Artist Bio
Jenny Lee Robinson is a Minnesotan born, mixed race artist of Korean descent working and residing in Seoul, South Korea. Her education, was also bicultural, in that she completed her B.F.A at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2011, and later received her M.F.A at Ewha Woman's University as a NIIED Korea Global Scholarship Program Scholar in 2017. She creates work related to storytelling, migration, womanhood, and identity, in various media including printmaking, cut paper arts, book arts, collage, and painting, and installation. She currently balances her artistic life by working as an artist and designer at the Korean animation pre-production company, Circus Image Works, and producing her own personal artwork at the printmaking studio, Mini Print Seoul, and in her own personal art studio, and exhibits her work in solo and group exhibitions.
Education
2017 – Ewha Woman’s University – Master’s of Fine Art in Painting
2011 - Maryland Institute College of Art – BFA with Honors, Magna Cum Laude
2009 – Studio Art Center International – Florence, Italy – Semester Abroad
Solo Exhibitions
2023 - Assemblage, Realti Art Gallery, Daegu, South Korea
2022 - Blue, Coney Space, Seoul, South Korea
2022 - Untangling Emotions, Beeum Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2021 - Pretty Nightmares, Beeum Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2020 - Slow Metamorphosis, Beeum Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2019 - Stories for my Girls, Beeum Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2015 - Jenny Lee Robinson Solo Exhibition, Serene Gallery, Busan, South Korea
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 - Many Different People, Beeum Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2022 - Graphica Creativa, Jyväskylä Art Museum, Jyväskylä, Finland
2022 - Lucca Biennale Cartasia, Palazzo Ducale, Lucca, Italy
2021 - Beauty Will Save the World Group Exhibition, Realti Gallery, Daegu, South Korea
2020 - HYPHENNATION, Choi & Lager Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2020 - ONTACT MICA KAA 2020 EXHIBITION, Artspace Connection, Seoul, South Korea
2020 - Mayfly XXIII Art Space SAY, Seoul, South Korea
2020 - 시발전 2 회 Sibal Exhibition II 시대여관, Seoul, South Korea
2020 - Mayfly XXII, 시대여관, Seoul, South Korea
2020 – Mayfly XXI, 시대여관, Seoul, South Korea
2020 - Beeum Gallery 50 Exhibition, Beeum Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2018 - Dear Paper, Doosung Paper, Into the Paper Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2018 - A Chance Conversation with a Stranger, Realty Art, Daegu, South Korea
2017 - Iterate Deviate, Place Sai, Seoul, South Korea
2017 - Creative Challenge, White Gallery, Keumyoung University, Daegu, South Korea
2016 - Ewha Craft and Art Fair (ECAF), Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, South Korea
2016 - 21인의 컨템포러리전 Gyeomjae Jeong Seon Memorial Museum, Seoul, South Korea
2016 - 말하는 그림, Seoul Western District Court, Seoul, Korea
2016 - X –그럼에도 불구하고, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2016 - Malaise Descending & Crazy Mutliply, 삼청차루 Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2016 - Instants of Peace, Friedrich Evert Foundation, Bosung Gallery, Seoul
Awards and Grants
2016 - NIIED Award for Academic Achievement
2014 - Korea Global Scholarship NIIED recipient
2006 - Springboard for the Arts Grant
Professional Experience
2017 -- Circus Image Works Designer Seoul, South Korea
2016 - Ewha International Media Arts Presentation (EMAP) HQ Staff
2016 - Film Production Manager for MOON Kyongwon and JEON Joonho
2015 - 포착된 장면들 Exhibition Curatorial Staff - The Star Jade, Busan, Korea
2014 - 16 Program Assistant, MICA in KOREA Summer Intensive Seoul, Korea