Jung Jungyeob

Artist ProﬁleBorn in Gangjin, 1962
Jung Jungyeob holds B.F.A. in Western Painting at Ewha Woman’s University, andhas showcased wide-ranging works and artistic practices covering macro- andmicro-scopic discourses since the 80s. She was passionately engaged in “Dureong,”“Gaetggot,” “Women’s Art Research Association,” and “Ipgim.”
She had her ﬁrst solo exhibition in 1995 titled Living Merged with Life, continuing
her work with red beans and grains post to her second solo exhibition held in TheKumho Museum of Art and third solo exhibition Outpouring held in Insa Art Spacein 2000. She has manifested her interest and sense of crisis on animals and plants
coexisting with humans in such her solo exhibitions as Be Erased (ARKO ArtCenter, 2006), Bug (Gallery Skape, 2016) and Silent Uproar, (Seoul Botanic Park,2021). She has steadily explored the lives of contemporaneous women in A

Someone’s Wife-Jip Sa Ram series, Face-scape serise(2009~2021) and The FirstDinner(2019). She has been invited to many special exhibitions held at home andabroad including the National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Seoul Museumof Art, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art and Suwon IPark Museum of Art.
She won the 2020 Gender Equality Award (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Culture,2020) and the 4th Goam Art Award (Goam Leeungno Birthplace Memorial Museum
Leeungno's House, 2018), and her publications include the Korean Contemporary

Art Book 002 Jung Jungyeob, Hexagon, 2018 and The Changing History of MyStudio,Hexagon,2018.

Herworks

arehousedatthe National

MuseumofContemporary Art Korea, Seoul Museum of Art, ARKO Art Center, Gyeonggi
Museum of Modern Art and Fukuoka Asian Art Museum.

Jung Jungyeob
Born in 1962 Gangjin, South Jeolla Province, Korea
Education
1985
B.F.A. in Painting, Ewha Woman’s University (Seoul)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022

Ask questions about labor (Jeon Tae-il Memorial Hall, Seoul)
Women fond of walking on the road (Dongyangjang B1, Daejeon)
Red bean on a headstand(Bongsan Cultural Center, Daegu)

2021

Walking on the Moon (Art Center White Block)Silent Uproar (Seoul Botanic Park, Seoul)

2019

First Dinner-A Memorial of Goam Award (House of Lee Ungno,

Hong-sung)2018

Anywhere Stars (Choeunsook gallery, Seoul)
History of my workroom transition 1985-2017 (Leesangwon2017

Museum of Art, Chuncheon)
Beans and Great Candles (Trunk Gallery, seoul)
An ever-present Stars (Gallery Nori, Jeju)

2016
2014
2011
2009

49' mirros (Spacemom Museum, Cheongju)
Bug (Gallery Skape, Seoul)
Looking for a Path, Untamable Life (Gildamsowon, Seoul)
Off-bean (Gallery Skape, Seoul)
Face-Scape (Alternative Space Artforum Rhee, Bucheon)

2006

Red Bean (Gallery Skape, Seoul)
Be Erased (Art Council Korea Museum, Seoul)

2002

Extermination (Binari Gallery, Bonghwa)
JUNG Jungyeob Solo Exhibition (Seoho Gallery, Seoul, Seoho

2001
2000

Museum, Gyeonggi)
Strange Life and Its Depth (Shinsegae Gallery, Incheon)
Outpouring (The Korean Culture and Art Foundation: Insa Art

1998
1995Space, Seoul)
JUNG Jungyeob Solo Ehibition (Kumho Museum, Seoul)
Living Merged with Life (21C Gallery, Seoul)

Selected Group Exhibitions
2021

Promise (Suwon Museum of Art, Asian Culture and Arts Center)2020

Say the Unsaybles YIAF2020 ( Yeosu Expo D Exhibition hall)Turn Your Lights On (Suwon Museum of Art, Art Space
Gwanggyo)

2019

Savage Dreams-Nuclear Dream 4 (Busan Art District p)
Square (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art,Korea)
A Point of View · A Point of View (Gyeonggi Museum ofModern Art, Ansan)
Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia 1960s-1990s (The National
Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; National Museum of Modern

2018

and Contemporary Art, Korea; National Gallery, Singapore)
Soft Power (Cheongju Museum of Art, Cheongju)

2017
2016
2014

Seolmundae-Ask a Great Question (Jeju Stone Park, Jeju)
Unfamiliarity (Kyung-gi Cultural Foundation, Suwon)Land of Happiness (Seoul North Museum of Art, Seoul)
Through the eyes of a mother (Korean Cultural Center of2012

Chicago, Chicago, USA)
Women In-Between: Asian Women Artists 1984-2012 (Fukuoka2011
2009

Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka)
Animalier (Space C, Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul)
OFF THE BEATEN PATH: VIOLENCE, WOMEN AND ART:~2014

An International Contemporary Art Exhibition (Stenersen
Museum, Oslo, Norway; University Art Gallery, San Diego,USA; Centro Cultural Tijuana, Mexico; Museo Universitario

2004

delm Chopo, Mexico; Chicago Cultural Center, USA, etc.)
Busan Biennale: Island- Survivors – collaboration with the2002

Guerrilla Girls on Tour (Busan Art Center, Busan)
Gwangju Biennial 2002: Project 3 (May 18 Liberty Park,

2000

Gwangju)
The New Millennia Art Festival, A-Bang-Gung: Jongmyo Seized
Project, (Jongmyo, Seoul)

Selected Collections
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
Seoul Museum of Art
ARKO Art Center
Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art
Seongnam Cube Art Museum
Gwangju Museum of Art
Museum of Contemporary Art BusanAward
2022 Lee Joong-seop, Art Award
2020 Gender Equality Culture Award, South Korea
2018 The 4th Goam Art Award, South Korea