HeeJoo Vallvé Yi Exhibition

My name is HeeJoo Vallve Yi

I was born in Oct. 1960, Seoul, Korea. My family immigrated to Chicago, USA in 1973, grew up having the best of both cultures.

I graduated from SAIC, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, class of 1983, majored in Fashion Design.

After receiving multiple prizes, I got a position as a fashion designer and as a buyer for a teenage line for Ragazzeria, a division of PreNatal in Barcelona.

While I was working in the company, I married a very handsome Catalan man and have two beautiful daughters and made me become full time mom but never lost interest in fine art.

During the past seven years, I have been taking many fine art classes under a great art instructors.

I am enjoying the crafts of discovering myself through art. I learn so much from the act of painting, drawings, figure and portrait sculpture and etching and linocut.

I do not feel that I’m mastering fine art but through the process of daily learning and trying to improve my techniques, I enjoy the slow discovering of myself.

As they say the travel through the journey itself is far more important than reaching through destiny. My paintings are my journey of self discovery in a way.