Siren Eun Young Jung (Korea)

Born in 1974 in Incheon, South Korea, siren eun young jeung currently lives and works in Seoul. She studied the visual arts and feminist theory at Ewha Womans [sic] University (BFA, MFA, and DFA) in South Korea and the University of Leeds (MA). She is interested in how the seething desires of anonymous individuals encounter events in the world and become resistance, history, and politics. She believes that, by ceaselessly reexamining feminist-queer methodology, artistic praxis that is simultaneously aesthetic and political is possible. Her representative works include the “Dongducheon Project” (2007-2009) and the “Yeoseong Gukgeuk Project” (2008-present), and she works across genres including art, film, and performance. She has grown mainly through major exhibitions in Asia such as “Tradition (Un)Realized” (2014), “Ghosts, Spies, Grandmothers: SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul” (2014), “Discordant Harmony” (2015, 2016), Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (2015-16), Gwangju Biennale (2016), Taipei Biennial (2017), Shanghai Biennale (2018), Tokyo Performing Arts Market (TPAM)—Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama (2014, 2018), Serendipity Art Festival (2018) and Kyoto Experiments(2019). She has received the 2013 Hermes Foundation Art Award, 2015 Sindoh Art Prize, and 2018 Korea Artist Prize and participated in the exhibition in the Korean Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale.