MinJi Park

I explore storytelling and tactileness—blurring the boundaries between the tangible and the conceptual. Current MFA in School of the Art Institute of Chicago.About

Projects
1. Flaneur
2. TerTor
3. Daydream
4. Refresh for Connection
5. The Sensoria
6. 5Days Museum
7. Design Is
8. Jungle
9. Monthly J
10. Self-Made

Tags
Publication, Space-based,
Photography, Package,
Real-world, Paper, Installation

📩 minjiparkystudio@gmail.com

Minji Park is a designer and artist whose practice invites people to experience the world in a more playful way. Her work centers on the concept of “experience,” reinterpreting moments of daily life through sensory storytelling and tactile engagement.

She has a deep attachment to paper and is particularly intrigued by the emotional connections created through color and space. Her practice evokes and engages with the tactile sensations that are increasingly lost in the digital age, prompting a return to the intimate and the handmade.

Minji earned her MFA in Visual Communication Design from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a concentration in paper-based practices, supported by a New Artist Society Scholarship. Her work during this time explored paper collage, artist books, and box making as mediums for embodied storytelling.

Her projects include a limited-edition box that encapsulates the experience of walking—filled with scent, a kaleidoscope, and found twigs—letterpress-printed artist books, a city-wide outdoor biennale activating the senses of taste, olfactory, sound, and touch, and colored paper collages capturing small moments of everyday life. Research-driven project that investigates how play and everyday life can be structured and visualized through design.

How can design structure or propose new forms of play?
What does storytelling look like through media such as paper, text, image, and sound?
Why are we increasingly drawn to touch and slowness in a hyper-digital age?

Beyond individual artworks, Minji is deeply interested in large, executable ideas and long-term creative plans—areas she seeks to explore further as both a designer and an artist. Through quarterly publications and mail art, she continues to explore the intersection of materiality, narrative, and play, offering tactile and emotional encounters in a time of rapid digitization.

Education MFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
BFA Seoul National University, Visual Design, Seoul, Korea
Study Abroad UAL : Chelsea College of Arts and Design, London, UK

Award
New Artist Society Scholarship, 2023
Fung Scholarship Award, 2018

Exhibition
John Flash Artist Book Showcase, 2024
Sewoon Illustration : Drawing Exhibition, 2022