emilyyeonsoojung@gmail.com 
@emillyjelly




Emily Yeonsoo Jung develops cyclical sculptural systems that metabolise material and immaterial residue through release, delay, and transformation. Drawing from ritual architectures and the structures of loss, her work treats absence as a charged threshold where these residues can be softened, held, and returned to circulation. 

Employing rice water, glass, pewter, steel, and other mutable substances, Jung composes protocols with seepage, heat, and trace become method—filtering, dispersing, and slowly reforming what remains. Her installations operate as digestive infrastructures: porous, durational, and responsive to touch, gravity, and time.




Education

2025 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), VCA, University of Melbourne

2024 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Drawing & Printmaking, VCA, University of Melbourne

2021 Diploma of Ikebana, Ohara School of Ikebana

2020 Advanced Diploma, Interpreting and Translating, RMIT University

2019 Diploma of Interpreting, RMIT University




Exhibitions


2025 Graduate Exhibition (Honours), Victorian College of the Arts, Naarm, Melbourne, Aus

2025 SOFT MACHINE, MAC Museu Arte Contemporian, Sao Paulo, Brazil

2025 SOFT MACHINE, VCA Art Space, Naarm Melbourne, Aus Curated Dane Mitchell

2025 CACP selected project, 'Relational Ecologies Laboratory', ACCA, Melbourne

2025 The World to Come, Youkobo Artspace, Tokyo, Japan

2024 Graduate Exhibition, University of Melbourne, Melbourne

2024 Canossian Mothers, VCA Artspace, Melbourne

2024 Habitat, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne

2023 Splitting bills, VCA Artspace, Melbourne

2023 Causeway Hotel 39, VCA Artspace, Melbourne

2023 Forget-me-not, VCA Artspace, Melbourne




Awards & Scholarships


2025 Issac Roberts Memorial X Conners Conners 

2025 Keith & Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship

2025 Stuart Black Memorial Scholarship

2024 NGVWA Award, National Gallery of Victoria Women's Association

2024 John Vickery Scholarship

2023 Stuart Black Memorial Bursary Scholarship