Jee Hwang

Associate Professor
Duisterhof Endowed Professor in Visual and Media Arts

Area Coordinator
Painting

Office: 704 CAC
Phone: (616) 331-3486
Email: [email protected]

Personal Website

Biography

Jee Hwang is a Korean American contemporary visual artist working with figurative, realistic imageries. She explores themes across identity, memory, and belonging through narratives, metaphors, and allegories. Her subjects, drawn from everyday life, people, and objects, focus on the interplay of inner worlds and ordinary experiences.

She earned her BFA from Salisbury University and her MFA from Pratt Institute. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across the U.S. and internationally, including shows in New York, New Jersey, Los Angeles, Kansas, and Seoul. She was the Emma Bee Bernstein Fellow at A.I.R. Gallery in New York, where she held a solo exhibition. Hwang is represented by Accola Griefen Gallery in Brooklyn.

Her artist residencies include the Vermont Studio Center, MASS MoCA, the Wassaic Project, ChaNorth, Vashon Artist Residency, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Before joining the faculty at Grand Valley State University, she was an Associate Professor of Painting at Fort Hays State University.