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Mae earned a bachelor’s degree in graphic design in 1971 square box with a partial body of a person, a lemon, and
from Hong-ik University in Seoul. After graduating, she lived curled paper that inspired her to create several oil paintings
in Tokyo, Japan, for 14 months in the role of a designer intern of human-shaped landscapes. Subsequently, she worked in

at Shiseido, a prestigious cosmetics company. While in Tokyo, mixed media on boards and exhibited at her first solo show
she took the opportunity to regularly visit galleries around at the Korean culture center in Tokyo in 1972.
the offices in Ginza during her lunch hour. She was thrilled Mae said, “I think the surreal art image of Kozo Mio still
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to be exposed to so many styles of art and was especially
influences my creation to this day.” She later returned to her
homeland and to Seoul, where she worked with a cosmetic
In fact, it was the surreal oil painting depicting a simple
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