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Grace Hyunyung Jung

  • 2023.07.14

The Burden in Life acrylic on collage of Korean ink and persimmon tannin drawing 122.8 x 95.5cm 2023


I wish for my painting to be in abundance of exploding bright lights, to be filled with sprouting healthy energy of life, and to hold the depth built up for long time. Painting is a persistent battle, a constant chase without reaching a satisfaction. But at one point, it resembles a life in a sense that it is truly gratifying in retrospect. I am only able to keep on fighting while believing in that someday, I would be pleased to realize that today was enough. I wish to portray in awe of this world that God has created and the lives of creatures who diligently keep on living. As people are living every second while perpetually struggling to make a choice on the unknown road of time, I wish that every element of my picture is also alive while eternally conflicting and uniting in chaos of otherness. I express ‘Being alive’ by flamboyant colors, powerful lines and faithful fitting and overlapping


Seoul, City Wall at Namsan acrylic on collage of Korean ink and persimmon tannin drawing 72.7 x 91cm 2020


2000.05 MFA (painting), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

1997.02 BFA (painting), Seoul National University, Seoul, KOREA

 


SOLO EXHIBITION

2017.02

<Our Land> Park Soo Keun Museum, Yanggu, Gangwon, KOREA

2015.11

<Dwelling of Life: the earth and sea of Jeju> Artspace∙C, Jeju, KOREA

2013.10

<WATERFIRE> Culture Space Yang, Jeju, KOREA

2011.04

<In that Day> Gallery Min, Seoul, KOREA

2009.08

<The Land of the Living> Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwangju, KOREA

2007.10

<For there is Light> Useok Hall, Seoul National University, Seoul, KOREA

2006.01

<On the Way> Rowan University Westby Student Gallery, Glassboro, NJ, USA

2004.11

<Portraits of Spirit> aSFe art studio for experiments, Philadelphia, PA, USA


SELECTED PUBLIC PROJECTS

 

2020.08

<Living Water flows> acrylic mural, Georonam 6gil 20-21, Jeju, KOREA

2015.01

<Batdam, Light pervading> tile mosaic mural, Hwabuk Elementary School, Jeju, KOREA

2014.04

<Light of our Lives> tile mosaic mural, Hwabuk-2dong, Jeju, KOREA

2014.03

<Becoming One> MCM 2014 S/S Worldwide Window Display Project

2006.07

<Fiesta in the Time of Waiting> acrylic mural, Chews Elementary School, Blackwood, NJ, USA

2005.05

<Joyful Destiny> acrylic mural, Wilson Alexander School, Philadelphia, PA, USA

2003.12

<We Won!> acrylic mural, Munsu World Cup Stadium, Ulsan, KOREA

2001.05

<Deep down in Our Hearts> acrylic mural, 1847 Wylie Street, Philadelphia, PA, USA

2000.10

<Looking up the Heavens> acrylic mural, 1845 Wylie Street, Philadelphia, PA, USA

2000.05

<A Stream of Dream> acrylic mural, 33rd & Wallace Street, Philadelphia, PA, USA


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION

 

2023.04

<The 30th 4∙3 Art Exhibition 2023 Guard of Boundaries> Art Space IAh, Jeju, KOREA

2022.09

<Today, Today and Tomorrow>

 

Obaek Jang Goon Gallery, Jeju Stone Park, Jeju / Factory of Contemporary Arts in Palbok, Jeonju, KOREA

2021.10

<20th Anniversary of Halartec>

 

Taebaek Coal Museum / Mokpo Culture & Art Center / Seoul Cultureplex Deosup, KOREA

2018.04

<Forged into Collective Memory> 25th annual exhibition of the April 3rd Uprising and Massacre

 

Art Space IAh, Jeju, KOREA

2018.04

<Batigeula> Pink Island collaboration, Culture Space Yang, Jeju, KOREA

2015.05

<Variations of Isalnds> 3 persons show, Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeju, KOREA

2014.11

<Creative Tomorrow> Seoul Art Foundation Residency Festival, Seoul City Hall, Seoul, KOREA

2010.07

<Matching Point_Perceptual Contemplation> Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwangju, KOREA

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Korea University (Instructor, 2008.03-2009.12), Kangnam University (Instructor, 2007.09-2008.12),

Rowan University (Assistant Professor, 2005.09-2006.06), City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program (Instructor, 2000.05- 2001.09)

 

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

Park Soo Keun Museum(2016), Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art(2014), Culture Space Yang(2013),

Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art(2008-2010), Vermont Studio Center(2004, 1999), 40th Street Artist-in-Residency, Philadelphia(2004)

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