Jiyoung Jessica Park is a figurative painter from Seoul, South Korea whose works explore the emotional and spiritual core of human experience. Through color, forms, composition, and texture, her paintings reflect themes of human presence and connection.

Park earned her BFA in 2020 from Cornell University, College of Art, Architecture, and Planning. Her background in fashion and beauty content creation ultimately led her back to painting with renewed clarity. Her ongoing practice draws from her own lived experiences, exploring what truly sustains her once the constant dopamine-driven layers of contemporary social culture are stripped away.

Education

Cornell University, BFA, 2020

Solo Exhibitions

<Faith Unfolded: 믿음의 길>, Lakeview Presbyterian Church, Niles, IL 2024

Group Exhibitions

<EMERGENT! Pop-UP Show>, Dragonfly Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2024
<Evanston Made Member Group Show>, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL, 2024
<The Vulnerable Escape>, Tjaden Experimental Gallery, Ithaca, NY, 2019
<An Exhibition of Student Work>, Palazzo Santacroce, Rome, 2019
<A8>, Olive Tjaden and Tjaden Experimental Galleries, Ithaca, NY, 2018
<ICU>, The Ink Shop Printmaking Center, Ithaca, NY, 2016
<Cornell University Student Prints>, Front Art Space, New York, NY, 2016
<Replay>, Tjaden Experimental Gallery, Ithaca, NY, 2016

Awards

Anderson Ranch Scholarship, Cornell University, 2019
David R. Bean Prize in Fine Arts, Cornell University, 2018