Conduit Gallery is honored to announce the exhibition of new mixed media drawings by Korean-born, San Antonio-based artist Soomin Jung. The exhibition will be the third solo exhibition at Conduit Gallery for the artist.

Through a delicate combination of gouache, watercolor, graphite and fluorescent gouache, Soomin Jung’s landscape drawings examine the subtle ways in which memory, emotion and a sense of place can distort—or illuminate—our perception of reality. Jung’s landscapes are at once precise and surreal, inviting viewers into spaces where mountains reflect in still water, valleys echo light, and the flickering lights from stars, fireflies and snow momentarily suspend the boundaries between reality and imagination.

Jung’s deeply personal approach to art is rooted in her nomadic upbringing as the daughter of a ROK Army colonel. Her early years were defined by constant relocation—new schools, new environments, and shifting relationships—experiences that deeply shaped her worldview. Amid this flux, family became a constant source of grounding, a theme that quietly resonates throughout her work. Jung’s ability to balance accuracy and dream-like distortion is both meditative and expansive, asking the viewer to consider how we understand the world—and what happens when that understanding falters or transforms.

In addition to the larger drawings, the exhibition will include a grouping of fifty 8 by 8-inch silhouette landscapes on paper that are each a meditation on the brilliance and unreality of the sky at dusk and dawn. These smaller works, minimal yet commanding, further Jung’s inquiry into how ephemeral moments can carry enduring emotional weight.

Soomin Jung was born in Seoul, South Korea, and relocated in San Antonio, Texas where she earned an MFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2008. She was awarded a private artist residency sponsored by the CEO of Proseq in Zermatt, Switzerland in 2023, an Artist Residency at the 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, and Aspen Art .

Artists in this Exhibition

• Soomin Jung

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