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Jesse Chun's work intimately ruminates on the untranslatable - explored through language, its fractures, interiority and interdimensional translations. Tearing the dominant compositions of legibility and linguistic hierarchy, Chun's poetics across moving image, drawing, sculpture, performance, and sound invoke alternate semiotics and cosmologies of meaning and time.
Chun's first solo survey exhibition titled 시, language for new moons, was presented by the Seoul Museum of Art, at the Seoul Museum of History for the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale in 2023. Chun's work has been presented internationally in solo and group exhibitions at Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (US); Art Sonje Center, Seoul; Thaddaeus Ropac, Seoul (KR); SculptureCenter, New York; The Drawing Center, New York; Queens Museum, NY; Ballroom Marfa, TX (United States); Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (Canada); Whitechapel Gallery, London (UK); Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul (South Korea), among others. She was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant (US), Art by Translation research fellowship (Paris); the National Endowment for the Arts fellowship at ISCP (New York), and more.
Chun's work is in the collection of Seoul Museum of Art (KR); Museum of Modern Art Library (NY); Smithsonian Institution (DC) Archive of American Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art Library (NY); and Kadist Art Foundation (FR/US), among others. She was an artist in residence at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) Korea (2024-25). Currently based between Seoul (KR) and California (US), Chun is represented by Commonwealth and Council (Los Angeles).
contact
jessechunstudio@gmail.com