Jungwon Jay Hur
THIRD BORN is pleased to share a new selection of paintings by Jungwon Jay Hur, shaped by her engagement with literature and art history. Built through layers of paint, Hur’s scenes blur the boundaries between figure and setting, allowing bodies and gestures to emerge slowly, as though coming into memory. The stillness of her figures recalls Piero della Francesca, while light and colour dissolve into atmospheric skies reminiscent of Turner. Her paintings ask what looking can preserve: how a fleeting image might linger, gathering meaning each time we return to it.
(i whispered) And They Looked Back, 2026
Oil on panel
20 × 15 cm
7.87 × 5.91 in.
Over the Wall, 2026
Oil on canvas
45 × 55 cm
17.72 × 21.65 in.
Picking Stars, 2026
Oil on panel
45 × 55 cm
17.72 × 21.65 in.
Taemong (태몽), 2026
oil on panel
35.5 x 28 cm
13.97 x 11.02 in.
The Sun Rises, 2026
oil on panel
30.5 x 23 cm
12 x 9.05 in.
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Jungwon Jay Hur, photo by Seowoo Kim, courtesy of the Artist
JUNGWON JAY HUR (b. 1996, South Korea) is a multidisciplinary artist based in London, UK. She received her BA in Fine Art: Painting from Wimbledon College of Art in 2019 and her MFA in Fine Art:Painting from Slade School of Fine Art in 2022. Recent exhibitions include: Minor Attractions Art Fair, Slugtown, London (2024); Mind to Hand, Incubator, London (2024); The Future of Loneliness, Guts Gallery, London (2024); Our Teeth Are Reefs, Slug Town x Collective Ending, London (2024); Flee as a Bird to Your Mountain, Hive Centre for Contemporary Art, Shanghai (2024); Vessels, Cabin, Berlin (2024); Voyager I, Hive CCA, Shanghai (2023); A Woman from the Bird Egg, Incubator (2023); Contemporary Voices, Plataforma Gallery, Barcelona (2022); Why Don’t You Dance?, ASC Gallery (2022); and Hearth, Lokal Gallery, Helsinki (2021).