Jae Ho Jung Korean, b. 1971

The worn out industrial-era buildings depicted in Jung’s works ultimately reflect the country’s attitude of neglect and denial toward its own tumultuous past. He urges us to remember the lives that once dwelled behind the concrete walls - lives that endured and persevered. The crux of his work is the representation of the “odor of life” permeated in the surface. To the artist, the act of painting is a means to recall forgotten memories - a means to reanimate things that are lost in the past. Therefore, the process of recreation is not merely a practice of imitation for the artist. Through his work, Jung traces and collects the marks of modern times.

Jae Ho Jung (b. 1971) was born in Seoul, South Korea. He completed his graduate studies in Eastern painting at Seoul National University. In 2018, he was nominated for the prestigious Korea Artist Prize, co-organized by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) and the SBS Foundation. He currently works as a professor of Eastern painting at Sejong University.

Jung has exhibited at CHOI&CHOI Gallery, Seoul & Cologne; Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul; Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul; and Arko Museum of Art, Seoul, among others. His works are held in various public collections, including the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul; Busan Museum of Art, Busan; Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju; and Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul.

EDUCATION 

1997 B.F.A. Department of Oriental Painting, Seoul National University, Seoul 

2001 M.F.A. Department of Oriental Painting, Seoul National University, Seoul  

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2026

• I don't think it's anything, Michael Horbach Foundation (curated by CHOI&CHOI Gallery), Cologne

2023 

• Nebula, ART&CHOI’s, Seoul 
• How long have I been here, CHOI&CHOI Gallery, Seoul 

• Spear and Heap, SAHNG-UP Gallery, Seoul 

2017

• Heat Island, INDIPRESS, Seoul 

2014

• Days of Dust, Gallery HYUNDAI, Seoul 

2011

Planet, Gallery SOSO, Paju 

2009

Father’s Day, Gallery HYUNDAI, Seoul 

2007

Ecstatic Architecture, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul 

2005

Old Apartment Building, Kumho Young Artist Program, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul 

2004

Cheongwoon Civil Apartment Building, Gallery Fish, Seoul 

2003

Travel to lncheon, Incheon Shinsegae Gallery, Gallery Fish, Seoul 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2025

• Our Enchanting Paradise, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul

2024

• The Modern and Contemporary Ink Art of the Republic of Korea and the People’s Republic of China, MMCA Deoksugung, Seoul
• Evocation: Jeon Byung-goo & Jung Jae-ho Duo Exhibition, Nook Gallery, Seoul

2023

• From Berlin to Seoul: Crossing Horizons, CHOI&CHOI Gallery, HORI Artspace,  
• AIF Lounge, Seoul and Bermel von Luxburg Gallery, Berlin 
• URBAN GRAY, The SoSo, Seoul 

2022

• House Arrest-Home sweet home, Sahng-up Gallery, Seoul 
• Rent, Amado Art Space, Seoul 
• Yeosu International Art Festival - Trace of the Blue Marble, Yeosu 
• Breaking the Borders, Hanger, Ras Al Ain Gallery, Amman 
• FLOWER, CHOI&CHOI Gallery, Seoul 
• Berlin meets Seoul–Menschsein / Being Human (in collaboration with CHOI&CHOI Gallery), Bermel von Luxburg Gallery, Berlin
  

2021

• Songs Without Words, Galler SoSo, Paju 
• The Satellite That I shoot up, Culture Tank, Seoul 

2020

• Jeonnam International SUMUK Biennale 2020 Special Exhibition, Park Seokgyu Museum of Art, Mokpo 
• Moment to Monument, CHOI&LAGER Gallery, Cologne 

2019

• Seeing Time, Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul 
• ASIA NOW 2019, Paris 
• Electric Universe, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul 
• REAL-Real City, Arko Art Center Gallery, Seoul 
• Kumho Young Artist: The 69 Times of Sunrise, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul 
• Mnemonic, Kyobo Artspace, Seoul 

2018

• Korea Artist Prize 2018, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary  Art, Seoul 
• Self-portrait - Hak Lyang Kim, Jae Ho Jung, Sansumunhwa, Seoul 
• The Side of Paradise, Anyang Museum, Anyang 
• GYEONGGI MILLENNIUM DOCUFESTA – GYEONGGI ARCHIVE_NOW, Gyeonggi  
• Sangsang Campus, Suwon 

2017

• The red brick house, OCI Museum, Seoul 
• Accidentally, the night again, WUMIN Art Center, Cheongju 

2016

• Realism, Maison d Ungno Lee, Hong Seoung 
• Home Ground, Cheongju Museum of Art, Cheongju 
• Retro Scene, Space K, Seoul 

2015

• Return Home, KOOKMIN UNIVERSITY Museum, Seoul 
• Space Life, ILMIN Museum, Seoul 

2014

• Home, Where the Heart is, Arko Art Center, Seoul 
• The Relics of Old Seoul, Buk Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul 
• Parallax View, LIG Art Space, Seoul 
• The Republic of Apartments, Seoul Museum of History, Seoul 

2013

• Real Landscape, True Reflection, OCI Museum, Seoul 

2012

• Urban Promenade, Pohang Museum of Steel Art, Pohang 

2011

• Busan my city, my strange place, SHINSEGAE Gallery, Busan 

2010

• Fragmented Paysage, Daegu Culture and Arts Center, Daegu 
• Between, ONE AND J. Gallery, Seoul 
• Seoul Archive/ Urban Landscape, Daewoo Securities Yeoksamdong Gallery, Seoul 
• Now, things that are expressed paintings, GANA Art Gallery, Seoul 

2009

• Wonderful Pictures, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul 

2008

• B-SIDE, Doart, Seoul 
• Touch, WORKROOM, Seoul 
• Retrospective 2007-Korean Young Painters, Noam Gallery / Doosan Gallery,  Seoul 

2007

• Asia Contemporary Art Project - City-net Asia 2007, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul 
• reminiscing the medium – a ‘post-‘ syndrome, Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul 
• Korean Painting 1953-2007, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul 

COLLECTIONS 

Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art 

Seoul Museum of Art 

Busan Museum of Art 

Jeju Museum of Art 

Seoul National University Museum of Art 

Kumho Museum 

Uijae Museum of Korean Art 

OCI Museum