Kyung Jeon
BIOGRAPHY
DATE/PLACE OF BIRTH June 6, 1975, Jersey City, New Jersey
EDUCATION
School of Visual Arts, M.F.A. Fine Arts, NY, NY, 2005
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME, summer 2003
Boston College, B.A., Double major in Studio Art & Philosophy, Chestnut Hill, MA, 1993-1997
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Kyung Jeon, 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, Sept-Oct
2007 Delicate Division, Teo+Namfah Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand, Nov-Dec
2006 The Impulse Garden, The Proposition, NY, NY, Sept-Oct
2005 Kyung Jeon: Paintings/Drawings, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY, Oct-Nov
2004 Chang-nan Minor, The Proposition, NY, NY, May-June
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2008 Kyung Jeon & Negar Ahkami, Miki Wick Kim Contemporary Art, Zurich, Switzerland, Mar-Apr
2004 Kyung Jeon Paintings and Drawings & Cara Lea Cole Photographs, DUST Gallery, Las Vegas, NV, July-Aug
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Lost and Found, Curated by Jiyoon Lee, Rokeby Gallery, London, UK
2008 Ces Enfants Étranges, Shore Institute of Contemporary Arts, Sept - Oct
A Peopled Vision, art sites gallery, Riverhead, NY, Mar – Apr
2007 Inner Child: Good and Evil in the Garden of Memories, Curated by Kristen Accola, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ, Oct 2007-Jan 2008
Floating Worlds: Kyung Jeon, Taiyo Kimura, Kozyndan, Andre Yi, Branch Gallery, Durham, NC, June-July
Hye-Rim Lee, Kyung Jeon, Hideaki Kawashima, YP: Group Show Part II, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea, Feb-Mar
2006 Who Are You, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea, July-Aug
ArtSpectrum 2006, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea, Feb-May
Body: The Facets of the Human Body, Asian Fusion Gallery, NY, NY, Feb-Mar
2005 "Mas Isto Tambem e?", Léo Bahia Arte Contemporanea, Santa Lúcia, Brazil, Dec-Jan
Desenhos, Theodor Lindner Galeria de Arte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Nov-Jan
The Empire of Sighs, Curated by Andrea Pollan, Numark Gallery, Washington, DC, Sept-Oct
First Peak, Curated by Miki Wick-Kim, Entenhalle, Zurich, Switzerland, Sept
Close Proximity, Hun Gallery, New York, NY, Aug-Sept
Sentiment, 2x13 Gallery, New York, NY, July
The 4th Young Overseas Artists Exhibition, Curated by MinSeok Seo, Hangaram Art Museum 4th Room, Seoul, Korea, June
Above the Trendy, the Down and Out, The Proposition, New York, NY, May-June
The Last Show - MFA Fine Arts Thesis Show, Curated by CANADA Gallery, SVA Visual Arts Gallery, NY, NY, Apr-May
Psionic Distortion, Curated by Tim Evans, Plum Blossoms, NY, NY, April
Characters: Scene II, Curated by Hélianthe Bourdeaux-Maurin, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT, Mar-Apr
Characters: Scene I, Curated by Hélianthe Bourdeaux-Maurin, Shore Institute of Contemporary Arts, Long Branch, NJ, Mar-Apr
Temperature/artists from the flat file, The Artist Network, NY, NY, Mar-Apr
Paper Deviations, The Proposition, NY, NY, Jan-Feb
2004 SCOPE Miami Art Fair - Featured Artist - The Proposition, Miami, FL, Dec
Green Light, Gallery Korea, NY, NY, Nov-Dec
Psionic Distortion, Curated by Tim Evans, Super Deluxe, Tokyo, Japan, Nov
Balancing Acts, The Korea Society, NY, NY, Oct-Dec
International Underground, Curated by the Wild Banana Project, Whitney Young Cultural Center Mansion, San Francisco, CA, Sept
Girls and Guns, LA Part 1, NY Part 2, The Proposition, NY, NY, July-Aug
Exhibit & Silent Auction to benefit Richard Foreman's Ontological Hysteric Theater, Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY, NY, June
Domicile: A Sense Of Place, Curated by: Jim O'Donnell, Mike Sweney, Don Hudgins & Dino Martini, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA, June-July
Happy Art for a Sad World, Curated by Hélianthe Bourdeaux-Maurin, Spike Gallery, NY, NY, June-Aug
Blameless, Curated by Rachel Gugelberger, Visual Arts Gallery, NY, NY, June
Blind Pilots, Curated by Tim Evans, Linc Real Art, San Francisco, CA, Apr-May
Blind Pilots, Curated by Tim Evans, The Proposition, NY, NY, Apr-May
SCOPE New York Art Fair - Featured Artist - The Proposition, NY, NY, March
superSalon, Samson Projects, Boston, MA, Mar-May
2003 Amigos, An Art Showcase on the Lower East Side, Associated Projects, NY, NY, Oct
Innocence and Transgression, Curated by John Zorn, Project Room, The Proposition, NY, NY, Sept-Oct
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007 Prawatpattanakul, Saransri, "SCENESTEALER Kyung Jeon," BK Magazine, Nov 9, No. 210
White, Amy, "Otherworldly Goods, An Ethereal Display at Branch Gallery,"The Independent Weekly www.indyweekly.com, July 7
Contemporary Literature, April, Vol. 628
Kim, Kyung-gab, Korea Economic Daily, Mar 5
"Hot Art Space," Wolganmisool, March, Vol. 266, p.64
Kang, Soo-mi, Chosun Daily, Feb 27
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
Lew, Christopher, "Conversations...," NYFA INTERACTIVE NEWS nyfa.org, Sept
Lew, Christopher, "Impulse and Desire," Exhibition catalog-The Impulse Garden, The Proposition, Sept
Kim, Yoon-mi, "ArtSpectrum at Leeum," Korea Herald, Feb 20
"Around The World - Korean & International Events: Artspectrum," Morning Calm, Feb, p.6
Lee, Joon, "New Perspectives: ArtSpectrum 2006," Exhibition catalog, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Feb
2005 Lew, Christopher Y., "Beyond Superflat," NY Arts, July/Aug, Vol. 10 no. 7/8, p. 85
Park, Sukie, "Two Korean Artist Group Exhibitions in Chelsea at the same Time," The Korea Daily 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," Exhibition catalog, Hangaram Art Museum, pp. 49-56
Genocchio, Benjamin, "Telling Tales of History, Myth, Fantasy (and Real Life, Too)," The New York Times, Sunday, April 10, CT p.9
Kim, Sun-Kyoung, "Greenlighting Korean Art," NY Arts, Mar/Apr, Vol. 10 no. 3/4, p. 71
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
Farr, Sheila, "'Domicile'; Home is where the art is," The Seattle Times, July 2
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AWARDS
Scope Emerging Artist Grant 2005
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship 2003