Green (Yong Woon Park) is a South Korean artist based in London. He studied Fine Art and Environmental Design in South Korea and worked as an environmental designer at Chang-Jo Architects before relocating to the UK, where he completed an MA in Fine Art: Painting at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London, in 2022.​
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He works from a studio at Bow Arts Lakeside Centre, London, and has been actively exhibiting in the UK and Europe. His exhibitions include Bring Your Light curated by Chila Kumari Singh (Nunnery Gallery, London, 2023); Surging Silence (Hypha Studios, London, 2023); and A Mighty Gust (Four Corners, London, 2024). In 2025, his painting Guess Who’s Kissing was selected for Connection: Bow Open Exhibition – 30th Anniversary Show curated by Bobby Baker at Nunnery Gallery. In the same year, he participated in 44.49.82, a group exhibition presented by Choi&Choi and Jarilager Gallery in Cologne, highlighting Korean artists working across the UK, Germany, and South Korea.
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In 2025, Green was awarded the UK Global Talent Visa in the Painting sector by Arts Council England and the UK Government, in recognition of his contribution to the UK cultural sector.
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​“I am not flying, but holding against the fall.”
- Green
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Living as an outsider, survival shapes the conditions of Green's practice. His work begins with instinct. He works directly on unprimed canvas, forcing raw, unmixed oil paint across it. The painting unfolds as an event, a visceral response of the body and senses. Speed and pressure drive the image as paint is pushed, thrown, torn, and scraped. The surface holds tension against exposed canvas.
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Feral traces appear and rupture, leaving scars. Colour and mark collide. Unstable states suggest confrontation and survival without settling into fixed meaning.​ Forms waver at the boundary between formation and collapse. Within this urgency, order and chaos press against one another. Unease becomes the language of the painting, persisting as resistance.
© 2024 by Green