Artist

Jihyun Jung

Discarded materials and industrial waste found around the city become Jihyun Jung’s sources of inspiration. From the physical reality of the urban environment, Jung learns the function and movement of sculpture. The debris of unidentifiable objects are collected, disassembled and reassembled. During the process when the integrity of the original objects are completely lost, Jung explores the possibility of liberation, questioning if the sculpture could be freed from the set orders of the original materials.

  • Education
    • 2014 M.F.A. Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, Korea
      2010 B.F.A. Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, Korea
  • Selected Solo Exhibitions
    • 2022 Gouge, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, Korea
      2019 Multipurpose Henry, Atelier Hermes, Seoul, Korea
      2016 Gomyeomsom, Doosan Gallery, Seoul, Korea
      2015 Cases of Finding a Whale in Mountain, Doosan Gallery, New York, USA
      2013 Bird Eat Bird, Insa Art Space, Seoul, Korea
  • Selected Group Exhibitions
    • 2022
      Sculptural Impulse, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
      KAK, HITE Collection, Seoul, Korea
      2021
      Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Nam-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
      Creating Connections, Korea Foundation, Seoul, Korea
      Nothing Makes it self, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea
      2020
      Art Plant Asia 2020: Hare Way Object, Deoksugung, Seoul, Korea
      2019
      Uneven Growing Point, Oil Tank Culture Park, Seoul, Korea
      2017
      Dawn Breaks, The Showroom, London, UK
      Dawn Breaks: Seoul, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
      2016
      Dawn Breaks 2016, The 11th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
      2015
      Unknown Packages, Queens Museum, New York, USA
  • Residencies/Awards/
    Collections
    • Residencies
      2022 Incheon Art Platform Residency, Incheon, Korea
      2021 SeMA NANJI Residency 15th Artists Program, Seoul, Korea
      2020 CAN Foundation Residency, Seoul, Korea

      Awards and Collections
      2021 My Neighbors Public Art, Yanggu-gun, Gangwon-do
      2019 Oval Camp, Public Art ‘Citizen Idea Implementation project’, Yongma Waterfall Park, Seoul
      2013 Sindoh Artist Support Program, Gahun Sindoh Foundation, Seoul, Korea
      2013 Arts Council Korea AYAF (Arko Young Artist Frontier)
      2012 Mercedes-Benz Korea Artist
  • Link
      

Gouge, 2022, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, Korea. Courtesy of the artist.

Gouge, 2022, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, Korea. Courtesy of the artist.

Multipurpose Henry, 2019, Atelier Hermes, Seoul, Korea. Courtesy of the artist.

Multipurpose Henry, 2019, Atelier Hermes, Seoul, Korea. Courtesy of the artist.

ONE-A-DAY, 2018, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea. Courtesy of the artist.

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