Seongmin Yoo
MFA Art Studio, University of California Davis
MA Art Studio, California State University, Sacramento
Solo Exhibition
2028
Coconino Art Center, Flagstaff, AZ Scheduled
2027
NatureCulture, City of Napa, CA Scheduled
California State University San Jose, CA Scheduled
2026
Pulses of Experience, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA
Artemis: Vision of the Universe, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA
Spirit Made Visible, Dougherty Station Community Arts Center, Sna Ramon, CA
2025
Flow of Displacement, Holter Museum, Helena, MT
Vision of the Universe, M Museum, Seoul, Korea
Vision of the Universe , LP Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Vision of the Universe, Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2024
Traveler, Installation and Performance, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
2023
Flutter Fly Fall,, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
Stephen Kaltenbach & Seongmin Yoo, Epicenter, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
Women of Northern California: Making Meaning for Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, Featuring Installation, Davis, CA
2022
Three Installations from the East Bay, Uptown Gallery, Oakland, CA
Public Projects (Live Painting), Seattle Art Fair, Lumen Center, Seattle, WA
2021
Bondage to Freedom, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
Jose Veronica Torres and Seongmin Yoo,University Library Gallery, California State University, Sacramento, CA
2020
Malting, Robert Else Gallery, California State University Sacramento, Sacramento, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026
Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, WA
Rebel, Featuring Installation, Brookly, CA
San Francisco Art Market, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
30 Ceramic Sculptors, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
Arizona Aqueous XL, Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, AZ
Surreal Salon 18, Baton Rouge Gallery Center for Contemporary Art, Baton Rouge, LA
2025
Power In Pink Exhibition in Las Vegas, Breast Cancer Awareness, Shevetone Art Gallery LLC, Henderson, NV
Annual National Juried Exhibition, d’Art Center, Norfolk, VA
A Thousand Shades of Green, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
47th Annual Whitewater Valley Art Competition, Indiana University East, Richmond, IN
Seattle Art Fair, Lumen Center, Seattle, WA
San Francisco Art Market, art fair, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
Working Through It: Women and Their Art!, Davis CA
Citizen Joy: a celebration of Democracy focused on gratitude, Agency and harmony, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
Palm Springs Modernism Spring Show, Convention Center, Palm Springs, CA
30th Arts North International 2025, Hopkins Center for the Art, Hopkins, MN
2024
TAG Celebrates 100 Years of Surrealism, TAG, Los Angeles, CA
Palm Springs Modernism Fall Show, Convention Center, Palm Springs, CA
Vibrant, Art Mozaik Fine Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
15th Annual Art of Painting in the 21st Century, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
Paper, Fiber, 4th Annual Show, 1202 Contemporary Gallery, Gilroy, CA
Seattle Art Fair, Lumen Center, Seattle, WA
Manetti Shrem Museum, Davis, CA
The Playful Spirit, The Museum of Northern California Art, Chico, CA
San Francisco Art Market,, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
61st Annual Juried Competition juried by Kerry Inman, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
LA International Art Fair, LA Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA
Art Spoken - Valdosta National 2024, Valdosta State University, GA
2023
Land, Race, and Activism, Myers Gallery of Art, Department of Art & Design, Univ of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
Time Constraint, Indiana University Kokomo Art Gallery, Kokomo, ID
Seattle Art Fair, Lumen Center, Seattle, WA
New Painting, Juror Curator Rachel Gugelberger, Site Brooklyn Gallery, New York, NY
California Landscape Exhibition, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
San Francisco Art Market, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
Anti-WAR 2023, Exhibizone, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Women of Northern California: Making Meaning for Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, Davis, CA
Celebrating the Sacred Feminine - Honoring Women’s Herstory Month, Ludington Area Center for the Arts, Ludington MI, catalog
Intersect Palm Springs Art Fair, Palm Spring Convention Center, Palm Spring, CA
2022
Power of Empathy, Women Eco Artists Dialog, WEAD(Women Eco Artists Dialog), San Francisco, CA
Performance of Painting, Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, WA
Artists for Amnesty, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
Blowback: 2020 and 2021 M.A. Students, University Library Gallery at California State University Sacramento, CA
San Francisco Art Market, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
Drama: Story Telling in Art, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
Group Exhibition, Uptown Gallery, Oakland, CA
LA Art Show International Art Fair, LA Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Bold Expressions, Northern California Arts Center, Sacramento, CA
FL3TH3R Exhibit, Reece Museum, Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
2020
Axis 15th National Juried Exhibition, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Methods of Negotiation, Art Music Lit Space
2019
Else Gallery, Sacramento State University, Sacramento, CA
Crocker Kingsley Art Competition, Blue Line Art, Roseville, CA
2018
10th Annual Art of Painting in the 21st Century, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
2017
Annual SCC Art Show, Kondos Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2016
The 35th Grand Art Exhibition of Korea, Seongnam Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
2015
The 34th Grand Art Exhibition of Korea, Seongnam Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
The 35th Korea Calligraphy Art Association, Busan Cultural Center, Busan, Korea
2014
The 5th Busan Calligraphy Biennale, Busan Cultural Center, Busan, Korea
The 34th Korea Calligraphy Art Association, Busan Cultural Center, Busan, Korea
Pubilc Art
2026
Where Wild Things Gather, University Park INn, Davis, CA, outdoor
Primate Research Center Auditorium Mural, UC Davis, CA
Where the Wild Things Art, Artist Tree Mural, 72’ x 20’ and 8’ x 12’, outdoor
Davis Downtown 7 Mosaic Benches workshop with community, outdoor
2025
Dogs Discussion, Lead Artist Davis Mural Team Mural, 26’x 50’ , outdoor
Song of the Cosmos Mural, Davis CA, outdoor
Welcome to Davis Mural, Davis, CA, outdoor
2024
Gunrock, 505 Ist. Davis, CA, outdoor
2023
Davis Mural team, 4 murals and mural restoration, outdoor
Performance & Film
2026
Pulses of Experience Performance, Eureka CA
Spirit Made Visible, Dougherty Station Community Arts Center, San Ramon, CA
2024
The Traveler, Davis, CA,
2023
Life’s Intricate Code, Performance with the Linda Bair Dance Company
2021
Push and Pull, Performance with the Linda Blair Dance Company
Presentations (Lectures and Demonstrations)
Seongmin Yoo Artist Talk, Morris Grave Museum of Art, Eureka, CA, 2026
Vision, King High Lecture, Davis, CA, 2025
Mural Workshop for Community, Davis, CA, 2025
THE POWER OF EMPATHY: Exhibiting Artists Presentations, 2022
Western Versus Eastern Painting, Northern California Art Center, Sacramento, CA, 2022.
Contemporary Artist Lectures, California State University Sacramento, CA, 2022.
Methods of Negotiation Opening Reception Seongmin Yoo, 2020.
Artist Lecture, Crocker Kingsley Show, Blueline Gallery, Roseville, CA, 2019.
Ink Wash Demonstration, Sacramento City College, 2017
Grants Fellowships
City of NAPA Public Art, 2026
Grant from Four Four Foundation, Brooklyn, NY, 2026
Grant from the City of Davis Arts & Cultural Affairs program, 2025
Mary Lou Osborn Awards, UC Davis Art and Art History, 2024
University of California Davis, The College of Letters and Science Dean Summer Fellowship, 2023
The City of Davis Arts & Culture Grants for Individual Artists Awarded, 2023
Publications
Painting and Installation Exhibition at Morris Grave Museum, Redwood News707, May, 2026
Seongmin Yoo, John Natsoulasa Press, 2026
Seongmin Yoo, Spirit Made Visible, Roborantreview, Jan 28,2026
Seongmin Yoo Installation, Holter Museum of Art, 2025
Curiosity and Fear of the Unknown… Seongmin Yoo Solo Exhibition Visions of the Universe. Dong-a Ilbo, April 3, 2025
Solo Exhibition: Seongmin Yoo. Public Art Magazine, April 2025
A Creative Horizon That Breaks Down the Boundaries Between Identity and Otherness – Seongmin Yoo Solo Exhibition Visions of the Universe, Cultura Magazine, March 2025
Seongmin Yoo’s Visions of the Universe Explores Alien Life Through Color and Light. My Modern Met, February 2025
Seongmin Yoo, Aliens, 2024
Seongmin Yoo Monograph, 2023
Two Artists Are Creating Magic Together At Davis Art Gallery, See How. Sacramento Bee. Sept.13, 2023
14th Annual Art of Painting in the 21st Century Exhibition, catalog essay John Seed
Epicenter two-person show, catalog chapter 5 Epicenter Kaltenbach catalog
Once-in-a-Lifetime Conceptual Art Exhibit to open at Natsoulas Gallery by Hanna Nakano, The Dirt
Women of Northern California: Making Meaning for Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. (Catalog). Davis, CA: John Natsoulas Press, 2023.
Celebrating the Sacred Feminine - Honoring Women’s Herstory Month, Catalog
Power of Empathy, Women Eco Artists Dialog, WEAD Magazine, no. 13, Nov. 2022Three Installations from the East Bay, Uptown Gallery, Oakland, CA, Oakland Art Murmer, 2022
Performance of Painting at Seattle Art Fair, 2022
Seongmin Yoo, Art Reveal, no. 62, Dec. 2021: 98-105.
Art In America Guide, Aug 2021 https://artinamericaguide.com/event/seongmin-yoo-exhibition-bondage-to-freedom/
Artweek, Agu 2021 https://www.artweek.com/events/united-states/art-exhibition/davis/bondage-freedom-seongmin-yoo-exhibition-0821
Aghily, Tahlia and John Seed. Seongmin Yoo: Bondage to Freedom (Catalog). Davis, CA: John Natsoulas Press, 2021.
Seed, John. “A Strange New World: The Uncomfortable Art of Seongmin Yoo.” Medium. (July, 2021). https://johnseed.medium.com/a-strange-new-world-45c6094fbfc7
Jose Veronica Torres and Seongmin Yoo, University Library Gallery at CSU Sacramento Catalog 2021.
Exhibition Catalog, Axis 15th National Juried Exhibition, 2020
Exhibition Catalog, Crocker Kingsley Show 2019
Natsoulas, John. “Seongmin Yoo.” In The 10th Annual Art of Painting in the 21st Century a Exhibition Catalog, edited by John Natsoulas, 105-106. Davis, CA: John Natsoulas, 2018.