Samantha Yun Wall

ArtX Contemporary is proud to present a selection of work by Samantha Yun Wall, recipient of Seattle Art Museum’s 2024 Betty Bowen Award. Through highly detailed monochromatic drawings, Wall explores transcultural identity, drawing on her multiracial background and East Asian and Western storytelling traditions to examine hybridity, transformation, and feminine power.

Born in Seoul, South Korea, and raised in the United States, Wall investigates migration, belonging, and the construction of self. Working in ink, charcoal, and conté crayon, she creates striking black-and-white compositions in which silhouetted, doubled, and fragmented figures visualize the tensions between visibility and erasure, intimacy and distance. Centering the body as a site of negotiation, her figures face, mirror, and touch—suggesting both connection and division—while probing how identity is shaped through perception, memory, mythology, and inherited histories.

Opening First Thursday, May 7, 5-8pm.