KYUNG JEON
Born 1975, Jersey City, New Jersey
Lives and works in New York, New York
EDUCATION
2005 School of Visual Arts, M.F.A. Fine Arts, NY, NY
1997 Boston College, B.A., Double major in Studio Art & Philosophy, Chestnut Hill, MA
AWARDS & RESIDENCES
2009 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Associate Artist in Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, funded by the Joan Mitchell
Foundation, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2005 Scope Emerging Artist Prize
2003 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Residency and Fellowship
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Belle Rascal, Tina Kim Gallery, NY, NY
It's a big, pretty world, Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Mischief and Melancholy, Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA;
Trois Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA.
2008 a story, Tina Kim Gallery, NY, NY
2007 Delicate Division, Teo+Namfah Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2006 The Impulse Garden, The Proposition, NY, NY
2005 Kyung Jeon: Paintings/Drawings, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY
2004 Chang-nan Minor, The Proposition, NY, NY
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2008 Kyung Jeon & Negar Ahkami, Miki Wick Kim Contemporary Art, Zurich, Switzerland
2004 Kyung Jeon Paintings and Drawings & Cara Lea Cole Photographs, DUST Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Faces & Facts: Korean Contemporary Art in New York: Into the Life, Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Art
Gallery, New York, NY
Two Degrees of Separation, Gallery SATORI, New York, NY
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling, Curated by Monica Ramirez-Montagut, The Aldrich
Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Team Painting: Stimulus Package, Curated by James Siena, Mark and Margerie Pabst Gallery,
Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
New York 9+one, Cais Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
I Stepped Into the Room, Tina Kim Gallery, NY, NY
Obsessions, Curated by John Zorn, MEM, Osaka Japan
Lost and Found, Curated by Jiyoon Lee, Rokeby Gallery, London, UK
Delineations, Ad Hoc Art, Brooklyn, NY
2008 Ces Enfants Étranges, Shore Institute of Contemporary Arts
A Peopled Vision, art sites gallery, Riverhead, NY
2007 Inner Child: Good and Evil in the Garden of Memories, Curated by Kristen Accola, Hunterdon
Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
Floating Worlds: Kyung Jeon, Taiyo Kimura, Kozyndan, Andre Yi, Branch Gallery, Durham, NC
Hye-Rim Lee, Kyung Jeon, Hideaki Kawashima, YP: Group Show Part II, Kukje Gallery, Seoul,
Korea
2006 Who Are You, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
ArtSpectrum 2006, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Body: The Facets of the Human Body, Asian Fusion Gallery, NY, NY
2005 "Mas Isto Tambem e?", Léo Bahia Arte Contemporanea, Santa Lúcia, Brazil
Desenhos, Theodor Lindner Galeria de Arte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The Empire of Sighs, Curated by Andrea Pollan, Numark Gallery, Washington, DC
First Peak, Curated by Miki Wick-Kim, Entenhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
Close Proximity, Hun Gallery, New York, NY
Sentiment, 2x13 Gallery, New York, NY
The 4th Young Overseas Artists Exhibition, Curated by MinSeok Seo, Hangaram Art Museum 4th
Room, Seoul, Korea
Above the Trendy, the Down and Out, The Proposition, New York, NY
The Last Show - MFA Fine Arts Thesis Show, Curated by CANADA Gallery, SVA Visual Arts
Gallery, NY, NY
Psionic Distortion, Curated by Tim Evans, Plum Blossoms, NY, NY
Characters: Scene II, Curated by Hélianthe Bourdeaux-Maurin, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New
Canaan, CT
Characters: Scene I, Curated by Hélianthe Bourdeaux-Maurin, Shore Institute of Contemporary
Arts, Long Branch, NJ
Temperature/artists from the flat file, The Artist Network, NY, NY
Paper Deviations, The Proposition, NY, NY
2004 SCOPE Miami Art Fair - Featured Artist - The Proposition, Miami, FL
Green Light, Gallery Korea, NY, NY
Psionic Distortion, Curated by Tim Evans, Super Deluxe, Tokyo, Japan
Balancing Acts, The Korea Society, NY, NY
International Underground, Curated by the Wild Banana Project, Whitney Young Cultural Center
Mansion, San Francisco, CA
Girls and Guns, LA Part 1, NY Part 2, The Proposition, NY, NY
Exhibit & Silent Auction to benefit Richard Foreman's Ontological Hysteric Theater, Marianne
Boesky Gallery, NY, NY
Domicile: A Sense Of Place, Curated by: Jim O'Donnell, Mike Sweney, Don Hudgins & Dino
Martini, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
Happy Art for a Sad World, Curated by Hélianthe Bourdeaux-Maurin, Spike Gallery, NY, NY
Blameless, Curated by Rachel Gugelberger, Visual Arts Gallery, NY, NY
Blind Pilots, Curated by Tim Evans, Linc Real Art, San Francisco, CA
Blind Pilots, Curated by Tim Evans, The Proposition, NY, NY
SCOPE New York Art Fair - Featured Artist - The Proposition, NY, NY
superSalon, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
2003 Amigos, An Art Showcase on the Lower East Side, Associated Projects, NY, NY
Innocence and Transgression, Curated by John Zorn, Project Room, The Proposition, NY, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2009 Lee, Sook-Kyung, "Between the Real and the Fabricated: A View on Contemporary Korean Art,"
Orientations, January/February, pp. 28-37
2008 "Boy Meets Girl," The New York Sun, September 23
Herman, Nick and Patricia Milder, "Kyung Jeon: a story," Exhibition catalog, September, ISBN:
978-89-92233-21-7-03600
Park, Sukie, "A Story Told Through Canvas," The Korea Daily New York, September 19, A-22
"Savoir-vivre Kunst – First Pick," Bilanz, August, p. 104
"Kyung Jeon at Teo + Namfah Gallery," Asian Art News, January/February, Vol. 18 Number 1, p.173
2007 Shiner, Eric C., "Set adrift on memories de-bliss," Exhibition catalog- Delicate Division,
Teo+Namfah Gallery, November
"Interview with Kyung Jeon," ISamAREmag.com, December, Issue 5
Prawatpattanakul, Saransri, "SCENESTEALER Kyung Jeon," BK Magazine, Nov 9, No. 210
White, Amy, "Otherworldly Goods, An Ethereal Display at Branch Gallery,"The Independent Weekly
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Kim, Kyung-gab, Korea Economic Daily, Mar 5
"Hot Art Space," Wolganmisool, March, Vol. 266, p.64
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Oh, Mi-hwan, Korean Daily, Feb 26
Cho, Hyun-wook, JoongAng Daily, Feb 23
Soo-mee, Park, "Four artists' twisted takes on reality," JoongAng Daily, Feb 16
Hwang, You-mee, "Artists expose personal identities", The Korea Herald, Feb 15
Son, Emma, "Inside Out: Examined, Exposed, Expressed,", Exhibition catalog, Kukje Gallery, Feb
2006 Gelber, Eric, "Allegory & Ambiguity," The New York Sun, Oct 12, p.18
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Lew, Christopher, "Impulse and Desire," Exhibition catalog-The Impulse Garden, The Proposition,
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of Art, Feb
2005 Lew, Christopher Y., "Beyond Superflat," NY Arts, July/Aug, Vol. 10 no. 7/8, p. 85
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New York, July 12
Ho, Kyungyoon, "Korean Overseas Young Artists," Art In Culture, June, pp. 145-154
Seo, Minseok, "The Young Korean Overseas Artists Exhibition 2005, The Riddle of Style,"
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Bourdeaux-Maurin, Hélianthe, "CHARACTERS: Scene I and II," Exhibition catalog, Short Institute
of The Contemporary Arts, March
2004 Vine, Richard, "Seeing The Light," Exhibition catalog, Gallery Korea, Nov
Park, Sukie, "Korean Lady 'Cartoonlike Fantasy' Artist," The Korea Daily NY, Sept 14, F-23
Yowell, Erika, "Photographs by Cara Lea Cole; Paintings & Drawings by Kyung Jeon, In contrast,"
LasVegasMercury.com, July 15
Engelson, Andrew, "Domicile," Seattle Weekly, July 14 - 20
Twardy, Chuck, "Uncertainties Unite, Duo exhib at Dust displays drawings, photos,"
LasVegasWeekly.com, July 8 -14
Crosby, Gregory, "Pink, black and crimson," LasVegasCityLife.com, July 8
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