MiJung Yun

Biography

Born in South Korea and currently working in Boston, MiJung Yun is a visual artist best known for abstract paintings and drawings of natural phenomena. Examples of this are disasters such as volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, as well as oceans and rocks. Throughout her career, she has favored charcoal, graphite, pen, and ink on paper, and acrylic and oil paint on canvas. These materials are used to depict the structures of natural imagery and human figures from life, memory, and imagination. MiJung received her B.A. in Education and M.A. in Curriculum and Instruction Education from Arizona State University. Later, she decided to pursue art as a profession and achieved an A.A. in Fine Arts from Mesa Community College. She is currently working towards her MFA (2025) in Studio Art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. She is a recipient of Tufts University’s Domestic Travel Grant. 

Artist Statement

Looking closely, endless piles of scribbled lines and geometric shapes have a confident fluidity of movements and gestures. Collectively these masses of marks create abstract environments. From a distance, however, they form a simple and unified image that starts to move toward representation. I hope that this creates a juxtaposition of feelings, such as comfort and relaxation from a distance, but can be visually disturbing and dizzying up close. 

The act of adding each line on the paper is a highly sensual, pleasurable, meditative, and transcendent process for me because lines are very explicit alone but together quite unpredictable. I want my drawings to be confusing but intriguing, creating a dizzying sense from the repetitions of numerous lines. I mean them to be ecstatic, echoing the way I feel during the process of art making. 

Website: mijungyun.com 
Instagram: @mjy_mijungyun