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Art protects art

8 out of 10

artists are shut out by banks

354

loans extended to fellow artists

95%

repayment rate — trust comes full circle

~KRW 140M

interest saved vs. predatory rates

Until the next exhibition, the next performance. For artists, income gaps are an unavoidable reality. For fellow artists forced into predatory loans just to afford paint, canvas, and studio rent, proceeds from this artwork become the Seed Fund — extending a fair hand at fair rates.

Voices of fellow artists

“The memory of going hungry for three days, alone, so my children wouldn't know.”

— 50s, theater artist

“I've been putting off urgent dental treatment because I can't afford it. I should be seeing a doctor regularly, but enduring instead of going has become a habit.”

— 50s, actor

“I kept delaying ear treatment because I had no money, and the symptoms in both ears worsened.”

— 30s, musician

“I couldn't pay my hospitalized mother's bills, so we had to delay her discharge, and she had to give up tests and treatment she needed.”

— 50s, actor/broadcaster

“Because of money troubles I had nowhere to go — drifting between gosiwon rooms and rehearsal studios, and for a while sleeping rough.”

— 30s, musician

“Because of unpaid rent, my collective was forced to vacate our shared workspace and home. Neither bank loans nor artist loans could help.”

— 50s, actor

“Without money, life collapses — and creating art? Out of the question.”

— 50s, artist

“It's painful that solving this month's money problems has to come before the work itself. As an artist, I can only earn well when the work succeeds — yet I have to chase odd jobs every month instead. It feels like being trapped in a vicious cycle.”

— 40s, musician

“Debt collection calls disrupted my rehearsals and performances, and the psychological burden made every day painful and the next day frightening.”

— 40s, theater artist

“Many times the loan payments looming each month forced me to step away from performing and focus on part-time work.”

— 50s, actor

“Sleeping less than four hours a night, juggling part-time jobs and theater — but the more I performed, the more debt piled up. Eventually I decided to quit performing.”

— 30s, actor

“When things were hardest, I couldn't even attend close friends' weddings or funerals — and as a result, relationships were severed.”

— 50s, actor/broadcaster

“When I said I was a stage actor, the loan officer called me "unemployed."”

— 50s, actor

“The shame and severed friendships that came with borrowing from people I knew, the pressure of failing to pay it back, the helplessness.”

— 50s, cartoonist/visual artist

“Even with programs meant for low-income citizens, I feel shame when I can't produce enough documentation simply because I'm an artist.”

— 30s, film/broadcasting professional

68 artworks sold, each becoming a seed of solidarity

One artwork becomes the oxygen that keeps a fellow artist creating.

Sales proceeds go to the artist mutual-aid fund.

Authenticity

One-of-a-kind original

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CategoryPaintingMaterialAcrylic painting Size53×65.5cm · Size 15 · Medium How big is this? →Year2025Price₩2,600,000

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About the Artist

MinjeongSee is a printmaker and drawing artist who critically explores the surface and disguise of contemporary society through the materiality of 'plastic.' She graduated from the Department of Printmaking at Hongik University and received her M.F.A. in Printmedia from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Her many solo exhibitions include Plastic Society I at Gallery AG (2014), Plastic Promise at Youngeun Museum (2016), and Representation After Light at Seoripul Hyu Gallery (2024). She was selected as a Zoom-In artist at the 2025 Korea Galleries Art Fair. Her works are held at the SOMA Museum Drawing Center, Youngeun Museum, Frans Masereel Centrum (Belgium), Purdue University (USA), and the John Flaxman Artist Book Collection.

Artist Statement

I am drawn to the inner life — the thoughts, feelings, and psychology of an individual shaped by the urban environment. I think about what surrounds us in excess, and what we keep consuming, physically and mentally, without quite noticing. For a while I made allegorical printed images about the urban environment and the choices of capitalism; for another while I worked with video installation, focusing on the keyword "plastic" to speak about the city. More recently, I have extended that into work about memory and the new representational images that are formed within it. The work is about a kind of remembered moment — as if light enters a once-dark room and shadows flicker, and an everyday space comes alive together with the light. There are moments when light, like an apparition coming inward from outside, is felt as a wind that suddenly changes the air of an ordinary day. Just as a relentlessly pulsing inner life exists behind a reality that seems immovable, light illuminates space, makes color, and breathes life (breath) into it. I paint the daily memory of light seeping into the darkness I meet every day. I paint memories of light as if it were an act of prayer — wishing to give light to the dark conditions of war and to the dark places that surround us.
My work uses many media — painting, drawing, printmaking, video, installation — and at times I collaborate with specialists from other fields, such as performance and music. The choice of medium is decided subjectively, by what I feel best speaks to the subject and best fits the whole picture of the work I am imagining. The endless flood of images we produce each day, the easy-use-and-throw-away culture, the fast-changing present that cannot speak of permanence — these affect my choice of medium too. Most of my pieces are not made to last forever; they carry the one-off quality of a contemporary happening. So rather than the secure weight of something graspable, they show the light current of the present moment, an image of now. This stays in step with the things that disappear inside the swift flow of the city.

Key Career Highlights

Education
2010 M.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Printmedia, USA
2002 B.F.A., Department of Printmaking, Hongik University

Awards
2025 Galleries Art Fair Zoom-In Artist, Korea Galleries Association, Seoul
2018 SoMA Drawing Center Artist, Seoul
2017 New Discourse, Excellence Award, Sai Art Institute
2010 Nippon Steel Competition/U.S.A Presidential Award, Chicago, USA
2009 The Korean Honor Scholarship, Embassy of Korea in the USA
2009 Thomas Baron Scholarship, Ox-Bow School of Art, USA
2009 Cheongju International Craft Biennale Selection, Cheongju
2009 Steve S. Kang Young Artist and Scholarships, USA
2009 Nippon Steel Competition/U.S.A Presidential Award, Chicago, USA
2008 Nippon Steel Competition/U.S.A Presidential Award, Chicago, USA
2007 The Fine Art Finals Scholarship, Finalist, Mid-West, USA

Residencies
2021 Cheongju Art Studio, Cheongju
2019 Daegu Art Factory, Daegu
2016 Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeonggi-do
2016 Global Painting Retreat, Chang Jung University, Taiwan
2013 Goyang Studio, MMCA
2011 Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium
2010 Andover Newton Theological School, Boston, USA

Collections
2019 "Rain" (2010), Purdue University, Indiana, USA
2018 Drawing Portfolio, SoMA, Seoul
2016 "Plastic Square" (2016), Youngeun Museum, Gyeonggi-do
2016 "Resistance" 2-work series (2014), Youngeun Museum, Gyeonggi-do
2016 "5x7_Crazy about" Children & Artist 1:1 Collaboration Project (2016), Artist Book, Hyundai Children's Book Art Museum, Gyeonggi-do
2014 "Plastic Green" (2013), Space 291, Seoul
2011 "Rain" (2011), Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium
2011 "if 'U' don't understand me..." 2 of 9-work series (2011), Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium
2011 "Do NOT ENTER" (2011), Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium
2010 "I said too much last night" (2010), John Flaxman Artist Book Collection, Chicago, USA
2010 "Dithering" (2010), John Flaxman Artist Book Collection, Chicago, USA

Solo Exhibitions
2026 Representation of Memory, Gallery Nut, Seoul
2025 Light Traces_Repetition, Gallery Daseon, Gyeonggi-do
2024 Representation After Light, Seocho Cultural Foundation Seoriful Gallery, Seoul
2023 Thin and Flat Image, Misajang Gallery, Seoul
2022 Plasticated Transparency, Art Soombi, Seoul
2021 Green Gables Happening, Cheongju Art Studio, Cheongju
2020 Green Gables, ART SPACE IN, Incheon National University, Incheon
2017 When I See You, Sai Art Gallery, Seoul
2016 Plastic Promise, Youngeun Museum, Gyeonggi-do, Yongin Cultural Foundation, Gwangju-si Support
2016 Crouching Throwing Stones, Cheongju Museum of Art Daecheongho Branch, Cheongju-si Support
2015 Plastic Society II, Alternative Space Noon, Suwon
2014 Plastic Society I, Gallery AG, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Korea Mecenat, Anguk Pharmaceutical, Nagwon Musical Instruments Arcade Support, Seoul
2014 Plastic Green, Space 291, Seoul
2010 My One False Image - Plasticated Falsity, Gallery X, Chicago, USA
2009 Plastic Beauty, Base Space, Chicago, USA

Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Kiaf 2025, COEX Hall, Seoul
2025 The Drawing, SoMA, Seoul
2025 Saturation of Emotion, Gallery Daseon, Gyeonggi-do
2025 Galleries Art Fair_Zoom In Selected Special Exhibition, COEX Hall, Seoul
2025 Encountering Dreams, Gallery Ilho, Seoul
2024 Peer Film Festival, Peer Contemporary, Seoul
2022 Andemic Upcycle, Gwangmyeong Art Center, Gyeonggi-do
2022 Pexma2022_Adventurous Departure, Peer Contemporary, Seoul
2021 Tomorrow Exhibition_Drag and Draw, SoMA, Seoul
2021 Meeting of Art and Technology, Gallery Park Young, Gyeonggi-do
2021 Strangers Arriving in an Unfamiliar City, Cheongju Art Studio, Cheongju
2020 Youngeun Jigi, Youngeun Museum, Gyeonggi-do
2020 Goldcan Art Plan, Donuimun Museum Village Seogung Gallery Cafe, Seoul
2020 "Lee Gwang-gi's On/Offline Art Show" 3 video works, YouTube, Naver TV, Art Gyeonggi & Studio Kki, Seoul
2020 Intersected Gazes, Daegu Art Factory, Daegu
2019 Editable, Suchang Youth Mansion, Daegu
2019 Young Korean Artists, Purdue University, Embassy of Korea Support, Indiana, USA
2019 Cityscape, CICA Museum, Gyeonggi-do
2018 Square, CICA Museum, Gyeonggi-do
2018 Do Art, Palais de Seoul, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism Support, Seoul
2017 Early Spring Pointillism, Gyeongui Line Book Street, Hankook Paper Support, Seoul
2016 Empowerment, Chang Jung University, Taiwan
2015 Useless but Useful, Osan Museum of Art, Amorepacific Support, Gyeonggi-do
2015 Color of Things Exhibition, Gyeongnam Museum of Art, Changwon, Gyeongnam
2014 Sustainable City - Flowers II, Epic Gallery, Ecological Aesthetics Lab, Daejeon
2013 Once Upon A Time, Viridian Artists, New York, USA
2013 Sustainable City - Flowers, Space C, Ecological Aesthetics Lab, Daejeon Cultural Foundation Support
2013 5mm x 7, Artist Book Exhibition, Goyang Studio, MMCA, Gyeonggi-do
2013 Same Trade, Yeoinseuk Gallery, Gunsan, Jeonbuk
2013 Fluxus Weather Forecast, Goyang Studio, MMCA, Gyeonggi-do
2013 Silly Question Wise Answer, Kunstdoc, Seoul
2011 Community Show, Andover Newton Theological School, Boston