Overview

Mimi Jung redefines the traditional practice of weaving, experimenting with intricate new techniques while exploring her own resonant personal experiences. Jung breaks from the conventions of weaving to create her own visual language.

 

Through the spectrum of works originating from the loom, Jung investigates the way people continuously negotiate space within and between themselves. Her work examines multiple dimensions of identity and self-preservation, particularly relating to private and public self-representation and the ways these depictions are manifested through social and cultural mores. Her works play with the expansion or narrowing of space, placing great emphasis on the space existing between the warp and the weft. Her limning of space is reflexive, visible to those who are predisposed to see it.

 

Jung tests the limitations of the traditional grid format, breaking the conventions of the loom by giving the works an almost kinetic potential. The synthesis of the three-dimensional organic forms with the linearity of the latticed background, in combination with the tonal variations in the natural fibres used, creates the impression of motion. Although fixed, Jung’s forms are never static as their voids and translucencies encourage optical movement through and around them. The 'Pareidolia' series, cued by their titles, invites viewers to impose their perceptions onto the works. And in doing so, investigate why and how we perceive what is in front of us.

Works
Exhibitions
Studio shots
Publications
Biography

 Mimi Jung (b. Seoul, Korea; lives and works in Montana) received a BFA from Cooper Union and attended HGK Basel and Städelschule for postgraduate studies. Most recently, she was the resident artist at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. She has mounted exhibitions throughout

the United States, including Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Nina Johnson, Miami, FL; and Helen J Gallery, Los Angeles, LA. Her work has also been exhibited at Les Gens Heureux, Copenhagen, Denmark; Korea International Art Fair, Seoul, South Korea; Collectible, Brussels, Belgium; Somerset House, London, UK; and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.

 

EDUCATION

2005       Postgraduate Fine Art, Städelschule. Frankfurt, Germany.
2004   Postgraduate Communication Design, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst. Basel, Switzerland.
2003   BFA Fine Art, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. New York, USA.

 

 

EXHIBITIONs and art fairs

2024

 

'Just Between Us', Missoula Art Museum, Montana, USA.

 

2023

 

'Through The Walls', Cadogan Gallery, London, UK.

 

2022

 

KIAF Art Seoul, Gallery Mark, Seoul, South Korea

 

 

 

'Summer Exhibition: Mimi Jung & Perla Krauze', Cadogan Gallery, London, UK.

 

 

 

Art Busan, Gallery Mark, Seoul, South Korea.

 

 

 

‘Shields’, Helen J Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.

 

2021

 

KIAF Art Seoul, Gallery Mark, Seoul, South Korea.

 

 

 

'Today's Weather', Space MAK + factory 2 gallery, Seoul, South Korea.

 

 

 

'Illusions and Other Protective Spells', Pentimenti, Philadelphia, USA.

 

2019

 

'Complexity & Beauty Sewn Up', Female Design Council, Sculpture Objects Furniture Art and 

 
   

esign Fair, Chicago, USA.

 

2019

 

'Eleven Minutes from Home', Augusto & Remington, Los Angeles, USA.

 
    'History Lessons: Delphine Hennelly & Mimi Jung', Carvalho Park Gallery, New York, USA  
2018   'Design Storytellers, Broached Commissions', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.  
    'The Astray Show', Fisher Parrish Gallery, New York, USA.  
2018   'Designing Women II', Egg Collective, New York, USA.  
    'A New Breed', Piazza San Sepolcro 2, Milan, Italy.  
    Palau de Casavells, Girona, Spain.  
    Collectible Design Fair, Brussels, Belgium.  
    Minnesota Street Project & Special Editions, San Francisco, USA.  
2017   Somerset House, London, UK.  
    'Room With Its Own Rules', Chamber Gallery, New York, USA.  
    'The Paperweight Show', Fisher Parrish Gallery, New York, USA.  
2016   Design Miami/, Chamber Gallery, Miami, USA.  
    'Progressland', Chamber Gallery, New York, USA.  
2015   'Wall Hangings', Les Gens Heureux Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark.  
    'Trees in Oolite', Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami, USA.  
    Collective Design Fair, New York, USA.  

 

 

LECTURES

FOCA, Los Angeles, California, 2022
California College of Arts, San Francisco, California, 2021
The ARC Theater, Saint Kate, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2019
Pennsylvania State College of Arts and Architecture, University Park, PA, 2019

 

RESIDENCies

Josef and Anni Albers Foundation Residency, Bethany, CT, 2021
Arts/Industry Residency, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Kohler, WI, 2020

 

Public Collections

The Grand LA, Los Angeles (Opening in July 2022)
UPlanet, Gwangmyeong, Korea
505w19 Collection, New York, New York
The Ludlow NYC, New York, New York
Pioneer Building, Brooklyn, New York
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Kohler, WI

Press