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Hey-Yeun Jang is a Korea-born, New York-based installation and film artist. She often uses sequences of 16mm film still images to examine fleeting moments and meaning of swallowed words: explore in-between.

Her works have been exhibited widely in museums internationally: Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, Germany), Wurttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (Stuttgart, Germany), Queens Museum (New York, USA), Carrillo Gil Museum (Mexico City, Mexico), Centro Cultural Tijuana (Tijuana, Mexico), National Museum of Contemporary Art (Seoul, Korea), Hangaram Art Museum (Seoul, Korea), Pacific Art Museum (Seoul, Korea), Museum 63 Artist Commune (Hong Kong, China), Bund 18 Creative Center (Shanghai, China), and Ludwig Foundation of Cuba (Havana, Cuba).
Her films have been screened at film venues: New York Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), Brooklyn Museum of Art (Brooklyn, NY), National Museum of Contemporary Art (Seoul, Korea), Anthology Film Archives (New York, NY), Los Angeles County Museum (Los Angeles, CA), the Berkeley Art Museum (Berkley, CA), and Kabuki Theater (San Francisco, CA). Her exhibitions have received reviews including Art in America, the New York Times, New York Arts, Berliner Zeitung, Stuttgart Zeitung, Asia Art Pacific, Taipei Times, Korea Times. She has been awarded by the Fellowship Grant in New Genre by The National Endowment for the Arts, Finishing Fund by Experimental TV Center, and NY State Council On the Arts.

She received her BFA in sculpture from Ewha Women’s University (Korea) in 1991 and BFA in sculpture from San Francisco Art Institute in 1994, MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1996.