
Layered Traces
Echoes of Memory, Fragments of Time
Yun Eunja
Artist Statement
My work begins with curiosity and an impulse to explore. I’ve always been drawn to the idea of breaking away from conventional methods—of blurring the lines between printmaking and painting, structure and spontaneity. Using everyday objects instead of traditional plates, I create collagraphy-based prints that blend collage, texture, and rhythm.
Rather than following a strict process, I let intuition lead. I enjoy discovering moments where opposites meet—where the direct and indirect, visible and invisible, come together to form something unexpected.
Each piece is a reflection of how I experience the world: layered, emotional, and always shifting. Music often inspires me—it helps me express the intangible through color, line, and movement. For me, printmaking is not about repetition, but about transformation. Every layer, every mark is part of a larger rhythm that mirrors how I feel, think, and navigate the space between clarity and ambiguity.
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Yun Eunja is a Korean printmaker known for her experimental collagraphy works that blur the boundaries between printmaking, painting, and collage. A graduate of the Printmaking MFA program at Hongik University, she is an active member of the Korean Association of Contemporary Printmakers and the Korean Fine Arts Association, and a participating artist with AIAM (International André Malraux Association).
Over the course of her career, Yun has held 25 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 70 group shows across Korea, Japan, France, Germany, Turkey, Russia, and the United States. Her recent exhibitions include K-Art Global Exchange Exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (2023), The Beauty of Coexistency in Cologne, Germany (2022), and the Post-Prints 2021 show at Kim Hee-Soo Art Center in Seoul. She has also been invited to exhibit at venues such as the Louvre Carrousel in Paris and the Novosibirsk International Triennial in Russia.
Yun’s works have been recognized in major art competitions, including the Korea Grand Art Exhibition and the Gwangju Mudeung Art Exhibition, where she received the Grand Prize in 2018. Her practice reflects a boundless and intuitive approach, often incorporating everyday objects and layered abstraction to express rhythm, emotion, and the in-between spaces of memory and perception.

MIR-6081-01 41cmx53cm Mixed media, 2021

MIR-6081-02 41cmx53cm Mixed media, 2021

MIR-6081-03 41cmx53cm Mixed media, 2021

MIR-6081-04 41cmx53cm Mixed media, 2021

MIR-6081-05 41cmx53cm Mixed media, 2021

MIR-6081-06 41cmx53cm Mixed media, 2021

MIR-1081-1 42cmx55cm Mixed media, 2021

MIR-1081-3 42cmx55cm Mixed media, 2021

MIR-1081-5 42cmx55cm Mixed media, 2021

MIR-1081-6 42cmx55cm Mixed media, 2021

Innisfree No_19-008 42cmx45cm Mixed media, 2019

Innisfree No_19-010 42cmx45cm Mixed media, 2019