Woo Yongmin paints big ink on hanji. Duryunsan 545 cm wide, Jirisan's Banyabong 360 cm — his SAF works bring the Year of the Red Horse (Byeongo) at intimate 71×36 cm.
Woo Yongmin's brush is large.
His Duryun, held by Haengchon Museum since 2020, is 198×545 cm. Snow Flowers (2022) is 180×720 cm, collected in 2023 by Jeonnam Provincial Museum of Art. Banyabong of Jirisan is 181×360 cm. His surfaces, ink on hanji, carry the big breath of Korean ink painting into today.
But the two SAF works are 71×36 cm — a comparatively small format. With a different breath from his major collection pieces, the same brush draws up 2026's Byeongo (Year of the Red Horse) Horse.
Haenam, The Center of Ink
Woo Yongmin's practice moves around Haenam, South Jeolla.
- 2020 Duryun, Haengchon Museum, Haenam
- 2022 Hwaeom Jiri, Hwaeomsa Sungbo Museum
- 2022 Tigers Descend, Blessings Descend, Sinan
- 2021 Moon and Stars at Kim Hwanki's Old House, Kim Hwanki Residence
- 2025 Ink—Four Gentlemen, Haengchon Museum, Haenam
- 2024 Birch of the Heavens, Birch of Injae, Miracle Library, Injae
He joined the Jeonnam International Sumuk Biennale four times (2017, 2018, 2021, 2023), and exhibited abroad — Bangkok Poh Chang International Art Festival (2023), at Norburga Gallery in Innsbruck, Austria (2024), Chiangmai International Art Festival (2024).
