Yujin Jung is a London-based painter,

currently studying MA Painting at the Royal College of Art (2026), after graduating in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts (2024).

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Her works construct images that are simultaneously near and distant, visible yet elusive.

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Through painterly processes such as blurring, fragmentation, and layering, she constructs images that shift between optical illusion and material presence. These works hold multiple senses of distance within a single surface, where what appears close remains out of reach, and what seems immediate resists contact.

Her practice attends to the gap between what is revealed and what is withheld, reflecting a condition in which visibility is always selectively constructed. Rather than resolving these contradictions, her paintings sustain them, allowing images to both reveal and mislead.

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​Growing up in Seoul, she frequently visited advertising film sets with her father, who worked as a advertising director. Witnessing how images were constructed and staged fostered an early awareness of the gap between appearance and construction, which continues to underpin her practice. 

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Since moving to London in 2019, Jung’s perspective has been shaped by moving between different cultural and visual systems, fostering a condition of being both within and outside at once.

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This perspective was further informed during her studies at Chelsea College of Arts, where she encountered philosophical ideas describing contemporary society as a form of a digital panopticon.

This has shaped her interest in how visibility operates as a distributed and mediated condition, rather than a fixed or singular point of view.

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While her work originates from personal experience, it extends into a broader reflection on contemporary modes of communication. ​

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Her paintings function as visual analogies, translating how individuals navigate visibility, exposure, and connection within today's image-saturated landscape.

 

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​​Selected Group Exhibitions

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2026 ( Current ) Invitation Trio Show - SQFT: Space Gallery, ‘Develop The Occurrence’, London, UK  

2026 AMP Gallery, ‘Untold’, London, UK  ​

 

2025 Hockney Gallery, ‘Remind Me of My Senses’, London, UK  

2025 Noho Showrooms, ‘Dear Madeleine’, London, UK  

2025 Purist Gallery, ‘The City Listens Back’, London, UK  

2025 Duo Show and Artist Talk, WWW space, ‘Half On’, Seoul, KR
2025 Warbling Collective, ‘Seems both distant and so close’, London, UK
2025 Group Show and Artist Talk, Feelium Gallery, ‘Holographic Dream’, London, UK

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2024  Chelsea College of Arts, ‘Degree Show’, London, UK  

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2023 Space Gallery Courtyard, 'Stitch',London, UK

2023 Black White Gallery, 'Accessible Art Show', London, UK

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2022 Garden Walk, 'Comma', London, UK

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Education

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2025–2026
MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London, UK

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2019–2024
BA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, UK

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2016–2019

Sunhwa Arts High School Fine Art, Seoul

(Entry Scholarship)

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2013–2016

Sunhwa Arts Middle School, Seoul

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Award

2026  Jackson’s Art Prize, Longlisted 

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Collections

Works acquired by private collectors internationally, including the UK and South Korea

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Teaching / Professional experience

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2025

Art Instructor, Private Art Academies 

(Entrance Exam Preparation), Seoul ,Korea

2025

Workshop Instructor (Korean Minhwa Painting)

Amazon, London , United Kingdom

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2024

Painting Assistant, London