MIJUNG YUN
Project: Volcano
Project: Water
Project: Dream & Memory
Project: Grief
Sculptures
Recent Exhibitions
Press
CV / BIO
MIJUNG YUN
Project: Volcano
Project: Water
Project: Dream & Memory
Project: Grief
Sculptures
Recent Exhibitions
Press
CV / BIO
Born in South Korea and currently working in Boston, MiJung Yun is a visual artist best known for abstract paintings and drawings of natural phenomena. Examples of this are disasters such as volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, as well as oceans and rocks. Throughout her career, she has favored charcoal, graphite, pen, and ink on paper, and acrylic and oil paint on canvas. These materials are used to depict the structures of natural imagery and human figures from life, memory, and imagination. MiJung received her B.A. in Education and M.A. in Curriculum and Instruction Education from Arizona State University. Later, she decided to pursue art as a profession and achieved an A.A. in Fine Arts from Mesa Community College. She received her MFA (2025) in Studio Art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University (SMFA at Tufts). She is a recipient of Tufts University’s Domestic Travel Grant and SMFA Montague International Travel Grant.
GRANTS / AWARDS
2025 2025 Nichols Drawing Breath Award, SMFA at Tufts, Boston, MA
2025 SMFA Special Materials Fund, SMFA at Tufts, Boston, MA
2024 Nominated for 2025-26 Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship of the
Association of Independent College of Arts and Design (AICAD) by SMFA at Tufts
2024 Artistic Recognition, Art and Color 365's 2024 Drawings art competition,
Art and Color 365 magazine
2024 Graduate Student Photo Contest, Student Life Category, SMFA at Tufts, Boston, MA
2024 Domestic Travel Grant, SMFA at Tufts, Boston, MA
2024 SMFA Material Funds 2024, SMFA at Tufts, Boston, MA
2024 Montague International Travel Grant, SMFA at Tufts, Boston, MA
2022 Tempe Artist Guild (TAG)/ MCC Scholarship, Tempe, AZ
2021 MCC Honors Achievement Award, MCC, Mesa, AZ
2021 MCC J. Delores Griffel Scholarship Endowment, MCC, Mesa, AZ
2021 Paulette Schlosser Memorial Scholarship, MCC, Mesa, AZ
2021 Judy A. Christensen Re-Entry Student Scholarship, MCC, Mesa, AZ
2021 MCC Honors Achievement Award for 2021 Spring, MCC, Mesa, AZ
2021 MCC Honors Achievement Award for 2020 Fall, MCC, Mesa, AZ
2020 MCC J. Delores Griffel Scholarship Endowment, MCC, Mesa, AZ
2020 MCC Honors Achievement Award for 2020 Spring, MCC, Mesa, AZ
2020 Juror’s Award, 2020 MCC Student Art Show, MCC, Mesa, AZ
PUBLICATION / INTERVIEWS
SMFA at Tufts University, 2025 MFA Thesis Exhibition Walkthrough: “Through Shifting Lenses,” July 3, 2025. https://youtu.be/pndT6Mlu458?si=XuM0hQY1VuEUDVhL
Julia Wintner, Eastern Connecticut State University Art Gallery, June 18, 2025.
https://youtu.be/CCu0nztjOUg?si=IDD7PZn130JMzdM9
Cate McQuaid, “When hierarchy crumbles,” Ocean in a drop, May 15, 2025.
https://catemcquaid.substack.com/p/when-hierarchy-crumbles?utm_campaign=email-post&r=5pttuw&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Cate McQuaid, “Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond,” Boston Globe, May 8, 2025. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/08/arts/things-to-do-in-boston-this-weekend/
Hyperallergic, “SMFA at Tufts Presents Through Shifting Lenses, the 2025 MFA Thesis Exhibition,” May 1, 2025. https://hyperallergic.com/1007771/smfa-at-tufts-presents-through-shifting-lenses-the-2025-mfa-thesis-exhibition/
Tufts University Arts Gallery (TUAG), “Up Next: 2025 SMFA at Tufts MFA Thesis Exhibition,” TUAG E-Newsletter, April 23, 2025.
Julie Flaherty, “Art Students Life Eyes and Spirits in a Tufts Dental Clinic,” Tufts Now, April 7, 2025. https://now.tufts.edu/2025/04/07/art-students-lift-eyes-and-spirits-tufts-dental-clinic
Julie Flaherty, “Life After Art School? A New Course Has It Covered,” Tufts Now, March 19, 2025. https://now.tufts.edu/2025/03/19/life-after-art-school-new-course-has-it-covered
Yoko Zhu, "This Week, Three Boston Art Schools Collaborate for a Citywide Open Studios Event," Boston Art Review, February 28, 2025.
https://www.bostonartreview.com/read/open-studios-boston-art-schools-2025-yoko-zhu
“Artist Recognition, 2024 Drawings Art Competition,” Art and Color 365, Summer/Early Fall 2024, Vol. 2, No. 2.
ARTIST TALKS/PANELS
2025 “2025 Emerging Artists Exhibit” Artist Talk, Cambridge Art Association (CAA),
On Zoom, August 8, 2025. Panelist. Moderator: Candice Driver
2025 “Earth, Interrupted: landscape and environmental art.” It Followed Me Home,
Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA, March 8, 2025. Panelist. Moderator: Patte Loper