About Joon

b. 1957; Jinju, South Korea

Lives and works in Salt Lake City, UT

Joon Bae received her BFA in Visuial Arts with an emphasis in painting and drawing from the University of Utah. She began learning traditional Korean ink painting methods in her childhood. After a lifetime of practice and an exploration into western forms of painting through her studies, she has found her rhythm as an East Asian Ink Painter. Her work has been collected internationally and exhibited in Utah at the UMFA, Salt Lake City Library, University of Utah, Springville Museum, Jewish Community Center, and more. She has given countless demonstrations and was featured in the 2019 edition of Sunshine Artist magazine. She is excited to continue teaching and learning through story-telling by putting brush to rice paper. Joon is currently teaching through the OSHER program at the University of Utah.

For more information or inquiries, please contact: jbae53@gmail.com

C.V.

Education

University of Utah; BFA

Solo Exhibitions & Consignment

2024 Consignment Artist, Utah Museum of Fine Art
2020 Solo Exhibition, Korean Ink Painting, Salt Lake City Town Club
2017 Solo Exhibition, Korean Ink Painting, Foothill Anderson Library

Group Exhibitions

2025 The Secret Garden Art Exhibit, BYU-Idaho Spori Gallery
2025 Art Meditating on Nature: Community Asian Art Exhibit, The Leonardo Museum
2025 Know Your Folk, Chase Home Museum of Utah Folk Arts
2024 Osher Open House Red Butte Garden Group Exhibition
2023 UMFA Haiku painting ACME Lab exhibition
2021 Springville Museum Spring Salon Exhibition
2020 Annual Spiritual and Religious Art of Utah Group Exhibition, Springville Museum of Art
2020 Artists of the Month Exhibition, I.J. Jeanné Wagner Jewish Community Center
2019 Anual Spring Salon, Springville Museum of Art
2019 “Brush to Rice Paper” by Members of Gemma Art Group, Cottonwood Country Club
2018 Annual Spiritual and Religious Art of Utah, Springville Museum of Art
2018 Gemma Art Group International Exhibition, Spencer Eccles Library
2015 Annual Spiritual and Religious Art of Utah, Springville Museum of Art
2012 Annual Spiritual and Religious Art of Utah, Springville Museum of Art
2009 Annual Spiritual and Religious Art of Utah, Springville Museum of Art
2005 University of Utah Graduation Exhibition
2001 Utah State Fair
1999 Utah State Fair

Teaching

2025 Minhwa Korean Folk Painting class, Univ. of Utah Sandy campus
2025 Minhwa Korean Folk Painting class, Univ. of Utah, Osher
2025 Osher Spring Fling mini class, Utah Museum of Fine Arts
2025 Basic Four Gentleman Painting class, Univ. of Utah, Osher
2025 Card Painting class, Utah correction Center
2025 Korean Japanese Collaboration: Plumb Tree Painting class, Univ. of Utah
2025 Special Lecture: Korean Sumookhwa and Minhwa, Univ. of Utah
2025 Winter Flowers, Korean Ink Painting class, Univ. of Utah
2024 Chrysanthemum painting class, Navajo Art (Gallup, NM)
2024 Class Collaboration w/ Guitarist, Gabino Flores Valino, Univ. of Utah, Osher 20th Anniversary (Fall)
2024 Class Collaboration w/ Cellist, Noriko Kishi, Univ. of Utah, Osher 20th Anniversary (Summer)
2024 Alumni Korean Ink Painting Class, Univ. of Utah
2024 Korean Ink Painting workshop, Odyssey House (SLC, UT)
2024 Disco Drawing Class, Utah Museum of Fine Art
2024 Spring Blossom painting class, Univ. of Utah, Osher
2024 Sumuk Workshop, Korean Club, College of Humanities, Univ. of Utah
2024 Korean Orchid Painting class, College of Humanities, Univ. of Utah
2024 Cotton Cloth painting class, Univ. of Utah, Osher
2024 Chinese Calligraphy Class, College of Humanities, Univ. of Utah
2023 Ink painting 101, Univ. of Kentucky, OLLI
2023 Pomegranate painting class, Univ. of Utah, Osher
2022 Homecoming Event, Art instructor, Univ. of Utah
2022 Sparrow painting class, Univ. of Utah, Osher
2022 Basic Ink Painting class, Univ. of Richmond, Osher
2022 Spring blossom (Gallup, NM)
2022 Four Gentleman ink painting, Univ. of Utah, Osher
2022 Korean Ink Art, (Gallup, NM)
2021 Winter class, Univ. of Utah, Osher
2021 Art class, Utah Global Childrens Foundation
2021 Korean Ink Painting, Odyssey House (Salt Lake CIty, Utah)
2021 Summer class, Univ. of Utah, Osher
2021 Basic Korean ink painting class, Univ. of Utah, Osher
2021 Korean Ink Art workshop (Gallup, NM)
2021 Korean Ink Art classes: Create Your Own Greeting Cards, Univ. of Utah, Osher
2020 Korean Ink Art: Let’s Paint the Harvest, Univ. of Utah, Osher
2020 Korean ink painting class
2020 Korean Ink Art: Brush to Rice Paper, Univ. of Utah, Osher
2019 Korean Ink Art: Brush to Rice Paper, Univ of Utah, Osher
2019 Workshop entitled “Collaboration”
2019 Brush to Rice Paper class
2019 Canvas Painting Workshop

Awards

2024 Univ. of Utah, Osher 20 years, commemoration design
2015 Korean-Chinese Diplomatic Relations Writing Contest, ChosunNews, 2nd Place
1969 Gyeongnam-do Regional Painting competition, 1st place

Publications

2025 BYU-Idaho article about secret garden exhibit
2025 New Year Calligraphy
2009-Present: Regular writing contributor, Peace Times (Korean version), U.S.A
2019 Sunshine Artist Magazine front page “ Painting Poems”
2003-2008: Regular writing contributor, Korean Catholic Digest

Residencies

2024 Taft-Nicholson Environmental Humanities Center; Artist-in-Residence; Lima, Montana (USA)

Media

2019 Sunshine Artist magazine interview