Jungil Hong

Jungil Hong (America, b. Korea, 1976) arrived in Providence, at the Rhode Island School of Design, in 1995, the same year that a crew of RISD students and dropouts took up residence in the now-demolished warehouse space they called Fort Thunder.^[1]

She received her BFA in ceramics from RISD in 1999 and has won scholarships to the Penland School of Arts and Crafts, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts. She has won RISCA Fellowship Merit Awards in the Drawing and Printmaking and Crafts categories. Her work has been shown at Gallery Agniel in Providence, MASS MoCA, the New Image Art Gallery in West Hollywood, Space 1026 in Philadelphia, The Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, International Print Center New York, Florsitree Space in Baltimore, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, The Rhode Island Foundation Gallery, Limner Gallery, New York, Las Sucias Studio, Brooklyn, and the Cheongju Craft Museum, Cheongju, Korea.^[2] She was also a participant in Peter Glantz’s Trutheatertheater, an experimental theater troupe.^[1]

Jung now shares an enormous factory studio in Providence with Brian Chippendale they call the Hilarious Attic, where she works on screen prints, collage, sculpture, and installation.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Neelon, Caleb. Jung-Il Hong Swindle Magazine. Retrieved May 27, 2010.
2. ^ Tannenbaum, Judith, and Maya Allison. (2006) Wunderground: Providence,1995 to the Present. Providence, R.I.: Museum of Art, RISD. Print.

External links

• Official Webpage
• New York Times
• Boston Globe
• Providence Journal
• Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA)