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Originally from Korea, currently based in the U.S., Joon Sung is an artist and a professor at Western Kentucky University.

Having come from a painting background, he started making time-based work since joining the graduate studies in computer art at Syracuse University where he met his mentor Edward Zajec - one of the pioneers of computer graphics in the 1960s - and was strongly influenced by Zajec’s real-time artwork originating in his early paintings.

Joon Sung’s recent works are largely characterized by a minimalist animation using refined visual languages through which he seeks beauty that is philosophically profound, visually exquisite, and conceptually unique.  


  Exhibitions & Screenings
2024 Joon Sung: Circular Murmurations International Communication Center
Kansai Gaidai University
Hirakata, Osaka, Japan
2024 Joon Sung: Autumn Haze Gallery Manariya
Hirakata, Osaka, Japan
2024 Joon Sung: Poetic Musings Kyoto City International Foundation
Kyoto, Japan
2023 Art After Dark The Vero Beach Museum of Art
Vero Beach, Florida
2023 By the Sea Art gallery Owl
Yokohama, Japan
2020 Digital Graffiti from Home Projection Art Loop Online
2019 New Media: Poetry in Motion Howard County Arts Council
Howard County Center for the Arts
Ellicott City, MD
2019 Minimalism Changwon National University
Changwon,Korea
2018 Poetic Musings - Fine Art Animation

College of the Mainland Art Gallery
Texas City, TX

2017

State of Fine Arts: State of Time 

Wilson Fine Arts Gallery,
Georgetown College, Georgetown, KY

2017 CONNECT at Bernheim

Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest
Clermont, KY

2017 Digital Graffiti Festival 2017

Alys Beach, FL

2017 Pattern Recognition: New Videos from Middle Tennessee

Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Nashville, TN

2017 A retrospective of the Inconnu Festival

La Cantada
Paris, France

2017 HCI Korea 2017 Creative Award
HCI Open Projection Art Festival

The Convention Hall High1 Resort
KangWonDo, Korea

2016 Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground

Buenos Aires, Argentina

2016 2016 AVI Art Video International

Jerusalem, Israel

2016 Enhanced Vision

ikono TV
Berlin, Germany

2016 Ozark Shorts - Monthly Film Screening Series

Lamar, MO

2016 Artist Statement #1

CICA Museum, Gimpo-si, Korea

2016 Girona Film Festival

Girona, Spain

2016 Linoleum International Contemporary Animation and Media-Art Festival

Kiev, Ukraine

2016 2016 KOSMA International Exhibition “Media Attraction”

Kookmin Art Gallery, Kookmin University
Seoul, Korea

2015-6 Art Speaks Out

Istanbul Museum of Modern Art
Istanbul, Turkey

2015 7th annual Autumn Shorts Film Festival

Somerset Community College
Somerset, KY

2015 Supertoon International Animation Festival

Croatian National Theatre in Sibenik
Sibenik, Croatia

2015 Toronto Smartphone Film Festival 2015

Scotiabank Theatre & Innis Town Hall
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

2015 LandEscape Now! International Call for Artists
7th Edition 2015

LandEscape Art Review

2015 Digital Graffiti Festival 2015

Alys Beach, FL

2015 9th River Film Festival

Porta Portello
Padua, Italy

2015 International Euro Film Festival 2015 Online
Best Short Animation

Marbella, Spain

2015 11th One Minute Film & Video Festival Aarau

Postfach 5001
Aarau, Switzerland

2015 2015 AVI Art Video International

Independence Square in Netanya
Netanya, Israel

2015

iPhone Film Festival

www.iphoneff.com
2015 10th Athens Animfest
GreekFilmArchive, AlkionisNewStarArtCinema
Athens, Greece
2015 Inconnu Festival
Reflet Médicis movie theater
Paris, France
2015 Enhanced Vision - Digital Video
ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community
exhibition project
2014 FIFE 2014 The International Experimental Film Festival
Florean Art Museum
BAIA MARE, Romania
2014 Presentism: A Short Short Film Festival
Whitespace Gallery
Atlanta, GA
2014 Winnipeg Underground Film Festival
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canada
2014 Beacons Festival: Lumen, Beaconstruction & The Space Between
Skipton North Yorkshire
England
2014 6th Atlanta Philosophy Film Festival
Cinefest Film Theater
Atlanta, GA
2014 WKU Biennial Art Faculty Exhibition
IWFAC Gallery
Bowling Green, KY
2013 One Minute Film & Video Festival
Aarau, Switzerland
2013 International Video Art Festival Magmart
Naples, Italy
2012 Seoul Digital Media Content International Festival Media Facade Special Exhibition, Urban Window
Seoul, Korea
2011 39th Festival of Nations
Ebensee, Austria
2010 The 9th Annual Art Inter/National Art Exhibition
Box Heart Gallery
Pittsburgh, PA
2010 Uncertain Memories
Hopkinsville Community College
Hopkinsville, KY
2009 Joon Sung & David Marquez
Capitol Arts Alliance
Bowling Green, KY
2009 Los Angeles Reel Film Festival
Woodland Hills
Los Angeles, CA
2009 Lexington Art League OPEN
Lexington Art League
Lexington, KY
2009 Nicholas Hankins, Wendy Boone, Joon Sung, Steven McQuilkin, Tom Mcdaniel, Gay Bryant
Three Flights Up Gallery
Knoxville, TN
2009 Three-Dimensional Media and Sculpture Exhibition
Terra Gallery
Columbus , OH
2009 2009 Open Art Juried Exhibition
The Kentucky Library and Museum
Bowling Green, KY
2009 Joon Sung solo show
Gallery RFD
Swainsboro, GA
2008 Transhift 08_a time-based new media art festival
Fluorescent Gallery
Knoxville,Tennessee
2008 New Video Works
Black Box Theatre Ruby Green Gallery
Nashville, TN
2008 Art faculty annual show
IWFAC Gallery
Bowling Green, KY
2007 Streaming Festival 2nd Edition
The Hague
Netherlands
2007 One Minute Film & Video Festival Aarau
Aarau
Switzerland
2007 The Budapest Short International Film Festival
Budafest
Hungary
2007 18th NAP International Salon of Small Works Exhibition
Nap Space
Kutztown, PA
2007 "New Generation"
Exhibition Hall
College of Design Sangmyung Univ. Korea
2006 "Linear and More"
Gallery Korea
New York, NY
2006 Bridge Art Fair" Miami 07
Catalina Hotel and Beach Club
Miami Beach, FL
2006 "New Generation"
Exhibition Hall
College of Design Sangmyung Univ. Korea
2006 Open House Project
1712 Ashland Avenue, Evanston, IL
2006 Around the Coyote Festival
Around the Coyote Arts Org
Chicago, IL
2006 PixelPops! Praha_06
C2C Gallery
Prague, Czech Republic
2006 New York Experimental Film and Video series: Constructions + Constrictions
The Tank in Tribeca
New York , NY
2006 "Second Skin" show
Harding Mott University Center Gallery
University of Michigan Flint
2006 Mobicapping; Mobile Image Capture in The New Century, International Juried Online Exhibition
www.mobicapping.com
2006 Hell on Reels [Astoria Moving Picture Festival]
Hell Gate Social
Astoria, NY
2006

Space, Place & Interface: LiveBox at Ravenswood

LiveBox Gallery
Crystal lake, IL

2006 Synthetic Zero- Performances, Experimental film, Visual Art
Synthetic Zero
Bronx, Tribeca, New York
2006 PixelDance II – Video :: Art :: Festival
Thessaloniki
Greece
2006 3-d international video-art festival

Moscow,etc
Russia

2006 00130 Gallery Video

00130Gallery
Helsinki, Finland

2006 little while online video gallery
www.littlewhile.com
2006 Invitational Salon Exhibition of Small Works
New Arts Program
Kutztown, PA
2006 WFVF (Western Film & Video Festival)
Mass Media Theater
Bowling Green, KY
2006 Outpost Gallery: Brockton-Exhibition 2
Outpost Gallery: Brockton
Brockton, MA
2006 2006 Open Art Juried Exhibition
The Kentucky Museum
Bowling Green, KY
2006 3rd Screening International 59 Seconds Video Festival
Project 59
New York, NY
2006 Gazes
Janice Mason Art Museum
Cadiz, KY
2006 Art faculty annual show
University gallery
Bowling Green, KY
2005 Cinavantgarde, international film & video art
Cinavantgarde.com
2005 Slack Video Presents : A Selection of Short Films for your Viewing Pleasure - Oct. 10.2005 "Touch the Ripple"
Manchester's Castlefield Gallery
The Lamp, Norfolk Street,
Hull, UK
2005 "Uncensored Gifts #2." An exhibition of short films from the USA and beyond
Mt. San Jacinto College's Fine Art Gallery, San Jacinto, CA
2005 Janice Mason Art Museum Biennial Juried Exhibition. "Best in Show Award"
Janice Mason Art Museum
Cadiz, KY
2005 “Reel Shorts” film and video exhibition
The Saratoga County Arts Council & The Saratoga Film Forum, Saratoga Springs, NY
2005 Slack Video Presents : A Selection of Short Films for your Viewing Pleasure - Aug. 8. 2005 "Touch the Strings"
Manchester's Castlefield Gallery
The Lamp, Norfolk Street,
Hull, UK
2005 Pixpox online gallery
Pixpox.webblog.t-online.de
Germany
2005 International Media Art Festival
Armenian Centre for Contemporary Experimental Art - NPAK - Yerevan
Armenian Centre for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, Armenia, New York, NY
2005

NEW MEDIA ART
New Media/Flash gallery

Museum of Computer Art
Brooklyn and Prattsville, NY
2005 Oregon Literary Review. An Online collection of literature, hypertext, art, music, and hypermedia

OregonLiteraryReview, OR
2005 Pendu Gallery
Sound/Text/Image/Intermedia
Pendu Gallery
Brooklyn. NY
2005 The Sculpture Salmagundi IX: Indoor/ Outdoor Sculpture Juried Exhibition

Rocky Mount Arts Center
Rocky Mount, NC

2005 "Tie one on for art"
Warren county central office
Bowling Green, KY
2005 WFVF (Western Film & Video Festival)
“Meanwhile” “Touch the Ripple”
Mass Media Theater
Bowling Green, KY
2005 16th Invitational Salon of Small Works
NAP Space
Kutztown, PA
2005 2005 Open Art Juried Exhibition

The Kentucky Museum
Bowling Green, KY

2005 NET.ART Open
Juried online exhibition
Stunned.org
Republic of Ireland
2005 Joon Sung
National Kaohsiung Normal University
Ho-Ping, Taiwan
2005 Joon Sung
Cheng Shiu University
Kaoshiung city, Taiwan
2005 “Point, Line, and Plane”
The Cube Gallery
Bowling Green, KY
2005 Art faculty annual show
IWFAC Gallery
Bowling Green, KY
2004 “Touch the wind”
Mezzanine Gallery
Bowling Green, KY
2004 “Stream" "String" "Touch the Strings"
Young San University
Yangsan, Korea
2004 Art faculty annual show
IWFAC Gallery
Bowling Green, KY
2003 Joon Sung & Tom Bartel Show
IWFAC Gallery
Bowling Green, KY
2003 Art faculty annual show
IWFAC Gallery
Bowling Green, KY
2000 Annual Art and Media Study Show
Shemin Auditorium
Syracuse, NY
1998 “Worms and Apples”
Spark Gallery
Syracuse, NY
1996 "Joon Sung"
Duck Won Gallery
Seoul, Korea
1995 The 30th anniversary of Kyung Hee Art
Kyung Hee Gallery
Seoul, Korea
1995 Two men exhibition
Kyung Hee Gallery
Seoul, Korea
1995
International Impact Art Festival ' 95
Kyoto City Museum
Kyoto, Japan
1995 Asia Art Festival " Human View"
Jo Hyung Gallery
Seoul, Korea
1995 Modern Art exhibition
Kyung Hee Gallery
Seoul, Korea
1995 The breath of the Korean race
Mun Ye Jin Hung Won
Seoul, Korea
1995 15th E-Hu exhibition
Kwan Hoon Gallery
Seoul, Korea
1994 Exposition de Tetes Nouvelles
Seo Kyung Gallery
Seoul, Korea
1994 94 Honour exhibition
Ah Joo Gallery
Seoul, Korea
1994 14th E-Hu exhibition
Art Center
Seoul, Korea
1994 "When inspirations become from..."
Teo Gallery
Seoul, Korea
1993 '85 exhibition
Ye Hyang Gallery
Seoul, Korea
1993 Misulsegye Grand Prize exhibition
Kyung In Gallery
Seoul, Korea
1993

Non-Stop exhibition

Hu In Gallery
Seoul, Korea