Short Bio: Soyeon Jung

Originally from South Korea, Soyeon Jung is a multi-disciplinary artist currently practicing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her work interrogates the intimate subject of personal memory from a multicultural perspective that is rooted in her experience of being situated in between Korea and the United States.

Her installation and video work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions and screened in a variety of venues. Selected screenings include KLEX experimental film/video festival in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Simultan Media Festival in Timisoara, Romania, Media Depo in Lviv, Ukraine, Kolektiva in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Delhi International Art Festiva in New Delhi,India, CologneOFF Videoart in Germany, Manipulated Image in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the International Women's Film Festival, Buffalo, New York. Recent exhibitions include Carnegie Art Center, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Big Orbit Gallery, and CEPA Gallery, all in Buffalo, New York, the Olean Public Gallery, Olean, New York and the 7 Days Video Series that traveled to Western Michigan University and The Bret Llewellyn Art Gallery in Alfred State University, among others.

Soyeon was a graphic and web designer at Samsung in Korea before relocating to the United States. She received her MFA from the Department of Media Study at the University at Buffalo in 2006. Currently, she teaches in the Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the fields of experimental video and digital art.