Geumhyung Jeong
b. 1980, South Korea
Geumhyung Jeong (b. 1980 in Seoul, South Korea) lives and works in Seoul, South Korea. Jeong has participated in performing arts festivals internationally and her solo exhibitions in international contemporary art institutions include: Upgrade in Progress, FMAV Fondazione Modena Arti Visive, Modena (2020); Homemade RC Toy, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2019); Private Collection: Unperformed Objects, Delfina Foundation, London (2017); Tate Live: Geumhyung Jeong, Tate Modern, London (2017); Private Collection, Atelier Hermès, Seoul (2016).
She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions including: The Milk of Dreams, The 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2022); Copenhagen – Red Light Green Light (In the Realm of the Senses), Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2022); Immortality, The 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg (2019); APT9 The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane (2018); ANTI, AB6 The 6th Athens Biennale, Athens(2018); The Public Body 02, Artspace, Sydney (2017); The Promise of Total Automation, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2016); Surround Audience: New Museum Triennial 2015, New Museum, New York (2015); The Beast and the Sovereign, MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona (2015); East Asia Feminism: FANTasia, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul (2015); Gesture, WKV Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (2014); Burning Down the House, The 10th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (2014).
In 2016 Jeong was the winner of the Hermès Foundation Missulsang Award and in 2014 of Zürcher Theater Spektakel Kantonalbank Acknowledgment Prize. In 2009 she won the Excellence Award for Alternative Vision at the Seoul New Media Art Festival and in 2007 Dokkebi Award at the Chuncheon International Mime Festival.