BIOGRAPHY
Born in South Korea and currently working in Boston, MiJung Yun is a visual artist best known for drawings of natural phenomena and abstract paintings. Throughout her career, she has favored charcoal, graphite, pen, and ink on paper, and acrylic and oil paint on canvas. These materials are used to depict the structures of natural imagery and human figures from life, memory, and imagination. MiJung received her B.A. in Education and M.A. in Curriculum and Instruction Education from Arizona State University. Later, she decided to pursue art as a profession and achieved an A.A. in Fine Arts from Mesa Community College. She received her MFA (2025) in Studio Art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University (SMFA at Tufts). She is a recipient of Tufts University’s Domestic Travel Grant, Montague International Travel Grant, 2025 Nichols Drawing Breath Award, 2025 Emerging Artist Award from Cambridge Art Association (CAA), New York Resilience Award from New York Art Competitions (NYAC), and SMFA at Tufts 2025 Traveling Fellowships.
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STATEMENT
At the delicate, shifting border between chaos and quiet, abstraction and representation, lies the foundation of my practice. Built from visceral, indelible layers of ink, each work functions as both a record of time and a deeply meditative act of survival – a quiet processing of personal loss transformed into resilience. The act of adding each mark is a highly sensual, pleasurable, meditative, and transcendent process; while individual lines are explicit and deliberate, their collective behavior is entirely unpredictable, creating a visually overwhelming terrain.
Up close, the surface breathes as a dense, immersive abstract environment. Countless scribbled lines and organic shapes push against one another, vying for dominance. Stepping back, a surprising clarity emerges. These fragmented gestures soften and coalesce into forms that verge on the recognizable, offering calm amid complexity. One state cannot exist without the other; the final representational form owes its existence entirely to the cumulative power of its smaller, abstract components. Ultimately, the work invites viewers into an interplay of perception – a space where turbulence and stillness coexist, and where repetitive, deliberate gestures transmute overwhelming emotion into a subtle, healing resonance.
