Emily Yong Beck | Same as it ever was
New York
October 27 – December 9, 2023
BORN
1999, Daegu, South Korea
SOLO + TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2026
Asia Society, Houston, TX, USA (upcoming)
2025
Victory Food, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Lost in Translation, The Frozen Fountain Meguro, Tokyo, Japan; curated by MARGIN
2023
Soft Power, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Same As It Ever Was, Gaa Gallery, New York, NY, USA
We’re Outta Here, Emily Yong Beck, The Pit, LA, USA
Whiskers on Kittens, Gaa Projects, Cologne, Germany
2022
Spoonful of Sugar, New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Lions & Lambs, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
Emily Yong Beck, The Nevica Project, Chicago, IL (Online Feature)
Emily Yong Beck + Kaylie Kaitschuck, NADA New York, Gaa Gallery, New York, NY, USA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
GRAAH, Lefebvre & Fils, Paris, France
MORE THAN NOW, Moosey Gallery, London, UK
Halfway to Sanity, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Rue Des Fleurus, Athènes, Allouche Benias, Athens, Greece
Angelitos De Plata, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Navigating Duality, Korean Cultural Center of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
2023
Ceramique, Aparador, Los Angeles, CA, USA
FriendsWithYou | Koichi Sato | Emily Yong Beck, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Obrigado à Terra, Palãcio Duques de Caval, Évora, Portugal
Day Dreaming Pressed Against A Fence, Harkawik, Los Angeles, CA.
We’re Outta Here, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA.
2022
Menagerie, Agency Art, Chicago, IL, USA
Obscurity and the Unknown, Sebastian Gladstone, Los Angeles, CA, USA
So You Thought This Would Be Easy, Weatherproof, Chicago, IL, USA
Party People, Black Book Gallery, Englewood, Colorado, USA
Elizabeth Tibbetts, Juan Arango Palacios, + Emily Yong Beck, Untilted Art, Gaa Gallery, Miami Beach, FL, USA
2021
Undergraduate Exhibition, SAIC Galleries, Chicago, IL, USA
Cozy Warm, Arts of Life, Chicago, IL, USA
Bright Line, The Latent Space, Chicago, IL, USA
Quick Hello, Black Book Gallery, Englewood, CO USA
Milkweed, Watershed Gallery, Newcastle, ME, USA
New Image Art, Untitled Art Fair Miami, FL, USA
AWARDS + RESIDENCIES
2024
Township10, Marshall, NC, USA
2023
The Residency Program, Versailles, France
2022
Township10, Marshall, NC, USA
2021
Watershed, Newcastle, ME, USA
White Columns: The White Columns Curated Artist Registry
SELECTED PRESS + PUBLICATIONS + WORKS CITED
“Rising Artist Emily Yong Beck’s Ceramics Tackle the Power of Cuteness,” Harley Wong, Artsy, November 27, 2023
Kunstszene im April: Ein Rundgang in den Kölner Galerien Report K, April 28, 2023
“At NADA, a Glorious Collision of Paintings and Ceramics,” New York Times, May 5 2022
Clay In Color: The Propaganda of Rococo Ceramics and Cuteness with Emily Yong Beck
ALL MY FRIENDS: friends forever 5-8
EDUCATION
2021 BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Gaa Gallery New York is pleased to present Same As It Ever Was, a solo exhibition by Emily Yong Beck. This is the artist’s first solo show in New York. On view through December 9, Same As it Ever Was will open with a reception on Friday, October 27, from 6 - 8 pm at 4 Cortlandt Alley.
For the 2022 edition of Untitled Art, Miami Beach, Gaa Gallery is pleased to present new works by New York-based painter Elizabeth Tibbetts and Chicago-based artists Juan Arango Palacios and Emily Yong Beck. The fair runs November 28 through December 3, with an opening preview (by invitation only) Monday, November 28, from 1 - 8 pm and public days Tuesday, November 29 through Saturday, December 3, from 11 am - 7 pm. The fair will take place at Ocean Drive and 12th Street, Miami Beach, Florida.
Please stop by to see us, and we look forward to welcoming to Booth B12!
Gaa Gallery is pleased to present Lions & Lambs, a solo exhibition of ceramic sculptures by Chicago-based artist, Emily Yong Beck. Juxtaposing propaganda cartoons and reinterpretations of European and Asian ceramics, Lions & Lambs is a rigorous and aesthetically expansive examination of cuteness culture. This will be Yong Beck's first solo exhibition with the gallery and will run through August 28, with an opening reception on Friday, August 5, from 6 - 8 pm.
For the 2022 edition of NADA New York, Gaa Gallery is pleased to exhibit new works by Kaylie Kaitschuck and Emily Yong Beck. In pairing Kaitschuck’s yarn and felt embroideries and Yong Beck’s hand-built ceramic sculptures, this presentation engages a tactile and maximal dialogue on the intersections of craft, humor, identity, and culture. Please join us May 5–8 at Pier 36 - 299 South St, New York, NY 10002.
