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Yewon Kwon
yewon.kwon.art@gmail.com
Seattle, WA

EDUCATION


School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Bachelor of Fine Arts, focus in printmedia
2013-2017

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

  • Recepient of the Collective Power Fund’s Artist Development Grant, Northwest Film Forum & Warhol Foundation, 2021
  • North American Risograph Conference: Panel Speaker, 2017
  • SAIC Artists and Publications Grant, 2014

EXHIBITIONS

  • SP Committee Gallery Show, Vera Gallery, 2023
  • RISO RISO, The BICA School, 2023
  • Soft Touch: BLANKET FORT, Museum of Museums, 2023
  • CRAFT: An Art Show of Handmade Magic, Vera Gallery, 2022
  • Collective Power, King Street Station, 2021
  • SHOW UP Seattle: Featured Artist, 2022
  • Chicago Area Cartoonists & Comics, Kishwaukee College Art Gallery, 2018
  • Untitled Miami Art Expo, represented by South of the Tracks Gallery, 2017
  • PWF No. 5 Release Show, Logan Hardware, 2017
  • Pallor Pink Vol. 3: To Those In Glass Houses,  The Learning Machine, 2017
  • Crossing of the Fellows, Spudnik Press, 2017
  • Time is a Squared Circle, Flair, 2017
  • SAIC Sprint BFA show, Sullivan Galleries, 2017
  • Hang In There, Free Range Gallery, organized by Yewon Kwon, 2017
  • Post It Show 12, Giant Robot Gallery, 2016
  • 99 Problems (but a print ain’t one), Southern Gallery
  • Throw Me A Bone!, Case Gallery, 2016
  • The Art of the Risograph sponsored by Hallagans, Chicago Design Museum, 2016
  • BONE JELLY, Case Gallery, 2015

PUBLICATIONS

  • You Wanna See What Ordinary Hands Can Do to Something Fragile? Artist Interview with Redefine Mag, 2022
  • Dogs In Video Games: The Ruff Line Between the Physical and the Digital for Video Game Art Gallery VGA Zine: Issue IV, 2020
  • Universal Slime 7, published and organized by John F. Malta
  • The Donut Shop featured artist, 2017
  • Life Rules print portfolio exchanged, organized by Randi Stella, 2017
  • The Fold featured artist, 2016
  • Cicada Magazine featured artist, 2015

PERFORMANCES

  • MEANWHILE: Under the Influence, Delilah’s, 2019
  • Bookfort, Pitchfork Music Festival, 2019
  • Zine Not Dead VIII, Elastic Arts, 2018
  • Two Cookie Minimum, ChiPRC, 2017

BOOK FAIRS

  • Zine Not Dead Fest
  • Chicago Zine Fest
  • Chicago Art Book Fair
  • Chicago Alternative Comics Expo
  • Permanent Damage Portland
  • Fantagraphics: HOT OFF THE PRESS
  • Short Run Seattle
  • Seattle Queer Film Festival
  • Seattle Art Book Fair
  • San Francisco Zine Fest
  • Toronto Zine Dream
  • Toronto Comics Art Festival
  • Monarch Art Fair
  • Small Press Expo
  • Grand Rapids Zine Fest