Kyung Jeon

Born New Jersey

EDUCATION

School of Visual Arts, M.F.A. Fine Arts, NY, NY, 2005
Boston College, B.A., Double major in Studio Art & Philosophy, Chestnut Hill, MA, 1993-1997

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 2009
Associate Artist in Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, funded by the Joan Mitchell Foundation, New Smyrna Beach, FL 2009
Scope Emerging Artist Grant 2005
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship 2003

SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2014
Kyung Jeon and Juwon Lee, Gallery 1989, Larchmont, NY, April

2012
Kyung Jeon and Eemyun Kang, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea, August-September

2010
Kyung Jeon, Belle Rascal, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, NY, June-July
Kyung Jeon, It's a big, pretty world, Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, January-February

2009
Kyung Jeon, Mischief and Melancholy, Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, March-May
Kyung Jeon, Trois Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA, June-August

2008
Kyung Jeon, a story, Tina Kim Gallery, NY, NY, September-October
Kyung Jeon and Negar Ahkami, A Precious Passing, Miki Wick Kim Contemporary Art, Zurich, Switzerland, March-April

2007
Kyung Jeon, Delicate Division, Teo+Namfah Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand, November-December

2006
Kyung Jeon, The Impulse Garden, The Proposition, NY, NY, September-October

2005
Kyung Jeon, Paintings/Drawings, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY, October-November

2004
Kyung Jeon, Chang-nan Minor, The Proposition, NY, NY, May-June
Kyung Jeon Paintings and Drawings & Cara Lea Cole Photographs, DUST Gallery, Las Vegas, NV, July-August

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020
Endless State, Online Exhibition, November

2017
The Line, SITE131, Dallas, TX, June-August

2015
Weaving Time: An exhibition from the AHL's 3rd Archive of Korean Artists in America, Part three 2001 -2013, Gallery Korea, NY NY

2014
Double Mirror: Contemporary Korean Art, Curated by Inhee Iris Moon, American University Museum Katzen Art Center, Washington, DC, April-June
On the Blue Shore of Silence, Tracy Williams, Ltd., NY, NY
There to Here, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ

2013
Pollination: Overlappings in Time and in Place, Gallery Korea of the Korean Cultural Service NY, NY, NY, September-October
The Art of the Obsessions Collective, Zebrastraat Art & Cultural Center, Ghent, Belgium, June-July

2012
Reenacting Sense, Yace Gallery, Long Island City, NY, January-March

2011
John Zorn presents The Obsessions Collection: Works by Artists of Extreme Interest, Cavin Morris Gallery, New York, NY, December-January
The Big Show, Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY, May-June

2009
Faces & Facts: Korean Contemporary Art in New York: Into the Life, Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Art Gallery, New York, NY, December-February
Two Degrees of Separation, Gallery SATORI, New York, NY, December-January
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling, Curated by Monica Ramirez-Montagut, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, June-January
Team Painting: Stimulus Package, Curated by James Siena, Mark and Margerie Pabst Gallery, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL, Sept-Nov
New York 9+one, Cais Gallery, Seoul, Korea. Sept
I Stepped Into The Room, Tina Kim Gallery, NY, NY, June-September
Obsessions, Curated by John Zorn, MEM Gallery, Osaka, Japan, April-May
Lost and Found, Curated by Jiyoon Lee, Rokeby Gallery, London, U.K., January-February
Delineations, Ad Hoc Art, Brooklyn, NY, January-February

2008
Ces Étranges Enfants (Those Strange Children), Curated by Douglas Ferrari, The Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts, Long Branch, NJ, September-October
A Peopled Vision, Art Sites, Riverhead, NY, March-April

2007
Inner Child: Good and Evil in the Garden of Memories, Curated by Kristen Accola, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ, October 2007-January 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, February-March

2006
Who Are You, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea, July-August
ArtSpectrum 2006, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea, February-May
Body: The Facets of the Human Body, Asian Fusion Gallery, NY, NY, February-March

2005
"Mas Isto Tambem e?", Léo Bahia Arte Contemporanea, Santa Lúcia, Brazil, December-January
Desenhos, Theodor Lindner Galeria de Arte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November-January
The Empire of Sighs, Curated by Andrea Pollan, Numark Gallery, Washington, DC, September-October
First Peak, Curated by Miki Wick-Kim, Entenhalle, Zurich, Switzerland, September
Close Proximity, Hun Gallery, NY, NY, August-September
Sentiment, 2x13 Gallery, NY, NY, July
The 4th Young Overseas Artists Exhibition, Curated by MinSeok Seo, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, Korea, June
Above the Trendy, the Down and Out, The Proposition, NY, NY, May-June
The Last Show - MFA Fine Arts Thesis Show, Curated by CANADA Gallery, SVA Visual Arts Gallery, NY, NY, April-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, March-April
Characters: Scene I, Curated by Hélianthe Bourdeaux-Maurin, Shore Institute of Contemporary Arts, Long Branch, NJ, March-April
Temperature/artists from the flat file, The Artist Network, NY, NY, March-April
Paper Deviations, The Proposition, NY, NY, January-February

2004
SCOPE Miami Art Fair - Featured Artist - The Proposition, Miami, FL, December
Green Light, Gallery Korea, NY, NY, November-December
Psionic Distortion, Curated by Tim Evans, Super Deluxe, Tokyo, Japan, November
Balancing Acts, The Korea Society, NY, NY, October-December
International Underground, Curated by the Wild Banana Project, Whitney Young Cultural Center Mansion, San Francisco, CA, September
Girls and Guns, LA Part 1, NY Part 2, The Proposition, NY, NY, July-August
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-August
Blameless, Curated by Rachel Gugelberger, Visual Arts Gallery, NY, NY, June
Blind Pilots, Curated by Tim Evans, Linc Real Art, San Francisco, CA, April-May
Blind Pilots, Curated by Tim Evans, The Proposition, NY, NY, April-May
SCOPE New York Art Fair - Featured Artist - The Proposition, NY, NY, March
superSalon, Samson Projects, Boston, MA, March-May

2003
Amigos, Curated by Trevor Schoonmaker, An Art Showcase on the Lower East Side, Associated Projects, NY, NY, October
Innocence and Transgression, Curated by John Zorn, Project Room, The Proposition, NY, NY, September-October

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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2012 Kwon, Mee-yoo, "Jeon tells stories on water lilies," The Korea Times, August 29

2011
Lee, Won, Research Institute of Korean Studies, October

2010
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2009
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2008
"Boy Meets Girl," The New York Sun, September 23
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2007
Shiner, Eric C., "Set adrift on memories de-bliss," Exhibition catalog- Delicate Division, Teo+Namfah Gallery, November
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2006
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2005
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2004
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