Jahyun Seo

Based on my textile practice, I have been experimenting with an allegory for our lives mixed between the physical and digital. I compose textiles, paintings, and digital manipulation to manifest my interest in seeing and being seen.

My theme of ‘seeing’ is related to individual, social, political, scientific, and religious interactions and is implied in my work process. I create spaces where horizontal and vertical lines intersect by weaving together, warp, and weft on the canvas. Recently, I select famous paintings I wish to interpret from various angles, using them as the original forms of my works. After I have made and selected the original form, I follow a process of editing, layering, and transforming an image over and over again, to the point where it is hard to tell if the images might be linked. In this way the series is about transference; the paintings are the beginning of the series and they are transformed and warped into new digital forms. As I appropriate imagery from the past, I transform the familiar into the alien and explore the meaning of the seeing. 

2009 Hongik University, Fiber Art, Ph.D.
2003 Hingik University, Fiber Art & Design, MFA
1994 Ecole Superieure d'art Neufville Conte, BFA

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020 "Seeing and being seen", Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea
2017 "Hamalgue Hamaldi", Seoul Design Art Fair, COEX, Seoul, South Korea
2017 "Seeing and being seen", La Mama Galleria, New York, NY
2014 "Jahyun Seo", Gallery K, Seoul, South Korea
"Jahyun Seo", Global Mission Church, Bundang, South Korea
2013 "Jahyun Seo", Wonchon Church, Seoul, South Korea
2012 "Hamalgue Hamaldi", Vit Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2007 "Jahyun Seo", Hongik University Fine Arts Doctorate Exhibition, Seo Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2004 "Jahyun Seo", Korean Fine Arts Association Exhibition, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea
"Jahyun Seo", Geneva Art Fair, Korean Pavilion, Switzerland
"Jahyun Seo", Wave Art Fair, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
2003 "Jahyun Seo", Sweden Biennale, Korean Pavilion, Sweden
"Jahyun Seo", Kunststueck Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
"Jahyun Seo", Insa Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
"Jahyun Seo", Wave Art Fair, sungallery, Los Angeles

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 "Disco Disco", HANGANG MUSEUM, Seoul, South Korea
2020 "Artmission 202", TOPOHAUS...