JUNG Hai Yun

JUNG Hai Yun (1972)

Jung Hai-Yun is a Korean painter, known for exploring a new approach to Oriental Painting. Using traditional Korean materials – Oriental watercolour and thick mulberry paper – Jung paints repetitive images of drawers connected by threads. As a child, fascinated by the existence and purpose of the objects on her desk, she began to classify them in drawers according to their role and usage. Ever since, drawers have become a search for the meaning of the individual and the whole, and an extension of the artist’s thoughts. For the artist, drawers represent a collection of stored memories as well as a micro-universe of relations. On a cosmic level, the drawers represent separate planets or stars with threads that connect to form constellations. Independent drawers combine to form a harmonious whole like human relationships or a flock of chickadees, a motif commonly featured in her paintings.

EDUCATION

2008 B.F.A. in Oriental Painting, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017 Relation of Dynamics - What are you looking for?, Galerie Michael Schultz + schultz contemporary, Berlin

2016 PLAN B, Gana Art Center, Seoul / Korea

2012 Time Track, Gana Art Center, Seoul

2011 Relation, fnart space, Seoul

2009 Gana Art Center, Seoul

2009 Vessels of Role, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul