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Jesse Chun is an artist living and working between Seoul and New York. Chun's poetics across moving image, drawing, sculpture, performance, and sound intimately ruminate on language and its interdimensional translations. Fracturing the dominant compositions of legibility, Chun's practice invokes alternate semiotics and cosmologies of meaning, time, and the untranslatable.
Chun's first institutional solo survey exhibition <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, NY; 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. Chun 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. Select reviews of her work have been published in Artforum, the Brooklyn Rail, ArtAsiaPacific, the Korea Times, Artpapers, Artreview, and BOMB. Chun's work is in the collections 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 (FR/US), among others. Chun is currently an artist in residence at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) Korea (2024-25).
contact
jessechunstudio@gmail.com
Commonwealth and Council
Jesse Chun is an artist living and working between Seoul and New York. Chun's poetics across moving image, drawing, sculpture, performance, and sound intimately ruminate on language and its interdimensional translations. Fracturing the dominant compositions of legibility, Chun's practice invokes alternate semiotics and cosmologies of meaning, time, and the untranslatable.
Chun's first institutional solo survey exhibition <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, NY; 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. Chun 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. Select reviews of her work have been published in Artforum, the Brooklyn Rail, ArtAsiaPacific, the Korea Times, Artpapers, Artreview, and BOMB. Chun's work is in the collections 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 (FR/US), among others. Chun is currently an artist in residence at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) Korea (2024-25).
contact
jessechunstudio@gmail.com
Commonwealth and Council