Trenton Jung trenton.jung@gmail.com 909 677 9060
Education
2023 Voices of the Wilderness, Artist in Residence, Tebenkof Bay, Alaska
2011 - 2015 B.F.A. in Illustration, Concentration in Sustainability and Social Practice
2019 Scientific Illustration Distance Program, Ink and Scratchboard
Supplemental Education
2024 Wild Wonder, Nature Journaling Conference
2024 Figure Drawing, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA
2023 Intro to Intaglio Printmaking, The Drawing Studio, Tucson, AZ
2021 Illustrating Sonoran Desert Birds, Tucson, AZ
2019 Science Illustration Distance Program, Ink & Scratchboard, online
2019 Beginning & Intermediate Ceramics, Workhouse Art Center, Lorton, VA
2018 Silk Screen Printing, Art League of Alexandria, Alexandria, VA
2018 Throwing/Hand-building Ceramics, Art League of Alexandria, Alexandria, VA
Member of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators (2014 to Present)
2018 - 50th Anniversary Exhibition preparation and installation at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
2018 - 2022: GNSI Online News Coordinating Editor
Installations
American Museum of Natural History - Gilder Center, Family Learning Zone, New York City, New York.
Drawing Studio, Free the Earth Garden - interpretive signage, 2024
Publications
An Ultrasensitive Biosensor for High-resolution Kinase Activity Imaging in Awake Mice. Nature Chemical Biology.
September 2020. Article Link
Coloring Nature: All Along the Atlantic. Norris, Cordelia. 2019. Page 29.
Archaeology of Mediterranean Climate Regions. North American Archaeology, Smithsonian, 2020
Bumble Bee Life Cycle Illustrations. University of California, Riverside - Woodard Lab, 2019
Smithsonian Magazine. Calvez, Leigh. “Flight of the Hunter”. October 2018. Pages 40 & 47.
Teaching Experience
Watercolor Painting (Spring 2022 - Present)
Intro to Pen & Ink (Fall 2022)
Drawing Fundamentals 1 & 2 (Fall 2021 - Present)
Life Drawing with Reptiles, Youth & Adult (Fall 2021 - Present)
Introduction to Botanical Illustration, The Drawing Studio (Spring 2020 - Present)
Botanical Illustration, The Drawing Studio (Fall 2020 - Present)
SOAR Residency, Ochoa & Pueblo Gardens Elementary schools, The Drawing Studio (Fall 2020/Spring 2021)
Introduction to Drawing, The Hacienda at Sabino Canyon (Spring 2021)
Exhibitions
2020
GNSI Juried Member’s Exhibit, “Creativity in the Time of COVID” Virtual Exhibit
2019
GNSI Juried Member’s Exhibit, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Australia
Solo Exhibition - The Urban Pioneers, Portraits of Urban Ecology, Goodwin House, Alexandria, VA.
Pale Blue Dot, Josephine Joan Gallery, Fullerton, CA
Quietly Powerful, Sense Gallery, Washington D.C.
The Art League - Student and Faculty Show, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA
Menagerie - Wild and Wonderful, Contemporary Art Exchange, Washington, NC.
2016
SWARM: Invasion of the Insects, Annmarie Sculpture Garden. Dowell, MD.
2015
Senior Commencement Show, Fox 3 Gallery. Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD.
Research Remix, Mattin Center, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
Analog, Julian Allen Gallery. Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD.
2014
Brilliant London, SPUR Gallery. Baltimore, MD.
Hink Pink: Sustainability & Social Practice Colloquium Exhibition, Fox 2 Gallery. Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD.
Junior Illustration Thesis, Fox 2 Gallery. Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD.
2012
Foundation Student Exhibition, Meyerhoff Gallery. Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD.
Honors and Awards
2011 - 2015 Maryland Institute College of Art - Presidential Scholarship
2011 - 2015 Maryland Institute College of Art - Dean's List
2014 Winnie Gordon Scholarship for Summer Travel, MICA Continuing Studies
2013 - 2014 MICA Grant
The Bamboo Shrimp (Atyopsis moluccensis) feeds with specialized 'claws' that filter particles from the water column. Spot illustration from a Southeast Asian stream illustration.