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Jesse Chun's immersive poetics in moving image, drawing, sculpture, and installation address language -- its politics, translations, and diasporas. Traversing found historiographies and imprints of linguistic imperialism as a site for rupture, abstraction, and (un)languaging, Chun's work unearths alternate semiotics and cosmologies for non-linear passages of meaning, time, and the untranslatable.
Chun's work has been presented internationally at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (Canada); the Nam June Paik Art Center (South Korea); SculptureCenter, New York; Queens Museum, NY; The Drawing Center, NY; BAM, NY; the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, NY; Ballroom Marfa, TX (United States); Whitechapel Gallery, London (UK), among others. Select awards include the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant (US); Art by Translation (Paris); Smack Mellon (NY); the NEA fellowship at ISCP (NY). Chun's work has been reviewed in Artforum, the Brooklyn Rail, ArtAsiaPacific, the Korea Times, Artpapers, BOMB, and more. Selected public collections include the Museum of Modern Art Library (NY); the Smithsonian Institution (DC); the Metropolitan Museum of Art Library (NY); and KADIST (FR/US).
In September 2023, Chun's first institutional solo survey exhibition entitled <시, language for new moons> will be presented by the Seoul Museum of Art, at the Seoul Museum of History curated by Rachael Rakes, for the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale. Chun currently works between New York and Seoul.
jessechunstudio@gmail.com
c.v and other linksJesse Chun's immersive poetics in moving image, drawing, sculpture, and installation address language -- its politics, translations, and diasporas. Traversing found historiographies and imprints of linguistic imperialism as a site for rupture, abstraction, and (un)languaging, Chun's work unearths alternate semiotics and cosmologies for non-linear passages of meaning, time, and the untranslatable.
Chun's work has been presented internationally at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (Canada); the Nam June Paik Art Center (South Korea); SculptureCenter, New York; Queens Museum, NY; The Drawing Center, NY; BAM, NY; the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, NY; Ballroom Marfa, TX (United States); Whitechapel Gallery, London (UK), among others. Select awards include the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant (US); Art by Translation (Paris); Smack Mellon (NY); the NEA fellowship at ISCP (NY). Chun's work has been reviewed in Artforum, the Brooklyn Rail, ArtAsiaPacific, the Korea Times, Artpapers, BOMB, and more. Selected public collections include the Museum of Modern Art Library (NY); the Smithsonian Institution (DC); the Metropolitan Museum of Art Library (NY); and KADIST (FR/US).
In September 2023, Chun's first institutional solo survey exhibition entitled <시, language for new moons> will be presented by the Seoul Museum of Art, at the Seoul Museum of History curated by Rachael Rakes, for the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale. Chun currently works between New York and Seoul.
jessechunstudio@gmail.com