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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Green’s work begins with instinct and survival. He works directly on unprimed canvas, forcing raw, unmixed oil paint into the surface. Composition stages an event; the act of painting becomes a visceral response to survival. Speed and pressure drive the image forward as paint is thrown and pushed across the canvas. The surface holds tension and endures it.

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Bestial traces appear, bursting and dispersing almost at once. They tear and slip, etching scars through struggle. Colour and mark collide. These unstable states suggest moments of confrontation and survival, refusing to settle into a singular narrative or fixed meaning. Forms emerge, then recede, wavering along the boundary between formation and collapse. Within this urgency, order and chaos press against one another. Unease becomes the very language of the painting, persisting on the surface as a form of resistance.