currently
selected texts and press
Of the Intangible [pdf+link]
Jesse Chun's Erasure Poems, commissioned for As For Protocols, publication by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics
2025 (print and web)
Essay (한글 KR), 트랜스미션: 포털로서의 언어 Transmission: Language as a Portal [pdf]
김윤서 학예사; 백남준아트센터 Jesse Chun by Yoonseo Kim; Curator, Nam June Paik Art Center
2024 (print publication for MMCA Goyang, forthcoming)
Essay (ENG), Hidden Realms: Korean Artists Today, published by ArtAsiaPacific, The Elemental in the Art of Jesse Chun [pdf]
by Diana SeoHyung
2024 (print publication)
Harper's Bazaar Korea, 프리즈 라이브에서 달밤의 공연을 선보이는 제시 천 Jesse Chun presents a moonlit performance for Frieze Live
by 안서경 Ahn Seogyeong
2024 (print and web)
Frieze, Frieze LIVE 2024: Jesse Chun "Moon Yard Theatre: Score for Unlanguaging" Performance Info
2024
The Art Newspaper, Jesse Chun: Language is an incredibly intricate and powerful thing
by Louisa Buck
2024 (print and web)
DAZED KOREA, Jesse Chun: 이것 역시 언어 Secret Language
by 권소희 Kwon Sohee
2023
The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, 시: Language for New Moons Exhibition Text
Artistic Director Rachael Rakes, with Seoul Museum of Art and Seoul Museum of History
2023
Artreview, 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale Review
by Ophelia Lai
2023
Radar Seoul, A Step Toward Poetry: Jesse Chun
by Taeyi Kim
2023
C magazine, SULLAE 술래 - Jesse Chun
by Sasha Cordingley
2021 (print and web)
University of Toronto Blackwood Gallery Publication SDUK Issue 2021, Unlanguaging: Jesse Chun
by Jesse Chun with intro text by Jacqui Usiskin
2021 (print and web)
ARTFORUM, Jesse Chun on lunar colonization and "unlanguaging" empire
by Wendy Vogel
2020
The Brooklyn Rail, Poetic Intention: Corresponendence in isolation between Daisy Desrosiers and Jesse Chun
with Daisy Desrosiers
2020 (print and web)
월간미술, Jesse Chun: SULLAE 술래 [pdf]
by 장나윤 Nayun Jang
2020 (print)
on view
ARTIST TALK
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, ART, THEORY, PRACTICE
November 6th, 5pm, 2025
ESCAPEMENTS
80WSE NYU
Sept 10, 2025 - Jan 24, 2026
ECHOING THE SHADOW
리얼레이션 REALATION
Curated by Sung woo Kim
Organized by syr, supported by Art Busan
Sept 3 - Sept 30, 2025
AS FOR PROTOCOLS
PUBLICATION BY THE VERA LIST CENTER FOR ART AND POLITICS
Edited by Re'al Christian, Carin Kuoni, and Eriola Pira
Spring 2025
FRIEZE LOS ANGELES
COMMONWEALTH AND COUNCIL
February 20 - 23, 2025
[...]
CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART
Art Film Series curated by Astria Suparak
November 30, 2pm, 2024
프리즈 라이브에서 달밤의 공연을 선보이는 제시 천 JESSE CHUN PRESENTS A MOONLIT PERFORMANCE FOR FRIEZE LIVE
HARPER'S BAZAAR KOREA
Sept 4, 2024 (web and print)
OPEN HANDS
GALLERY HYUNDAI 갤러리현대
organized by Gallery Hyundai x Commonwealth and Council
Aug 30 - September 15, 2024
FRIEZE LIVE / JESSE CHUN WITH YEONHEE (KIM HYANGSOOREE, AHN YOOHEE)
MOON YARD THEATRE: SCORE FOR UNLANGUAGING / 달마당극: 탈언어의 악보
Gallery Hyundai Courtyard
curated by Je Yun Moon
Sept 4, 10pm, 2024
FRIEZE SEOUL
COMMONWEALTH AND COUNCIL
Sept 4 - Sept 7, 2024
HIDDEN REALMS: MINOUK LIM, JESSE CHUN, MODERATED BY H.G MASTERS
ARTIST TALK, FRIEZE SEOUL x KAMS x KIAF
Sept 7, 4:30 pm, 2024
CHORUS
LONDON KOREAN FILM FESTIVAL
July 10, 6pm, 2024
INTERVIEW: JESSE CHUN
THE ART NEWSPAPER
June 19, 2024
JESSE CHUN: 밤,낮,달,비,SPEAKING IN TONGUES
COMMONWEALTH AND COUNCIL
May 25 - June 29, 2024
TONGUE OF RAIN
아트선재센터 ART SONJE CENTER
April 4 - May 5, 2024
BORROWED RECIPES
COMMONWEALTH AND COUNCIL
Jan 27 - March 2, 2024
NOSTALGICS ON REALITIES
THADDAEUS ROPAC
curated by Kim Sung Woo
Jan 26 - March 9, 2024
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART (MMCA) KOREA
Jan 13, 2024 - Jan 10, 2025