Choi Soojung
Choi Soojung has been experimenting with various forms for a long time and seeking to construct her own worldview. The artist focuses on the development and inspiration of thoughts, obsessive contexts, and fluid thoughts that occur while painting, and incorporates them into her paintings. The surface of the painting is densely constructed with paints and embroidery, moving back and forth between the image of illusion and the sense of reality. Drawing is a play with a value-neutral and phylogenetic nature. Painting is a chaosmos space of editing and division that reveals the worldview as fabrics and knits as a relational structure. She also experiments the conditions of traditional painting using canvas and ways to overcome it by measuring the psychological distance between the physical 'surface' and the 'sensation'. Through this, she explores the gap between painting and space, and between narrative and the image that operates the narrative. She challenges the traditional values, roles, and methods of painting through a new type that combines painting, installation, and objects. It seems that painting is understood as a form of multimedia rather than as a traditional form. The artist weaves numerous layers of meaning on the surface of the painting.
Choi Soojung (b.1977)
2008 MFA Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
2004 MFA Department of Painting, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
2000 BFA Department of Painting, Hong-ik University, Seoul, Korea
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Epiphany: Fire, Ice and Silence Boan 1942, Artspace BOAN 2, Seoul, Korea
2017 Doublethink: Homosentimentalis. Makeshop Art Space, Paju, Korea
2015 無間 Interminable Nausea, Amado Art Space/Lab, Seoul, Korea,
2013 Extensive Drama_A Song of Stone, Samil-ro Changgo Theater, Seoul, Korea
2012 Shoot the Moon, Gallery Skape, Seoul, Korea
2011 Future of the Present in the Past, Gallery Cha, Seoul, Korea
2010 No Man's Land, Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2009 Parallel World; Twix Painting, Babel, Trondheim, Norway
2007 Rainbow, Insa Art Space of the Art Council Korea, Seoul, Korea
2004 What, Space Cel, Seoul, Korea
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 The Flexible Boundaries, Gallery Bayon, Seoul, Korea
2021 2021 Myeongnyundong Studio: Volume, Light, Rhythm, Space CAN, Old House, Seoul, Korea
2020 [Re] Collect:, MoA, Seoul, Korea
2019 A wakeful dream, Moran Museum of Art, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
2019 Media Field, MoA, Seoul, Korea
2018 Digital Promenade, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2017 Final Fantasy, Hite Collection, Seoul, Korea
2016 Prologue, MakeShop Art Space, Paju, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
2016 Monkey in the Cabinet of Curiosity, Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2015 YAP_The Twinkle World, Daegu, Korea
2015 Intro, Workshop gallery 1, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
2014 SeMA Nanji 8th Review: Follow Me, Buk Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2014 Light, Special Exhibition of Ha Jung-woong Collection, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
2014 Paint of View, Gallery Skape, Seoul, Korea
2013 The Mirror and the Lamp, Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2013 Korea Tomorrow, Seoul Arts Center Hangaram Museum, Seoul, Korea
2013 Art Unforbidden, Art Beijing, Gallery Skape, Beijing, China
2012 The Way to Travel, Moran Museum, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
2011 Good Bye 2011, Hello 2012!, lee C gallery, Seoul, Korea
2010 Re-entry, Loop Raum for aktuelle Kunst and Artist, Berlin, Germany
2010 As if You Know, Aando fine Art, Berlin, Germany
2009 Identity, Self Praxis Gallery, New York, USA
2009 The Open West, Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, Summerfield Gallery, Cheltenham, UK
2008 Artisit?, McDonah Building, Galway, Ireland
2008 And So It Goes, Art News Project Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Residency Programs & Awards
2021 Myeongnyundong Studio,,CAN Foundation, Seoul, Korea
2016-2017 MakeShop Art Space, Paju, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
2015 SeMA Emerging Artists, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2015 MMCA Goyang Residency program. Goyang, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
2014 SeMA Nanji Residency Program, Seoul, Korea
2013 Grant from Seoul foundation for arts and culture
2009 Kuenstlershaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, Grant from Art Council Korea
2008.12-2009.1 Kunstnerverksteder Residency, Trondheim, Norway
2008 MFA Now winner, New York, USA
*Project Advisor, Judy Chicago, along with jurors Edward Lucie Smith, Nicolette Kwok, Victoria Lu, John Millei, Maura Reilly and Kay Saatchi
2008 The Open West, Selected Artist, Cheltenham, UK
2005 Artist Upgrade Project, Insa Art Space, Art Counc,l, Korea
