Yang-ha
Yang Ha is a visual artist whose work navigates the uneasy space between global tragedy and personal expression. Using a visual language that fuses cartoon-like imagery with painterly abstraction, she explores the contradictions of a world that is both absurdly beautiful and deeply broken. Her paintings often feature clouds, explosions, and teddy bears—symbols that gesture playfully toward violence, vulnerability, and resistance.
Working with historical imagery as a narrative device, Yang reinterprets collective trauma through gestures that are deliberately clumsy and childlike. This aesthetic dissonance becomes a form of protest in itself—a visual prayer for understanding and a better world. By drawing attention to the disconnect between overwhelming global systems and intimate emotional responses, her works carry a tone that is at once sarcastic and sincere.
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Yang-haA drawing for blowing up_13, 2022Charcoal, oil and acrylic on canvas50 x 60 cm
19 3/4 x 23 5/8 in -
Yang-haA drawing for blowing up_19, 2022Oil and acrylic on canvas30 x 40 cm
11 3/4 x 15 3/4 in -
Yang-haWell, It’s a scene made to cry, so I will_60, 2024Gouache, oil and acrylic on canvas80 x 80 cm
31 1/2 x 31 1/2 in -
Yang-haWell, It’s a scene made to cry, so I will_61, 2024Gouache, oil and acrylic on canvas120 x 100 cm
47 1/4 x 39 3/8 in -
Yang-haA painting for a grit of blowing up_8-1, 2024Gouache, oil and acrylic on canvas40 x 45 cm
15 3/4 x 17 3/4 in -
Yang-haWell, it’s a scene made to cry, so I will_22, 2022Oil and acrylic on canvas120 x 100 cm
47 1/4 x 39 3/8 in -
Yang-haWell, it’s a scene made to cry, so I will_15, 2021Oil and acrylic on canvas180 x 130 cm
70 7/8 x 51 1/8 in
