Hyun was born and grew up in Korea, before coming to France to earn a PhD in Fine Arts at Université Paris 1, Pantheon-Sorbonne. She also studied with Jean-Pierre Pincemin at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and explored Chinese woodblock printing at various prints studios in Beijing, China.

Hyun has shown her work in Paris, London, New York, Seoul, Daegu, Osaka and Carthage. She was shortlisted for the GRAV’X prize in 1995 and 2007, and was awarded the first prize of the Salon des Artistes de la Ville de Paris in 2002. Her prints are in private collections globally and in a number of public collections, including the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the Tunisian Ministry of Culture, the Asian Arts Museum of Toulon, the Museum of drawings, original prints of Gravelines and the Cernuschi Museum - the Museum of Asian Arts of Paris.