Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art was founded in 2000 as a complex cultural facility comprising a residency art studio on the basis of the Daeyu Cultural Foundation.

The Museum has been striving to become a place of creation as well as a place of living art that breathes with the public, freeing from the past form of museum that mainly focused on the preservation and exhibition of art works.

The Museum, located in a spacious town surrounded by a beautiful natural environment in Gwangju, consists of a museum building that holds exhibitions, an art studio and a research building for creative activities, and an outdoor sculpture park.

The Youngeun Residency Art Studio, the very first residency studio of its form opened in a private art museum in Korea, started its operation around the opening of the Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art. Up to 2020, more than 250 artists have been actively engaging in art creation after their participation in the Youngeun Residency Program.