Black Jaguar, through her projects, has illuminated various identities existing as minorities within Korean society. Since 2007, the artist’s early works, which employ the artist’s own body as the primary medium in performative ways, have gradually evolved into a method of embedding the artist’s self within the collective memory of Korean society and re-recording history. The focus then shifted toward considering how solidarity could extend beyond identities within the complex intersection of feminist, queer, disability, and other minority movements from the late 2010s that grappled more with animosity and conflict. 

   The project Ghost Dance (Berlin-Seoul, 2019-2020), a collaboration with individuals situated within the boundaries of migration, queer, and female identity in both Berlin and Seoul, unfolded memories of personal experiences of hatred and discrimination, and also served as a practice envisioning a community grounded in solidarity and support within a society riddled with hate speech. Ghost Rehearsal (2021) involved a collaboration with actress Kim Mijin from the theater company within the organization “Women with Disabilities Empathy,” called Dancing Waist. The project explored the boundaries of women and disabilities while experimenting with nonverbal body gestures and vocal expressions. She had solo exhibitions such as BBackstage (placemak2, Seoul, 2021) and Spigel/반사! (art house SomoS, Berlin, 2019), as well as group exhibitions such as The Sea Will Not Sink (Ansan Arts Center/Boan1942, Ansan/Seoul, 2019) and Actually The Dead Are Not Dead (Total Museum, Seoul, 2021). Recently, she published a book titled Assembled mouth (Total Museum Press, Seoul, 2024), which summarizes 20 years of work.

Solo Exhibitions

2023 Flying practice, TentotheN, Seoul

2022 Uninvited, space bisugi, Jeju

2021 BBackstage, PlaceMAK2, Seoul

2019 Spigel/반사!, arthouse, SomoS, Arts Council Korea, Berlin

Selected Group Exhibitions (Including Screening & Performance)

2023 Tale Of a City Ⅱ, Gangneung International Art Festival 2023, Gangneung

2023 Let’s Dance Sufi!, Oil Tank Culture Park T4, Seoul

2022 Techniques of Becoming, Total museum, Arts Council Korea, Seoul

2022 Chronicles of Desire, Showandtell, Arts Council Korea, Seoul

2021 Actually The Dead Are Not Dead, Total Museum, Arts Council Korea, Seoul

2021 Back, follow, space99, Seoul

2020 Modern Family, Hello Museum, Seoul

2019 Insa Art Space thematic project exhibition carpenter’s scene, Insa Art Space, Seoul

2019 Memorial exhibition for the 5th anniversary of Sewol ferry disaster The sea will not sink, Ansan culture&Arts center, Boan1942, Ansan-Seoul

2019 Body Scandal, Seongnam Cube Art Museum, Seongnam

2018 Who Framed Her?, Seoul Art Space Seogyo, Seoul

2018 Still there, Seoul Art Mullae, Seoul

2018 Looms & Battles, Total Museum, Arts Council Korea, Seoul

2018 Not To Allowed To Ban, Suwon Ipark Museum of Art, Suwon

2018 The Dictionary of Evil, Gangwon International Biennale 2018, Gangneung

Publication

2024 Black Jaguar, Jeon Solbee, Noh Suntag, Han Jin-oh, Kim Young-ok, Grace Kim, Heeum (co-author), The weaving of agents in the mouth, (Seoul: Total Museum Press, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture 2023)

Residency

2024 SeMA Nanji Residency, Seoul, Korea

Collections

Gwangju Museum of Art

Seoul Museum of Art