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Personal statement

Dr Young In Hong is a reader in Textiles and Performance and a module leader for Textiles in Creative Arts Practice. Since 2019, she has co-led the Material/Performing research group with Dr. Robert Luzar, as part of the Art Research Centre (ARC). 

Young In is a visual artist working across the mediums of textile, drawing, installation, sculpture, sound and performance. In her work, unique inventions in sound and movement combine in new ways with investigations of the image; its history and its reinvention.

This can be seen in the way she incorporates found images that document the human cost of Korean modernisation in the movement of living bodies and in how her textile work invents new iconographies for our time. She is interested in the potential of the artistic sensibility to uncover stories hidden underneath the surface and traverse different languages to propagate a shared sense of ‘equality’ that cuts across generations, nationality and species. 

Young In’s recent textile practice embraces endangered textile traditions through collaborating with straw-weaving masters, textile artisans and natural fibre weavers across Korea, India and the UK. Her performance work adopts the structure of the flashmob as a form of inquiry into emerging communities, the power of self-organisation and the role of the artist as a collaborator.  

Young In’s recent research explores the language of abstraction inspired by animal behaviour, history as participation, the untold narratives of working women. Her work also delves into endangered crafts and their ritualistic dimensions, examining the fluid boundaries between art, craft, and ritual. 

Her solo exhibitions include :

• Five Acts and A Monologue (Art Sonje Center, 2025)
•  Five Acts (Spike Island, 2024)
• Animal Rings (Kunsthal Extra City, 2023)
• The Moon’s Trick (Korean Cultural Centre UK, 2017)
•  6/50 fig-2 (ICA Studio & Theatre, 2015).

She has also participated in major group exhibitions at

• Secession (2024)
• Changwon Sculpture Biennale (2024)
• the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
• Deoksugung (2024)
• Museum of Contemporary Art Busan (2023)
• Art Tower Mito (2023)
• Seoul Museum of Art (2022)
• Asia Culture Center (2020)
• Turner Contemporary (2017).

In 2019, she was nominated for the Korea Artist Prize. 

Academic qualifications

• PhD, Fine Art â€“ Goldsmiths, University of London
• MA, Fine Art â€“ Goldsmiths, University of London
• BA, Sculpture â€“ Seoul National University

Professional memberships

• Higher Education Academy Fellowship (FHEA)

Areas of expertise

• Art textiles
• Performance
• Fine Art