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Jesse Chun is an artist living and working in New York. Chun's work has been exhibited internationally at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (Canada); the Nam June Paik Art Center (South Korea); SculptureCenter, NY; Queens Museum, NY; The Drawing Center, NY; BAM, NY; and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, NY (all in the United States), among others. Recent awards and fellowships include Art by Translation (Paris, 2022); Ballroom Marfa (Texas, 2021), and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant (US, 2020); Smack Mellon (NY, 2020); Triple Canopy (NY, 2019); and the NEA fellowship at ISCP (NY, 2019). Select public collections include the Museum of Modern Art Library (NY); the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (IL); the Smithsonian Institution (DC); Whitney Museum Library (NY); Asia Art Archive in America (NY); and Kadist Art Foundation (FR). Spanning video, installation, film, sculpture, drawing, and sound, Chun's work explores language, translation, historiography, and inherited lyrics. Working with found institutional narratives and documents as a site of departure, Chun’s practice (mis)translates and uncovers new immersive poetics. Chun's work meditates on linguistic ruptures, diasporic and non-linear passages of meaning, time, and untranslatability.
Jesse Chun is an artist living and working in New York. Chun's work has been exhibited internationally at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (Canada); the Nam June Paik Art Center (South Korea); SculptureCenter, NY; Queens Museum, NY; The Drawing Center, NY; BAM, NY; and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, NY (all in the United States), among others. Recent awards and fellowships include Art by Translation (Paris, 2022); Ballroom Marfa (Texas, 2021), and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant (US, 2020); Smack Mellon (NY, 2020); Triple Canopy (NY, 2019); and the NEA fellowship at ISCP (NY, 2019). Select public collections include the Museum of Modern Art Library (NY); the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (IL); the Smithsonian Institution (DC); Whitney Museum Library (NY); Asia Art Archive in America (NY); and Kadist Art Foundation (FR). Spanning video, installation, film, sculpture, drawing, and sound, Chun's work explores language, translation, historiography, and inherited lyrics. Working with found institutional narratives and documents as a site of departure, Chun’s practice (mis)translates and uncovers new immersive poetics. Chun's work meditates on linguistic ruptures, diasporic and non-linear passages of meaning, time, and untranslatability.