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- Hyeyoung Maeng

Dr. Hyeyoung Maeng
Assistant Professor
Art, Design, and Art History | 559-278-2707 | Office: CA 223
Education
- PhD in Contemporary Arts (Art Practice-Based), LICA, Lancaster University, UK (2018)
- MFA in Fine Arts Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA
- MFA in Korean Painting, College of Fine Art, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea
- BFA in Fine Art Education (Korean Painting Major), College of Education, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea
Courses Taught
- Intermediate Painting (ART 140)
- Intermediate Drawing (ART 120)
Artist Website: www.hyeyoungmaeng.com
Dr. Young (Hyeyoung) Maeng is a South Korean artist-researcher in contemporary art. Her studio practice explores expanded painting practices, including Western and Korean painting, drawing, digital photography, and video art.
Young's art-practice-based PhD research investigates the boundaries between painting and film, reimagining the process of Korean Bunche painting as an experimental video art form known as "Documentation Art." This project also explores French philosopher Gilles Deleuze's philosophical concepts of the time image, aesthetics of sensation, and the body without organs in relation to aesthetics of Tao, and Korean true view realism. Documentation Art has garnered international recognition, being featured in prestigious art exhibitions at venues such as the Seoul Art Centre, Gallery Dos, Peter Scott Gallery, Liverpool FACT, and the Deleuze & Guattari Conference in London, Rome, Seoul, and Prague.
Currently, her research project, funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea, delves into the philosophical meaning of EDI (equity, diversity, inclusion) in human and AI companion robot interactions. Before taking on her current role as Assistant Professor of Art in Painting & Drawing, Young worked as a lecturer at Kongju National University. During her time there, she taught courses on Asian & Korean Art History and Western Aesthetics. Furthermore, she was involved in instructing Art Educational Theory and Studio Practice at Gongju National University of Education in South Korea.
- Painting & Drawing
- Expanded Painting
- Korean Bunche & Ink Painting
- Documentation Art video
- Digital Photography, Sound
- Textile Installation
- EDI in Post-Digital and Post Humanism
- Human & AI Companion Robots interaction
- Modernism and Post-Modernism Art & Art Education Theory,
- Deleuze’s Transcendental Aesthetics of Sensation
- Art Education Theory and Practice in relation to Deleuze & Guattari’s Philosophy
- Inclusive Art Education
- Cultural Learning
- Process-based Learning and Assessment
<Artist Website>
www.hyeyoungmaeng.com
<Solo Exhibition>
2023 Chaosmos (J Gallery, Cheonan, South Korea
2023 Painting as Non-territorialities (Gallery The Flux & Flow, Seoul, South Korea)
2020 Time of Events (Gallery Dos, Seoul, South Korea)
2019 Return of the Real (King Street Gallery, Lancaster, UK)
2018 Fractured Affection (King Street Gallery, Lancaster, UK)
2018 Documentation Art Screening (PhD Viva exhibition, LICA, Lancaster University, UK)
2016 Painting as Documentation Art (Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster, UK)
2016 Documentation Art and Korean Bunche Painting (The Campus in the City, Lancaster, UK)
2014 Something in Between (Installation Space, LICA, UK)
2012 Perfumed Violence (MFA Show, Phoenix Hotel, San Francisco, USA)
2007 The Pond of Mind (Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Art Center, Korea)
2004 The Joyful Imagination reflected on the Pond (Gongpyeong Art Center, Seoul, Korea)
1999 The Image of Pond (Insa Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
<Art Fair>
2021 Manif Seoul International Art Fair (Hamgaram Museum, Seoul Art Center, South Korea)
2020 Manif-Newsis Online Art Fair
<Selected Group Exhibitions>
2023 My Story, My Storage, CYART SPACE, Seoul, South Korea
2023 Meta Zero, Korean Media Art Association Show, Jeong Munggyu Mesum, Seoul, South
Korea
2023 Hoeto, Hanbyeokwon Museum, Seoul, South Korea
2022 Art Communication, (Espace Sorbonne 4, Paris, France)
2022 Old Future and New Past (Sejong Museum, Seoul, Korea)
2022 Art Education for All (Kyung Hee Gallery, Seoul)
2022 Faculty Show, Ilrak Gallery, Gongju National University of Education, South Korea
2022 Remembering Whang Chang Bae (Dong Duck Art Centre, Kim Bo Sung Art Centre, Seoul, Korea)
2021 Re-tread (Hyehwa Art Centre, Seoul, South Korea)
2021 Group Exhibition of Professors in Fine Art Education Department, Gongju National University of
Education (Ilrak Gallery, Gongju, South Korea, Online)
2020 Group Exhibition of Professors in Fine Art Education Department, Gongju National University of Education (Ilrak Gallery, Gongju, South Korea, Online)
2020 Eight Great Views of Happiness (Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea)
2020 Experimental Film and Video 2020 (CICA Museum, Korea)
2020 Art of Still Life (3 Square Art Gallery, Fort Colins, USA)
2018 Memory 53 (Kyung Hee Museum, Seoul, Korea)
LA Summer Exhibition (King Street Gallery, Lancaster, UK)
2018 – 2015 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Faculty Building Art Show (Lancaster University)
2017 Documentation Art Sandys Screening (FACT, Liverpool, UK)
2016 Falling in Love with Women’s Portraits (Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea)
2015 In-Betweenness (The Storey Gallery, Lancaster, UK)
2014 Korean Art Wave (Technopolis of Athens in Gazi, Greece)
2013 Translocura (The Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA)
2012 Flying Fish (ARC Gallery, San Francisco, USA)
2011 Hidden Story (Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, USA)
Mid-Point (Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, USA)
No fixed Places (Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, USA)
2008 Hoeto (Korea Art Center, Seoul, Korea)
Brushwork of Korean Painters (Se Jong Center for the Performing Arts, Seoul, Korea)
The 42th Korean Fine Arts Association Exhibition (Seoul Arts Center, Seoul,
Korea)
<Book Chapter>
Hyeyoung Maeng (2021) Contemporary Theories and Issues in Art Education, Publisher of Education
and Science (Kyoyookgwahaksa), South Korea
http://www.kyoyookbook.co.kr/shop/item.php?it_id=1618531682
<Journal>
Hyeyoung Maeng (2021), Investigation of Process-based Assessments in Art Education
through Deleuze’s Aesthetics of Sensation, Journal of Research in Art Education, South Korea
Hyeyoung Maeng (2020), Use of Deleuze's Process Ontology, Journal of Visual Art Practice, UK
19:2, 160 -178, https://doi.org/10.1080/14702029.2020.1742001
Hyeyoung Maeng (2020), An Investigation of Deleuze's Univocity of Being and Inclusive Art
Education, Journal of Research in Art Education, 2020 Vol. 21-3 pp. 1-23.
Hyeyoung Maeng (2020), Abstract Machines and Fine Art Education, Journal of Research
in Art Education, South Korea. 2020.21.1.1 2020 Vol. 21-1 pp. 1-22.
https://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE09316874
Hyeyoung Maeng (2019). Deleuze's Aesthetics of Transcendental Realism and the Aesthetics
of Following Tao, Journal of Research in Art Education. 2019 Vol. 20-3 pp. 21- 42.
<CONFERENCES>
2022 Rethinking the Role of Art Education in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) Education, Paper Presentation in the 1st Joint Korean Art Education Societies Conference, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea
2021 Panel Discussion, Art Education from the Sites, 2021 KoSea (Korean Society for the Education through Art) Online Conference, Seoul National University of Education, South Korea
2021 Painting as Non-territorialities, Documentation Art Screening and Paper Presentation, The 13th annual Deleuze & Guattari Studies Online Conference, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic
2019 Transcendental Aesthetics of Sensation: Documentation Art as Agencement Machines,
Documentation Art Screening and Paper Presentation, The 12th Deleuze & Guattari Conference in Royal
Holloway, University of London, UK;
2017 Identity as Larval Subjects, Documentation Art Sandys Screening and
Presentation in the AHRC NWCDTP Postgraduate Conference, University of Liverpool;
Sandys: https://filmfreeway.com/projects/846565 (Password: Youngproject2017)
2016 Painting as Virtuality, Becoming and Life, Paper Presentation in the International Deleuze Studies
Conference in University of Rome Tre, Italia
2016 Documentation Art of Korean Bunche Paining: Landscape Painting as Transcendental Realism, Paper
Presentation Asian Deleuze Studies Conference, Seoul National University, South Korea
2016 True-view Landscape Painting and Transcendental Realism, Lancaster
University Post-Graduate Research Conference Long Presentation (Lancaster University)