
Jina Jung
b. 1990, South Korea
Biography
정진아(b.1990, 대한민국)는 물, 바람, 구름같은 자연 요소에서 모티브를 찾아 직접 촬영한 이미지와 온라인에서 수집한 시각 자료를 조합하여, 어디선가 본 듯하지만 실재하지 않는, 낯설고도 익숙한 풍경을 구성한다. 그렇게 만들어진 이미지는 디지털 화면 속에서 ‘가시적이면서도 관통 가능한’ 장면으로 형상화되며, 다시 회화로 옮겨진다.
작가는 자연의 다양한 이미지와 형태들을 결합하는 동시에 미완의 공간을 의도하여, 그 사이의 여백을 통해 관객의 상상과 해석이 유입될 수 있는 틈을 남겨둔다. 이러한 열린 구성을 통해 작품과 관객 사이의 소통을 유도하고 화면과 끊임없이 호흡하며, 획을 긋고 비우며 화면의 리듬을 감각적으로 조율한다. 자연을 모사하기보다, 자연이 주는 인상을 수용하듯 절제되고 유연한 태도로 화면을 정제해간다.
정진아는 이화여자대학교에서 동양화를 전공하고, 동 대학원에서 석사 학위를 취득하였다. 이후 뉴욕대학교 티시 예술대학 ITP(Interactive Telecommunications Program) 석사를 졸업하며 기술 기반의 예술적 실험 또한 병행해왔다. 2019년에 독일 Pause Kreativ와 중국 Untitled Space에서 레지던시를 진행하였으며, 지금까지 로이갤러리(2022, 2025), 히든엠갤러리(2024), 프롬프트 프로젝트(2023) 등에서 총 7회의 개인전을 열었다. 모란미술관(2012), 세종문화회관(2016), 한가람미술관(2021), 서울 옥션 강남센터(2021), 갤러리 박영(2021), 상하이 1-Art 갤러리(2020) 등 국내외 주요 기관 및 플랫폼에서 다수의 단체전에 참여해왔다.
Artworks

65 x 100cm, 2024

80 x 53cm, 2025

136 x 80cm, 2023

27.3 x 22.3cm, 2025

45.5 x 45.5cm, 2024

45.5 x 45.5cm, 2024

72.7 x 60.6cm, 2023

61 x 61cm, 2023

60.6 x 50cm, 2022

35 x 27.5cm, 2022

60.6 x 50cm, 2022

80 x 80cm, 2022

80 x 80cm, 2022

136 x 80cm, 2022

60.6 x 50cm, 2022

60.6 x 50cm, 2022

27.3 x 22.3cm, 2025

130 x 100cm, 2024

27.3 x 22.3cm, 2025

45.5 x 27.3cm, 2025

45.5 x 27.3cm, 2025
Exhibitions

Solo Exhibition
Aug 30 - Sep 27, 2025

Group Exhibition
Apr 16 - May 5, 2025

Jina Jung, Gyul.E Kim, Jeonghyun Ha
Dec 17, 2024 - Feb 15, 2025
A “capsule collection” is a small collection of clothing or accessories that a fashion brand or designer releases in limited quantities. Unlike larger collections that come out every season, capsule collections feature a small number of items centered around a specific theme or concept. These collections are only available for a limited time and are highly sought after by fashion lovers due to their unique design and scarcity. ROY GALLERY’s “capsule collection” refers to a regular or irregular exhibition that presents to the public a juried selection of works—sourced from the gallery's collection that embody its identity and direction but one divergent from fashion concepts. The response generated by re-exhibiting the artist's old works is circulated among the various actors to reactivate the inherent function of the works. The first installment, CAPSULE COLLECTION 1.0, consists of older works from Jeonghyun Ha, Jina Jung, and Gyul.E Kim who all explore the continuity of abstract painting by crossing symbols and painting.

Jina Jung, Baek Duri, Oh Heewon, Iurum, Jeonghyun Ha
Aug 1 - 22, 2024
Jung Jina's work evokes a sense of specific time and space through soft silhouettes and vibrant hues. Through her ongoing study of nature, she explores ways to depict landscapes at the intersection of concrete natural elements like mountains and clouds and abstract scenes. Her works, with colors reminiscent of dawn, brush strokes that reflect water, and spaces that convey air flow, despite lacking sharply defined shapes, invite viewers to intuitively grasp the essence and characteristics of the subjects. As a digital-native artist, Jung is fascinated by replicating the colors and forms of nature as seen on screens, while emphasizing real temporal and spatial transformations in nature. In this exhibition, her Landscape Elements series presents dynamically reimagined landscapes imbued with a renewed sense of nature's vitality.
- Noblesse Collection

Apr 11 - Apr 14, 2024
Roy Gallery presents Museful Reveries, a special exhibition of six artists from April 11th to April 14th at the 2024 Busan Annual Market of Art (BAMA). Six different works and artist processes diverge in materials, color, and texture yet converge in their expressions of artistic purity and reverie. Some paint meaningful figures and shapes, some recollect memories on canvas, and some express the abstract in their interpretations of landscapes and symbols. Their vibrant and colorful works are reflections of both filtered attempts and innocent desires for freedom, power, and meaning. Here, the interstices of their strokes reveal a shared primal urge to capture guileless and once benign dreams in hopes of navigating the chaotic channels of reality.

Solo Exhibition
Nov 11 - Dec 4, 2022
Scene, Object
Min Ah Lee
Jung showcases her ability to mould and shape through her compositional and contrastive experimentation with colors. I felt the sincerity of an artist through the directions left by this very colorful trace. The brightness of the paintings seems to leak light through the cracks, and consequently attributes a strange atmosphere to the works. Repeated brush strokes weave like waves on a screen, and the use of watercolors that contrast light and dark expresses the instantaneity of light and its afterimage. The contrast between bright and dark, cold and warm colors and the traces of brush movement ultimately foment a formative experience that speaks to us by way of the works' scenery and imagery.
Simplified and dismantled natural objects and the resulting landscapes are consistently maintained as subjects of Jung's works and are used as overall motifs. Of course, the scenes and shapes expressed on canvas are open to interpretation to the viewer. In her previous works, Jung gradually shifted from detailed description to abstraction in her portrayal of nature and scenery — experimenting with perspective, visual effects, and materials in the projection of paintings. The notable difference in her recent works is the artist's use of virtual reality technology via computer programs to separate color and interpret landscapes through paper thin imagery.
Virtual reality provides a stimulating, visual experience by allowing our minds to swim through razor thin images despite rendering our bodies dull in weightlessness. Through the landscapes of reality carved in virtual space, Jung utilizes these scenic elements that are evocative of simple ridges, rivers, and willow trees in the spring wind and ultimately fosters new methods to understand and interpret scenery. Try adapting to the scenes and objects off of your fingertips and eyes vis-a-vis Jung's acrylic imagery. In reconstructing the perspectives and objects contained within the various acts, you will find new ways to interpret Jung's experiment that underlie the tangled colors of her works.
Press
[뉴스1] 풍경과 추상 그 사이…정진아 '구름나무, 나무구름'展
[뉴스1] 정진아 개인전 '일련의 형태들', 로이갤러리 압구정에서 개최
[뉴스컬처] 정진아 개인전 ‘일련의 형태들’, 로이갤러리 압구정서 30일 개최
