Jung Mi-jung paints in palimpsest — layers of time, space, memory not fully erased but carried beneath new ones. From Chelsea, London, back to Seoul.
What disappears leaves traces. Those traces, layered, become one landscape.
Artist Profile
Jung Mi-jung graduated from Sejong University in painting (Western painting) and completed her MA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts, London. Since her first solo exhibition in 2016, she has held steady solo shows. Her work is in the collections of MMCA Art Bank, Seoul Museum, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, and Jangwook Jin Museum of Art (Yangju). She received the BIAF Emerging Artist Award (2021) and the Grand Prize at IBK Industrial Bank's Emerging Artists Open Call (2018).
Through active art-fair participation and numerous group shows, she has extended her range — Galleries Art Fair, MOAF, BANK ART FAIR, and others. Recent showings include the 2025 Galleries Art Fair (Suwon) among major domestic events.
The Work
Key words in her practice: time, space, memory, connection. Solo exhibition titles concentrate this: Time, Space, and Memory; Palimpsest: What Remains as It Fades; The Time in Between; Rendezvous. A palimpsest writes new text on erased parchment; her canvases layer in the same way — earlier layers not fully gone, new layers resting on them.
Her SAF contribution That Place (oil on canvas, 72.7×53 cm) shows her practice in brief. Instead of describing a specific place, the title — evoking somewhere in memory — calls up each viewer's interior landscape. The space created as line and color flow and linger on the surface is not a real landscape but a topography of the interior, where sensation and memory cross.
SAF
Having experienced London's art world at Chelsea and continued her practice back in Seoul, Jung Mi-jung knows the structural realities of the art world. Through SAF, her work becomes a medium for mutual aid among fellow artists — sale revenue flowing into the fund that returns as low-interest loans. An artist who has explored connection on canvas now becomes a link of connection in reality.
Discover Jung Mi-jung's works at SAF Online.
Works by Jung Mi-jung
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Published April 8, 2026
