Nayoung Jeong has established a distinct artistic practice that explores the boundaries of cultural displacement, focusing on the experiences of unstable identity, and cultural isolation. Her work predominantly employs clay as the primary medium, using its transformative properties to create performance and installation art. By emphasizing the process in her work, she encourages viewers to evoke their own memories and engage in self-reflection, ultimately fostering a sense of familiarity with the unfamiliar. Through her art, Jeong seeks to explore new methods of interaction among the body, materials, and the audience, transcending the material limitations of the medium to convey broader social and cultural meanings. This exploration is a central theme in her ongoing artistic inquiry.
Nayoung Jeong resides and creates in New York, London, and Korea. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from California College of the Arts, a Master of Fine Arts from Rhode Island School of Design, and a Ph.D. in Fine Art Research from the Slade School of Fine Art at University College London, where her dissertation focused on ‘How Clay Can Be Used as a Ritualistic Tool to Investigate Feelings of Cultural Displacement’.