Grace Jung is a bio-artist and educator working at the intersection of sculpture, material ecology, and biology. Her process engages play as a method of research, investigating the origin of form through the logic of biological systems. Her practice is at once a prayer and a meditation. Moving matter through time and space, she becomes the brush and matter becomes medium. Shaping form becomes a practice in trusting intuition, changing direction or speed of movement instinctually, listening to the material first, then responding. The process is alchemical in nature, shaping matter into form as a way of realizing your own power, transmuting heartbreak into agency. Materially, her research on living organisms and early evolution has led to experimentations in algae, animal (collagen), calcium carbonate, and fungal mediums that has nurtured her instinctual longing to help things grow.

Grace studied Art Practice and Economics at University of California Berkeley, previously working as a Design Strategist at Terreform ONE and a Myco-Fabricator at Randy Polumbo Studio. She has exhibited works at Fugue Gallery, The Source, No Vacancy Gallery (Melbourne), NYCxDESIGN, Kingsland Wildflowers Rooftop Garden, Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition (BWAC), Chemistry Creative, Grace Exhibition Space, etc. She has taught workshops and classes in biomaterials and regenerative design at ONE Lab, Biotech Without Borders, and Rutgers University. Currently, Grace works as an art director and fabricator working with clients and collaborators looking to develop their ideas conceptually and materially.

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E-mail for commissions and art inquiries: gracejung0@gmail.com