Jung Jungyeob
Born in Gangjin, 1962
Jung Jungyeob holds B.F.A. in Western Painting at Ewha Woman’s University, and has showcased wide-ranging works and artistic practices covering macro-and micro-scopic discourses since the 80s. She was passionately engaged in “Dureong,” “Gaetggot,” “The Women’s Art Society,” 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 Kumho Museum of Art and third solo exhibition Outpouring held in Insa Art Space in 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 Art Center, 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 First Dinner(2019). She has been invited to many special exhibitions held at home and abroad including Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia 1960s~1990s(National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Gwacheon / National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo National Gallery Singapore, 2019), Women In-Between: Asian Women Artists 1984~2012(Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, 2012) Gwangju Biennial 2002: Project 3(5.18 Freedom Park, Gwangju, 2022).
She won the 34th Lee Jungseop Art Award(The Chosun Daily, 2022), the 13th Gender Equality Award (Woman & Culture in Network, 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 History of My Workroom Transition 1985~2017 (Hexagon, 2011). Her works are housed at the National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Seoul Museum of Art, ARKO Art Center, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art and Fukuoka Asian Art Museum.