Yoon Dongchun graduated from Seoul National University and received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, USA. In 1992, he was awarded the Gold Prize at the International Asia-Europe Biennale. As a professor at the Department of Western Painting at the Seoul National University College of Fine Arts for 30 years from 1993 to 2022, Yoon continued to pass on his artistic concerns and insights as an artist and educator through his postgraduate studies.