About Yoo Young-ho
Born 1965. Yoo Young-ho is a South Korean sculptor.
Yoo Young-ho (, born 1965 ) is a South Korean sculptor.
Career He graduated in 1991 from the College of Fine Arts, Seoul National University. Later he studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in Germany. consisting in huge blue-colored statues of a bowing person. One statue was installed in Montevideo, Uruguay. Yoo's intention was to start the project at the farthest place from Korea.
Yoo's idea is to promote peace around the world with his artistic concept; one of his statues has been erected near the Korean Demilitarized Zone, in Haean, Yanggu County, Gangwon, which was the battleground of one of the fiercest battles of the Korean War.
Awards 2004 Kim Sejung Sculpture Award for Young Sculptors 2005/2006 Residence Program, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
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