ARTIST INFO

JINA SEO
Springfield, MO

METALS | Mixed media jewelry

Penland Affiliation | Penland Instructor 2024, Penland Winter Resident 2023

Artist Information | Studio artist; education: MFA University of Illinois Urbana (IL), BFA Kookmin University (Korea); teaching: Missouri State University (MO), Virginia Commonwealth University (VA), East Carolina University (NC), University of Illinois Urbana (IL); exhibitions: Parasol Projects (NY), Society of Contemporary Craft (PA), Brick City Gallery (MO), Heidi Lowe Gallery (DE), Union Art Gallery (WI), Idea X Factory (MO), Orfebres Peris Roca (Spain), Alliages (France), Mighty Tieton (WA), Baltimore Jewelry Center (MD), Sediment Gallery (VA)

Artist Bio | Jina Seo (b. South Korea) is an Assistant Professor in Metal + Jewelry at Missouri State University. Her practice explores the relationships between body, clothing, sexuality, fetish, and space. She was chosen as one of the SNAG Emerging Artists in 2016 at SOFA Chicago and was a recipient of Fountainhead Fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including Munich Jewellery Week 2017 (Germany), Brooklyn Metal Works (NY), Walker Art Center (MN), Woman Made Gallery (IL), Sung-Gock Gallery (Korea), and AV17 Gallery (Lithuania). She received her MFA in Metal at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and her BFA in Metalwork and Jewelry Design at Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea.