

MIA MISEONG JUNG, PRESIDENT
Mia Jung started her career at Sotheby’s auction house headquarter in New York in 2004 and stayed until 2008. She had also actively participated in NY art scene as a curator and art director at art foundations and galleries in New York and organized many different art shows and curatorial projects including Stick Them Together for the American Cancer Society, sponsored by Sotheby’s. Since 2010, Mia has been focusing on online art trade, based on her own original thesis research at FIT, State University of New York. In 2009, she joined art community in Korea Republic and continued her career, working as a director at KWANHOON gallery, an authorized dealer at K Auction, and an invited curator at multiple local projects.
Since 2012 Mia Jung is an authorized dealer at Artnet Auctions at Artnet Worldwide Corporation in New York; since 2016, an Art Advisor at HANA Bank (previously KEB HANA Bank) in Korea; since 2019, an Adjunct professor at the Design Department (Ceramic Craft Design) of Kookmin University in Seoul.
Initially, there was a gloomy forecast for online platforms to sell artworks in early 2000 under the assumption that art buyers were not yet ready to buy works based on digital images alone. By the year of 2010, the online businesses, however—fueled by art world celebrities —are once again rapidly shifting to the online platform arena. Partnering with smaller, established galleries and offering millions works of contemporary art from high-end to emerging.
According to The New York Times, the three primary factors for rising online art sales are a broadening base of art collectors around the world; a much greater willingness by these people, both veteran collectors and newcomers, to trust online transactions and buy works after seeing only images of them; and a huge amount of inventory in gallery storehouses, from a growing number of art fairs and other exhibitions leading to more artists creating ever more work.


