Park Youngsook

Park Youngsook (Korean: 박영숙, 1941–2025) was a South Korean feminist photographer known for her depictions of women. Park's most famous body of work is a collection of photographs from 1999-2005 titled The Mad Women Project (Michinnyeon Project, Korean: 미친년 프로젝트). This collection comprises eighty-seven staged photographs of women depicted in a variety of different ways that show their supposed inner "craziness" or "Mad Woman(ness)." In 1981, Park started university and then later graduated with a history degree from Sookmyung Women's University Park was asked to attend the Equality, Development, Peace exhibition, which was hosted by the Women's Coalition in commemoration of the 1975 International Women's Year created by the United Nations.

Museums and exhibitions Park's work has been exhibited in various museums such as the Seoul Museum of Art, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, the Hanmi Museum of Photography, the Gwangju Museum of Art, the Sungkok Art Museum, the Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria & Albert Museum (UK), and in the ARARIO Collection. She was also asked to be a participant in the Gwanju Biennale in 2002. Park had a solo exhibition in 2016 at the Arario Gallery Cheonan. Various institutions, such as National Human Rights Commission of Korea, Ewha Women's University, and Sookmyung Women's University, also hold Park's works in their collections.