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On Becoming junos

Joonhee Myung (aka junos) is an illustrator, photographer, and video artist based between Seoul and Santiago. Her work traces the poetics of urban ecology, migration, and memory, often through birds, water, and vanishing architectural motifs. With a quiet, observational approach rooted in diaspora and environmental reflection, she weaves together hand-drawn illustration, photographic archives, video, and sound to document overlooked scenes along the edges of the city.
 

Her 2024 solo exhibition Leaves of Home explored ecological imagination in the era of climate crisis. The same year, she was invited to participate in the climate action group show hosted by the British Embassy and TEDxSeoul, in collaboration with SPRINTS.

Her short video work Intentionally Left Blank (Sin Título) was screened by VisualContainerTV in Italy and received the Audience Award at the Pebbles Underground Film & Video Art Festival in Canada. The accompanying short story by the same title has also been featured in several international literary magazines around the world. Additionally, she participated and won in a poetry-on-the-subway contest organized by the City of Seoul, reimagining moments of urban life through a lyrical lens. Her poem Tubakhae can be found in different stations around Seoul City.

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Guided by themes of slowness, silence, and survival, her work offers a meditative and experimental form of visual storytelling grounded in ecological sensitivity. Her images have been featured or selected as cover art in publications such as Culterate, Superpresent, Mixtape Review, Hindsight Journal, The Branches, and Abstract Magazine. Recently her artzine Zanmulgyeol is scheduled to be present at India's Bazinega and Singapore's Your Local News Stand in July and August 2025.

She recently held her second solo exhibition, The Way Nature Stays, at LJL Art Space, located beneath City Hall Station in Seoul, South Korea.

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