“Diana Nicholette Jeon has the unique ability to transform her visions, perceptions, and emotions into small stories that remain slightly out of reach. There are no beginnings or endings to these stories, but clues to salient memories and emotional experiences. ‍ ‍

—Aline Smithson, LENSCRATCH

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More Issues Than Vogue Girl from Self Exposure

Self-portrait series examining feminine identity through a critique of contemporary expectations imposed upon women by society and the media.

he Surfacing and the Coming of the Light, from the Nights as Inexorable as the Sea diptychs

Diptych photographic object housed in a tin, exploring dreams, memory fragments, nostalgia, and the blurred line between dreams and remembered experience.hat evoke the blurred line between dreams and remembered experience.

#7 from CAKE

AI-mediated post-photographic series critiquing the experiences of American women following the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

ke ʻaka o ka liʻula (mirage)

Installation by Diana Nicholette Jeon. Mixed-media installation examining the impact of tourism on the land, culture, and people of Hawaiʻi.

San Francisco, 7:45 PM, 8/21/17 from Legally Blind

Experimental photographic series created as a tribute to the artist's mother, exploring legal blindness through intentionally blurred imagery that approximates out-of-focus vision

#12 from It's Like Swimming in the Ocean at Midnight in the Dark

AI-mediated post-photographic artwork created for an invitational solo exhibition at Honolulu Printmakers, bringing the controversial technology of artificial intelligence into dialogue with the visual language of traditional printmaking.

dress 2 from when the stars fell from the sky

Photographic series and upcoming photobook exploring grief, isolation, and emotional upheaval during a prolonged period of unexpected loss and separation.

Baiter from Toxic Tales

Mixed-media self-portraits examining online personas, identity performance, and the behaviors fostered by social media culture.

01 from American Dreams, American Dysfuntion

Hybrid AI/Photographic collage composite series examining the gap between the promise of the American Dream and the realities of class disparity and social inequality.

#54 from Damaged

Manipulated Polaroid self-portraits examining Betrayal Trauma and PTSD through chemical interventions that use photographic emulsion as a metaphor for the human psyche.

Diana Nicholette Jeon's work begins with moments of disillusionment—when the stories we tell ourselves about our lives no longer explain what we have experienced. Through photography, mixed media, and post-photographic processes, she creates images imbued with melancholy that inhabit the space between memory and reality, longing and loss, belief and understanding.

Her work has been exhibited in more than 200 solo and group exhibitions and screenings internationally. Solo exhibitions include the Honolulu Museum of Art, Griffin Museum of Photography, Blue Sky Gallery, Head On Photo Festival, and A Smith Gallery.

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