Eun Yeong Jeong

Eun Yeong Jeong

Born:

Training / Education:

• 2010 MFA in Metals University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA
  
• 2009 CER Now Source, Summer Studio, Ravenstein, Netherlands, Instructor: Ruudt Peters
  
• 2008 CER Intensive Course, Five Senses Alchimia: Contemporary Jewelry School, Florence, Italy
  
• 2008 CER Thinking about Geometry, Geometrical Research in Jewelry, Le Arti Orafe Jewelry School & Academy, Lucca, Italy, Instructor: Giampaolo Babetto
  
• 2003 BFA Kon-Kuk University, Department of Crafts, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Work Experience:

• 2009 Visiting Instructor Art Jewelry Making Summer Course, Huree ICT University, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Instructor
  Intermediate Jewelry and Metalsmithing , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, USA
  
• 2008 Visiting Artist and Workshop Instructor 'Materials From Nature', Southern Illinois University Carbondale, School of Art and Design, Carbondale, IL, USA
  
• 2007-08 Instructor Beginning Jewelry and Metalsmithing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA
  
• 2004-06 Head of Design Team Ha-dong Enterprise, Seoul, Republic of Korea
  
• 2003-04 Full-Time Designer Foeluce Jewelry Company, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Exhibitions (Solo & Group Shows):

• 2010
• SOFA West Santa Fe, repr. by Charon Kransen Arts
  
• Jewelry Artist of the Month in June, Gallery Norsu, Helsinki, Finland
  
• MFA Thesis Exhibition, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
  
• SOFA New York, Repr. by Charon Kransen Arts eXtremities: Exploring the Margins of the Human Body, The Glassell School Jung Center, Houston, TX
• 2009
• SOFA Chicago, Repr. by Charon Kransen Arts
  
• Paper or Plastic, Luke & Eloy Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
  
• Infinity Art Expo, International Online Juried Art Exhibition,
  
• 23rd National Juried Fine Arts Exhibition, Cultural Arts Council of Douglasville, Douglasville, GA
  
• Mutation Chicago Artist Month, Lucid/Anatomy & Douglas Park, Chicago, IL
  
• Organic: Basic Inspirations, Studio2 Gallery, Austin, TX
  
• Generously Odd: Craft Now, Lexington Art League LAL Gallery, Lexington, KY
  
• Fear III, Online Juried Art Exhibition, Project30,
  
• From Our Perspective, National Women's Art exhibition, Womencenter, Farmington Hills, MI
  
• A Solo Show in 16 Parts, Group Exhibition, Link Gallery, Champaign, IL
  
• Nuit Blanche, The Metal Arts Guild of Canada, Toronto ON, Canada
  
• Small Works, Hollingworth Gallery, Palm Coast, FL
  
• SOFA Santa Fe, Represented by Charon Kransen Arts
  
• Metal Evolution: SNAG Juried Student Exhibition & Slide Show, Philadelphia, PA
  
• Jewelry in Motion, Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft, Philadelphia, PA
  
• Art into Life/Life into Art, Pen and Brush, New York, NY
  
• Eun Yeong Jeong; Interim Invitational Exhibition, William and Florence Schmidt Art Center, Belleville, IL
  
• Talente 2009 International Handicraft Fair, Munich Trade Fair Center, Munich, Germany
  
• Materials: Hard & Soft GDAC, Center for the Visual Arts, Denton, TX
• 2008
• Emerging Artist Show Exhibition of Experimental and Innovative Jewelry, Heidi Lowe Gallery
  
• 5 X 5 X (5) Target Gallery, National Exhibition Space, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA
  
• Fine Contemporary Crafts National Juried Biennial Exhibition Artspace, Raleigh, NC
  
• Symbols of Faith Coda Museum, Apeldoorn, Netherlands
  
• Woman The Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies and The New York Graduate School for Psychoanalysis, New York, NY
  
• Craft USA: National Craft Triennial Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
  
• Presents Metal Inclinations International Juried Digital Exhibition, The Society for Midwest Metalsmiths
  
• The Art of Jewelry A is for Artists Gallery, Bainbridge Island, WA
  
• Art of Adornment; Founder's Circle 8th Annual Mint Condition Gala Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC
  
• Overflow, Jen Library, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  
• Wearable Expressions Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
  
• Close to the Skin Works of Jewelry & Personal Adornment, Amory Art center, West Palm Beach, FL
  
• Surge: 2008 SNAG Student Exhibition, Savannah College of Art and Design, Gallery S.P.A.C.E. Savannah, GA
  
• Cresting: 2008 SNAG Student Digital Image Show, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  
• Refined: Abundance International Jewelry Competition, Stephen F. Austin State University SFA gallery, Nacogdoches, TX
  
• Mesa Contemporary Arts Contemporary Craft Exhibition, Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, AZ
  
• Materials: Hard & Soft, Greater Denton Art Council, Denton, TX
  
• Exploring Boundaries: Evolutionary Metal, Bevier Galley; Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
  
• 2007
• Craftforms, Contemporary Craft Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
  
• Sieraad Jewelry Silver Design Fair, New Traditional Jewelry, Amsterdam RAI, Netherlands
  
• Upstairs & Downstairs, 2007 Craft Exhibition and Boutique, Pen and Brush, New York, NY
  
• Southern Illinois Artists Open Competition and Exhibition, Mitchell Museum at Cedarhurst Center for the Art, Mt. Vernon IL
  
• Fusion, The 2007 Biennial Exhibition, The Columbus Recreation & Parks Cultural Art Center, Columbus, OH
  
• The International Artist Expo, The Beacon Art Center, Decatur, IL
  
• Material Alchemy, Gallery M.I.M, Baltimore, MD
  
• Driven 2007 SNAG Student Slide Show, Memphis, TN
  
• Next+Now 2007 SNAG Exhibition, National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, TN
  
• Metal Art Exhibition, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MI
• 2006
• Natural Tendency, Group Exhibition, Link Gallery, Champaign, IL
  
• Craftforms 2006, Contemporary Craft Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
• 2004
• Kon-Kuk Crafts, In-Sa Art Gallery, Seoul, Republic of Korea
• 2002
• Kon-Kuk University BFA Exhibition, Deok-Won Gallery, Seoul, Republic of Korea
  

Awards / Grants:

• 2009
• Winner of 2009 Niche Student Awards Competition ; Fiber: Wearable NICHE Magazine, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA
  
• Creative & Performing Arts Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 2008
• Society of North American Goldsmith Student Endowment Scholarship
  
• Niche Student Awards Competition Finalist; Mixed & Miscellaneous Media
• 2007
• Brodie Meterial Grant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
  
• Niche Student Awards Competition Finalist; Jewelry, Fashion
  
• Creative & Performing Arts Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 2006-07
• Brodie Fellowship University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
• 2006
• Brodie Meterial Grant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
• 1999-02
• Seong Scholarship, Kon-Kuk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Publications:

• 2010 Rings book. Promopress, Barcelona publisher
  
• 2009 500 Plastic Jewelry Designs, Lark Books, Asheville, NC
  
• 2009 Niche Magazine , Niche Award 2009 Student Winners, Spring 2009,
  
• 2009 Talente 2009, International Handicraft Fair, Munich Trade Fair, Munich, Germany,
  
• 2009 Art Jewelry Magazine vol 5,
  
• 2009 Ornament Magazine vol. 31
  
• 2008 Metalsmith 2008, vol. 28 No 5, Society of North American Goldsmiths, OR
  
• 2008 SNAG news, vol 16, No 3. June 2008 , Society of North American Goldsmiths, OR
  
• 2008 The Art of Jewelry: Plastic & Resin, Lark Books, Asheville, NC
  
• 2007 500 Vessels, Lark Books, Asheville, NC

Artist Statement:

Natural forms, processes and movement inspire me to make jewelry. When a natural form emerges from its environment it follows no exact model as it becomes visible. Its origin is often mysterious and appears incomprehensible to the human mind. My jewelry investigates the mystery of creation, capturing the moment in which the void and fragment become substance.