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Jungeun Park (b. 1999) is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York and Seoul. She earned her BFA in Visual Arts from the Korea National University of Arts, studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, and completed her MFA in Glass at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Her work has been exhibited at the RISD Museum Gelman Gallery (Providence), Gallery 175 (Seoul), Accent Sisters (New York), and Site 003 (Brooklyn). Ranging from institutional galleries to people’s rooms, kitchens, apartment floors, and a mall, her works challenge the traditional logic of exhibition spaces, offering a tribute to everyday aesthetics.

Artist Statement

Sometimes we skim a dot of flesh out of a fried egg, walk past a dead mouse, notice a limping pigeon without a foot, or realize that tiny beings are living in our pores. Most days, we move on without a second thought, yet sometimes, the unease remains. “I wish I hadn’t seen that,” we think. “I wish I didn’t know.”
By my act of making, I stand at the place where discomfort emerges, and re-evaluate what is neglected, dismissed, or forgotten.
Through glass and ceramics, I reconstruct what we instinctively avoid: blood and bodily fluids, discarded bodies, and somatic pain from illness. Drawing from Bataille’s notion of the abject, what we 'reject' to maintain the illusion of order and purity, I vitrify the rejects into the mystic objects. Born from fire, they replace the decay with permanence: I call this process 'castrating disgust'. They may retain an uneasy profile, but can now be held and observed up close, and manifested without an emotional barrier.
My practice is grounded in everyday aesthetics, the idea that aesthetic experience begins not in exceptional places, but in how we notice, sense, and respond to the ordinary. By extending this into the realm of the abject, I suggest that looking to the overlooked is an ethical act. I believe that when attention replaces avoidance, we can recover a relational sensibility.
To attend to the overlooked is to recognize our interdependence, that we live in vulnerable bodies among other vulnerable bodies.

Stroll (2017~)


For 8 years, I’ve been taking pictures with my phone every time I take a walk outside, or whenever I find intriguing scenery & objects.
Finding beauties from the anarchy of the city has become my habit ever since.
Now, I have collected photos from all around the world. This collection includes photos from
Seoul, Paris, London, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Den Haag, Providence, and New York City.

Enjoy the walk!