ARTIST STATEMENT

My name is Jun Baek, an EMERGING ARTIST.

 

BIOGRAPHY

Jun Baek (b. 2003) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada. He earned his BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2025 and received scholarship support from the BC Arts Council, was a first-place recipient of the James Lee Foundation Scholarship, and won the YICCA 24/25 International Contest of Contemporary Art Award. Working across multiple countries, communities, and artistic contexts, Baek views himself as an ever-evolving construct and investigates self-discovery as an ongoing, transformative process. His practice functions as a form of documentation of a lifelong artistic trajectory that continually shifts and expands through interdisciplinary methodologies, articulated through his concept of the EMERGING ARTIST, not as a fixed professional status, but as a continuous state of becoming.​

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EDUCATION​

Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts (2025/05/08)

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RELEVANT EXPERIENCES​

“NEON NOIR” in the RBC Media Gallery (2025/03/07)​​

Tadasu Takamine’s “Sculptural Rebirth” at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2025/03/02)

YICCA 24/25 International Contest of Contemporary Art (2025/01/25)

“INTERDISCIPLINARY” in the Michael O'Brian Exhibition Commons (2024/10/22)​​

“Visionary Vortex” at PIUDA ARTSPACE in Seoul, South Korea (2024/08/31)​

​“ENDLESS DREAMS” at Artsin Square (2024/07/14)

Faces of Emily Carr (2023/11/14)

“HELLO neighbour” in Neighbourhood gallery (2023/10/05)

VIDEO SOUND ARCHIVE (2023/06/02)

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AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

YICCA International Contest of Contemporary Art Award (2025/01/25)

James Lee Foundation Scholarship (2024/11/02)​

BC Arts Council Scholarship program (2023/08/24)

Emily Carr University Achievement Scholarship (2022/05/30)