June 3 - July 24 , 2026

Opening Reception: June 3, 2026, from 5 pm to 7 pm.

Jeju Island Artist Collective is pleased to present Smallish: Seattle, the 5th iteration of its ongoing international exhibition dedicated to small-scale works with high ambitions. This edition brings together artists from Korea and the United States, working in drawing, painting, sculpture, textiles, technology, and video.

In this show, smallness invites intimate attention. The works are not preparatory or fragmentary; each is complete, yet deliberately contained. Through constrained formats and economical gestures, they focus on a rich range of content, inviting interaction and influence. Situated in Seattle, the exhibition takes on an added inflection. The city’s position as a threshold—between Pacific geographies, economies, and cultural flows—echoes the exhibition’s interest in translation and exchange.

Smallish: Seattle continues the collective’s commitment to artist-driven curation and cross-cultural dialogue, while shifting emphasis toward the specificity of encounter. What emerges is not a survey of small works, but a calibrated field of relations—where scale sharpens perception, and limitation becomes a generative framework.

About Jeju Island Artist Collective

Founded in 2020, the Jeju Island Artist Collective has produced a range of collaborative exhibitions, including their 2021 presentation at Bliss on Bliss Art Projects in Queens, New York. In 2024, the Collective was featured in Parallels and Rupture, an ambitious exhibition curated by Matthew Garrison at the Freedman Gallery, Albright College, in Reading, PA. As curators, the Collective organized the 28-artist exhibition Survival Tactics For the Age of Ultra Anxiety at Flux Factory, NYC, responding to the urgent conditions of the COVID pandemic. Most recently, Jeju Island Artist Collective launched a collaborative exhibition, “Panic Room,” at Vestibule Gallery in Seattle, W

Participating Artists:

Afroditi Psarra
Alexandros Skouras
Althea Rao
Andy Fallat
Arthur Derksen
Cristina Brambila
Haeyul Noh
Heekwang Kim
Henry Jackson-Spieker
Natalie Krick
Janna Dyk
Je Heon Shin
Jiyoung Yoon
Jordan Horton
KimColin
Kim Smith Claudel
Nancy Rodrigo
Philippe Hyojung Kim
Pilseung
Ralph Salazar
Rebecca Cummins Renee Adams
Renee Adams
Rob Rhee
Robert Campbell
Sidney Mullis
Stephen Reber
Tivon Rice
Wonyoung Son