Dain Yoon is a South Korean fine artist, currently based in New York City. Widely acclaimed for her illusion painting on her face and body, and her prolific work with a variety of media, Ms. Yoon explores the complex portrayal of raw emotion filtered through the unique personal diversity of each individual. Yoon has participated in a wide variety of collaborative projects. She has collaborated with artists, including Maurizio Cattelan, Halsey, and James Blake; worked with museums including the Tate Modern and the Van Gogh Museum; and garnered significant attention in media, appearing on The Ellen Degeneres Show and in publications such as Vogue, Dazed, TOILETPAPER, and The New York Times Magazine.

Yoon views her face as the strongest and most sensitive part of her body: a canvas on which she can deliver her most delicate emotions. Her eyes in particular have always been a key object or primary focal point of her works. For this work, Ms. Yoon chose the title ““I” of the Beholder” to reflect the inherently and unavoidably unique way that each person processes both art and emotion. She used time-lapses of herself in an anxious and agitated state to capture the full spectrum of the emotions revealed through her eyes. Yoon chose large format oil paintings as the medium with the intention to evoke the same feeling of unease in the viewer. The paintings are presented without wood paneling, the same format in which they were created, to convey the raw and delicate nature of the work.