Min Jung-See begins with plastic — the surface beauty of contemporary society and the emptiness beneath. Works across printmaking, painting, installation, video.
"What lies beneath the surface of the things we take for granted?"
Artist Profile
Min Jung-See (Kim Min-jung) graduated from Hongik University (printmaking) and earned an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has broadened her practice through domestic and international residencies — MMCA Goyang Art Studio, Frans Masereel Centrum (Belgium), Youngeun Museum, Daegu Art Factory, Cheongju Art Studio — and was selected as a Zoom-In artist for Galleries Art Fair in 2025.
Her practice isn't bound to a single medium. Based in printmaking, she extends into painting, installation, artist books, and video, embodying concepts through each medium's properties. Her work is in the collections of Purdue University, Frans Masereel Centrum, SOMA, and Youngeun Museum.
The Work
She began from the material plastic. The Plastic Society series questioned contemporary society's surface beauty and the emptiness behind it; that inquiry extended to problems of light, memory, and representation.
Her SAF contributions Symbol of Memory and Symbol After Light — both 53×65.5 cm acrylic paintings — render, with fine attention, how desolate memory-afterimages transform when they meet light. The works align with her recent solo theme Light-Marks_Repetition. Her gaze, exploring the gap between surface and interior, real and image, stays consistent while speaking in new forms each time.
SAF
Min Jung-See has long been attentive to the contact between art and society — persistently probing the tension between an artist's life and social structure within her own practice. Her SAF participation is an artist's response to the real problem of financial discrimination among peers. In a structure where sale revenue pools as a mutual-aid fund and returns as low-interest loans to artists facing financial discrimination, Min Jung-See embodies solidarity as artistic practice.
Discover Min Jung-See's works at SAF Online.
Works by Min Jung-See
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Published April 8, 2026
