Hea Jin Ko is an art director and artist living and working in New York City. She works in all forms, testing the boundaries of each form as part of her inquiry. Working with art direction, conceptual design, motion graphic, painting, works on paper, architectural materials, organic substances, and with each she creates visual maps of connection between what we preconceive as disparate and not connected.

Hea Jin works with architectural materials in the effort to re-create the geometry that lies underneath all forms. With color, she balances the materials. Pushing the boundaries of form, she questions what our confines really are, or if they have been proven immaterial. She explores rigidity of form until it yields as a fluidity of form. The content dictates the form, and so she works in multiple mediums to create statements across genres. Currently, she is focused on finding, and thus illuminating, the fine line of what balance is and what it looks like. 

As a graphic designer for the iconic design destination, ABC Carpet & Home, Hea Jin has had the opportunity to practice amongst some of the greatest designers and visionaries of our time. She has created graphic works for Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and his gallery exhibits at ABC home, design for the photography exhibit for the National Geographic Explorers-in-Residence, Beverly and Derek Joubert, and was the lead designer for Jean Georges Vongerichten's ABC Cocina and ABC V. She is experienced in branding, web, prints, packaging, motion graphic and exhibition designs. Her previous positions include lead graphic designer for the Gotham Digest magazine and the Atlantic Music Festival.

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