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BB&M is pleased to announce the representation of Jo Jae, whose work combines digital imagery with traditional painting processes to delineate the de-materialization of reality in an electronically-meditated culture. Spanning painting, installation, sound, and digital media, her practice seeks to critically convey the sensory fragmentation and ruptures in our experience of the contemporary visual landscape. In her pictorial space, she devises arrangements of forms and objects ubiquitous in our late-capitalist environment yet somehow unfamiliar when isolated and reassembled. Colorful and tactile but also ephemeral and insubstantial, they mirror the continuously mutating relationship between the screen, the world, and our sensation.
Jo Jae holds a BFA in Painting from Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, an MFA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London, and has finished coursework for a PhD in Sculpture from Seoul National University. She has presented solo exhibitions at WWNN (Seoul, 2025) and Kumho Museum of Art (Seoul, 2023), and has participated in group exhibitions at the Korean Cultural Centre UK (London, 2025), BB&M (Seoul, 2025), Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop (London, 2018], among others. She was selected for the 20th Kumho Young Artist Program and the Seoul National University Next Generation Scholars Program (2023), and received The Hopper Prize (2018).