Jung Min-gi
| Jung Min-gi | |
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| File:정민기 창동작업실에서.jpg정민기_창동작업실에서.jpg Jung Min-gi in his Changdong studio | |
| Native name | 정민기 |
| Born | March 26, 1985 South Korea |
| 🏳️ Nationality | South Korean |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Sewing-machine drawings; textile-based installations |
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Jung Min-gi (Korean: 정민기; Hanja: 鄭民基; born March 26, 1985) is a South Korean contemporary artist whose practice centers on sewing-machine drawings and textile-based installations. Independent coverage has discussed his work in the context of memory and commemoration — for example, The Korea Herald situated Jung among artists engaging with legacies of the Korean War, while an article in the IIAS The Newsletter introduced his participation in a 2020 exhibition on trauma and mass killing in Asia.[1][2]
Work
Working with fabric, thread, batting, and sewing machines, Jung records and reconstructs memories through stitched forms. Reporting and catalog features describe the pairing of suturing and deconstruction as central to his recent practice.[1][3] Institutional criticism hosted by the Korea Galleries Association reads his work as reflecting the finitude of being and the mutability of identity; as an institutional publication, this is treated as commentary rather than independent notability evidence.[4]
Performances
- 2013: Sewing-Machine Drawing Show, Ba-srak Hall, Seoul City Hall (live performance).[5]
Exhibitions
Selected solo exhibitions
- 2024: Massless People, Idang Museum of Art, Jeonju (exhibition information and criticism circulated via Korea Galleries Association).[6][4]
- 2022: Shelter from Silence, Lee Ungno House, Hongseong — solo presentation within the residency program on the theme “Nature, Ecology, Environment.”[3]
Selected group and project exhibitions
- 2025: Time Perspective, Idang Museum of Art, Gunsan (group exhibition).[7]
- 2020: Forgotten Faces: Visual Representation of Trauma and Mass Killing in Asia, Charles B. Wang Center, Stony Brook University (featured in IIAS The Newsletter).[2]
Reception
English-language coverage has framed Jung’s practice within debates on remembrance and historical trauma;[1] Korean-language regional reporting has highlighted his use of stitching to record marginalized beings and memories.[8]
Publications
- Shelter from Silence: A Resting Place for All Things that Disappear (artist’s photobook). Hongseong-gun, 2022. ISBN 979-11-87950-09-7. (National Library of Korea catalog).[9]
- 2022 Lee Ungno House Residency: Old Downtown Hongseong / Nature, Ecology, Environment — Time Together (program report incl. Jung’s contribution). Hongseong-gun, 2022. ISBN 979-11-87950-13-4. (National Library of Korea catalog).[10]
Notes
Some Korean-language sources render the artist’s name as “Mingi Jung.”[6][1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Memories of Korean War outbreak on June 25 transcended in art". The Korea Herald. June 24, 2022. Retrieved September 9, 2025.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Can art be a form of historical truth?". The Newsletter (IIAS). Summer 2020. Retrieved September 9, 2025.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "'Nature, Ecology, Environment'... Lee Ungno House hosts Jung Min-gi solo exhibition". Sisa News (in 한국어). June 14, 2022. Retrieved September 9, 2025.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Suh, Younghee (January 24, 2025). ""Massless People," Solo Exhibition by Mingi Jung". Galleries Association of Korea (GAOK) (in 한국어). Retrieved September 9, 2025.
- ↑ "'Sewing-Machine Drawing Show' to be held at Seoul City Hall's Ba-srak Hall". Aju News (in 한국어). May 5, 2013. Retrieved September 9, 2025.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Massless People". Galleries Association of Korea (Exhibitions) (in 한국어). October 11, 2024. Retrieved September 9, 2025.
- ↑ "Time Perspective". Kim Daljin Art Research Institute / Seoul Art Guide (in 한국어). Retrieved September 9, 2025.
- ↑ "Time Perspective". Jeolla Ilbo (in 한국어). August 5, 2025. Retrieved September 9, 2025.
- ↑ "NLK catalog entry: Shelter from Silence". National Library of Korea (in 한국어). Retrieved September 9, 2025.
- ↑ "NLK catalog entry: 2022 Lee Ungno House Residency report". National Library of Korea (in 한국어). Retrieved September 9, 2025.
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