JIAN YOO

Sun Gallery presents Where Time Settles into Light, the first major solo exhibition at the gallery by Jian Yoo (b. 1982), on view from 17 June to 21 July 2026 across both floors of the gallery in Insadong, Seoul, presented in conjunction with Insa Art Week 2026. Working in mother-of-pearl (najeon), the centuries-old Korean tradition of nacre inlay, Jian Yoo builds luminous surfaces from countless fragments of shell. The twenty-two works on view span her WAVE, ETERNAL FLOW, MOONLIGHT, THE MOON, WHITE BLOSSOMS, and DAZZLING MOMENTS series, in mother-of-pearl on wood and mixed media. In the artist’s words, the work “explores how invisible flows of time and emotion take form as structures through light, material, and space,” where the accumulated surface “holds both stillness and movement,” and “mother-of-pearl is a language that records light and reveals change.” Jian Yoo studied at Pratt Institute and works from her studio ARIJIAN in Namyangju. Her work is held in the permanent collection of the National Folk Museum of Korea and has been presented internationally, including at Homo Faber in Venice and Abu Dhabi Art.