Hyun Jeung

I am a printmaker and ceramist. I grew up in Korea, lived in France and China, and today split my time between Paris and Tunis. My work explores the shimmering beauty of impermanence, the evanescence of nature.


Paradoxically, because printmaking was invented to replicate images on a like-for-like basis, I believe it can reveal in a more acute way than any other art form the ever changing nature of things, their passing and rebirth.


My artwork therefore hinges on creating open times and spaces to enable the unknown to join with the known. For example, as the matrix meets the paper to create a print, I would allow imperfectly dried layers of ink to mix, or let the image interact and play in unpredictable ways with the veins of the wood. I try to give way to a force that can express itself only when we - as humans, artists - step back: the Void. As a result, though each of my prints is born from the same woodblock, lines, and gestures, each of them breathes with its own undulating colours, textures and moods. Just like the quiet mingling of shade and light underneath a persimmon tree.

2001 PhD in Fine Arts, Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Thesis : The body of void in printmaking. With high honors
1998 Beijing Fine Arts University. Training in Chinese woodcut
1996 Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Training in printmaking with Jean-Pierre Pincemin

I have shown my work in France, Korea, the UK and Tunisia. My artworks are in private collections in Europe, the US and Asia, as well as in public collections including the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the Tunisian Ministry of Culture. I was shortlisted for the GRAV’X prize in 1995 and 2007, and won the first prize of the Salon des Artistes de la Ville de Paris in 2002.

Solo exhibitions
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2016 Galerie Impressions, Paris, France
2015 Mokspace, London, UK
2014 Mokspace, London, UK
​2013 Galerie l'échiquier, Paris, France
2012 Mokspace, London, UK
2012 Espace Imagin, Carthage, Tunisia
2012 Galerie Impressions, Paris, France
2011 Galerie Impressions, Paris, France
2009 Espace Imagin, Cartage, Tunisia
2007 Galerie l'Article, Paris, France
2006 Maison des arts, Conches, France
2006 Galerie l'Oeil du Huit, Paris, France
2003 Galerie Impressions, Paris, France
2002 La Galerie d'Art, Aérogare d'Orly Ouest, France
2000 Galerie Bernanos, Paris, France
2000 Galerie Dam, Séoul, Korea


Collective exhibitions
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2015 Séoul - Paris - Séoul, Mairie du 8e arrondissement, Paris, France
2013 Mokspace, London, UK
2011 Journée de l'estampe, Paris, France
2008 Galerie Artyshow, La M...