Woojae Jeong

I create scenes where emotions dwell—moments suspended between reality and something just beyond. Through a language of hyperrealism, I quietly portray the emotional topography of modern life, where things appear familiar yet subtly surreal. These are not depictions of fantasy as escape, but invitations to revisit the emotional truths we’ve set aside.

In a world where unfulfilled desires, misunderstood feelings, and unresolved emptiness often define our experience, we dream—not to escape, but to endure. My work seeks to materialize those dreams into visual form and gently return them to reality. I use precise realism to capture the surface of the world while introducing a sense of emotional dissonance through manipulated scale, softened light, and unexpected spatial relationships.

Recurring motifs include adolescent girls, companion animals, and fragments of ordinary urban life—street corners, crosswalks, playgrounds. The girl figure is not a character, but a mirror: suspended between adolescence and adulthood, she represents the incomplete self that modern individuals carry within. She stands for the vulnerable space between societal expectation and personal emotional maturity.

Beside her are animals—oversized, yet tender prese...

BA in Fine Art at Chugye University
MA in Fine Art from Hong-Ik University

○ Solo Exhibition
2024 Daylight (Arte K-Seoul. Republic of Korea)
2023 Afterglow (Friedrichspontone - New York. USA.)
2023 Finding the Light (Everyart-Seoul. Republic of Korea)
2023 Everglow (E.LAND Gallery-Paju. Republic of Korea)
2022 Afterglow (Albemarle gallery - London. United Kingdom.)
2021 To me, You are (D.forest – Chuncheon. Republic of Korea)
2021 Fill a day (Kensington Hotel Yeouido – Seoul. Republic of Korea)
2021 Leaning againist the light (EveryArt - Seoul. Republic of Korea)
2021 Light up my days (NC Guro E.LAND Gallery - Seoul. Republic of Korea)
2021 Jongno Tower×Public gallery : Jeong WooJae Invitational Exhibition (Public Gallery, Jongno Tower -Seoul. Republic of Korea)
2020 The Light of Day (Space Art Mine – Seoul. Republic of Korea)
2020 Constant Companion (Albemarle Gallery - London. United Kingdom.)
2020 YTN Art Square Invitational Exhibition (YTN Art Square _ Seoul. Republic of Korea)
2019 The time when a soul becomes a poet (Dawon Design Gallery _ Seoul. Republic of Korea)
2019 Ordinary Day (EveryArt, The Art Plant Jo Gallery _ Seoul. Republic of Korea)
2018 Gleaming, Dear Diary (Artspace Loo _ Seoul. Republic of Korea)
2018 Memory of the shining day (E.LAND Gallery – Shanghai. China)
2018 Gleaming Days ...