RYU

Sungwoo Ryu is a Seoul-based graphic designer working through the independent studio RYU.

He creates art books and other printed matter that questions normative ways of seeing and proposes alternative visual narratives.

Focusing on what is minor or out of place, he treats the marginal as a site of desire and play. His work is playful, excessive, and knowingly artificial, embracing a queer, camp sensibility and an unapologetically offbeat gaze.