Chaeeun Yoo

Chaeeun Yoo is a multi-media artist, writer, filmmaker, and journalist based in New York City. Bridging diaspora politics with memory storytelling, her work seeks to celebrate the vulnerabilities of emotion, mourn the devastations of colonization, and highlight the communities who ceaselessly organize against networks of militarism and white hegemony. Photographic archives have especially been constant tethers to her heritage as a Korean diaspora. Utilizing photography as a conduit for documentation and journalistic storytelling, they photograph communities living on the margins of military violence. Recognized by the YoungArts Foundation as a 2025 National Photography Winner with Merit, she has exhibited her work at the North Carolina Museum of Art and won the 2025 Penn Review Art Prize. Her art and writing have also been recognized by Scholastics, the ACLU of North Carolina, Blue Marble Review, Eunoia Review, and more. Outside art, Yoo directs their socio-political organizing and resistance through their grassroots organization Our Iyagi, is a PBS News Student Reporting Labs Journalist-Fellow, and manages The Redwood Review, an online and print literary-arts magazine publishing queer, racialized creatives from across the globe. She is an undergraduate at Columbia University intending to study History and English.