Hye Ryun Jung

Biography

Hye Ryun Jung was born in Busan, Korea in 1977. She majored in sculpture at Pusan National University and its graduate school. She gained public attention as she was awarded the Artists of Tomorrow Award by Sungkok Art Museum in Seoul, Korea, in 2004. Jung was selected as an up-and-coming artist by the Songam Arts & Cultural Foundation and has won the Bongsaeng Young Culture Award, Ha Jung-woong Young Artist Award, a grant from SeMA (Seoul Museum of Art) for New Artists, and the 2012 Young Sculptor Prize of the Kim Chong Yung Museum. The artist has held solo exhibitions at domestic and international museums and galleries such as Kuandu Museum of Arts in Taiwan, The Busan Museum of Art, Sungkok Art Museum, OCI Museum of Art, and Seoul Olympic Museum of Art. In addition, she participated in 2007 International Incheon Women Artists' Biennale and Busan Biennale 2010. She is very interested in images or moldings created at the moment when the passed time is combined with the present time. She creates simple images and constructs into a minimal module. Then she reconstructs the modules in the new space.