Gayoung Jun was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1978. She completed the MFA with distinction at the Ewha Womans University in Seoul in 2004. She is living in New York, US since 2016.
Gayoung works predominantly in the medium of drawing, but her works also include large scale light installations.
Gayoung defines the object/phenomenon that she observes as an algorithm. And this algorithm makes a formative form. The process by which algorithms are created is conceptual and mathematical, and borrows computer languages. And she becomes a tool that converts the algorithm into a visual form. It mainly uses manual art work such as drawing and origami. So, paradoxically, one algorithm produces the same but different shape each time. A representative work series include gayoung.drawing, spectrum.drawing, and Appeared in Everyone’s Reve Last Night.
gayoung.drawing (2011 ~) and spectrum.drawing (2011 ~) begin with observations on gayoung and spectrum, respectively. And she created an algorithm by borrowing a type of computer language called C ++. She converted the algorithm visually through drawing. In 2015 She painted gayoung.drawing on a 590-inch-long wall at Maraya Art Center (Sharja, UAE). In 2016 She installed spectrum.drawing on the pillar of Facebook Korea office
(Seoul, Korea).
Appeared in Everyone's Reve Last Night (2016 ~) is a work on my experience of being in a dream of many different people in one night. Transition of space - time dimension was converted into origami. It was installed in the main lobby of the Avenuel (Seoul, Korea) a high end Lotte Department Store, a subsidiary of the Lotte Group from 2016 to 2017.
Solo Exhibition
2016 Dream Hunter Avenuel, Seoul, Korea
2015 The Five Order Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea
2013 spectrum.drawing Drawing Relay Project Banjul-Schale, Banjul, Seoul, Korea
2012 gayoung.drawing Brain Factory, Seoul, Korea
Brilliant Cube Avenuel, Seoul, Korea
2007 Color Notation Sun Contemporary, Seoul, Korea
2004 Color Concert Gallery Gaia, Seoul, Korea
Selected Group Exhibition
2019 Works on Paper Art Mora, New Jersey, USA
2016 Sulwha Cultural Exhibition-Once upon a time Dosan Park, Seoul, Korea
2015 Please Keep Your Eyes Closed for a Moment [Ana] Maraya Art Center, Sharjar, UAE
2014 Space Gardening Gallery Planet, Seoul, Korea
2013 Video & Media Gallery Jungmiso, Seoul, Korea
Secret Museum Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Brilliance & Glitter Pohang Museum of Art, Pohang, Korea
2011 Kinetica Art Fair Kinetica Museum, London, UK
The ARC Show Design Center, London, UK
Light Art Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon-si, Korea
2010 Over the Rainbow Sungkok museum, Seoul, Korea
Threshold Art Lounge Dibang, Seoul, Korea
Inter-nale 2010 Sungkok museum, Seoul, Korea
2009 Christmas in August Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Color×Art×Play Goyang Oulim Nuri, Gyeonggi, Korea
Art&Synesthesia Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
SU:MBISORI Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea
2008 Stimulatives KIMI ART, Seoul, Korea
Today's Korean Art-The World of Expression Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Seoul Design Olympic-Design is AIR Seoul Olympic Main Stadium, Seoul, Korea
2007 OSOC Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea
Go Digital The Ministry of Information and Communication, Seoul
2006 Contemporary Art-Light Seongnam Arts Center, Gyeonggi, Korea
Find the Rainbow Cat Goyang Oulim Nuri, Gyeonggi, Korea
Wall Gallery Zandari, Seoul, Korea
2005 Portfolio 2005 Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Five Senses +α Modern Art Gallery of Hongik College, Seoul, Korea
2004 Vision 21 – Painting & Sculpture Sungshin Women’s University Museum, Seoul, Korea
Daegu Textile Art Documenta 2004 – The Garden of Hybridization EXCO, Daegu, Korea
Seven Guardsmen – Positive Power Gallery Sang, Korea
Public Project
2019 Appeared in Everyone’s Dream Last Night Dubai Mall, Dubai, UAE
2016 spectrum.drawing Facebook Korea, Seoul, Korea
2014 Happiness UN Public Service Forum, Ilsan, Korea
Artist Talk
2018 Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea
2016 SEOULTECH, Seoul, Korea
2005 Kobe Women's University, Kobe, Japan
Residency
2019 The Cave, Dubai, UAE
Education
2004 M.F.A in Korean Painting
The Graduate School, Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, Korea
2002 B.F.A in Korean Painting
College of Arts, Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, Korea