March 16th ~ April 1st, 2017

Opening Reception: March 18th, 2017 5pm

Bio

Jonghyun Kwon was born in Seoul, South Korea and currently lives and works in New Jersey. She received her BFA and MFA in Fine Art (Painting) from the Chung-Ang University in South Korea. She won numerous awards, including the Grand Prix from the Sunhwa Arts School Concourse, the JW Young Art Award Special Selection, the 10th Contemporary Expressions of Korea Young Artists, the 22nd Korean Fine Arts Association, and others. She has exhibited at the Riverside Gallery and the KCC Galery in NJ, Hutcheson Gallery and Gallery SATORI in NY, Artrie Gallery and the Seoul Art Center in Korea.

Artist Statement

“She dreams and imagines a village and builds a small utopia through her art pieces. She gathers scraps of paper and cloth, and then produces a collage of a dreaming village that is her own community. The works contain purity and innocence, yet express poignant state of isolation and displacement of reality within contemporary society. She currently is an instructor at the Korea School of Southern NJ.