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My work explores processes and connections between material and habit. I examine this through the function of narrative, where performance (such as reading) signals desire. I interpret this process through the simple activity of reading, without interpretation or predetermined pathways to meaning. Through the movements of territorialization and de-territorialization (a movement away from concepts or ideas packaged as discrete units with singular meanings) it is the desire for the textual elements of narrative that become the exposed story or even the “desiring machine” that can produce a story.

Like a narrative written only with verbs and conjunctions, the work “Untitled; Anti-Oedipus” explores the body without organs. Made of wood and books, it flows in all directions. The body becomes fluid, and connections are composed of, and unfolded by, unconscious devices. It is a plot without a face or protagonist, a machine that functions as the stage on which descriptive narrative is resisted. This faceless “play” is then performed by the viewer’s arousal and desire.

2010,Episteme

My interest in fabricating stories continues to grow into an investigation of objects that embody a desire to “be” something--objects that exist between the tensions of internal narratives and external spaces. The title“Episteme” references an epistemological structure and its connections/disconnections to real architectural space.

2010, interview for 32nd JoongAng Fine Arts Prize 2010

Non-final version

2010, water street studios,

http://waterstreetstudios.com/gallery/current-show/honorable-mention-artists

2010, water street studios,

Water street studios 2010

http://waterstreetstudios.com/gallery/current-show/honorable-mention-artists

2010, floor processing

2010, 중앙미술대전

중앙 미술 대전

Seoul, S.Korea

2010

2010, MFA show, Medusa and Anti-Oedipus

CV, 2010

Yun Jeong Hong

E-mail: momomoru@gmail.com

EDUCATION

2010 Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Sculpture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2005 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Seoul Women’s University

Awards & Scholarships

2010 Creative and Performing Arts Fellowship Award, School of Art and Design,

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois

2010 Helen E Platt Blake MFA Materials Grant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois

2007 Drawing Center Archived Artist in SOMA Drawing Center. Seoul Olympic Museum of Art,

Seoul, South Korea

2005 Painting Department Top Honors Seoul Women’s University, Seoul, South Korea

2001- Barom 2 Scholarship, Seoul Women’s University, Seoul, South Korea

2004

Group Exhibitions (Competitive)

2010 Honorable Mentions, Anniversary show, Water Street Studios, Batavia, IL

2010 32nd JoongAng Fine Arts Prize 2010, Hangaram Art Museum at the Seoul Art Center,

Seoul South Korea

2010 Emerging Illinois Artists (curated by Laura Fried), Mclean Arts Center, Bloomington, Illinois

2010 New Insight (curated by Susanne Ghez), NEXT Art Fair, Chicago, Illinois

2007 Into Drawing 2, SOMA Drawing Center, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art,

Seoul, South Korea

Group Exhibitions (Non-competitive)

2010 MFA Exhibition; Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois

2010 3D, Link Gallery, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois

2009 A Solo Show in 16 Parts, Link Gallery, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois

2004 BFA Exhibition, Barom Gallery, Seoul Women’s University, Seoul, South Korea

Other Projects, Experiments, & Performances

2010 Nomadic Fantasia: Ongoing collaborative curatorial experiment in site-specific documents and research, Champaign, Illinois

2010 Air-puppy: Three day on-site exquisite corpse painting performance for FUZE, NEXT Art Fair, Chicago, Illinois

2009 Preserving death and shapes of living things- for 1793; to celebrate the birth of museum and the head of the king: Fictional collection show in conjunction with the Champaign County Historical Museum, Champaign, Illinois

2009 Excavation romantic: On-site street performance project at the Urbana Business Association Second Saturday, Urbana, Illinois

2006 Guppy Breeding: Being Orchid: Experimental fish breeding documentation project. Suji, South Korea

2006 Witch’s book: Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières: Excavation and restoration project tracing the origin of an imaginary book at the Piana library. Cesena, Italy

2004 Witch’s book: Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières: Excavation and restoration history project. Excavating and studying an imaginary book, Seoul, South Korea

2003 Oilism: A participatory paper making, food and video installation, based on an imaginary article about a generation of people. Seoul, South Korea

2002 Kindergarten Planning Project, how space structure create social action?: Site-context and space architecture planning project with Y.Hong, K.Kim, SangIl-Dong, and GangDong-Gu.

Seoul, South Korea

2002 Tribute for the end of painting: Automatic drawing performance, drawing and dripping using an automatic toy car and violin. Seoul, South Korea

Academic Teaching Experience

2010 Graduate Assistant: Assisted Professor Stephen Cartwright, Sculpture 2

2009 Graduate Assistant: Assisted Professor Stephen Cartwright, Sculpture 1

2010,Episteme

Episteme

2010, Medusa

Medusa

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