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8 out of 10
artists are shut out by banks
354
loans extended to fellow artists
95%
repayment rate — trust comes full circle
~KRW 140M
interest saved vs. predatory rates
Until the next exhibition, the next performance. For artists, income gaps are an unavoidable reality. For fellow artists forced into predatory loans just to afford paint, canvas, and studio rent, proceeds from this artwork become the Seed Fund — extending a fair hand at fair rates.
Voices of fellow artists
“The memory of going hungry for three days, alone, so my children wouldn't know.”
— 50s, theater artist
“I've been putting off urgent dental treatment because I can't afford it. I should be seeing a doctor regularly, but enduring instead of going has become a habit.”
— 50s, actor
“I kept delaying ear treatment because I had no money, and the symptoms in both ears worsened.”
— 30s, musician
“I couldn't pay my hospitalized mother's bills, so we had to delay her discharge, and she had to give up tests and treatment she needed.”
— 50s, actor/broadcaster
“Because of money troubles I had nowhere to go — drifting between gosiwon rooms and rehearsal studios, and for a while sleeping rough.”
— 30s, musician
“Because of unpaid rent, my collective was forced to vacate our shared workspace and home. Neither bank loans nor artist loans could help.”
— 50s, actor
“Without money, life collapses — and creating art? Out of the question.”
— 50s, artist
“It's painful that solving this month's money problems has to come before the work itself. As an artist, I can only earn well when the work succeeds — yet I have to chase odd jobs every month instead. It feels like being trapped in a vicious cycle.”
— 40s, musician
“Debt collection calls disrupted my rehearsals and performances, and the psychological burden made every day painful and the next day frightening.”
— 40s, theater artist
“Many times the loan payments looming each month forced me to step away from performing and focus on part-time work.”
— 50s, actor
“Sleeping less than four hours a night, juggling part-time jobs and theater — but the more I performed, the more debt piled up. Eventually I decided to quit performing.”
— 30s, actor
“When things were hardest, I couldn't even attend close friends' weddings or funerals — and as a result, relationships were severed.”
— 50s, actor/broadcaster
“When I said I was a stage actor, the loan officer called me "unemployed."”
— 50s, actor
“The shame and severed friendships that came with borrowing from people I knew, the pressure of failing to pay it back, the helplessness.”
— 50s, cartoonist/visual artist
“Even with programs meant for low-income citizens, I feel shame when I can't produce enough documentation simply because I'm an artist.”
— 30s, film/broadcasting professional
97 artworks sold, each becoming a seed of solidarity
One artwork becomes the oxygen that keeps a fellow artist creating.
Sales proceeds go to the artist mutual-aid fund.
Faintly
Yoon Gyeom
About the Artist
Yun Gyeom is a painter who translates the sentiments of healing and serenity into oil on canvas. Through works such as 〈Serenity Fortress〉, she unfolds the textures of daily life and inner peace through soft colors and forms. Together with artist Lee Yuji, she has presented two-person exhibitions including 〈1st Track—Healing〉 at Seojeong Art Center (2017) and 〈Exploring Life〉 at GG2 Gallery (2025).
Artist Statement
The act of repeatedly drawing lines reveals a self that cannot bear to see the world as incomplete. While I am absorbed like this, I fall into a kind of unknowable selflessness. As lines are drawn and filled in, a new world that cannot be defined appears on the canvas. This world reveals a self who has no choice but to see the world differently from others. The forms that appear on the picture plane through extremely simple yet repetitive movements look like a path of seeking, a way of finding myself. Through line-drawing — or line-making — I explore formal variations of repeated labor. The "patterns of lines" produced by the countless accumulated moments of choice that draw the boundary between the inevitable and the accidental modulate into images of inscrutable nature — cacti, undersea coral, clouds, waves, forests, mountain ranges — or into the unsettled mental images called imagery.
Key Career Highlights
Education 2014 B.F.A. in Painting, College of Formative Arts, Daegu University Solo Exhibitions 2025 Invitational, Loha Gallery, "In Search of a Place," Seoul 2025 Invitational, Umoha Gallery, "Blue Afterimage," Yongin 2024 "Nature Balance: Survival Harvest," Art Boda Gallery, Seoul 2023 Invitational, Collabo Collage Gallery, Ulsan 2023 "Undecided Fortress," Informel Gallery, Seoul 2019 "Mang'mang (Endless Boundary)," Artmora Gallery, Seoul 2017 "Asurai," Makeshop Art Space, Paju 2016 "Vertigo: Landscape of Reverie," Gallery Beone, Pangyo 2015 "Vertigo: Dizzying Landscape," Guoldam Gallery, Incheon 2014 "Refined World," New Frontier Art Space, Suseong Artpia, Daegu Selected Group Exhibitions 2026 SAF 2026, Insa Art Center, Seoul 2025 Keepery Gallery 12-Artist Exhibition, Seoul 2025 Laporium Small Works Exhibition (3rd), Loha Gallery, Seoul 2025 "Exploring Life" Two-Person Exhibition, GG2 Gallery Seongsu, Seoul 2025 Dapsimni Art Lab, E-Land Foundation 16th Open Call Exhibition, Seoul 2024 Chuncheon Art Island 2024, Nami Island Pyeonghwarang Gallery, Chuncheon 2024 Art Record Cheongju, Geu Eotteon Gallery, Cheongju 2024 "The Wonderful Spring," FKI Center, Public Gallery, Seoul 2023 The Collection Art Fair & Exhibition, Hyundai Department Store Ulsan 2023 Mugungmujin Exhibition, Chunghwa Gallery, Seoul 2022 Playground, Sangsangmadang Gallery, Seoul 2022 ART Daejeon "My First Collection," Shinsegae Gallery Daejeon 2021 Art Prize, Gangnam Nonhyeon Furniture Street, Seoul 2021 ART 3.6.9, Platform L, Seoul 2021 Art Gyeonggi × Art Road 77, Camerata Gallery, Paju Heyri 2021 "Ecology of the Mind," Shinsegae Gallery Gwangju 2020 KEAs 2020 Ontact: Nevertheless, Art Dang, Seoul 2020 Young Korean Artist Collaboration Music+Art Design, Seoul Forest Cosociety, Seoul 2020 "The Moment," Artmora Gallery, New Jersey 2020 ASYAAF Asian University & Young Artist ARTISTY Special Exhibition, Hongdae Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul 2020 A1 Young Artist Exhibition, Geumboseong Art Center, Seoul 2020 "Still Life," Government Complex Gallery, Seoul 2019 ART 3.6.9, Yongsan Craft Center, Seoul 2019 "Bumurim: Erasing Boundaries," Pyeongtaek Art Center, Pyeongtaek 2019 "Nature," Artmora Gallery, New Jersey 2019 "Landscape and Beyond," Shinsegae Gallery Centum City, Busan 2018 Artmora Open Call, Artmora Gallery, Seoul 2018 A1 Art Office Emerging Artist Exhibition, Geumboseong Art Center, Seoul 2018 3rd New Drawing Project, Yangju Municipal Jang Ucchin Museum, Yangju 2018 Art 236, Place Camp, Jeju 2017 "Scene: Seen," Artertain, Seoul 2017 "Refill+ing," Seloart Gallery, Seoul 2017 "Small Gift" Exhibition, Art Eum Gallery, Daegu 2017 "Healing Thoughts" Two-Person Exhibition, Seojeong Art Center, Seoul 2017 Insa Salon, Gallery Misulsegye, Seoul 2016 "Landscape of the Mind," Gallery Kyoung, Daegu 2016 ASYAAF, DDP, Seoul 2016 PROLOGUE 2016, Makeshop Art Space, Paju 2016 13th Emerging Artist Statement Exhibition — Top 5 Finals, Gallery Misulsegye, Seoul 2016 MAKESHOP TOP10 2016, Makeshop Art Space, Paju 2015 13th Emerging Artist Statement Exhibition, Imlip Museum, Gongju 2015 13th Emerging Artist Statement Exhibition, Gallery Misulsegye, Seoul 2015 "I Am an Unknown Artist," Arko Art Center, Seoul 2015 Hidden Track, Beomeo Art Street, Daegu 2015 "Key.ddok." Exhibition, Kidari Gallery, Daegu 2015 "Summer, Beautiful," Tongyeong Art Gallery, Tongyeong 2014 A1 Art Office Emerging Artist Exhibition, Gana Insa Art Center, Seoul 2014 A1 Art Office Window Exhibition, A1 Art Office, Seongnam 2014 "Discovery," Art Center PPlus, Seoul 2014 ASYAAF, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul 2014 "Encounter," Tongyeong Art Gallery, Tongyeong 2014 "Aggregation and Convergence," Special Exhibition at the Republic of Korea Southern International Contemporary Art Festival, Daegu Culture & Arts Center, Daegu Residencies & Awards 2022 5th Incarnation Culture & Arts Foundation Creative Grant 2019 Samsung Bespoke Rendezvous Design Competition, Finalist 2018 2nd Place Camp Jeju ART-236, Bronze Prize, Jeju 2018 3rd New Drawing Project, Selected Artist, Yangju Municipal Jang Ucchin Museum 2016 13th Emerging Artist Statement Exhibition, Excellence Award, Gallery Misulsegye, Seoul 2016 Makeshop Art Space STUDIO M17, Artist-in-Residence, Paju 2016 National University Art Competition, Selected, Seoul 2015 National University Art Competition, Selected, Changwon 2014 National University Art Competition, Selected, Changwon Collections Arko Art Center, Makeshop Art Space, Daegu University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Seoul Culture Headquarters Museum Division Art Fairs 2025 Singapore Art Fair, Artmora Gallery, Singapore 2024 Jeju Art Fair, Emerging Artist Special Exhibition 2021 Euljiro Art Fair, Seoul 2020 Euljiro Art Fair, Seoul 2020 Art Fair 14C, Artmora Gallery, Jersey 2019 Art Gwangju, Artmora Gallery, Gwangju 2019 Art Busan, Artmora Gallery, Busan 2017 Cheonbyeon Art Fair, Artertain Gallery, Seoul 2015 Gyeongnam International Art Fair, Tongyeong Gallery, Gyeongnam
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