Yi Hong

A confirmed birth year for this artist could not be independently verified. A 1974 birth year sometimes seen online in connection with the name Yi Hong belongs to an unrelated South Korean model and entertainer of the same name, not this artist, and should not be attributed to her. She trained first in sculpture, earning a BA in 1996 and an MA in 1998 from Seoul National University, before moving to the United Kingdom to study at Goldsmiths College, University of London, where she completed an MA in Fine Art in 2000 and a PhD in Art in 2011. In professional and gallery contexts her work is credited under two names, Yi Hong and Young In Hong, and collectors researching her market should search both forms.

Her practice has developed toward performance and installation alongside her sculptural training, and her exhibition record spans Korea and the United Kingdom. In 2019 she was shortlisted for the Korea Artist Prize at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea. In 2023 she received a Spike Island Commission for South West-based Artists in the UK, which led to the 2024 exhibition Five Acts at Spike Island, Bristol. In 2025 she held two solo exhibitions in Seoul, Amateur Composer at PKM Gallery and Five Acts & A Monologue at Art Sonje Center, indicating an active, ongoing practice into 2025 and 2026. She is represented by PKM Gallery in Seoul.

No verbatim, attributable critic quotes meeting sourcing standards were located for this artist. Her critical standing is instead visible through institutional selection: a 2019 shortlisting for the Korea Artist Prize by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, and a 2023 Spike Island commission that produced a dedicated 2024 survey exhibition in Bristol. Gallery materials also describe group presentations in international institutional contexts, though exact years for those specific group appearances are not independently confirmed and are treated here with caution.

No verified public auction record for an artist under the name Yi Hong or Young In Hong could be located as of this profile's research date. This is a confirmed absence rather than an oversight: cross-checks against major auction house listings and price databases returned no matching sale, and several similarly named artists (working under names such as Zhuang Hong Yi, Jian Yi Hong, and Hong Yi) were ruled out as distinct individuals rather than variant records of the same artist. Her market activity to date appears concentrated in primary gallery placement and institutional exhibition rather than in public secondary sale.

There is no catalogue raisonne for this artist and no documented certificate-of-authenticity program, so provenance and attribution would currently rely on the artist's gallery. There is no established public auction record to benchmark price against, which means any secondary-market claim about this artist should be treated with real skepticism until a verifiable sale surfaces. Because the artist is credited under two names, Yi Hong and Young In Hong, and because several other artists share closely overlapping names, collectors should confirm they are looking at the correct individual, education record, and gallery, PKM Gallery in Seoul, before acting on any information gathered elsewhere.