Jung Jungyeob is an influential artist at the forefront of the Korean feminist art movement. Her diverse body of work, which includes painting, installation, and performance, is deeply informed by feminist and ecological perspectives. The 'Red Bean Series,' her signature collection, is acclaimed for its focus on the unseen labor of women and for capturing the vitality of the earth within each tiny seed. Jung's artistry extends beyond the canvas to embody a broader narrative, one that draws from the mundane—red beans, beans, and spring greens—to comment on labor and life. Her work is a continuous exploration of coexistence, weaving together the threads of daily existence with the collective narrative of all living beings. • 2022 Lee Joong Seop Art Awards • 2020 Gender Equality and Culture Awards • 2019 Goam Leeungno Art Awards • More than 20 solo exhibitions and many group exhibitions

Artist Jeong Zik Seong has continually experimented to expand the scope of painting. She has interpreted realistic life experiences through geometric abstract language in her urban landscape series, including works like ‘Semidetached Houses,' 'Construction Site Abstract,' and ' Blue Collar/Blue Color.' She also connects the materiality of mother-of-pearl with Korean symbolism in her Contemporary Mother-of-Pearl Paintings' series. Recently, she has been presenting works that reveal various layers of psychological forms flowing alongside brushstrokes that breathe with atmospheric changes like wind and rain. Whereas her previous work manifested geometric abstraction extracted from life, the focus now shifts to a more liberating process where she intuitively expresses forms that come to her unexpectedly without purpose. The ' Water-moon Avalakiteshvara' series, being presented for the first time at GalleryMEME, offers a sensual and intense secular religious painting through the artist's unique powerful brushstrokes and the passionate traces of red paint flowing down, set against the backdrop of the Pure Land of strange rock formations depicted in Goryeo Dynasty Buddhist paintings. The artist describes this as 'spirituality drawn out from the extremely ordinary yet worldly life.' • 2021 Artist of the Year, Gongindang Arts Foundation, Arts Grand Prize • 2012 Today's Artist, Kim Chong Yung Museum • Collections: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul Museum of Art, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Jeju Museum of Art, Seoul National University Museum of Art etc.

Lee Kiyoung, an artist renowned for reinterpreting traditional Korean painting through contemporary visual language, has a process central to their work that involves layering time, action, and thought on Korean paper. This artist accumulates the traces of time and thought through a repetitive process of filling the paper with ink cake, erasing it, and then refilling it. The final stage of their work is to carve out intricate lines with a sharp knife in a state of utmost concentration and fill these lines with pigment. These deep and intense colored lines, initially hidden within the ink cake-darkened Korean paper, subtly emerge, encouraging closer examination of the artwork. Geometric shapes, like rectangles, transcend the ink cake background, creating a space that appears transcendental yet empty. Lee Kiyoung's works, derived from deep contemplation on human life, present a unique aesthetic not commonly found in contemporary art. The harmony of ink cake and negative space, the pinnacle of flatness that the surface exudes, and the combination of geometric lines all come together to communicate a unique beauty. Their art, akin to a practice of meditation, offers an aesthetic of emptiness through the endless act of erasure. • Professor of Korean Painting at Ewha Womans University • Collections : National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul Museum of Art, Korean Embassy in Israel, Korean Embassy in Finland, etc.

Artist JHU gathers familiar symbols, texts, and objects into strange and eerie combinations, creating unique landscapes with his distinctive sensibility. The inherent ambiguity and uncertainty of language as a symbol become, on the artist's canvas, a path to a world of intense imagination. His unrestrained brushwork reminiscent of doodles, innocently naive shapes, roughly empty canvas surfaces, and bold and daring color combinations approach not as a system of meanings containing specific messages, but as a playground of emotions transformed and joyously consumed by the viewer's imagination. The artist often titles his works with place names, hoping that viewers will open their own worlds through his paintings. • Graduated with an MFA in Computer Art from the School of Visual Arts, NY • 2023 Excellence Award, Rabbit Offering Exhibition hosted by eDaily Culture Foundation, Seoul • 2021 Featured in Hypebeast, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism Public Art Project, 25 Parts of Seoul, Seoul

Kaito Itsuki deconstructs the presence of transcendent heroes in myths and fills their place with shame and fear. In Japanese society, where stricter etiquette is demanded of women, she portrays societal roles imposed upon us from outside our bodies through improper, immoral, and violent images. • 2024 Tang Contemporary Art, Bejing : Solo exhibition • 2022 HIVE Center for Comtemporary Art, Bejing : Solo Exhibition • 2021 Tang Contemporary Art Hong Kong : Exhibition • 2022 HIVE Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing • 2021 Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong

William Lee has been exploring the characteristics of materials to the fullest for 17 years in the UK, where he studied and created works. Drawing inspiration from traditional ceramics, he reinterprets Korean aesthetic beauty in a contemporary manner. He creates warm, soft, sturdy, and stylish silverware by using the sheet metal technique, hammering thick silver plates to produce moon jars. This process transforms the cold, hard properties of metal into flowing, melting textures that convey emotions, revealing the interplay between human inner emotions and the dynamics of nature. His works, crafted through tens of thousands of hammer strikes, wrestling with the silver plates as if undergoing a monk's ascetic practices, provoke a new perspective on the unique power and value of craftsmanship amidst the era of artificial intelligence and digital technology. • Awarded the 2023 Craft Prize(organized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Craft and Design Foundation) • Silver Triennale at the 2009 Craftmanship & Design Awards(UK) • Young Crafts Artist Award(UK) in 2003 • Collections : Victoria and Albert Museum(London), Philadelphia Museum of Art(Philadelphia), etc.

Since 1988, Kim Syyoung has been dedicated to reviving the lost art of traditional black porcelain from the Goryeo Dynasty through extensive research on clay and fire. Over 35 years, Kim has focused on the transformation triggered by the combination of 'fire,' a natural force, and the 'mineral content' within the clay. His deep understanding of the properties of clay and fire allows him to create black porcelain with intricate and varied hues. In his black porcelain works, the process known as 'firing' awakens various minerals hidden within the clay, leading to 'kiln transformations' that produce a diverse range of patterns and colors on the surface. Since 2010, he has moved beyond traditional ceramic paradigms to focus on experimental material properties, collecting and combining soils nationwide to unveil mysterious colors inherent in the clay, thus modernly inheriting the elegance of traditional black porcelain. Kim titles his works 'planet,' reflecting the cyclical creation and destruction in nature through the harmonious interplay of clay and reduction fire. Among these, 'planet metaphor,' a metaphorical version of the moon jar known as a 'mouthless pottery,' is an abstract sculpture created by altering the typical method of joining pieces from vertical to horizontal. While maintaining shades of black, the artist continuously experiments with the concepts of volume and mass, transforming the functional form of a 'jar' into pure sculptural 'masses.' • received the Hwagwan Order of Cultural Merit (文化勳章, awarded by the President of South Korea) in 2019