GHC Art Gallery

Emily Jounghee Won is a visual artist whose work explores identity, memory, and emotional landscapes through abstract photography. She received a B.F.A. in Applied Painting and an M.F.A. in Western Art in Korea and has practiced as an artist for over three decades, working across various media, including wire drawing, painting, and photography.

Since moving to the United States in 2015, she has studied photography and developed her photographic practice. Over the past decade, photography has become an important medium through which she reflects on migration, observation, and personal identity. Her work has been exhibited in Korea and the United States, and her photography has received several awards, including recognition at the National Juried Photography Exhibition in the United States.

A Woven Narrative of Identiy traces my journey as an immigrant artist who moved from Korea to the United States in 2015. Through the study of studio art and a focus on photography, I have developed a visual language that explores memory, identity, and belonging.

This body of work, presented as my sixth photobook and ninth solo exhibition, reflects years of observation and emotional exploration through the camera lens. Rather than documenting landscapes directly, I transform natural forms and fleeting moments into poetic and symbolic images. Each photograph acts as a fragment of memory within a broader narrative of migration and self-discovery.

Created across Korea and the United States, these images connect past and present, homeland and new home—reflecting an ongoing search for identity and belonging.