Jaeyeon Park

^{Statement

Jaeyeon Park (b.1991, Seoul) explores ways in which sculpture can exist beyond systems of meaning through sculptural experiments grounded in repeated acts of deconstruction and reconstruction.

박재연(b.1991, 서울 출생)은 해체와 재구성을 반복하는 조형 실험을 통해 조각이 의미 체계를 벗어나 실존하는 방식에 관심을 둔다.

“Jaeyeon quietly philosophized it is all nothing, searching for language to communicate that meaningfully.”

“그는 무의미에 대해 고요히 사색하며, 그것을 유의미하게 소통할 언어를 찾는다.”

(Text: Rebecca Ripple, Artist-in-Residence: Cranbrook Academy of Art, Department of Sculpture, 2024)}
^{“His works start from the objects that have been abandoned, unattended, borrowed, or secondhanded and sold back. Therefore, the process towards the creation is a interminable movement in both directions, willingly subordinated to the distinct elements remaining in the original object and at the same time trying to deconstruct it. Through archiving scattered objects and bizarrely blending incongruity and infelicity, his formative work pauses for a moment in line with the 'date of the exhibition' and the 'moment of exhibition' without an exact moment of completion. He stands the question of authentic form or authentic meaning between the unfinished object, the passage of time, and the spectator.”

“그의 작업은 버려진, 방치된, 빌린, 중고가 되어 되팔린 물체로부터 출발한다. 그렇기에 작품으로 향하는 과정은 본래의 물체에 남아있는 고유한 성분에 기꺼이 종속되며 동시에 해체하려는 양방향의 끊임없는 움직임이다. 흩어있는 것들을 모아 부조화와 부적절함을 기이하게 배합하는 그의 조형은 정확한 완결의 순간 없이 ‘전시의 날짜’와 ‘전시하는 순간’에 맞추어 잠시 멈출 뿐이다. 참된 형태 참된 의미에 대한 질문을 그는 미완의 물체와 시간과 움직임과 관람자들 사이에 가만히 세워둔다.”}^{(Text: Yeowool Yoon, translated by Sungeun Won, 2022)}

Education

^{2024 (May)
Master of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture,
Cranbrook Academy of Art, USA}
^{2021 (May)
Master of Fine Arts, Department of 3D Design,

Cranbrook Academy of Art, USA

2018 (Feb)
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Industrial Design,

University of Seoul, South Korea}

Solo and Two-Person Show

^{2026(May)
(Solo) 꽉꽉 Full-filled, PCO, Seoul, South Korea}
^{2022(Jul)
(Solo) 쥐와 벌 Rat & Bee, Space Pado, Seoul, South Korea}
^{2020(Aug)
(Solo) 상세히 대답하여 모든 것을 설명하고자 했으나 이런 형편이고 보니 I had wanted to give a full answer and explain everything, but…, Hwang gum building, Seoul, South Korea}

Selected Group Show

^{2024(Apr)
Graduate degree exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art,
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield hills, Michigan, USA}
^{2023(Feb)
Mold Making, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA}
^{2022(Nov)
Confluence-International Student Exhibition, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA}^{2021(Apr)
Graduate degree exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art,
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield hills, Michigan, USA}
^{Scholarships&Awards}
^{2022(Sep)
Cranbrook Academy of Art Scholarship, CAA Merit Scholarship}