2025- ongoing project
These pieces began while I was riding the subway in Korea, passing over a small uninhabited island thick with summer vegetation. For a moment, I thought, “No one could enter that place,” and then immediately questioned why I was measuring it by human standards at all. ...
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2026
Finding migan begins with a personal difficulty in meeting others’ gaze.
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2025
This work brings together three
forms—painting, frame, and pop-up sculpture—into a single yet unstable structure. ...
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2025
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2024
This work unfolds like a fragmented stage. Grass-like elements appear as if extracted from the painting itself,
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2024
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2023
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2023
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2022
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2022
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2022
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2022
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minjeeart@gmail.com
@manzizix
Minjee constructs temporary, foldable spaces where objects, images, and viewers coexist without fully coinciding.
In her work, space is not just a background but a surface that continuously shifts with perception and viewpoint. Moving between painting and installation, images extend into space, overlap with structures, and at times interrupt the viewer’s field of vision. These conditions are not meant to produce instability, but to reveal that alignment can never be complete and that all access is necessarily partial.
She calls this condition the “Skew Universe”: a state in which different elements continually approach one another without fully meeting. Forms, images, and materials are placed together, yet none of them can be fully read or understood on their own. They are read across painting and floor pieces, as images extend beyond the canvas and reappear through repeated shapes and colors between works. This is a way to explore the limits of how we perceive. The instability of these relationships is present between the self and the world, between people, and in how humans and non-human animals, plants, and essences encounter each other.
Rather than resolving these gaps, she constructs situations in which they can be experienced. These limits in relation are not something to be resolved, but describe how we experience the world and our limited access to other forms of consciousness.
Pratt Institute, New York, USA
(Expected May 2026)
BFA,
Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea
2023
2026
Emerging Artists 2026, dodomu gallery (online exhibition)
2026
Song without Lyrics, Pratt Institute,
Brooklyn, USA
2026
Inter/Seen, CP Project Space
New York, USA
2025
Days, Days, Days!, Hongik University
Seoul, South Korea
2022