Yumi Chung explores the threshold between personal and public space through drawing, painting and installation. She has focused on semitransparent objects to contemplate a boundary between the inside and the outside in terms of the language of space. Her work comes from observations of the ‘outside’ – our surroundings within contemporary society – and this influences her. These observations provide the basis for her to then examine the sensitive boundary of the outer and the inner space.

Yumi Chung received BFA and MFA in Korean painting at Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea. She is currently undertaking a MFA course in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College. Chung was awarded SOMA DRAWING CENTER Archive artist, Soma Museum of Art, Seoul in 2009 and SeMA Young Artist, Seoul Museum of Art in 2008. Recently, she had a solo show Attention: 1 at Hanmi Gallery, London (2014). Several of her works including Korean Painting Fantasy-Sensuous Reinterpretations of Korean Painting, Seoul Museum of Art Nam Seoul (2010), NANJI AIR PROJECT2, Nanji Art Studio (2008), Impudent, ssamzie space 602 (2004), Thick-Skinned, Rooseum Test-Site, Malmö, Sweden (2004). Her work is included in many prominent South Korean public collections such as Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, and KOLON, Gyeonggi-do, as well as private collections.