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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