Kyung Jeon-Miranda
EDUCATION & TRAINING
2024-2025 Community Word Project, NY, NY Teaching Artist Project Graduate
2005 School of Visual Arts, NY, NY Master of Fine Arts
1997 Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA Bachelor of Arts double major in Studio Art and Philosophy
AWARDS, GRANTS & RESIDENCIES
2021 Cultural Solidarity Fund Grant
2019 Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award, Co-Recipient, San Diego Comic Con Eisner Awards
2018 DNA Residency, Artist Residency, Provincetown, MA
2009 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2009 Atlantic Center for the Arts, funded by the Joan Mitchell Foundation, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2005 Scope Emerging Artist Prize
2003 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Residency and Fellowship, Skowhegan, ME
1997 Allison R. Macomber, Jr. Award in Studio Art
EXHIBITIONS
2025 Event Horizon, Curated by David Rios Ferreira, Field Projects, NY, NY
2025 Arte de La Borinqueña (Traveling exhibition):
Humanidades Puerto Rico, Old San Juan, PR, Mar-Sept 2025
National Museum of Art and Culture, Chicago, IL, Mar-Oct 2024
Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Lancaster, PA, Jan-Mar 2022
Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY, Sept-Dec 2021
Fundación Cortés, San Juan, PR, Jun-Aug 2021
2023 In … We Trust, UT Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, TN
2022 IMPACT 2022: Art That Bears Witness, Bethany Arts, Ossining, NY
Egg Hunt, Children’s Museum of Manhattan, NY, NY
2020 Endless State, The Skowhegan Alliance, accompanied by Skowhegan Journal, NY, NY
POWER Ts 2020, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 The Line, SITE131, Dallas, TX
2015 Weaving Time: AHL's 3rd Archive of Korean Artists in America, Gallery Korea, NY, NY
2014 Kyung Jeon, Gallery 1989, Larchmont, NY
Double Mirror: Contemporary Korean Art, Curated by Inhee Iris Moon, American University Museum, Washington, DC
On the Blue Shore of Silence, Tracy Williams, Ltd., NY, NY
There to Here, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
2013 Pollination: Overlappings in Time and in Place, Gallery Korea of NY, NY, NY
The Art of the Obsessions Collective, Zebrastraat Art & Cultural Center, Ghent, Belgium
2012 Kyung Jeon, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Reenacting Sense, Yace Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2011 John Zorn presents The Obsessions Collection: Works by Artists of Extreme Interest, Cavin-Morris Gallery, NY, NY
The Big Show, Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
2010 Belle Rascal, Tina Kim Gallery, NY, NY
It’s a big, pretty world, Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Mischief and Melancholy, Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA; Trois Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA
Faces & Facts: Korean Contemporary Art in New York: Into the Life, Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Art Gallery, NY, NY
Two Degrees of Separation, Gallery SATORI, NY, NY
Pretty Tough: Contemporary Storytelling, Curated by Monica Ramirez-Montagut, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Team Painting: Stimulus Package, Curated by James Siena, Mark and Margerie Pabst Gallery, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
New York 9+one, Cais Gallery, Seoul, Korea
I Stepped Into the Room, Tina Kim Gallery, NY, NY
Obsessions, Curated by John Zorn, MEM, Osaka Japan
Lost and Found, Curated by Jiyoon Lee, Rokeby Gallery, London, UK
Delineations, Ad Hoc Art, Brooklyn, NY
2008 a story, Tina Kim Gallery, NY, NY
A Precious Passing, Miki Wick Kim Contemporary Art, Zurich, Switzerland
Ces Étranges Enfants (Those Strange Children), Curated by Douglas Ferrari, The Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts, Long Branch, NJ
A Peopled Vision, art sites gallery, Riverhead, NY
2007 Delicate Division, Teo+Namfah Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
Inner Child: Good and Evil in the Garden of Memories, Curated by Kristen Accola, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
Floating Worlds: Kyung Jeon, Taiyo Kimura, Kozyndan, Andre Yi, Branch Gallery, Durham, NC
Hye-Rim Lee, Kyung Jeon, Hideaki Kawashima, YP: Group Show Part II, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2006 The Impulse Garden, The Proposition, NY, NY
Who Are You, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
ArtSpectrum 2006, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Body: The Facets of the Human Body, Asian Fusion Gallery, NY, NY
2005 Paintings/Drawings, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY
"Mas Isto Tambem e?", Léo Bahia Arte Contemporanea, Santa Lúcia, Brazil
Desenhos, Theodor Lindner Galeria de Arte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The Empire of Sighs, Curated by Andrea Pollan, Numark Gallery, Washington, DC
First Peak, Curated by Miki Wick-Kim, Entenhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
Close Proximity, Hun Gallery, NY, NY
Sentiment, 2x13 Gallery, NY, NY
The 4th Young Overseas Artists Exhibition, Curated by MinSeok Seo, Hangaram Art Museum 4th Room, Seoul, Korea
Above the Trendy, the Down and Out, The Proposition, NY, NY
The Last Show - MFA Fine Arts Thesis Show, Curated by CANADA Gallery, SVA Visual Arts Gallery, NY, NY
Psionic Distortion, Curated by Tim Evans, Plum Blossoms, NY, NY
Characters, Curated by Hélianthe Bourdeaux-Maurin, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
Characters, Curated by Hélianthe Bourdeaux-Maurin, Shore Institute of Contemporary Arts, Long Branch, NJ
Temperature/artists, The Artist Network, NY, NY
Paper Deviations, The Proposition, NY, NY
2004 Chang-nan Minor, The Proposition, NY, NY
Paintings and Drawings, DUST Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
SCOPE Miami Art Fair, The Proposition, Miami, FL
Green Light, Gallery Korea, NY, NY
Psionic Distortion, Curated by Tim Evans, Super Deluxe, Tokyo, Japan
Balancing Acts, The Korea Society, NY, NY
International Underground, Curated by the Wild Banana Project, Whitney Young Cultural Center Mansion, San Francisco, CA
Girls and Guns, The Proposition, NY, NY
Domicile: A Sense Of Place, Curated by: Jim O'Donnell, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
Happy Art for a Sad World, Curated by Hélianthe Bourdeaux-Maurin, Spike Gallery, NY, NY
Blameless, Curated by Rachel Gugelberger, Visual Arts Gallery, NY, NY
Blind Pilots, Curated by Tim Evans, Linc Real Art, San Francisco, CA
Blind Pilots, Curated by Tim Evans, The Proposition, NY, NY
SCOPE New York Art Fair, The Proposition, NY, NY
superSalon, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
2003 Amigos, Curated by Trevor Schoonmaker, Associated Projects, NY, NY
Innocence and Transgression, Curated by John Zorn, Project Room, The Proposition, NY, NY
PRESENTATIONS / PANELS
2025 Art as Healing Presentation Guest Speaker, Endometriosis Symposium, Brooklyn, NY
2022-2024 Below the Belt Documentary Film Panelist: UCSF & Stanford University, San Francisco, CA 2024; Columbia University Irving Medical Center, NY, NY 2023; Fine Arts Popular, San Juan, PR 2023; Senate Hart Building on Capitol Hill with Senators Mitt Romney & Elizabeth Warren, Washington, DC 2023; Director's Guild of America with Rosario Dawson & Corinne Fox, Hollywood, CA 2022
2022-2023 Featured subject in the nationally aired PBS documentary film Below the Belt
2009 The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2009 Presentation Guest Speaker, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA & Atlanta, GA
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT / MURAL ART
BAMkids Parent Advisory Circle Brooklyn, NY 2021-Present
• Created artwork for Be A Star Mural, BAMkids children’s event, Brooklyn, NY 2025
La Borinqueña Art Exhibit San Juan, PR 2024
• Created artwork for Help La Borinqueña Mural, Caribe Hilton, San Juan, PR 2024
PTA Parent Teacher Association PS84 José de Diego, Brooklyn, NY 2025
SLT School Leadership Team PS84 José de Diego, Brooklyn, NY 2024-Present
Class Liaison PS84 José de Diego, Brooklyn, NY 2021-Present
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