Jimin Baek is a Seoul-born, Korean visual artist whose paintings focus on language and conversations. Idling Conversations, her current series, consists of her attempts in liberating art from its fate as a communicative medium in the form of installations of paintings. Through dismantling the already established painting languages, her work rejects presumed clarity - focusing rather on the testimonial activation of conversations - which is often the logic of determining the success of conversations today.
Jimin Baek graduated from Hongik University in 2020 majoring in painting and had recently completed her MFA program at Pratt Institute. After graduating, she received an artist grant from MyMa. She is an artist in residence at COPE NYC and is volunteering as a project manager at KANA (Korean Artist in Newyork Association).
