JUNG AH

As the Night Unfolds, 2025.
Oil and acrylic on canvas, 140 cm x 200 cm
As the Night Unfolds (detail), 2025.
Oil and acrylic on canvas, 140 cm x 200 cm
As the Night Unfolds (detail), 2025.
Oil and acrylic on canvas, 140 cm x 200 cm
As the Night Unfolds (installation view), 2025.
Oil and acrylic on canvas, 140 cm x 200 cm
A Safe House, 2024.
Oil and acrylic on canvas, 
100.0 cm x 150.0 cm
A Safe House (detail), 2024.
Oil and acrylic on canvas, 
100.0 cm x 150.0 cm
A Safe House (detail), 2024.
Oil and acrylic on canvas, 
100.0 cm x 150.0 cm
Midnight Mirage, 2024.
Watercolor on paper, 76.0 cm x 56.5 cm
Midnight Daffodil, 2025.
Oil and acrylic on canvas, 60 cm x 60 cm

Midnight Daffodil, 2025.
Oil and acrylic on canvas, 60 cm x 60 cm
Mirage, 2024.
Oil on canvas, 30.48 cm x 30.48 cm
Liminal Flow, 2024.
Oil on canvas, 30.48 cm x 30.48 cm ..



Jung ah Kim is a South Korean artist whose work reflects on the quiet resilience found in peripheral spaces and fleeting presences. Often set within the stillness of night, her paintings dwell on small sources of light—streetlamps, stop signs, reflections on water, or a roadside daffodil catching the glow. These modest illuminations, gently holding their ground, offer moments of calm and orientation in unfamiliar or shifting environments.

Having moved between cities, Jung ah approaches space not as fixed territory but as something felt and carried. Her work draws from the experience of living on the edges and honours the people who move through the night with these lights, often unseen but essential to the rhythm of the city. Their silhouettes emerge faintly within the layered compositions, visible only after the eye has learned to linger. Their presence becomes part of the atmosphere itself, quiet but integral.

Jung ah’s practice resists urgency, offering instead a space for stillness and reflection. In this quiet visual language, perception becomes a form of care, holding what is often unseen, and allowing presence to unfold gently over time.



Jung ah Kim
kimmiejungah@gmail.com
Instagram: @kimmiejungah



Education


2024 - 2025 Painting MA, Royal College of Art, London

2017 - 2023  Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, 
                        Seoul National University, Seoul

                        Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics 
                        (Double Major), Seoul National University, 
                        Seoul

2020 - 2020
                        Exchange Program, School of the Art 
                        Institute of Chicago, Chicago




Publications

Soft Witness: 50 Artists, 50 Stories, 2025


Group Shows


2025

To See A World in A Grain Of Sand, Qloud Collective, London


2024

S-ART BOOTH SHOW(solo booth), KEPCO Art Center Gallery, Seoul

Small but Certain Happiness, KEPCO Art Center Gallery,
Seoul

Serendipity, Gallery B, Seoul

SNU ART FAIR, KEPCO Art Center Gallery, Seoul


2023

S-ART BOOTH SHOW, KEPCO Art Center Gallery, Seoul

Small but Certain Happiness, SNU Veritas Hall, Seoul

VILLA D’ART 2023, Seoul Art Center, Seoul


2016

FUTURO, Gallery d’Arte, New York