Yen
Textile ArtistCharacter DesignerIllustrator
Contact
Email: [email protected]Instagram: @yentarciea

About
Yena Cha, preferred as Yen, is a South Korean textile artist with the bachelor of Design in Illustration and Character Design from Alberta University of the Arts, graduated in the year of 2025.Before she attended art university, she was interested in becoming an author, but her path had shifted into art. In that path, she had chosen the fine art stream rather than design stream due to her passion and interest in playing with fabric and threads.In her works, she creates soft sculptures and relief on canvas with a numerous layer of symbolism that expresses her storytelling and inner expression.

Multi Persona
12.5 x 18 x 13 inch
May 2025

Praying for Consistency
12 x 24 inch
March 2025

Princess in the Coffin Adaptation
7 x 10 x 5.5 inch
March 2025

Luck Bloom in Us
10 x 10 inch
Feb 2025

Dessert Delight
7 x 12 x 9 inch
Jan 2025

Sweet Stories Untold
16 x 24 x 8 inch
Dec 2024

Christmas Light
7.5 x 12.5 x 5.5 inch
Nov 2024

Caged
20 x 16 inch
May 2024

An Unfulfilled Promise
12 x 20 inch
July 2023

Angel Boy
7.5 x 9.5 x 3 inch
June 2023
Yen's favourite group called Tarciean in various outfits!(Still working on it!)

Identity Swap: Jun the Puppeteer
8 x 12.5 x 5.5 inch
Aug 2023

Identity Swap: Jun the Sewiest
6.5 x 12.5 x 5.5 inch
Aug 2023
Group Exhibitions
2025 Graduation Show, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB
2025 Good Vibration, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB
2024 Student Gallery Crawl, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB
2024 9th Annual Animal Kingdom Art Exhibition, Fusion Art, Online, Finalist
2023 Student Gallery Crawl, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, AB
2023 Flip the Script, Fort Calgary, Calgary, ABCompetition
2025 Calgary Stampede Youth Poster Competition, Calgary, AB, Top 30Awards
2024 Jason Lang Nom Scholarship
2023 9th Animal Kingdom Art Exhibition, Finalist Certificate
2023 Jason Lang Nom ScholarshipEducation
2025 Bachelor of Design, Illustration and Character Design, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, ABExperiences
2025 Wayfinding Support for LOOK25, Contemporary Calgary, Calgary, AB