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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
94 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.
Symbol of Memory
Min JeongSee
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 very interested in the inner things shaped by the urban environment—personal thought, feeling, psychology. I think about what surrounds us excessively, what we keep consuming, physically and mentally, as a matter of course. For a while, that took the form of allegorical images about the urban environment and the choices of capitalism in printmaking; for a while it was video installation, focused on the keyword plastic, working on the urban environment. More recently, as an extension of that, I have been working on memory and the images of representation newly made within it. The work is about the memory of a moment when, as if light enters a once-dark space and shadows flicker, the everyday space comes alive together with the light. There are moments that feel like a wind that, in an instant, transforms the air of an ordinary day, like the manifestation of light penetrating from outside in. As, behind a reality where nothing seems likely to change easily, an inner self exists that is endlessly responsive and pulsing, light shines on a space, makes color, and breathes life (breath) into it. I draw the daily memory of light meeting darkness, the light I face every day. Like an act of prayer, drawing memories of light—I draw with the wish to give light to the dark conditions of war and the many such places. My work uses a range of media—painting, drawing, printmaking, video, installation—and I sometimes work with experts from other fields, such as performance and music. The choice of medium for a work is decided by my subjective judgment of what fits the picture of the whole work that speaks to and recalls the theme. This time, in which countless images pour out every day, used easily and discarded easily—a fast-changing time in which an eternal cannot be spoken of—also affects my choice of medium. Most of my work is not work that remains forever but work made with the one-off quality of a contemporary happening; rather than the stability and weight of something to grasp, it shows the present time and image as a light moment. This is in line with the things vanishing within 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
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