East (2025), oil and acrylic on stretched canvas, 25 × 21 × 2 in
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Every open call season,
a solo show
and nine featured artists
/ winter solo exhibition slot has been awarded to:
Yuli Sung, with Wallace dos Santos and Qwist Joseph as alternates.
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/presented artist: Yuli Sung
Symbiotic Ghost takes form from materials the artist keeps active after their intended use. Hard drives, industrial casings, and technological remnants reenter the exhibition space carrying traces of circulation and contact. These elements operate as living matter, shaped by the systems they moved through and the conditions they continue to absorb.
In this exhibition, sculptural structures grow through attachment and extension. Components link, suspend, and migrate across surfaces, following a parasitic logic that adapts and evolves through accumulation and deformation, producing forms that stay open to further transformation.
Images and materials intertwine, generating a ghostly field where technological residues behave as ecological agents. Surfaces register touch, weight, and tension. Objects act as conduits, allowing memory and material presence to circulate through altered configurations.
Symbiotic Ghost is presented as the selected solo exhibition of the Solo Show Open Call, Winter 2026, a quarterly curatorial project by Uncool Gallery, dedicated to supporting contemporary artistic practices through focused exhibitions and sustained public visibility.
Throughout the entire exhibition process, I felt truly supported as an artist. From preparation to installation and events, the gallery’s staff and Carolina stood by me with genuine encouragement and thoughtful care. It meant a lot to receive such sincere celebration and congratulations along the way.
The warmth and hospitality of the Uncool Gallery team made me feel like I was not just exhibiting, but becoming part of the Uncool Artist community. I’m very grateful for this experience.
Yuli Sung — selected artist for the Winter 2026 solo show.
Thank you to the 103 applicants who shared their proposals with us.
Scroll down to know all the artists in this cohort.
Dark Horse (2025), oil on canvas, 30 × 24 × 2 in
Hortus Conclusus (2025), acrylic collage, charcoal, and oil on canvas, 48 × 36 × 1.5
I Can Have My Cake & Eat It, Too (2024), acrylic, metal leaf, gilding enamel, oil, and spray paint on canvas, 24 × 36 × 0.75 in
Rubbernecker (2025), acrylic and oil on canvas, 48 × 36 × 1.5 in
A Tale of Acadie (2025), oil on canvas, 48 × 36 × 1.5 in
Golden Hour (Before the Sleep of Endymion) (2025), oil on canvas, 24 × 18 × 0.75 in
The Temptation of Atala (2025), acrylic and oil on canvas, 36 × 36 × 1.5 in
Creole Nocturne (2025), oil on canvas, 48 × 36 × 1.5 in
Lorem Ipsum (2025), oil, spray enamel, and vinyl on canvas, 24 × 36 × 0.75 in
Pietà (2024), artificial grass, metal leaf, oil, and spray enamel on canvas, 36 × 48 × 1.5 in
Rhiannon’s Son is a Foal (And No, She Did Not Eat Him) from the series In My Home Everything Fits Somewhere (2025), acrylic and colored pencil on a wooden doll bed, 20 × 12 × 8 in
I Will Show You My Body as Something New from the series In My Home Everything Fits Somewhere (2025), acrylic and colored pencil on a wooden decorative tray, 12.5 × 6 × 2 in
The King’s Horse Races Macha, But What For? from the series In My Home Everything Fits Somewhere (2025), acrylic and colored pencil on hardboard pegboard, 31.5 × 24 × 0.25 in
Étaín is a Beautiful Scarlet Fly (To Fuamnach’s Dismay) from the series In My Home Everything Fits Somewhere (2025), acrylic and colored pencil on a wooden letter tray, 10.5 × 12.5 × 2.5 in
Conare is Not to Kill Birds (This is Just One of His Nine Geasa) from the series In My Home Everything Fits Somewhere(2025), acrylic and colored pencil on paper-covered wooden tray, 9.5 × 17.5 × 2 in
Poems to the Ocean (2022–24), single-channel video, color, sound, edition of 2 + 1 AP, 27 × 48 × 0 in (16:9 display)
Yuma, Healing Photos (2025), archival digital print on matte paper, color, 16.5 × 23.6 × 0 in
The Girl and the Moon (2023), single-channel video, color, sound, 1:35 min, 27 × 48 × 0 in (16:9 display)
Tanya, Healing Photos (2025), archival digital print on matte paper, color, 16.5 × 11.8 × 0 in
Celine, Healing Photos (2025), archival digital print on matte paper, color, 16.5 × 23.6 × 0 in
Taian (2020), watercolour, framed, 16 × 14.5 × 2 in (with frame)
Rookies (2023), oil on canvas, 42 × 45 × 1.5 in
Beam me up! (2020), watercolour on paper, 11 × 15 in
Into the woods (2023), oil on canvas, 42 × 45 × 1.5 in
Into the Woods (2022), watercolour, 15 × 11 in
Heatwave Recess (2024), oil on canvas, 36 × 36 × 1.5 in
Rock Creek Park (2026), watercolour and acrylic vinyl paint on paper, 21 × 14.5 in
Behithun (2025), acrylic on paper, 22 × 30
Cipsaultlarglow (2025), acrylic on paper, 22 × 30
Dulofelyton (2025), acrylic on paper, 22 × 30
Flooding River and Rocky Outcrop (2025), water soluble pastel and watercolor, 22 × 30
Mouthreboyston (2025), acrylic on paper, 22 × 30
Perrubleat (2025), acrylic on paper, 22 × 30
River Trail (2025), water soluble pastel and watercolor, 22 × 30
Scrumsniaammehs (2025), acrylic on paper, 22 × 30
The Bluff Summons (2025), acrylic on canvas, 63 × 74
Tull’s Bridge (2026), acrylic on canvas, 64 × 45
Sunday morning (2025), tempera on paper, stained lauan wood frame, 10 × 15 in
Summer’s over (So, there’s this profound sadness) (2025), paper pulp painting and tempera on paper, spray painted paper pulp frame, 46.5 × 64 in
Rainy poppy field (2025), tempera on paper, stained lauan wood frame, 36 × 50 in
Orla’s tower (2024), tempera on mixed media paper, spray painted paper pulp frame, 12 × 12 in
My No. 1 Boyfriend (2024), tempera on mixed media paper, spray painted paper pulp frame, 12 × 12 in
Honeydew blue (2025), tempera on paper, stained lauan wood frame, 36 × 50 in
Disco dancer (2025), tempera on paper and matboard, spray painted paper pulp frame, 26 × 30 in
Messengers (2025), oil and acrylic on stretched canvas, 24 × 36 in
East (2025), oil and acrylic on stretched canvas, 25 × 21 × 2 in
Two-sided (2025), oil and acrylic on stretched canvas, 30 × 24 × 0.5 in
Unsaid (2025), oil and acrylic on stretched canvas, 25 × 21 × 2 in
Curtain Call, stoneware, 2024
Splint, stoneware, acrylic, 2024
Saints and Sailors, stoneware, cement wash, 2025
2025
1904 Culebra Ridge
Digital Collage Print
17″ x 22″
2025
1910 Laborers Tripod Drills
Digital Collage Print
17” x 22”