You Jin Sim
artist.youjins@gmail.com
San Franciso, Santa Clara
Bio
You Jin Sim is an artist who explores the inside and outside of human beings. She mainly works on painting and drawing, while also producing other works inn various mediums, such as photography and sculpture. She was born in Korea and graduated from Hanyang University with the highest degree in visual design department. After graduation, she worked for a design agency as a graphic designer and as an art teacher. She is currently studying painting at SFAI while staying in San Francisco and Santa Clara.
She describes her current works as her self-personalization series. These pieces consist of her gaze looking at the world while the gaze of others looks back at her. Her works highlight the differences in the perceptions of individual people.
Education
San Francisco Art Institution
BFA in Painting
- Painting/Drawing
- Ceramics/Photography
Aug 2017—May 2020
Hanyang University
BFA in Graphic Package Design
- Graphic/Package Design
- Editorial/Brand Design
- Illustration
Awards
The 2020 AXA Art Prize, Final List, AXA XL, U.S.A
The 2020 AXA Art Prize Exhibition Jury- Ian Alteveer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lauren Haynes of Crystal Bridges, Brett Littman of the Noguchi Museum, and Eugenie Tsai of the Brooklyn Museum-has selected my work for inclusion in the 2020 AXA Art Prize Exhibition
2020
Ivan Majdrakoff Art Materials Award, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
May 2020
Trustee Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
2017-2020
Graduation With Honors (summa cum laude), Graphic Package Design Department in Hanyang University, South Korea
Feb 2010
Special Awarding At 17th Package Design Award, Korea Package Design Association, "KPDA" ,South Korea
Nov 2009
Solo Exhibition
Ego_Shadow, Paul Sack Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Oct 2019
Group Exhibition
The 2020 AXA Art Prize Exhibition, New York, New York Academy of Art, New York
Nov 2020
The 2020 AXA Art Prize Exhibition,
San Francisco and Chicago
were cancelled because of the Covid 19 situation
Painting Department Exhibition, SFAI Courtyard, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Oct 2019
Twelve Artists!, Fort Mason Gallery, San Francisco, CA
May 2019
Portraits, Still Light Gallery, , San Francisco, CA
April 2019
Storytelling, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Feb 2019
Between Rays Of Light, Fort Mason Atrium, San Francisco, CA
Nov 2018
Annual Art Exhibition, Bauhaus Art Institute, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Nov 2013 ~ 2015
Graduation Exhibition of Graphic Package Design, INSA Art Center, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
Nov 2009
“17th Package Design Award” Exhibition, Korea Design Center, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Dec 2008
Freedom, Hanyang University Student Welfare Center, Hanyang University Photography Club Yurian, Seoul, South Korea
Oct 2005
“Storytelling,” Mutual Art, 2019, https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/You-Jin-Sim/ 9FD2DAF5C31D5B8D#more
2019
Publication
The 2020 AXA Art Prize Catalogue, New York, U.S.A.
Sep 2020
“17th Package Design Award” Book, Korea Design Center, South Korea
Dec 2008
Graduation Exhibition of Graphic Package Design department of Hanyang University, South Korea
Nov 2009
Still life with a plaster sculpture by watercolor, Mi-Dea-Ib-Si Magazine, South Korea
May 2003, Jun 2004
Experience
Bauhaus Art Institute, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
- Teaching children as a Drawing & Painting instructor
Jun 2013 - Oct 2016
Yomi-Yomi Art & Performance Institute, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
- Teaching children as an art instructor
Dec 2012 - Jun 2013
Myeongsung Church Department for Disabled Persons, Seoul, South Korea
- Editorial design for Department for Disabled Persons (Volunteer work)
Dec 2011 - Oct 2012
IBIZ WORKS Design Agency, Seoul, South Korea
Working at Package Design department as a brand & package designer (Internship)
Oct 2009 - Jan 2010
“LG Household & Health Care Ltd” & Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
- Industrial-educational cooperation, PERIOE toothpaste package design project
Mar 2009- Jul 2009
Dream Art Institute, Seoul, South Korea,
- Teaching children as a Drawing & Painting instructor
May 2005 - Mar 2006