Education

2009
Completed Master’s Coursework in Fine Art, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
2005
BFA in Fine Art, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024
미련 未練 Mi-ryeon, Perigee Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2023
LiDAR LiDAR Lead me to my grave, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon PS333, Seoul, Korea
2021
M, out_sight, Seoul, Korea
Human/I, Hall 1, Seoul, Korea
2020
Ghost White (#F8F8FF Opacity 75%) 幽靈白, Gallery Chosun, Seoul, Korea
2019
AEDONG, DOOSAN Gallery, New York, USA
2018
Gristle and Synovial Fluid, DOOSAN Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2017
LOOK, HERE BEGINS THE OMEGA, Sansumunhwa, Seoul, Korea
2016
THEWESTLIESWINDCOMESANDGOES, Space O’NewWall, Seoul, Korea
Rock and Fairy, The Book Society, Seoul, Korea

Selected Group Exhibitions and Film Screenings

2025
Korea Artist Prize 2025, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
A Faraway Today, Kukje Gallery Hanok, Seoul, Korea
Talking Head, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2024
Worlds Beyond Extraordinary, Minhwa and K-Pop Art Special Exhibition, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
2023
Maniera, DOOSAN Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Natural Born Odds, Salihara Arts Center, Jakarta, Indonesia
Let’s Dance Sufi!, Oil Tank Culture Park T4, Seoul, Korea
Vom Spielen, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany
2022
The Adventures of Dots & Dashes, Elephantspace, Seoul, Korea
HOW CURRENT IS A CASTHE?, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems, Germany
Sound of the Mountain: Nine-Tailed Fox Gumiho as Sexual Trickster, Pink Factory Annex, Hongcheon, Korea
2021
Sunset Valley Village, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
The Phenomenal Transition, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan, Korea
Perform Collection System (PCS), Elephantspace, Seoul, Korea
FortuneTelling, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea (Special Screening)
2020
Hare Way Object, Art Plant Asia 2020, Deoksugung, Seoul, Korea
Diplopia, ARKO Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2019
Symbiotic City, APAP6, Anyang Pavilion, Anyang, Korea
hOle, Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2018
Divided We Stand, Busan Biennale 2018, The former Bank of Korea, Busan, Korea
Salt of the Jungle, Vietnamese Women’s Museum, Hanoi, Vietnam
Tastes of Weather, Nam-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
CROSSROADS 2018, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
2017
DOOSAN Art LAB 2017, DOOSAN Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Selected Performances

2025
Future Trace Practice: Test Version, Amant, New York, USA
2024
Thanatosis, Perigee Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2023
LiDAR LiDAR Lead me to my grave, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon PS333, Seoul, Korea
Home Drama Theater, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, Korea
2021
Human/I, Hall 1, Seoul, Korea
2019
How to Fold the Land, Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2017
The Nation of Im, Relay Lecture Performance “Glass Mirror,” DOOSAN Art Center, Seoul, Korea

Selected Curatorial Projects

2023
Research Council of Drama and Drama, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, Korea
2015
Communal Discipline: A Training Log Report, Booknomad a. space, Seoul, Korea

Selected Publications

2025
Im Youngzoo. 고 故 The Late. Seoul: Rasun Press
Im Youngzoo. “Interactivity and Permeability of Video Media: Centering on Im Seong-han’s Dramas.” Drama Is a World. Seoul: Nuance
2023
Im Youngzoo. “Folded Writing.” AVP Quarterly 6. Seoul: Audio Visual Pavilion
2021
Im Youngzoo. Human/I. Seoul: Rasun Press
2018
Im Youngzoo·Kim Siseup·Mun Hye Jin·Ahn Sohyun. Rock and Fairy Vol. 3: LOOK, HERE BEGINS THE OMEGA. Seoul: Mediabus
2016
Kim Shiduck·Park Chan-kyong·Im Youngzoo. Rock and Fairy Vol. 1: ODD ROCK FORCE. Seoul: O’NewWall
Im Youngzoo. Rock and Fairy Vol. 2: THEWESTERLIESWINDCOMESANDGOES. Seoul: Seoul Museum of Art
2015
Ahn Sohyun·Yun Donghee·Im Youngzoo. Workshop; Training Report. Seoul: Booknomad
2014
Im Youngzoo. The Legend of Three Gods. Seoul: Mediabus

Selected Awards

2025
Frieze Seoul Artist Award, Korea
2024
NOW & NEXT, Frieze × CHANEL, Korea
Perigee Artist, Perigee Gallery, Korea
2017
Korean EXiS Award, 14th Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul, Korea

Selected Residencies

2025
Amant Studio & Research Residency, New York, USA
2023
Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, Korea
2022
Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems, Germany
2021
MMCA Residency Goyang, Goyang, Korea
2019
DOOSAN Residency, New York, USA

Selected Collections

Busan Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan, Korea
DOOSAN Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea