Jihyo Eom

Jihyo Eom reassembles the familiar grammar of contemporary media — the internet, social media, apps, and games — through game engines and physical structures, exploring the sensibilities demanded in a technological age. Working also as a commercial director, she takes as her starting point the contradictions and tensions of being both a producer and consumer of media content. She chose digital media as a profession out of genuine affection for its expressive possibilities, yet has deeply experienced the paralysis and isolation its immersiveness and addictive qualities produce, approaching her practice with the conviction that this is a shared, social condition.

Her work has consistently explored the in-between: memory and reality, the physical and the virtual, the ideal and the present. In the game and installation somewhere4u.net (2023), she examined nostalgia as it exists only in big data, experimenting with ways to return memory to the individual. A Warp to Remember (2024) questioned the outsourcing of memory while exploring whether AI can reconstruct the blurred time and space of recollection. With Bardo (2025), her focus shifts toward a critical examination of a media ecosystem where dependency escalates into immersion and addiction, incorporating materiality and the body more actively into her practice. She draws parallels between states of immersion and addiction and the trance-like ecstasy of spiritual possession, researching where media, as a medium in the shamanic sense, might take us.

Solo Exhibitions2025 《Bardo》, BeF Storage, Seoul, Korea

Group Exhibitions & Screenings2026 Seoul Intl. ALT Cinema & Media Art festival(NeMAF), KT&G Sansangmadang, Seoul, Korea
2026 Arts Korea Lab, Sónar+D, Llotja de Mar, Barcelona, Spain
2026 《Experimental Film and Video 2026》, CICA Museum, Gimpo, Korea
2026 G.MAP 《New Wave》, Gwangju Media Art Platform(G.MAP), Gwangju, Korea
2025 5th Seongbuk Youth Film Festival(SBFF)(A Warp to Remember), Seoul, Korea
2024 《ASYAAF》, Former National Theater Baek Sung-hee & Jang Min-ho Theater, Seoul, Korea
2023 《Playing with Death》, Korea National University of Arts Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2022 《괄호를 열고+》, Seogyo Arts Experimental Center, Seoul, Korea
2018 《Pecha Cucha Link Up Project 3》, Haekhwatang, Seoul, Korea

Awards & Selections2026 Finalist, Seoul Intl. ALT Cinema & Media Art festival(NeMAF), Korea
2026 Arts Korea Lab Global Exchange & Distribution Support (Sónar+D)
2025 Selected as Young Convergence Artist, G.MAP 《New Wave》, Gwangju Media Art Platform, Korea
2025 Shortlisted, 5th Seongbuk Youth Film Festival Short Film Competition (A Warp to Remember)
2025 ARKO Crowdfunding Support Program, Arts Council Korea (ARKO)
2025 Selected for BeF_Storage Exhibition Program, Seodaemun-gu Youth BeF, Korea
2024 Selected, ASYAAF Asia Youth Artist Art Festival, Chosun Ilbo, Korea

Residency2026 Gwangyang Media Art Residence, Gwangyang, Korea

Projects (selected)2024 An Sang Wook 〈12 Sounds〉 Live Video Projection, Art Korea Lab, Seoul, Korea
2022 〈The Objects of Memory〉 Media Art, Jeongok Prehistory Museum, Yeoncheon, Korea
2020 Jiseon Shin 〈ARTourism〉 PM, Design & Development, Insa Art Space, Seoul, Korea
2019-2022 Coreyah 〈Clap & Applause〉 Interactive VJ, Mullae Arts Factory, Seoul, Korea, Festival International Cervantino, Mexico, and more.

Education 2018-2023 MFA in Multimedia, School of Film, TV & Multimedia, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, Korea
2012-2017 BA in Media & Communication, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea — Double Major in Integrated Design