KONGJU YUN
For KongJu Yun, 'home' extends beyond a physical house — it is the most honest refuge one arrives at after the intensity of living, and at times, a complex space of contemplation where solitude resides alongside everything else. Rather than turning away from the wandering and loneliness she has experienced within the confines of home, the artist has continued her painting practice as a means of escape: a place where connection and communication with others can be received as they are.
In this exhibition, she traces with quiet precision the inner journey of finding oneself amid the endless ripple of lines and color that fill each canvas.
The energy that moves organically through her works is a yearning — an urgent desire to still the trembling of life and resonate with the world. The densely layered forms of home, etched like constellations across the surface, and the rhythmic visual cadence that traverses each canvas carry a warmth that reaches beyond enclosed spaces, offering comfort and a sense of happiness to all who encounter them. In the midst of our relentless daily lives, we hope this becomes a moment to pause and breathe — and within the varied emotional rhythms the artist offers, to discover a place of rest that is genuinely your own.
— The J Contemporary Art
Artist of the Month Project
SUNHWA BYUN
The Utopia Garden series is a journey toward the artist’s imagined utopia and a visual record of her inner world. Vibrant houses, plants, people, animals, and dreamlike landscapes coexist freely within each composition, creating scenes that blur the boundary between reality and fantasy. Inspired by the innocence of a child’s perspective, the works evoke the atmosphere of fairytales and imagined worlds, inviting viewers into a space of play, comfort, and wonder.
Using collage-based techniques layered with acrylic, oil paint, beads, colored sand, and mixed media, Byun Sunhwa builds richly textured surfaces filled with warmth and vitality. Houses and plants appear repeatedly as symbols of stability, healing, and life itself, reflecting the artist’s belief in the inseparable relationship between humanity and nature. Through Utopia Garden, the artist hopes viewers can momentarily step away from the weight of reality and rediscover a sense of peace, happiness, and childlike imagination.
— The J Contemporary Art
Artist of the Month Project
SOHEE CHOI
In her practice, Sohee Choi constructs spaces where memory, anxiety, and perception intersect.
Rather than reconstructing personal experiences as linear narratives, she translates fragmented emotions and residual sensations into spatial structures.
Through works such as Red Territory and Staged, boundaries evolve into territories, and spaces transform into psychological stages. Lines become zones of control, while architectural elements—columns, stairs, and platforms—suggest both stability and uncertainty. These environments do not resolve tension but hold it in suspension.
Choi’s work ultimately asks:
Where does one’s territory begin and end?
And within what structures do we continue to exist alongside unease?
— The J Contemporary Art
Artist of the Month Project
MEEHA
MIHA explores the forms of emotion through the transparency of water and the reflection of light.
Fluid, shifting, and momentarily radiant before fading, these qualities of water echo the fleeting nature of human emotions and run throughout the artist’s practice.
The March exhibition presents the Sweet Series, an extension of this exploration of materiality. Candy, donuts, ice cream, pretzels, and croissants appear as everyday sweet objects, yet they function as visual surfaces upon which emotions are projected.
Sugar-coated gloss, glass-like transparency, and light-filled curves evoke feelings that are often difficult to articulate—love, anticipation, confession, and quiet excitement.
Within the seasonal context of White Day, sweetness is proposed not merely as a symbol, but as one of the most direct languages of emotion.
These luminous, melting forms become another way of expressing what the heart wishes to say in the present moment.
— The J Contemporary Art
Artist of the Month Project
MISUNG KIM
Artist of the Month | February 2026
[Artist of the Month] is a project by The J
that focuses on one artist each month,
offering a closer and more attentive look at their practice.
Through a curated online presentation
and the opportunity to experience the works offline,
the project invites a slower engagement with the artist’s world.
Miseong Kim explores painting through scenes infused with memory and emotion, developing works that carry subtle layers of time.
Although her paintings may appear still,
they quietly hold accumulated moments and emotional traces beneath the surface.
They are not meant for quick consumption,
but for lingering—revealing themselves gradually the longer one stays.
— The J Contemporary Art
Artist of the Month Project