Jayoung Yoon

Discipline: Visual Arts

Based In: Beacon, NY

Year at Millay: 2019

Awards/Honors: Grant Recipient, Craft Innovation Jumpstarter Grant, The Society of Arts + Crafts, Worcester, MA (2024); Empowered Artist Award, Arts Mid-Hudson, Poughkeepsie, NY (2024); Fellow, Joan Mitchell Fellowship, Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, NY (2023); Artist-in-Residence, Residency Program, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL (2020); Fellow, AHL Artist Fellowship, AHL Foundation, New York, NY (2020); Fellow, MacDowell, Peterborough, NH (2018); Artist-in-Residence, KHN Residency, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE (2018); Award Winner, New Prints Artist Development Program, Print Center New York, New York, NY (2018); Artist-in-Residence, Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY (2018, 2017); Artist-in-Residence, Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Ithaca, NY (2017); Fellow, AIM Fellowship (formerly Artist in the Marketplace), The Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY (2016); Artist-in-Residence, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT (2016); Artist-in-Residence, BRIClab Program, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY (2014); Artist-in-Residence, I-Park Foundation, East Haddam, CT (2014, 2013); Artist-in-Residence, NES Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland (2012); Participant, Viewing Program, The Drawing Center, New York, NY (2012); Artist-in-Residence, Swing Space, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Governors Island, NY (2011); Artist-in-Residence, Sculpture Space, Utica, NY (2011); Grant Recipient, The Franklin Furnace FUND, Franklin Furnace Archive, Brooklyn, New York (2010); Artist-in-Residence, Spiro Arts, Park City, UT (2010); Artist-in-Residence, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME (2009); Artist-in-Residence, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO (2009); Artist-in-Residence, Oolite Arts (formerly Art Center/South Florida), Miami Beach, FL (2008); Artist-in-Residence, Artist Residency Program, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY (2008).

Website: https://www.jayoungyoon.com/

Jayoung Yoon (b. 1979, Seoul, Korea) earned a BFA from Hongik University, Seoul, Korea, and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. She has participated in exhibitions at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York; San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, California; Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York; New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, Massachusetts, and Here Arts Center, New York, New York, among others. Yoon was the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Fellowship, the BRIC Media Arts Fellowship, and the Franklin Furnace Fund. She has attended residencies at MacDowell, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and Sculpture Space among others. Her work has been featured in various publications, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Hyperallergic, Surface Design Journal, and Fiber Art Now. Yoon currently lives and works in Beacon, New York.