Jongcheol Jeon

Jong-Cheol Jeon is a Korean contemporary artist whose practice explores the invisible energies that connect human existence, nature, and the cosmos.

Working across painting, sculpture, photography, and installation, Jeon has long investigated the thresholds between life and death, existence and emptiness, creation and dissolution. Salt, coal, light, resin, and reflective materials recur throughout his work as physical carriers of time, memory, transformation, and energy.

His ongoing series THE WELL is centered on the idea of a source that exists before visible form. The well is not a representation of water, but a symbolic passage toward the origin of life—a place where silence, consciousness, and invisible energy converge.

Jeon studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart in Germany and has continued his artistic practice in Korea for more than three decades.

1992–1994
State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart (Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart), Germany — Aufbaustudium

1991
Heidelberg University, Germany — Intensive German Language Program

1988
Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea — BFA / MFA

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 — Heavenly Message, GP Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2021 — Heavenly Message, Dongduk Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2020 — JIIAF, Jirisan Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
2006 — Kyungpook National University Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
1999 — Chosun Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1996 — Gongsan Art Festival Award Artist Invitational Exhibition, Dong-A Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1995 — Sigong Gallery, Daegu, Korea

More than 20 solo exhibitions

SELECTED GROUP & INVITED EXHIBITIONS

2024 — Crossing Longitude and Latitude: Taiwan-Korea Artists Exchange Exhibition, 99 Art Centre / S7 Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2021 — April, Affordable Art Festival, Cho Eun Sook Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2017 — Jeju Biennale, Between the Boundaries, Altteureu Airfield Hangar, Jeju, Korea
2014 — Between the Boundaries, Seogwipo Tourism Theater Project, Jeju, Korea
2013 — Lee Jung Seop Art Museum Special Exhibition, Jeju, Korea
2008 — Art in Daegu: Revolt of Images, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
2004 — Portrait of Daegu Contemporary Art, Wooson Gallery, Daegu, Korea
2004 — Small Sculpture–Big Dream, Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2003 — Exploration of Light and Color, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
2003 — Gyeongju World Culture ...