Green (Yong Woon Park) is a South Korean artist based in London. He studied Fine Art and Environmental Design in South Korea before working as an Environmental Designer at Chang-Jo Architects. Confronted with the oppressive forces of competition, hierarchy, and inequality in South Korean society, he turned to painting as both an act of resistance and a pursuit of authenticity. This decision brought him to London, where he completed an MA in Fine Art: Painting at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London, in 2022.
Green now works from his studio at the Bow Arts Lakeside Centre and actively exhibits in London. His recent shows include Bring Your Light (Nunnery Gallery, selected by Chila K. Burman, 2023), Surging Silence (Hypha Studios, 2023), and A Mighty Gust (Four Corners, 2024). In 2025, his painting Guess Who’s Kissing was selected for Connection: Bow Open Exhibition 30th Anniversary Show at the Nunnery Gallery, curated by Bobby Baker. In the same year, 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.
Green’s practice represents an act of rebellion—an unfiltered and urgent outpouring of emotion. His paintings transform personal unrest intovisual form, articulating a bold narrative of resistance and introspection that challenges deeply entrenched societal norms.
On the canvas, fragmented faces and animalistic traces erupt and dissolve, never fully defined but distorted, fractured, and suspended between recognition and disappearance. These unstable forms serve as allegories of dominance and fragility, power and vulnerability, survival and imbalance. They erupt chaotically yet remain anchored within deliberate compositional structures, creating tension between order and destruction.
Green approaches painting as a visceral, physical struggle. He hurls, splatters, and scrapes unmixed oils directly onto the unprimed canvas, leaving deliberate areas of exposed space that intensify the paint while balancing dense eruptions. This interplay of emptiness and excess generates improvisational energy, where speed, rhythm, and instinct converge. Each stroke becomes both a wound and a breath, simultaneously revealing violence and vulnerability.
At once cathartic and critical, Green’s work provokes, disrupts, and challenges. It invites viewers to confront the pressures shaping their realities and to question the norms they unconsciously accept. Through this confrontation, his canvases create a space to reconsider survival, power, and the fragile impermanence of human existence.