Jacob Paik is an emerging artist, and a recent graduate of Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Earning bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, he was recognized with exceptional artistic achievements and received the Elsie Dinsmore Popkins Memorial Painting Award, and “Best in Show” Post-Baccalaureate Award. Since, Jacob has shown in group exhibitions and international art fair, and recently had his first solo exhibition in New York City.

Jacob is compelled by visual representation of human nature and its origin. He works to create and confront visions that can [finally] talk back to him. Until then, he considers rests are soliloquies that reveal himself to his vision. In attempt to visualize the concept, he uses the most basic elements of visual language for their intrinsically theoretical existence. They all come from same origin but their hierarchy leading to higher dimensions shows something revealing about develop- mental traces of cognition. With interdisciplinary artistic skill sets and contempla- tive attitude toward reality, he creates objects that stand for physical evidence of un-exploring his consciousness.