Yuri Hwang is a media-object artist, exploring the digital image and its frame of the screen. Her work examines the performance and consumption of culture online, where information, identities, and relationships are compressed into templated grids. Interested in the increasingly transactional language of interactions today, she adopts the position of an average online user in her practice: seeing and being seen through a pixelated window.
The environments which staged her childhood – churches and Youtube – remain a core influence in her work. She draws parallels between the theatrics of traditional worship and contemporary idolatry, particularly through their functions of transforming personalities into images, objects, and consumables. Through refusing such products under pixelated frames, her practice visualizes the strict, immaterial constructs of the virtual space – aggrandizing them as commandments of a contemporary worship.
Yuri Hwang (b. 2001) is a Korean-born artist based in London. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2023 at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford. She has exhibited in London, Oxford, and Seoul, and will serve as the Stanley Picker Print Tutor at the Kingston School of Art for the 2025/26 academic year.
