YOUNG DO JEONG

Through a process of responding to, erasing, overpainting, and revisiting images on the canvas, Jeong creates new forms and relationships. His longstanding inquiries into individuality, belonging, desire, and human relationships expand in this exhibition into an exploration of the fluidity of the self and the image. The exhibition’s title, Floating I, plays on the interplay of sound and meaning in “I” and “eye,” evoking both the self and the act of looking, while also alluding to the Korean word for “child.”. Together, these meanings evoke a self that drifts and transforms in response to relationships and the currents of experience, at times freely and at others in states of conflict. Rooted in the artist’s personal experiences, this perspective extends beyond an individual narrative to reflect the condition of all of us, constantly changing through our relationships with others. Rather than privileging predetermined outcomes, the exhibition foregrounds the process through which images emerge and evolve, illuminating Jeong’s painterly experiments and artistic practice as they traverse the boundaries of fixed meanings and forms.

Jeong studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Tyler School of Art at Temple University. He has held solo exhibitions in major cities in Korea and abroad, including New York, Philadelphia, and Braga, and participated in numerous group exhibitions, including exhibitions at the Daejeon Museum of Art in 2021. His works are held in the collections of K11 Art Foundation, the Brookhaven College Collection, and the Government Art Bank of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, among others.