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company to design packages, advertorials, posters, and She has also won numerous awards in her career. She
catalogs and created illustrations for the company magazine. received the Works on Paper Award at the 131st annual
While working as a designer, she also received her master’s exhibition of the National Association of Women Artists
degree in advertising art from Hong-ik University in 1976. in 2020 and the First Prize award in the Woman in Art

show at Impulse Arts Inc. in Houston in 2017. She also
Mae Jeon immigrated to the USA in the summer of 1976 with received the 2010 California award of Latino America
her husband, two years after they had married. She lived in Museum, Ontario, CA, and the Best Work Prize in the 2012

Cleveland, Ohio, for nine months before she felt compelled International Monoprint show at the Museum of Americas.
to make a short trip to New York to seek a job in her beloved
field of art. After two weeks and several interviews, she was In 2014, she moved from Heartland Village, Staten
hired as a staff designer at the Topps, known for sports cards Island, where she started her digital art, working in a
and bubble gum. She worked on the design and illustration corner of her living room. Currently, Mae works from

of card products and packages for over 20 years while her home art studio, a place that she fell in love with
raising her two sons. In 2018, Mae had her ninth solo digital the moment she first saw it. It is located near the south
art exhibition in a gallery in Chelsea, New York, showcasing shore of Staten Island, just a short drive from the Outer

digital art on metal circles. Mae Jeon is a certified artist of the bridge Crossing from New Jersey.
Museum of the Americas in Florida, and she has collaborated
with many shows and publications with the museum for the She is grateful to God for every moment and aims to live in a
past 15 years. way that honors this sentiment. She thinks being an artist is
the utmost privilege and also a calling to serve by beautifying

Mae’s digital work has also been exhibited in numerous the world. Mae hopes to create meaningful artwork that
galleries, museum shows, and art fairs in New York and Miami, represents her journey of digital expression within the field of
as well as the Biennale shows held in Italy: Florence 2005, art. Her greatest passion is for her creativity to spread hope

Chianciano 2013, and Venice 2019. and light through her artistic images.

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