College of Arts and Humanities
Dr. Young (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
- ART 40 Painting
- ART 45 Watercolor
- ART 109T Korean Ink Painting
- ART 140 Intermediate Painting
- ART 141 Advanced Painting
- ART 120 Intermediate Drawing
- ART 123 Advanced Drawing
- ART 241 Graduate Painting
- ART 240 Graduate Critique Seminar
Artist Website: www.hyeyoungmaeng.com
Dr. Young (Hyeyoung) Maeng is an artist-researcher whose practice bridges contemporary painting, philosophy, and artificial intelligence. Her studio work investigates expanded painting by integrating Western and Korean painting traditions with digital photography and video art, reimagining the painterly process through the lens of AI and posthuman thought.
Her PhD research examined the intersections of painting and film, transforming the process of Korean Bunche painting into an experimental video art form known as Documentation Art. This project engaged Gilles Deleuze’s concepts of the time-image, aesthetics of sensation, and the body without organs, situating them within the aesthetics of Tao and Korean true-view realism. Documentation Art has been presented internationally at the Seoul Arts Center, Gallery Dos, Peter Scott Gallery, Liverpool FACT, and the Deleuze & Guattari Conferences in London, Rome, Seoul, and Prague.
Currently, Dr. Maeng’s ongoing research project, AI Humanity, supported by a P-RSCA
Impact Grant, explores the philosophical and ethical dimensions of human–AI companion
relationships through the framework of expanded painting. Her work reinterprets the
philosophical concept of univocity of being in the age of intelligent machines, proposing
new visual and conceptual approaches to coexistence between human and non-human entities.
Before joining California State University, Fresno as Assistant Professor of Art in
Painting & Drawing, Dr. Maeng taught at Kongju National University and Gongju National
University of Education in South Korea, where she offered courses in Asian and Korean
Art History, Western Aesthetics, and Art Educational Theory.
- 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>
2025 AI and Me: Familiar hands and Unfamiliar eyes (Art Logic Space, Seoul, South
Korea)
2024 Non-Human Ontology and AI Humanity (Gallery Unbound, Stony Brook University,
New York)
2024 Portrists of AI Humanity in the Post-human Eea (Wave Art Space, Seoul, South
Korea)
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>
2025 PLAS ART Seoul Art Fair, (COEX 1F B Hall, Seoul, South Korea (https://plasticartseoul.com/)
2021 Manif Seoul International Art Fair (Hamgaram Museum, Seoul Art Center, South Korea)
2020 Manif-Newsis Online Art Fair
<Selected Group Exhibitions>
2025 Monterey Biennial: Celebrating Central California Artists, Monterey Museum, CA, USA
2025 Domesticated Fauna, M Street Gallery, Fresno, CA, USA
2024 Algorithm, (Life Saving Lomaro Gallery, Paju, South Korea)
2024 Faculty Art Show, (Conley Art Gallery, Fresno State University, CA, USA)
2023 Meta Zero (Korea Media Art Association Show, JeongMunGyu Gallery, Seoul, South Korea)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ifvuxGFR38
2023 Heito Exhibition, Rest, Stay, (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>
Hyeyoung Maeng (2025), Art Philosophy after AI, Communication Books, Seoul, South Korea
<Book Chapter>
Hyeyoung Maeng (2025), AI, Agency, and Univocity of Being: Rethinking Creative Practice in the Posthuman Era, The Delaware Contemporary's 2025 Biennial Anthology, Artifice: Implications for Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Delaware Contemporary Art, USA
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>
2025 Transforming Studio Art Education: Integrating AI in Studio Art Courses, 46th Central California Symposium, Co-presentation with three undergraduate BA in Art students.
2024 Exploring AI Integration in Art Education - Dr. Ahran Koo and Dr. Hyeyoung Maeng CAEA State Conference 2024, Hotel Fera Anaheim, a DoubleTree by Hilton in Orange County, CA, USA
2023 Portraits of AI Companion Robots and Their Coexistence with Humans: Focusing on EDI (Equity, Diversity, Inclusion) and Deleuze's Non-Human Ontology. Paper Presentation, 23rd KoSea (Korean Society for the Education through Art) Conference, Kongju National University, Cheonan, South Korea
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)
AWARD AND FUNDING
2025 2025–2026 Provost–Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity (P-RSCA) Impact Grant, California State University, Fresno for the Project titled From AI to AGI: Intuition, Creative Ethics, and the Future of Painting ($14,965)
2024 2024–2025 Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity (RSCA) Grant, California State University, Fresno for the Project titled Expanded Painting: Portraits of AI Humanity ($7,962)
2022 Award for 2022–2023 Art & Humanity and Social Science Research Project, Art-Philosophical Meaning of EDI through Korean Literati Aesthetics and Deleuze’s Aesthetics of Sensation, funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea (₩13,600,000 KRW; Sept. 1, 2022 – Aug. 30, 2023)
2023 Honorable Mention for Documentation Art Sandys (10min) Sandys (10min), Rome Women Film Festival https://filmfreeway.com/projects/846565 (Password:Youngproject2017)
2020 Finalist for Experimental Film Award for Documentation Art, Sandys (10min), New Wave Short Film Festival, (Munich, Germany)