Soomin Jung
With a deft variation of graphite and colored pencil expanses, Jung’s drawings play with seeing and understanding and where imagination can fill in the gaps when former happens to be at odds with the latter.
Soomin Jung Remmler is an American artist who was born in Seoul, South Korea, and relocated in San Antonio, Texas where she earned an MFA degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2008. Soomin was awarded a private artist residency sponsored by the CEO of Proseq in Zermatt, Switzerland in 2023, an Artist residency at McNay Museum of Art in San Antonio, TX in 2022-2023, and a student artist residency funded by the University of Texas at San Antonio at the Santa Reparata International School of Art in Florence, Italy in 2005. She is a nationally and internationally exhibiting artist, and a full-time lecturer at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. She has served as a Juror for an annual international colored pencil competition held by Colored Pencil Magazine in 2022, and has won the Best of the Show award CPSA international annual competition in 2018. Recent solo and group exhibitions include: Strathmore Mansion Gallery, Bethesda, MD (2025), World Heritage Office at Culture Commons Gallery, San Antonio, TX (2025), OXO art gallery, London, UK (2024), Brea Art Gallery, Brea, California (2024), McNay museum of art in San Antonio TX (2022-2023), grayDUCK gallery, Austin, TX (2022), Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX (2021), Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX (2021), Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio, TX (2021); Hopkins Arts Center, Hopkins, MN (2020), Brea Gallery, Brea, CA (2019), Culture Commons Gallery, San Antonio, TX (2019), the Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL (2018), the Hunting Art Prize, Houston, TX (2015), and more. Her work is part of numerous private and public collections including Stanford Healthcare systems, Proseq in Switzerland, Aspen Art.