• I use my work to process my emotions about a specific event or series of events, and to give voice to those emotions so that others may “hear” them, too. I believe the most interesting space in photography today is where the artist can combine digital techniques with hand-worked processes to produce one-of-a-kind works. I often use beauty as a conceit to entice a viewer to look at an ugly truth or hidden secret that they might otherwise not consider.

    I work in multiple kinds of media. I believe that materials have mana, so, whenever possible, I use the media that I feel lends the most meaning to any given project. Though there are not always material similarities between the different projects, they are linked by recurring formal concerns, subject matter. and methodology. Process is always an integral part of the statement and the work.

    Every warrior has a weapon; art is mine.

  • Honolulu, HI-based artist Diana Nicholette Jeon spent 10 years working in high tech before returning to school to pursue her first love, art. Perhaps due to her experiences working in California's Silicon Valley, she fell in love with Photoshop when she first encountered it in 1994. In school, she gravitated immediately to digital tools, while still pursuing training in traditional media. She attended the University of Hawaii where she received a BA in Studio Art (2003) then was awarded her MFA in Imaging and Digital Art from the University of Maryland at Baltimore County (2006.) She spent seven years teaching digital imaging and motion graphics at the college level in Hawaii before she decided to plunge into producing her art on a full-time basis.

    Jeon's work has been exhibited widely throughout the United States and Europe. She has solo exhibitions at the Honolulu Museum of Art as well as A Smith Gallery (TX), Truth and Beauty (BC Canada). Other her work has been seen include the Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the San Diego Art Institute, the Hawaii State Art Museum, Soho Photo, and Tethys Gallery

    She has received multiple awards for her work including: Overall Winner, Cell Phone Category Winner, five category Runner-ups and one Honorable Mention in the 11th Julia Margaret Cameron awards; four Recognition Purchase Awards from the Hawaii State Foundation of Art and Culture; three Silver awards in the 2018 Moscow International Foto Awards, Finalist in the 10th Julia Margaret Cameron awards as well as in two categories in the 2016 Pollux Awards; 1st Place at the 5th Annual Mobile Photo Awards.

    Jeon’s art has been featured in a wide array of publications, including Gente di Fotografia, Shots magazine, the OD Review, the Huffington Post, Lens Culture, In the In-Between, The Hand, Don't Take Pictures, Binfeng Space Art/Culture magazine, PhotoPhore, Corriere della Sera, L’arena and the Honolulu Star Advertiser.

    Her works are in many public and private collections, including the permanent collection of the State of Hawaii Art in Public Places program, the International Printing Museum, the Albert O. Kuhn Library Special Collections Department at University of Maryland Baltimore County, and Haverford College.

  • 2017 PLAYA at Summerlake, Summerlake, OR.

    Awarded a 4-week, fully funded artist residency

    2017 Double Dog Dare Studio, Kauai, HI.

    One week Photo-litho and Monoprint residency

  • 2006 MFA Imaging and Digital Arts, UMBC, Catonsville MD

    2003 BA Studio Art, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI

  • 2007 – 2013

    Lecturer, New Media Arts. Kapi'olani Community College, Honolulu, HI / Intro to Digital Art; Digital Imaging; Motion Graphics; Digital Multimedia

    Fall 2010

    Lecturer, Chaminade University, Honolulu, HI / Communications Design

    2008 – 2010

    Lecturer, Art. University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI / Expanded Art (Digital Art and Theory)

    Spring 2006

    Instructor of Record, Printmaking. UMBC, Catonsville, MD / Photo-Digital Processes in Non-Toxic Printmaking

    Fall 2005

    Instructor of Record, Printmaking. UMBC, Catonsville, MD / Introduction to Non-Toxic Printmaking

    Spring 2005

    Teaching Assistant, Photography. UMBC, Catonsville, MD / Time and Sequence

    Fall 2004

    Teaching Practicum, Printmaking. University of Maryland at Baltimore County, Catonsville, MD / Introduction to Non-Toxic Printmaking

    Spring 2000

    Instructor. Kapi'olani Community College, Non-Credit Division, Honolulu, HI / Introduction to Photoshop