Yeji Jun yejijun@mac.com www.yejijun.com
BIOGRAPHY
Yeji Jun was born in South Korea. The artist
currently lives and works in New York City. Yeji Jun received her BFA
from Kyonggi University in South Korea in 2005, and in 2010 she received
her MFA from Hunter College in New York. In 2010, the artist won First
Prize in the Viridian Artist International Juried Exhibition, juried by
Elisabeth Sussman, curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Jun's
work is represented by Agora Gallery in New York and Artists Haven Gallery in Florida. She has exhibited her work
internationally.
Yeji Jun's work is an exploration of
self. Her drawings and collages reveal the artist's daily
thoughts and delve into her imagination to reveal her personal state of mind.
EDUCATION
2008-2010 MFA
Hunter College in Combined Media, New York, NY
2001-2005 BFA
Kyonggi University in Sculpture, South Korea
AWARD
07/2010 First Prize- International Juried annual
exhibition-Viridian Artist, New York, Juried by Elisabeth Sussman, Curator,
Whitney Museum
REPRESENTATION
Agora gallery in New YorkArtists Haven Gallery in Florida
RESIDENCY
2011 IN RIVERS... Artist Residency, New York
EXHIBITION Solo Exhibition
10/2011 Big Transition, Solo Exhibition, Artists Haven Gallery, Florida 06/2010 Drawing
Solo Show-café Royal, New York
Group Exhibition
02/2012 Summit, Sovereign Nation Exposition, New York, NY 11/2011 Sovereign Nation Exposition, New York, NY
07/2011 Elastic Identity, The IMC Lab + Gallery, New York, NY
06/2011 Lucid Dreaming, New York, NY
06/2011 Portal to Enigma, Agora Gallery, New York, NY
05/2011 The UBS Asian Art Exhibition, Picture That LLC, Stamford, CT
05/2011 48th Annual Juried Exhibition, The Masur Museum of Art, LA
05/2011 Piece of Mind, Elga Wimmer PCC, New York, NY
04/2011 Worlds of Art – TECAP, Ben Navaee
Gallery, Toronto, Canada
03/2011 Art Takes Over Home,
New York
03/2011 The ART BAZAAR- The Art Bazaar, New York, NY
02/2011 Second Salon Show- Green Point Gallery, New
York 01/2011 First Salon Show- Green Point Gallery, New
York
12/2010 Hunter College MFA Thesis Show-Times Square
Gallery, New
York
12/2010 Gifted-
A Pop Up Shop at Gitana Rosa Gallery, New York
11/2010 WEAR
ART-B E C A - Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art
10/2010 Arms
Drawn-Madame X, New York,
08/2010 Graphomania-
Garbageman/Astronaut Project Space, Portland, OR
07/2010 International
Juried annual exhibition-Viridian Artist, New York- First Prize
06/2010 June
Group Show-Dutch Kills Gallery, New York
05/2010 FRAGMENTS 2010 – the Kitchen Open Studios, New
York
2010 AnArtJournal- online art magazine permanent
view
05/2010 FUTUREFORWARD-B E C A - Bridge for
Emerging
Contemporary Art, New Orleans
05/2010 Hunter
MFA at Crane Arts Center-The Crane Arts Center,
Philadelphia
04/2010 Never Think small-Redux-Climate Gallery, New
York
04/2010 NRDC
show- Studio IMC, New York
09/2009 Add-Art- Eyebeam gallery and Firefox
09/2009 Ellipse
of Peace Art Exhibition- New York
03/2008 Sleeping Policeman- Noon Gallery, Seoul
10/2005 Graduate School of Kyonggi Univ. Fine Arts
Association-
Sejong Center Gallery, Seoul
08/2005 An
New Air Current- Insa Art Plaza, Seoul
04/2005 Exhibition
for the excellent graduate students- Danwon Gallery, Seoul
SELECTED ARTICLE/PUBLICATION
2011 Aesthetics 6250 A.U. Magazine Spring Edition
featured artist 2011 Featured in <How Wonderfully Bazaar!>
on ART Punctuate
2011 The Gracey Art Review- Featured
artists by Elizabeth Roncevic
2011 New York Art Marathon review by curator David
Gibson
2011 Magazine 1975 - Magazine 1975 winner, Featured
artist
2011 The Xposur - Featured Artist interview
2010 City
Belka - “Дипломка” Хантера Featured artist from Hunter MFA Thesis Show 2008 Mapcidy - Hunter openstudios
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