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 (Nunnery Gallery, London, 2023), selected by Chila Kumari Burman; 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 at Nunnery Gallery, curated by Bobby Baker. 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  by Arts Council England and the UK Government, in recognition of his contribution to the UK cultural sector.

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Green’s work begins with instinct and the condition of survival. He works directly on unprimed canvas, forcing raw, unmixed oil paint. Painting is not planned. It reacts. Speed, pressure, and moment by moment decisions drive the image. Paint is thrown and forced across the surface. The canvas holds tension and endures it.

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Animal traces appear, then burst and splatter almost at once. Figures refuse to settle. They tear, slip, hover between appearance and disappearance. Colour and mark collide. What remains registers like scars left by struggle.

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These unstable states do not seek to explain a singular narrative. They reveal a condition of confrontation and survival. Forms emerge, then recede, wavering along the boundary between formation and collapse.

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Order and chaos press against each other. Unease becomes the language of painting. Green’s work does not arrive at meaning or resolution. It stays on the surface as resistance.