Miniprint Annual 2012

2003  M.F.A., Sungshin Women's University, Printmaking Dept. Seoul, Korea
1997  B.F.A., Kangwon National University, Art Education Dept. Chuncheon, Korea

Solo Exhibition
2008  Gallery Hosi (Tokyo, Japan)
2008  Hanaart Gallery (Seoul, Korea)
2006  Gallery NV (Seoul, Korea) 
2002  Gallery Boda (Seoul, Korea)

Selected Group Exhibition
2010 The 6th Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition: BIMPE (Vancuver, Canada)
2010 The 2nd International Print Exchange 2010-IPE2010(Derbyshire, United Kingdom) 
2010 The first A4 International Contemporary Printmakers Competition(Cornwall, UK)
2010 tool tool tool print!(Seoul, Korea)
2010 The 7th Print Zero Studios Print Exchange(Seattle, USA)
2010 The 9th Lessdra World Art Print Annual 'Mini Print' (Sofia, Bulgaria)
2001~2010  The 21th~30th Mini Print International of Cadaques (Spain, England, France)
2009 The first Alexandria International Biennale for Miniature Graphics(Alexandria, Egypt) 
2009 The 15th Seoul-Space International Print Biennial (Seoul, Korea)
2009 The 8th Lessdra World Art Print Annual 'Mini Print' (Sofia, Bulgaria)
2008 The 5th International Biennial of Miniature Art Czestochowa (Czestochowa, Poland)
2008 The 5th Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition: BIMPE (Vancuver, Canada)
2008 The 7th Lessdra World Art Print Annual 'Mini Print' (Sofia, Bulgaria)
2008 The 4th International Biennial of Mini Prints (Tetovo, Macedonia)
2007 The 4th International Biennial of Printed Bookmarks Exchange (Charleroi, Belgium)
2007 The 7th Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints (Kochi, Japan)
2007 The 4th International Biennial of Printed Bookmarks Exchange (Charleroi, Belgium)
2007 The 9th International Small Engraving Salon Carbunari (Maramures, Romania)
2007 The 6th International Mini Print Triennial 2007 (Lahti, Finland)
2007 The 6th Lessdra World Art Print Annual 'Mini Print' (Sofia, Bulgaria)
2007   International Print Exhibition Tokyo 2007(Tokyo, Japan)
2006 Exhibition of the 26th National Competition of Prints by KCPA
2006 The 4th Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition: BIMPE (Vancouver, Canada)
2006 The 4th International Biennial of Miniature Art Czestochowa (Czestochowa, Poland)
2006 The 4th International Biennial of Graphic Art 2006 (Italy)
2006 The 5th Lessdra World Art Print Annual 'Mini Print' (Sofia, Bulgaria)
2006 The 8th International Small Engraving Salon Carbunari (Romania)
2006 The 5th Annual International Exhibition of Miniatures 'little m' (Vilnius, Lithuania)
2005 The 3rd International Biennial of Printed Bookmarks Exchange (Charleroi, Belgium)
2005 The 5th International Mini-Print Biennia Cluj-2005(Cluj-Napoka, Romania)
2004 The 13th Seoul-Space International Print Biennial (Seoul, Korea)
2004 The 5th International Mini Print Triennial 2004 (Lahti, Finland)
2002 The 3rd Tokyo International Mini Print Triennial (Tokyo, Japan)
2001 The 4th International Mini Print Triennial 2001 (Lahti, Finland)
2001 International Linoleum Print Competition (Seoul, Korea)

 
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Work Description
My work gets a spiritual pleasant sensation by radiating the different kinds of feelings that occur during the process of living at present and desires spurted from the unconsciousness as images. Such series of working action can be a way of managing myself and a process of finding the true self by getting out of the distracting thoughts and fixed ideas that appeared from social action effects by expressing the oppressed emotions extemporarily.
The characteristics shown on works as the expression of emotion are extremely private and show the autobiographic state by approaching the inner language in metaphorical situation and it is how I communicate with the world through the works by unfolding and showing the residual products of the emotions obtained from my private life. Thus I express myself that is transformed into drawn people, animals or other images and express thoughts that are inherent in the consciousness of me. They are usual emotions such as fears, depression, happiness, sadness and others that are experienced by living the present society, but which are images of the inner world that approach as big problems.
At present, the topic of the current time, or the periodic sympathy that many people feel is not unrelated with me. Among things like the society that changes rapidly, the differences between the sudden superiority and inferiority and the capability of life that manages the reality that is engaged with these, the economical measurement, shortcut to abundant life, many ideas about happiness, difference of value of love and relationship between people that make the cores of private life and in psychological space like a maze, I see myself who cannot find a way to move forward. After all, that is the world of works that I treat. Therefore my work sometimes scatters those unarranged emotions on screen.
They appear in imperfect forms or those forms sometimes overlap again. Various forms created can make a harmony with patterns depending on the state of emotions or can be expressed as dissonances of matters that are not in order or harmony. Like this, each work is the expression about the vague reality and desire of the ideal world rather than realistic form due to a reason that my psychological factors that are affected by social surrounding situations are dominated and it expresses wrenched or exaggerated features rather than normal features due to the emotional presentation that seems like dreaming.
The engraving is an indirect medium. I work through the techniques of engraving as an abreaction of my emotion. Extemporary drawing or drawing expression does have an immediacy of emotional expression, but for engraving that is using a plate, the extemporization meets my intention and passes through the step of timing harmony and it is produced as purified image a little bit. It acts as a role that protects the indiscreet empathy by providing time and composure to see my emotional state from a step away.
Appropriately limited size and disassembly of plate and colors that are created depending on the corrosion level give such timing state. In other words, the engraving techniques that are treated as a method of emotional expression are the intermediate that enlightens the sense about my identity at the same time making an opportunity of looking back to myself.  ■ Kwom, Hye-Jeong

Monologue I, 2010, Aquatint, Etching, Linocut, 12,5 x 12,5 cm – 120

Monologue II, 2010, Aquatint, Dry Point, Linocut, 10,3 x 10,3 cm – 120

Monologue III, 2010, Aquatint, Etching, Linocut, 18,5 x 10,5 cm – 120