YOONSIK CHICO PARK


Biography
Yoonsik Chico Park (b. 1998, Seoul) is a South Korean artist living and working in Abu Dhabi. Yoonsik’s practice in photography, performance, and installation articulates ways in which we can exist more comfortably within temporariness. Incorporating autobiographical accounts onto ritual, archives, and everyday objects, these existential explorations engage with themes of identity, spirituality, social norms, and the cycle of life. His most recent works stage performances in liminal spaces as an invitation to introspect on the silence and absence that follows death.

Yoonsik is a recipient of The Salama bint Hamdan Emerging Artists Fellowship (2024) and NYU Abu Dhabi’s Post-Graduation Research Fellowship (2023). He holds a BA in Philosophy from NYU Abu Dhabi (2023). 



Exhibitions & 
Performances
2024 | Group Exhibition, Form 2024, Cica Museum, Seoul, Korea.
2024 | Solo Performance, immortalized-ish, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
2023 | Solo Performance, Intergenerational Conversation Series: Lakwon Park (b. 1940) on the Korean War, Life’s Big Choices, Love, Religion, and Death, Concrete Tent by DAAR, Abu Dhabi, UAE. 
2023 | Group Exhibition, Shell. The Cube, New York University Abu Dhabi Art Gallery. Abu Dhabi, UAE.
2022 | ArtHaus, Agora Digital Network. New York City, NY, USA.














Selected Presentations
2024
"Korean Ancestral Rites: Ritual Performance of Jesa as Multilayered Site of Assembly." Performance Studies international (PSi) #29, London, UK, June, 2024. Presenter. 

“Feast.” Writer’s Suhoor, 421 (formerly Warehouse 421). Abu Dhabi, UAE. March, 2024. Presenter. 

"Performance as Self-Portrait: Proclamation of my Korean identity through a six-year artistic process." Portrait of the Contemporary Artist, Diasporic Asian Art Network, College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, Chicago, USA, February 16, 2024. Presenter.

Awards
 2024
Honorable Mention, Architecture Category, Monochrome Awards: International Black and White Photography Contest, photo entry: ‘Looking Up.’  

2023
Quarter Finalist, Best Short Film Category, Student World Impact Film Festival. ‘Intergenerational Conversation Series: Lakwon Park (b. 1940) on the Korean War, Life’s Big Choices, Love, Religion, and Death.’ 

Honorable Mention, Conceptual Category, Monochrome Awards: International Black and White Photography Contest, photo entry: ‘First Love.’  

Honorable Mention, Travel Category, Monovisions Black & White Photography Awards, photo entry: ‘After the Show.’  



 Publications
 2023
Airport Road, Issue 14. Photography published in journal cover art and visuals (link). 

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