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Kalim Yoon
Artist Residency
Seven Stones Estate - Kalim Yoon observes the multiple sensibilities that emerge between culture, technology, and the environment, transforming them into contemporary methodologies that expand the scope of art. Her solo exhibitions have been presented at Gallery Vohm, Space Willing N Dealing, and the Goethe-Institut. Yoon has also participated in group exhibitions at major institutions including the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul National University Museum of Art, Soma Museum of Art, and Nikolaj Kunsthal in Copenhagen. She has been an artist-in-residence at the MMCA Residency Goyang, Geumcheon Art Space, SeMA Nanji Residency, Viborg Kunsthal in Denmark, and the Statens Værksteder for Kunst.
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Jieun Lim
Artist Residency
NARS Foundation - Jieun Lim is an artist based in Germany and Korea. She collects fragments of events across time and space, composing non-linear visual essays that move between silence and chatter. Her work has been shown at K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art, Philara Collection, Galerie Hubert Winter, Ermes Ermes, LC Queisser, Museum Solingen, Shinhan Gallery, and Rirkrit Tiravanija’s Studio. Her works are held in the collections of IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art and the Academy Gallery – New Collection Düsseldorf.
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Jungki Beak Media. Styler
Photographer. Geonuk AhnArtist Residency
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Jungki Beak explores the intersection of art and science through curiosity, desire, and awe. He reconfigures familiar sounds, images, and scenes using scientific imagination and practical technology, awakening our senses with apparatuses of his own design. His works probe the human impulse to capture and preserve material phenomena that briefly appear and disappear.
Beak holds an MFA from the Glasgow School of Art. He has exhibited widely across Korea, the United States, and Europe, including at Arario Gallery, OCI Museum of Art, DOOSAN Gallery New York, Seoul Museum of Art, and the Changwon Sculpture Biennale.
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Mona Yoo
Artist Residency
Echo Correspondence - Mona Yoo creates site-specific works that combine photography and installation. Her practice responds to architectural structures imbued with traces of time and space, focusing on reconfiguring found images and by-products from those sites to articulate new narratives within renewed contexts. Active in both Korea and Europe, Yoo has participated in exhibitions at Atelier Hermès, Talbot Rice Gallery, The Freelands Foundation, and OCI Museum of Art. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts, Korea National University of Arts, and her Master’s degree in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art in London.
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Yeonjoo Cho
Artist Residency
Domaine de Boisbuchet - Yeonjoo Cho is based in Seoul, Korea and Glasgow, UK. Drawing on her lived experience between two distinct cultures, she explores themes of migration, hybridity, tradition, and the repetitive nature of everyday spaces. Spanning media from painting to installation, her work aspires to function as a visual portal linking multiple temporalities and individual histories. She studied Painting and Art History at Ewha Womans University, and earned a PhD at the Glasgow School of Art. Her work has been exhibited at major institutions in the UK and Korea, including the Royal Scottish Academy, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, University of Cambridge, Cheongju Art Studio, and Uijeongbu Arts Center.
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Jihee Kim
Artist Residency
Domaine de Boisbuchet - Jihee Kim explores the subtle emotions that arise when humans encounter the world and form relationships with both human and nonhuman beings. Working across painting, drawing, and installation, she combines deliberate composition with spontaneous gesture. Her Book Drawing series uses donated books as layered sites of memory and narrative, while the Garden series transforms imagined natural scenes into emotional landscapes through vibrant gouache colors. Kim has exhibited widely, with solo shows at Kumho Museum of Art and Soorim Cultural Foundation, and major group exhibitions at Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Kumho Museum of Art, and Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo.
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Art OMI
New York, USArt Omi is an international arts center located on a 150-acre campus in upstate New York, featuring sculpture and architecture parks, galleries, and diverse residency programs. It hosts specialized residencies across visual art, architecture, dance, music, and writing, welcoming over 2,400 artists worldwide to date. Participants receive structured support including professional mentoring, regional museum visits, and open studio events. -
Headlands Center for the Arts
California, USHeadlands Center for the Arts is a multidisciplinary arts organization located in the Marin Headlands area near San Francisco, transforming former military buildings at Fort Barry into creative spaces. It hosts a wide range of programs—including artist residencies, exhibitions, public conversations, workshops, nature walks, and communal meals—emphasizing interaction between artistic practice and the public. Each year, the center supports around 50 artists from around the world, providing studios, housing, and opportunities for research and collaboration. -
NARS Foundation
New York, USThe NARS Foundation is a nonprofit arts organization based in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, housed in a converted industrial warehouse. Since its founding in 2006, NARS has supported international residency and exhibition programs focused on the visual arts, providing artists with an environment for creation, research, and exchange. Engaging with the local context, the foundation fosters new artistic discourses while expanding the intersection between art and community through open studios and public programs. -
Seven Stones Estate
Napa Valley, USSeven Stones Estate is a 45-acre art and nature retreat located in Napa Valley, where vineyards and landscaped grounds form a setting that harmonizes with art and architecture. The residency program invites artists to create new works in dialogue with the site’s unique spatial context—its vineyards, sculptures, and art collection. Owned and operated by MUWA, Hanwha’s premium lifestyle brand, Seven Stones Estate offers an environment where creativity, nature, and craftsmanship converge. -
Art Explora
Paris, FranceArt Explora is an international arts foundation established in France in 2019, dedicated to fostering new encounters between art and the public. Based at Villa Montmartre in Paris, it runs a residency program in collaboration with the Cité internationale des arts, supporting visual artists, researchers, and curators from diverse disciplines. Through curatorial mentoring, institutional networking, and community workshops, the foundation promotes artistic research and cross-cultural exchange. -
Domaine de Boisbuchet
Lessac, FranceDomaine de Boisbuchet is an international center for design and architecture set within 150 hectares of natural landscape in southwestern France. It features an architecture park, library, and an extensive design and art collection. Since 1996, Boisbuchet has collaborated with the Vitra Design Museum to host annual summer workshops that bring together around 300 artists and designers from around the world. -
Frac des Pays de la Loire
Nantes, FranceFrac des Pays de la Loire is part of France’s national network of public contemporary art collections (FRAC). With over forty years of experience running international residency programs, it holds a collection of around 2,000 works alongside an extensive library and archive, serving as a key hub for artistic research and creative exchange. -
Acme
London, UKFounded in 1972, Acme Studios is a London-based non-profit arts organization dedicated to long-term artist support and international exchange. Through its International Residencies Programme, it offers artists studio space, accommodation, and professional networking opportunities within a research-driven and independent creative environment. In collaboration with partners such as Arts Council England, Acme hosts exhibitions, open studios, and talks, serving as a key platform that connects London’s contemporary art scene with artists from around the world. -
Echo Correspondence
Wien, AustriaEcho Correspondence is
an art space and residency program established in 2022 in Vienna, housed in the former studio villa of sculptor Wander Bertoni. Serving as a platform for critical dialogue and intercultural exchange, the residency invites one artist at a time, offering tailored mentorship and hands-on creative support. Each residency culminates in a solo exhibition presented at the on-site exhibition pavilion.