Hwang Do You South Korea, b. 1987

The artist is deeply devoted to and engaged in painterly expression, and his works, rendered through delicate brushwork, evoke landscapes that are both uncanny and beautiful. Hwang Do You offers viewers a mysterious and enchanting artistic experience through his refined use of color and concise yet powerful strokes. 

Born in 1987, he graduated from Kaywon University of Art and Design and has built a strong collector base through active exhibitions and collaborative projects. 

Through restrained brushwork that minimizes overlapping strokes, Hwang fully reveals the entire process on the canvas, from the first mark to the final stroke. By deliberately excluding emotion and memory, he focuses solely on the individual stroke—its color, texture, and presence—unfolding abstract landscapes that evoke a sense of wonder in the viewer. This approach continues in his series Alice in Wonderland and The Thirty-Three Flower Blossoms. In Alice in Wonderland, he creates an atmosphere in which Alice might exist within dreamlike landscapes, while in The Thirty-Three Flower Blossoms, the imperfect movements of the hand are transformed into a painterly charm, emphasizing the aesthetic of incompletion. 

In this way, Hwang Doyou establishes a distinctive painterly world at the intersection of stroke and trace, memory and landscape. His latest work, East of Eden, borrows its title from the eponymous novel and film but does not follow their narrative. Rather than conveying a specific story, the work emphasizes symbolic resonance and sensory aftereffects, allowing viewers to interpret its meaning individually through the emotions and atmosphere evoked by the piece.