Hyunjun Yang is a Brooklyn-based painter, sculptor, and draftsman whose work explores frustration, alienation, and bodily anxiety through aggressive mark-making and grotesque figurative imagery. Drawing from underground comics, punk aesthetics, and personal experience within highly competitive social systems, Hyunjun treats drawing as both confrontation and release—using ink, watercolor, and mixed media to build unstable figures that oscillate between humor and violence.

Originally trained in fashion design, Hyunjun brings an awareness of surface, construction, and damage into his visual practice. His works often embrace mess, abrasion, and interruption to resist polish and false authority, allowing accidents and injury to remain visible within the image.

Hyunjun has exhibited internationally, including Wondering Paths, the 2025 School of Visual Arts MFA Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition (SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York), GODZILLAS at Latchkey Gallery (New York, 2024) and People of Civilian Control Line at Odusan Unification Observatory (South Korea, 2022). His work has been featured in Hyperallergic and Asian American Art Review. He received the Silver Award at the 3rd HK & KOR Art Contest.

Hyunjun Yang holds a BFA in Fashion Design and Fine Arts from Gachon University and an MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts. After living in Seoul for 25 years, he relocated to New York in 2023 and currently lives and works in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.