Originally from South Korea, Soyeon Jung is a time based media artist currently practicing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her work interrogates the intimate subject of personal memory from a dual-cultural perspective that is rooted in her experience of being situated in between Korea and the United States.
Her installation and video work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions and screened in a variety of venues. Selected film/video/media festivals include, KLEX Experimental Film & Video festival 2011 in Kuala Lumper, Malaysia, Simultan Media Festival in Timisoara, Romania, CologneOFF Videoart in Germany, KOLEKTIVA in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Media Depo in Lviv, Ukraine, Delhi International Arts Festival in India, Manipulated Image in Santa Fe, London OMSK, International Women's Film Festival, Detroit Museum of New Art, Video and Sound Art Series in Western Michigan University and Alfred University, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Big Orbit Gallery, CEPA Gallery, and Olean Public Gallery.
Soyeon was a graphic and web designer at Samsung in Korea before relocating to the United States. She received her MFA from the Department of Media Study at the State of University of New York at Buffalo. Currently, she teaches in the Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and in the fields of experimental video and digital art.