IM Youngzoo

IM Youngzoo (b. 1982, Busan, South Korea) works across installation, moving image, and research-driven environments to examine how systems of belief—spiritual, technological, and scientific—coexist and co-produce reality. Rather than positioning these domains in opposition, she treats them as overlapping operational frameworks that structure perception, orientation, and survival.

Drawing from personal histories shaped by shamanistic traditions alongside Korea’s rapid technological acceleration, she develops immersive systems in which viewers navigate unstable coordinates between body, signal, and cosmology. Her works often unfold as spatial interfaces—environments that resemble devices, rituals, or simulations—through which questions of death, transmission, and the unknown are continuously rehearsed rather than resolved.

She was shortlisted for the Korea Artist Prize 2025 and received the 2025 Frieze Artist Award for Calming Signal. Her work was presented at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (2025), as well as at Perigee Hall & Gallery, Seoul (2024), and Doosan Gallery, New York (2019). She has also developed her work through international residencies, including the Amant Studio & Research Residency in New York (2025) and the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (2026).