Jin Meyerson is a Korean American artist based in Seoul, whose history as a Korean adoptee, the complete loss of his family and all records of his birth, subsequent immigration to the US, and his eventual return to Korea has informed and defined his work for over three decades. Meyerson contributed to the revival of figurative painting as a first generation Zach Feuer gallery artist in New York, where he began his career, and is a pioneer of using early computer graphics and randomization software to create large-scale immersive paintings starting in the late 1990s. His work bridges figuration and abstraction and engages with issues of presence, identity, displacement, subverted history, post-colonialism, and the expansive Korean diaspora. His recent work employs LIDR scans, AR overlays and ideas of retro-causality, as means of connecting sources to points of origin in his longstanding investigation of meaning and contemporaneity in painting.
Meyerson’s paintings have been featured in extensive solo and group exhibitions globally, including: The 2022 Venice Biennale, Gallery2 + Johyun Gallery, Seoul + Busan; M Woods Museum, Beijing; Zach Feuer Gallery, New York; Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris and Hong Kong; The Saatchi Gallery London; Galerie Nordine Zidoun, Luxembourg; Arario Gallery, Seoul and Cheonan; Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul and Shanghai; and Pearl Lam Gallery HK. Jin Meyerson’s work can be found in numerous public and private collections, including: the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; MMCA Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; SEMA Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul; The Saatchi Collection, London; Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels; Dean Valentine Collection, Los Angeles; the de la Cruz Collection, Miami; the Speyer Family Collection, New York; the Yuz Foundation, Jakarta and Shanghai; the Taguchi Art Collection, Tokyo and the MACAN Museum, Jakarta.
