b. 2000 Seoul, South Korea
based in New York
Yena Seo‑Yeon Park’s work examines the shifting terrain of love and memory.
In her layered oil paintings, figures dissolve, reemerge, and transform across dense surfaces. She explores the duality of intimacy and loss—where presence meets absence, and tenderness coexists with fear. Guided by an intuitive, emotionally charged use of color, her imagery draws on personal mythology, oneiric symbolism, and traces of memory.
Motifs such as thorns, branches, flowers, and celestial beings weave through her paintings, alluding to life, death, and transformation.
Park approaches painting as a vulnerable dialogue, grounded in her experience navigating the fleeting and intangible aspects of love, memory, longing, and the unseen forces that shape them.
