Recipient of THE TAGLI Mentorship Award 2024 in collaboration with the Folco Collection.
Heeyoung Noh is a figurative painter who explores colonial trauma and diaspora by reproducing body images from South Korea. She received a B.A. from Sungshin Women’s University in Seoul in 2019 and an MFA at the Glasgow School of Art in Glasgow in 2024. Her practice entails a critical perspective toward diasporic identity and collective trauma as an Asian and Korean woman. She uses the female's body image as the main material to reinforce the ethnic identity: the colour of skin and hair and the vestige of Ttaemiri, a Korean traditional way of bathing. She also explores the vanished stories of relationships between mothers and daughters in the past generation through the feminism lens to highlight the collective and historical trauma inflicted by the state and patriarchal power.