Bio:

Yong Eun (May) Kwon (b. 1994 Seoul, Republic of Korea) is an artist currently working in New York. She uses a variety of materials to create her pink half-human half-fish persona ‘Fish Daegari’ (means fish head in Korean), across two-dimensional and three-dimensional spaces. She humorously expresses incomplete human self-portraits of people who want to escape from various concerns.

Artist Statement:

My drawings, paintings, and sculptures humorously express self-portraits of incomplete modern individuals who seek to escape the excessive competition, endless work, complicated thoughts and emotions of their daily lives. I want to convey humorously, through the juxtaposition of humans and fish, that irrational, emotional, and venting desire is not negative or hidden but inherently natural.

As an artist, my work is driven by the desire for all of us to live more authentic lives, to take more time to find happiness, to see that our lives are short and finite, and that beneath our skins, we're all just pink meatballs!

Website: www.fishdaegari.com | @fish_daegari

Course: Riso Printing: An Introduction | VNC-1577-A

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