Jina Heo

Jina Heo is an artist based in Seoul, South Korea. She studied Visual Design and Illustration (M.F.A) majoring in Illustration at Hong-ik University.
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Her works reminiscent of fairy tales such as Alice in Wonderland and William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream illustrate not only images restricted to black and white but also images in gray between black and white.
Seemingly regular yet free flowing lines are left on a black scratch board using knife work, disclosing a bright hue. Showy color paper and pictures made with a marbling technique are inserted on this foundation of a seemingly keen confrontation between black and white, thereby representing the subject of binary opposition contrasted with the background. She presents a comprehensive point of view that goes beyond just “black and white” through the difference between the two colors.

M.F.A.,Illustration, Meta Design, Hong-ik University, Seoul, Korea

CE Course, Illustration Portfolio, School of Visual Art, Newyork, U.S.A

2019 [One day] Solo Exhibition(Selected), Artplus gallery, Seoul, Korea
2017 Solo Exhibition(Selected), Galerie Etienne De Causans, Paris, France
2017 Solo Exhibition(Selected), Cercle Munster, “Hide-and-seek: the gray zone Special Exhibition”, Luxemburg
2015-2016 [The Gray zone] Solo Exhibition(Selected), Jeju Kensington Hotel Gallery, Jeju, Korea
2015 [Animal Crossing] Solo Exhibition(Selected), Chungrim Gallery, Kyeong-gi, Korea
2012 [Between] Solo Exhibition, Kyeongin Museum, Seoul, Korea

2016 [A spring day] Charity Exhibition, Chungrim Gallery, Kyeong-gi, Korea
2015 [Art Korea] Young artist Selected Exhibition, Hangaram Museum, Seoul, Korea
2015 [Art Canvas] Artbn Selected Exhibition, Gallery41, Seoul, Korea
2015 [Art Canvas] Artbn Selected Exhibition, Kunst-direkt Gallery, German
2014 [Itaewon] Soulink Gallery Selected Exhibition, Seoul, Korea
2014 [Art wind] Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture Selected Exhibition, Seoul, Korea
2014 [Trunk Shop]Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture Selected Exhibition, Seoul, Korea
2013 [Space] Art-t gallery invitation Exhibition, Seoul, Korea
2013 [Time] Gahae Gallery invitation Exhibition, Seoul, Korea
2013 [Spring] Hong-ik group Exhibition, Insa art center, Seoul, Korea...