SELECTED PROJECTS
When asked to participate in St. Paul's Greenville feast in June 2022, Jung started by researching the history of the church. Many stories had familiar names and sites, and she could see these glimpses in the neighborhood now. Using the materials she found, she made postcards to sell and donate the proceeds to the pantry run by the church.
Greenville, Jersey City is considered a food desert in 2022.
Jin lives and works in Greenville, Jersey City.
In this first iteration of a series of works called Grand Ideas, the artist examines our desire to equate happiness to immortality and the fruitless but oftentimes playful endeavor we pursue as a result.
*The video starts with the sentence, he said I was always "talking life to death." The phrase in quotes is borrowed from the artist Lawrence Weiner.
Find the subtitled version in Korean here.
In 2021 while working on the project 538 Bergen Ave, Jung realized how many people (esp people of color) were left out of known history. She recognized the importance of expanding the project to multiple sites. Since the changing scope, Jung recruited her friend, Duquann Sweeney, to collaborate with the goal to bring awareness to many important yet unacknowledged people and places in Jersey City.
This video documents the performance at the JCTC in November 2019 by Jin Jung. She tells a story about her discovery of an artist group called the BECC which was headquartered in McGinley Sq., Jersey City in the 1970s. Jin seeks to use this opportunity to showcase and find fellow community members of the art, history, and Jersey City. She calls for help to erect signage at the site of 538 Bergen Ave.
This book and video were made during the pandemic lockdown. Living and working in close proximity with a loved one has been both challenging and rewarding. The book captures the need for a break and connection.
Someone told me that it takes years to start making art again after graduate school. Well, I believe it. Taking time to reflect on what happened and where I am headed has been a learning experience. In this video, I rediscover my relationship with the audience and perform for the camera.
Materials: Fabric, Zippers, Sand or Rice
Dimensions: Approx. 3" x 5" per sandbag
Emotional pain or trauma is difficult to understand. By abstracting the "burdens" into physical weights, Jin shares a way to bring comfort to our emotions.
Featured Image | Artist Medical Residency
O Positive Festival, Kingston, NY, 2009
O Positive Festival, Kingston, NY, 2009
During the festival where doctors and artists exchanged their services, Jung made a reiteration of the work previously known as Medical Artist Residency to accommodate the younger audience from the community.
Reiteration of the work, Embody: To Give a Body to a Spirit, 2008, made site-specific for the occasion on July 28, 2019.
During the news coverage of the controversy surrounding Virginia governor, Ralph Northam, in February 2019, one of the guests on the radio said something in the lines of If you do not take action to reprimand such behavior, the racism will REPRODUCE and PERPETUATE. I imagined racism giving birth to another resulting in more racism babies to come. What a horrifying image that manifests OVER & OVER in our day-to-day.
Basic Architecture (2005)
Find Your Heart, Open It Up, Let Them Feel (2007)
Embody: To Give a Body to a Spirit (2008)
Can You See Me? (2008)