Younhee Paik (b. 1945, Seoul) was educated first in South Korea, where she received her B.F.A from Seoul National University. She later pursued her M.F.A. at the San Francisco Art Institute, residing as an active artist in San Francisco for over thirty years while continually revisiting her homeland. For the past twelve years, she has maintained a studio and exhibited in New York, San Francisco, and Seoul. She is a passionate and expressive painter whose emotions assume a masterful presence in her large, dynamic paintings. She currently lives and works in Oakland, CA.