Hyesoo You
Born in Korea, 1983. Lives and Works in London

Education
2011-2012 MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design
2009 BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
2006 Foundation Fine Art, Byam Shaw School of Art

Selected Exhibitions
2012 Design Junction as part of The Sculpture House at London Design Week, London 
2012 MA Show, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
2012 Art School Award, Debut Contemporary, London

2012 Fell on Good Soil, Gallery Du Monde, London

2012 fragmented Utopia, Studio 54, London. Curated by Mary George
2012 4482, OXO Tower, London
2012 XAMPLE, Cecil Lewis Sculpture Scholarship show, Triangle Space Chelsea

2011 4482, OXO Tower, London
2010 Art for Haiti, Rag Factory, London
2009 Museum of Hackney Wick, Hackney Wicked, London
2009 Candlelit Matinee, Shunt Lounge, London
2008 In Fragments, Ada Street Gallery, London.
2008 Secret Garden Party, Huntington
2007 How often does a man dance to the beat of the balm?, at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London.

Award
2012 Shortlisted, The GAM Gilbert de Botton Art Prize
2012 Winner, Art School Award, Winner of MA 2nd year. Debut Contemporary 
2011 Winner, Cecil Lewis Sculpture Scholarship, University of the Arts London

PUBLISHED WRITINGS
2011 Review by Jorge Oswaldo View
2011 Saatchi Online’s Weekly Top 10
2011 Hyesoo You: Saatchi Online Critic’s Choice By Ben Street View

Hyesoo was born in a small town called Cheonan, in her childhood memory Cheonan had vast fields and rich forests. As she grew up she witnessed new buildings and tube lines claiming landscapes which caused rapid changes in the environment and people's living customs. This surreal experience later influenced her curiosity and drew her attention to various urban landscapes in cities and stories behind them.

Hyesoo's art practice is concerned with the abstract voice of everyday objects, furniture, urban landscape, architecture, and how these elements express the cultural and historical backgrounds of their origin.
In her work, Hyesoo brings out nostalgia marked by its ongoing utopian dream, reviewing the “future of the past".
Her work is influenced by Memphis furniture and the Art Deco movement. Hyesoo's biggest influence is Constructivist architecture in Russia between the 20’s and 50’s. It is this ambitious urban landscape, this 'utopian dream', that established the birth of Communism. She seeks the practical impact on urban environment by social movement, this is crucial in informing her work.

Each title of her works represents the status of her mind and faith in God. Hyesoo became a Christian and accepted Jesus Christ as her saviour in 2009, Jesus helped her to find hope and value in her life, this became the turning point of her career as an artist. When word of God fell on good soil, it yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some a hundred.