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Artist Profile
Hyunsun Jeon
Hyunsun Jeon was born in 1989 in Seoul. She received her BFA and MFA in painting from Ewha Womans University in 2014 and 2018. The artist lives and works in Seoul.
The artist has been awarded 2023 2nd AHNGOOK Art Prize, AHNGOOK Foundation for Art (2023); 20th SongEun Art Award Excellence Prize, SongEun Art and Cultural Foundation (2020); ChongKunDang Fine Arts Prize (2017); among others.
Hyunsun Jeon has invented a unique pictorial language that employs a Korean chromatic palette predominated by greens, blacks, and blues. Her expansive vocabulary of proportion—some simplified passages for example relate to pixelation in early video games—is suspended between symbolic geometry and suggestive landscape conveying an impending sense of poetic absence and artificial presence. Developing a characteristic approach to the medium, Jeon’s use of watercolor creates a variety of distinct surface textures. The geometric forms in her paintings are often echoed in the three-dimensional structures in which she stages her works.
In summer 2023, Esther Schipper presented Hyunsun Jeon's works at Dui Jip Ki, a group exhibition of eight Korean artists that took place in the gallery locations in Seoul and Berlin. Other exhibitions of the artist include The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul (2023); The Moments We Encounter, Suwon Ipark Museum of Art, Suwon (2022); ARTSPECTRUM2022, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (2022); Meet Me in the Middle, Gallery2, Seoul (2022); Hay in a Needle Stack, Korean Cultural Center in Hong Kong, Hong Kong (2021); The 20th Song Eun Art Award Exhibition, Song Eun Art Space, Seoul (2020); Hotel Express, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul (2020); The adventures of Korean painting: I will go away all by myself, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Cheongju (2019); 6th Chong Kun Dang Fine Arts Prize Exhibition, Sejong Center, Seoul (2019); Red Green Corners, P21, Seoul (2019); BOTANICA, Busan Museum of Art, Busan (2018); Parallel Paths, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul (2018); Of Nature, Suwon Ipark Museum of Art, Suwon (2018); Forests and Swamps, Weekend, Seoul (2017); The Cone and Conversations, Place MAK, Seoul (2015); and the 37th Joongang Fine art Prize Exhibition, Hangaram Design Museum, Seoul (2015).