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Early life and Education
Jina Chung (Korean: 정진아) was born in Philadelphia, United States in 1968 and currently lives in Seoul. She graduated from sculpture department of Hong Ik University and currently is a curator of C Art Museum while actively working as a sculptor in Korea, France and the U.S.

Art Work
The keyword of her years of artworks is heterology. George Bataille viewed this world as the mixture of superiority and inferiority, and the elegant and the obscure; the key of which an be defined by heterology. This is how Chung perceives the world through her art. Her long-term series of "The Poop Tale" is an example. She created the poop using colorful spangles and glass tiles. The dirty and smelly excrement has been refined into cute items. These days, she shows more refined and organized textual works. She can best be described as an artist who champions a sort of Post Pop- Conceptual-Dada blend of thinking where one can decipher their connection to ambient everyday things to create self awareness. Chung’s art helps us move things along with humor and irony making her way of looking at life a powerful and memorable path for others to possibly map out and understand their own lives.

Quotes
"An elegant flower from afar; an intensive mixture of vulgar words up close. This is what I am; this is what we are in this world" This statement of hers seem to encourage us to see the heterology of this world in a humorous way through cute poop and cooled off swear words.

"...I am a type-maniac who has the frequent urge of reading printed materials including advertising leaflets, books, magazines, and newspapers, whatever comes handy. The impression of the meaning and shape of the text is of secondary importance. I indulge myself in the act of reading and the object that is being read. From the distance, it is an elegant flower, but nearby, it is an intense moment full of curses. The moment completes me. It forms us in the mundaness."