Jae Ho Jung

The worn out industrial-era buildings depicted in Jung’s works ultimately reflect the country’s attitude of neglect and denial toward its own tumultuous past. He urges us to remember the lives that once dwelled behind the concrete walls - lives that endured and persevered. The crux of his work is the representation of the “odor of life” permeated in the surface. To the artist, the act of painting is a means to recall forgotten memories - a means to reanimate things that are lost in the past. Therefore, the process of recreation is not merely a practice of imitation for the artist. Through his work, Jung traces and collects the marks of modern times. Jae Ho Jung (b. 1971) was born in Seoul, South Korea. He completed his graduate studies in Eastern painting at Seoul National University. In 2018, he was nominated for the prestigious Korea Artist Prize, co-organized by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) and the SBS Foundation . He currently works as a professor of Eastern painting at Sejong University. Jung has exhibited at CHOI&CHOI Gallery, Seoul & Cologne; Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul; Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul; and Arko Museum of Art, Seoul, among others. His works are held in various public collections, including the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul; Busan Museum of Art, Busan; Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju; and Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul. Born in 1971, Seoul, South Korea Lives and works in Goyang EDUCATION 1997 B.F.A. Department of Oriental Painting, Seoul National University, Seoul 2001 M.F.A. Department of Oriental Painting, Seoul National University, Seoul SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2026 I don't think it's anything, Michael Horbach Foundation (curated by CHOI&CHOI Gallery), Cologne 2023 Nebula , ART&CHOI’s, Seoul How long have I been here, CHOI&CHOI Gallery, Seoul 2020 Spear and Heap, SAHNG-UP Gallery, Seoul 2017 Heat Island, INDIPRESS, Seoul 2014 Days of Dust, Gallery HYUNDAI, Seoul 2011 Planet, Gallery SOSO, Paju 2009 Father’s Day, Gallery HYUNDAI, Seoul 2007 Ecstatic Architecture, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul 2005 Old Apartment Building, Kumho Young Artist Program, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul 2004 Cheongwoon Civil Apartment Building, Gallery Fish, Seoul 2003 Travel to lncheon , Incheon Shinsegae Gallery, Gallery Fish, Seoul GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2025 Our Enchanting Paradise, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul 2024 The Modern and Contemporary Ink Art of the Republic of Korea and the People’s Republic of China, MMCA Deoksugung, Seoul Evocation: Jeon Byung-goo & Jung Jae-ho Duo Exhibition, Nook Gallery, Seoul 2 023 From Berlin to Seoul: Crossing Horizons , CHOI&CHOI Gallery, HORI Artspace, AIF Lounge, Seoul and Bermel von Luxburg Gallery, Berlin URBAN GRAY, The SoSo , Seoul 2022 House Arrest -Home sweet home, Sahng -up Gallery , Seoul Rent , Amado Art Space , Seoul Yeosu International Art Festival - Trace of the Blue Marble , Yeosu Breaking the Borders, Hanger, Ras Al Ain Gallery, Amman FLOWER, CHOI&CHOI Gallery, Seoul Berlin meets Seoul– Menschsein / Being Human (in collaboration with CHOI&CHOI Gallery ), Bermel von Luxburg Gallery, Berlin 2021 Songs Without Words, Galler SoSo , Paju The Satellite That I shoot up , Culture Tank , Seoul 2020 Jeonnam International SUMUK Biennale 2020 Special Exhibition, Park Seokgyu Museum of Art, Mokpo Moment to Monument, CHOI&LAGER Gallery, Cologne 2019 Seeing Time, Seoul National University Museum of Art , Seoul ASIA NOW 2019, Paris Electric Universe, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul REAL-Real City, Arko Art Center Gallery , Seoul Kumho Young Artist: The 69 Times of Sunrise , Kumho Museum of Art , S eoul M nemonic , K yobo A rtspace , S eoul 2018 Korea Artist Prize 2018 , National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art , Seoul Self-portrait - Hak Lyang Kim , Jae Ho Jung , Sansumunhwa , Seoul The Side of Paradise , Anyang Museum, Anyang GYEONGGI MILLENNIUM DOCUFESTA – GYEONGGI ARCHIVE_NOW , Gyeonggi Sangsang Campus , Suwon 2017 The red brick house, OCI Museum, Seoul Accidentally, the night again, WUMIN Art Center, Cheongju 2016 Realism, Maison d Ungno Lee, Hong Seoung Home Ground, Cheongju Museum of Art, Cheongju Retro Scene, Space K, Seoul 2015 Return Home, KOOKMIN UNIVERSITY Museum, Seoul Space Life, ILMIN Museum, Seoul 2014 Home, Where the Heart is, Arko Art Center, Seoul The Relics of Old Seoul, Buk Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul Parallax View, LIG Art Space, Seoul The Republic of Apartments, Seoul Museum of History, Seoul 2013 Real Landscape, True Reflection, OCI Museum, Seoul 2012 Urban Promenade, Pohang Museum of Steel Art, Pohang 2011 Busan my city, my strange place, SHINSEGAE Gallery, Busan 2010 Fragmented Paysage , Daegu Culture and Arts Center, Daegu Between, ONE AND J. Gallery, Seoul Seoul Archive/ Urban Landscape, Daewoo Securities Yeoksamdong Gallery, Seoul Now, things that are expressed paintings, GANA Art Gallery, Seoul 2009 Wonderful Pictures , Ilmin Museum of Art , Seoul 2008 B-SIDE, Doart , Seoul Touch , WORKROOM , S eoul Retrospective 2007-Korean Young Painters, Noam Gallery / Doosan Gallery , Seoul 2007 Asia Contemporary Art Project - City-net Asia 2007, Seoul Museum of Art , Seoul reminiscing the medium – a ‘post -‘ syndrome , Seoul National University Museum of Art , Seoul Korean Painting 1953-2007, Seoul Museum of Art , Seoul COLLECTIONS Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul Museum of Art Busan Museum of Art Jeju Museum of Art Seoul National University Museum of Art Kumho Museum Uijae Museum of Korean Art OCI Museum