Jina Seo — Radical Jewelry Makeover

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Jina Seo (b. South Korea) is an Assistant Professor in Metal + Jewelry at Missouri State University. Her practice explores the relationships between body, clothing, sexuality, fetish, and space by using worn garment items like leather gloves. She recently won a Grand Prix at Amber Trip Art Jewelry Competition in Vilnius, Lithuania in 2019. She was a recipient of Fountainhead Fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University 2016-2017 and was chosen as one of the SNAG Emerging Artists in 2016 at SOFA Chicago. In 2010, she received Shirayuki Itami Morohaku Award (Gold Award) during the ITAMI International Craft Exhibition in Japan. She received her MFA in Metal at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and her BFA in Metalwork and Jewelry Design at Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including Munich Jewellery Week; Brooklyn Metal Works, NY; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL; Sung-Gock Gallery, Seoul, Korea; and (AV17) Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania.