JUN, SUNG AH
Gender Female
Nationality S. Korea
Movement Digital Media -painting, video, installation
Categories Painting
Lives & Works Seoul S. Korea
Critic Archive
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Jun, Sung-Ah is a next-generation elite artist who majored in photography and digital art at the New York Platt. It explores a new scene of contemporary art that fuses the technical elements of contemporary photography with media, the mechanism of advanced modern civilization, and experiments with the phenomenon of a pluralistic media of time and space that projects light. It appears that the artist’s such endeavor produces, through her own original aesthetic, the emptiness that arises in the pursuit of the unknown world of humanity and the unstable discourse of the future world that mankind aspires to. Through a youthful consciousness and a critical perspective, it conveys new solutions to the problem of the way we think about human existence within the environment of the Earth’s ecosystem, including recent climate change. Through the interactions and movements of objects seemingly trapped in the transparent space of polyhedra—an ambiguous image shaped by the possibilities and forms of various manipulation technologies within the media ecosystem—the artist conveys, with a free and tense visual perspective, the fiction of human existence and the fragmented masses of various beings concerning life and being. What, then, is the meaning conveyed through a screen effect like a vacuum and the spaces left behind? It presents an imagination that expands the curiosity about human existence in a future space.
,,전성아는 뉴욕 플렛에서 사진과 디지털 아트를 전공한 차세대 엘리트작가다. 현대사진의 기술적 요소와 이를 현대첨단문명의 메카니즘인 미디어를 융합한 현대미술의 새로운 지형을 탐험하고 레이저 빛을 투영한 시공의 다원적인 매체의 현상을 실험하고 있다. 작가의 이러한 시도는 인간의 미지세계를 지향하는 가운데 발생하는 공허함과 인류가 꿈꾸는 미래세상의 불안정한 담론을 그녀만의 독창적 미학으로 생산하고 있는 것으로 보인다. 최근 일어나고 있는 기후변화 등 지구생태계의 환경에서 인간의 존재에 대한 사유 방식의 문제를 젊은 의식과 비판적인 눈을 통해 새로운 해법을 관자에게 전하고 있다. 작가는 미디어 생태계의 다양한 조작기술의 가능성과 형상이 내어주는 모호한 이미지인 다면체의 투명한 공간에 갇혀 있는 듯한 대상들의 상호작용과 움직임을 통해 인간사회의 존재에 대한 허구와 생명체에 관한 다양한 존재들의 파편화된 질량을 자유로운 시각으로 긴장감 있게 전달하고 있다. 과연 진공 같은 화면 연출과 공백에서 해석되는 의미는 무엇일까? 하는 디지털과 아나로그 사이 미래공간에서 인간 존재의 궁금증을 확장하는 상상력을 제시하고 있다.
Artist Note
Growing up between Korea and California, Sung-Ah Jun developed a keen, observant perspective shaped by cultural displacement. Trained across photography, digital art, and art education at Pratt Institute and Teachers College Columbia University, she fluidly traverses painting, video, installation, and digital media. A painting becomes footage. Footage becomes an installation. The medium follows the idea, never the other way around. Rejecting rigid disciplinary boundaries, she allows the underlying idea to dictate the choice of medium. Ultimately, Jun continues to explore the open, transitional spaces between analog and digital, and between distant homes
PROFILE
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Jun, Sung-Ah is a next-generation elite artist who majored in photography and digital art at the New York Platt. It explores a new scene of contemporary art that fuses the technical elements of contemporary photography with media, the mechanism of advanced modern civilization, and experiments with the phenomenon of a pluralistic media of time and space that projects light. It appears that the artist’s such endeavor produces, through her own original aesthetic, the emptiness that arises in the pursuit of the unknown world of humanity and the unstable discourse of the future world that mankind aspires to. Through a youthful consciousness and a critical perspective, it conveys new solutions to the problem of the way we think about human existence within the environment of the Earth’s ecosystem, including recent climate change. Through the interactions and movements of objects seemingly trapped in the transparent space of polyhedra—an ambiguous image shaped by the possibilities and forms of various manipulation technologies within the media ecosystem—the artist conveys, with a free and tense visual perspective, the fiction of human existence and the fragmented masses of various beings concerning life and being. What, then, is the meaning conveyed through a screen effect like a vacuum and the spaces left behind? It presents an imagination that expands the curiosity about human existence in a future space.
Education
Ph.D. IT Design Convergence, Seoul National University
of Science and Technology. (ongoing)
EdM Art Education, Teachers College, Columbia University,
NY. 2019-2022
Gallery Teaching for Elementary School Groups,
Guggenheim Museum, NY. 2018-2019
MFA Digital Arts, Pratt Institute, NY. 2014–2017
BFA Photography, Pratt Institute, NY. 2010–2014
Visual Arts, Idyllwild Arts Academy, CA. 2006–2010
Solo Exhibitions
“Black Paper
9”, Gallery The Flow, Seoul, Korea. 2026
“Magazine:
First Look”, A9 Gallery, Seoul, Korea. 2024
“Flowing
Emotions”, Gallery The Flux/The Flow, Seoul, Korea. 2024
“Dance of the
Prophet”, Urban Plant, Seoul, Korea. 2024
“Playful
Gardener”, Bonjour Bonbon, Seoul, Korea. 2024
“Essence”, A9
Gallery, Seoul, Korea. 2023
“Frequency”,
Gallery hoM, Seoul,
Korea. 2023
“Hyper Savage
City”, Tasé Gallery,
Seoul, Korea. 2023
“Fragmented
Whole”, The Cluster Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. 2017 “Constellations”, Pratt Photography Gallery, Brooklyn,
NY. 2014“Code 19”, Seoul, Korea. 2010
Awards
Myers Art Prize, Teachers College, Columbia
University, NY. 2020
Residencies
Institute of Electronic Arts, Alfred University, NY. 2018
Trestle Art Space, Brooklyn, NY. 2018
Brooklyn Art Cluster, Brooklyn, NY. 2017
Con Artist Collective, New York, NY. 2017
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