Yang-ha
Yang-ha (b. 1994, KR) is a visual artist whose practice examines a world in which tragedy and the everyday converge, approached with humour and cynicism. Working across painting, sculpture and installation, she explores how meaning shifts through perspective, irony and emotional distance.
Her work is characterised by pastel-toned compositions that combine cartoon-like imagery with painterly abstraction. Childlike forms, mediated violence and fragments of historical memory appear alongside motifs such as clouds and explosions, creating visually seductive yet quietly unsettling images. Fantasy operates in her practice not as escape, but as a critical lens through which reality is tested and destabilised.
Yang-ha lives and works between Seoul and Amsterdam. She received her MFA with Cum Laude from the Frank Mohr Institute, Netherlands, and her BFA from Ewha Womans University, Seoul. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at OCI Museum of Art, Seoul among others and her work is held in the collections of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, and OCI Museum of Art.
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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, 2022Gouache 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 -
Yang-haA Painting for a Grit of Blowing Up_10-1, 2024Gouache, oil and acrylic on canvas40 x 45 cm
15 3/4 x 17 3/4 in -
Yang-haA Painting for a Grit of Blowing Up_2-2, 2024Gouache, oil and acrylic on canvas40 x 30 cm
15 3/4 x 11 3/4 in -
Yang-haA Drawing for Blowing Up_50, 2025Gouache, oil and acrylic on canvas36 x 50 cm
14 1/8 x 19 3/4 in -
Yang-haA Drawing for Blowing Up_54, 2025Gouache, oil and acrylic on canvas80 x 45 cm
31 1/2 x 17 3/4 in
