Inhee Yang

Contemporary Visual Artist

Strata of Pain Engraved upon the Nature of the Body :The Utterance of Stillness Under the premise, "I do not express what I have not experienced," my practice has long been dedicated to recording the "sense of presence"—an embodied reality lived through the physical self, moving far beyond abstract aesthetics. From my first solo exhibition, 麻痹_Mabi (Paralysis) (Beijing, 2012), to the present, artistic creation has been a performative process of navigating modes of existence through the profound relationship between body and mind.

Artistic Vision & Philosophy

Yang’s practice is a physical and philosophical inquiry into the state of Paralysis—a metaphor for the sensory numbness experienced within rigid social structures or between conflicting cultures. Navigating the precarious boundaries of cultural identity and sensory recovery, she proposes art as a sanctuary for emotional restoration and a medium for finding one’s authentic voice in an increasingly alienated world.

The “Outsider’s Perspective” & Stripping (剝離)

Having spent sixteen years as a professional artist in Beijing and Shanghai after earning her MFA from Tsinghua University, Yang developed a profound aesthetic centered on the “outsider’s perspective.” Her long sojourn in China served as a period of accumulating layers of “untranslatable sensations.” She masterfully deconstructs these experiences through her signature technique of Stripping, layering paint into dense, geological strata and forcefully peeling it away to unearth the “raw self” hidden beneath language.

Scale & Presence

Her monumental 10-meter scroll installations transform the two-dimensional plane into an immersive site of “sensory pilgrimage,” inviting the audience to breathe within the gaps of the stripped layers.

Institutional Recognition

Currently based in Seoul, Yang’s work is archived at the Youngeun Museum of Art and has been recognized through numerous grants from Gangdong Cultural Foundation the Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation.