bio:
Diana Nicholette Jeon’s internationally exhibited work explores universal themes of loss, dreams, memory, and female identity via metaphor and personal narrative. Solo exhibition venues include the Honolulu Museum of Art (HI), Blue Sky Gallery (OR), Garage Gallery (NY), 2020 and 2022 HeadOn Photo Festival, Disorder Gallery (Sydney AU), A Smith Gallery (TX), and Kirsch Gallery (HI). Jeon’s work has been commended with numerous awards, including 11th Julia Margaret Cameron Award Overall Winner (2018), Juror’s Pick (2020) and Finalist (2022, 2024) in the LensCulture B+W Photo Awards, and been recognized five times as a Critical Mass finalist. Jeon’s art is held in publicand private collections worldwide, including four works in the permanent collection of the State of Hawai’i. Jeon writes about women in photography for FRAMES magazine and Lenscratch. She holds an MFA in Imaging and Digital Art from UMBC and resides in Honolulu, HI.
Statement:
omen is from the series when the stars fell from the sky, which depicts my experience in the face of debilitating grief and loss. Although it is deeply personal, it is meant to speak more universally, to the what happens to us as humans—what happens to our psyche—when we are faced with a life event that we never saw coming and find difficult to maneuver through.
