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Education
1996     Graduated from Chung-Ang University, College of Fine Arts, Department of Western Painting
1998     Graduated from Chung-Ang University, Department of Painting 
2010     Graduated from Hongik University, Doctoral Program in Fine Arts
Currently Professor, Department of Fine Arts, Chung-Ang University

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023    Discovered Myths, Young Eun Museum of Art, Gwangju, Gyeonggi
2020    Image of the Era, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul
2019     Beyond the MYTH, Novosibirsk City Museum of Art, Novosibirsk
2008    Myths of Our Time, Song Eun Gallery, Seoul
2002    現代-21世紀 風景, Sungok Museum of Art, Seoul
1999     現代-21世紀 風景, Gyeonghee Palace Branch, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

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Selected Group Exhibitions
2023    All That Realism-All That Realism, Gallery Now, Seoul
2021     The Gaze of Contemporary Art, Yangpyeong County Museum of Art, Yangpyeong
2017     Pop Art and Hyperrealism, Yangpyeong County Museum of Art, Yangpyeong
2017     Beyond the Limit - Hyperrealism, POSCO Gallery, Pohang
2011      Hyperrealism - Deceiving the Eye, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2009    Yesterday and Today of Ultra-Realistic Painting, curated by Korea Art Critics Association, Seongnam Art Center,                 Gyeonggi, Korea
1990     9th Asian Bangladesh Biennale, Shilpakala Academy, Bangladesh, etc.

Awards and Residencies
2023     Short-term artist-in-residence, Young Eun Art Studio, 12th term
2017      Winner of the 37th Artist to Watch Award (organized by the Korea Art Critics Council, Seoul)
2010     Winner of the Young Artist Award at the 4th Korea Artists' Day (organized by the Korea Art Association, Seoul)
2007    Awarded Excellence Award at the 26th Korea Art Exhibition (Organized by the Korea Art Association, Seoul)
2006    Awarded the 6th Song Eun Art Grand Prize (organized by Song Eun Cultural Foundation, Seoul)
1995     Awarded the Excellence Award at the 5th MBC Art Exhibition (Organized by MBC Culture Broadcasting, Seoul

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Collection 
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Art Bank of Korea, Seoul Museum of Art, Young Eun Museum of Art, Yeouju Museum of Art, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Song Eun Cultural Foundation, Seongnam Cultural Foundation, MBC Culture Broadcasting, Delegation of Korea to the OECD, Embassy of Spain in Las Palmas, Embassy of Pakistan, Consulate General of Japan in Osaka, Embassy of Yemen, Embassy of Libya, Embassy of Portugal, Consulate General of Frankfurt, Songdo Sheraton Hotel, Doosan Weave The Zenith Ulsan, etc. 

About the Artist
Young-han Chung is known as a mid-career artist representing post-millennial surreal photorealism. However, her figurative paintings, which utilize language and contemporary photographic images, are in the form of 'composite collage' combined with conceptual art.
Chung uses a dual strategy of subverting the semiotic meaning system of images that are naturally produced and consumed through media, and re-recognizing the lost value of the artificiality (or fiction) of images. It aims to restore the lost sense of 'mythos' by inducing the viewer to actively interpret the work and reflect on the passive way of viewing. Mythos refers to the original language (root) conveyed by mythological archetypes, and in a broader sense, it is the true allegory of literature and art, including poetry.