Oscar yi Hou showed a yearlong solo exhibition of figurative paintings at the Brooklyn Museum, making him one of the youngest artists to ever have a solo show at a major New York museum. A graduate of Columbia University, yi Hou won the annual UOVO Prize and was named an Artsy Vanguard in 2022. Earlier this year, he received the Philip Pearlstein Painter Distinction at Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program.